Creating the Oxfordshire Street Gazetteer

In February 2004 Oxfordshire County Council linked its component of the National Street Gazetteer (NSG) to the Integrated Transport Network (ITN) Layer of OS MasterMap using principles defined in the Digital National Framework (DNF)...

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Adding Value to the Isle of Wight Street Gazetteer

Isle of Wight Council has successfully migrated their street gazetteer using the Digital National Framework (DNF) principles, using the model previously piloted in Oxfordshire...

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Ordnance Survey's Integrated Transport Network

Before the Topography Layer of OS MasterMap had been launched in November 2001, Ordnance Survey started work on considering the options to re-engineer other associated layers to ensure they met the demands of future applications. The choice to use Digital National Framework (DNF) principles had been established and it was only a question of how this would be done. The Integrated Transport Network (ITN), a national road centreline network with routing and restriction information, was released in 2003...

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Implementing the Countryside and Rights of Way act

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 established the need to identify and map open country and registered common land in England. This was the first large project to employ DNF principles. By reusing and referencing the topographic features in the landscape, the project was transformed from a wholly data capture programme to one of predominantly information collection and attribution...

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Building a single-geometry land and property database at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

With local authorities required to make their data available internally, for public services and for wider public access, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) needed to share and integrate data held in disparate application databases while maintaining a corporate data system. This required the integrity of the information within each database to be unquestionable and interoperable...

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Achieving Interoperability at Staffordshire County Council

Using Digital National Framework (DNF) principles, Staffordshire County Council worked with spatial data experts 1Spatial to prove and achieve an open and interoperable solution to data management. By sharing regional mapping data across the organisation, a single repository was created for business and spatial data to be stored together, which meets Staffordshire County Council’s initial business requirement of improved spatial data access and sharing.

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What Have We Started?!

This article first appeared in the July/August 2005 edition of Civil Engineering Surveyor, the Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. Reproduced with kind permission.

The geospatial future of buried services.

The subject of where our buried services exist is likely to cause a strong response when brought up in conversation. CES has reported on a number of occasions the Geospatial Engineering Board's (GEB) work over the last three years on developing a coordinated approach to the recording of the geospatial data of buried services...

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Coordinated utility services: pipedreams or a geospatial future?

This article first appeared in the July/August 2005 edition of Geomatics World. Reproduced with kind permission.

Geomatics World editor Stephen Booth reports.

One of my tasks as a site quantity surveyor working on high pressure gas pipeline construction in the 1960s was to record as-laid information about the main. We measured depth of cover over the pipe, changes of direction in degrees (based on the records of the bending machine operator!), the position of land drains and other services, and took occasional offsets to field boundaries. It wasn’t serious coordinated data and looking back with the comfort of hindsight it was surely inadequate for a high pressure gas main, but it did provide the client with some record of what his contractor had built. How much better are we today..?

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What Lies Beneath

Reproduced with kind permission of Surveyor. www.surveyormagazine.com

As the buried services working group reports on proposals for a common information framework, Suzanne Cumberbatch finds out what this means for councils.

Confusion reigns supreme over what underground services lie where and who exactly owns what. But this could all be about to change. As the maze beneath our pavements continues to expand, a consortium of industry experts has been exploring how a common information framework could at last unravel what really lies beneath our feet...

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Atlantis floods onto the net

The Atlantis Initiative, a collaborative project that is working on ways to provide better information to address the impact of climate change and flood risks, is now live on the Internet.