The Public Sector Mapping Agreement: Using Geography to Underpin the Work of Town, Parish & Community Councils

Ian Carter

Public Sector Strategy Manager

SLCC Practitioners’ Conference

2 March 2013

Everything that will ever happen…

…will happen somewhere

Contents

Using real case studies to demonstrate how town and parish councils can use mapping data under the PSMA to provide context to their work; manage assets more effectively; share data with citizens and public bodies and deliver cost savings and efficiency improvements.

•Ordnance Survey today

•A beginner’s guide to GIS

•An introduction to the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA)

•The PSMA products

•OS OpenData™

•Case studies and suggested uses of data

•Questions

Ordnance Survey - 1963

Ordnance Survey Today

• Ordnance Survey is 227 years old

• National mapping organisation of Great Britain

• 1990: Executive Agency • 1999: Trading Fund• 2009: Government Consultation• 2010: Launch of Open Data• 2011: Public Sector Mapping Agreement

launched

• Relationships with some 2821 public sector organisations and numerous commercial bodies underpinning some £100 billion of UK economic activity

Online

Data Collection

Data Maintenance

Data Integration/Processing

Data Supply

Digital Media Graphic Media

Customers/Partners

Ordnance Survey’s business

Modern, Seamless, Digital Products

What is Geographic Information?

Paper map Digital data file Spatial information databases

An Early Example: effective use of mapping in 18th century London

Providing Geographic Context:

The 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak

Snow's work, particularly his maps of the Soho area cholera victims, convinced the

Reverend Henry Whitehead (Assistant Curate at St Luke’s Church in Soho) that the Broad Street Pump was the source of

the local infections and together they persuaded the local authority to remove

the pump handle.

Providing geographic context

Providing geographic context

Identifying Clusters and Anomalies

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All claims dropped: saving £250,000

Identifying Hidden Relationships

What is the PSMA?

A centrally funded agreement between Government and Ordnance Survey allowing free access to our data at the

point of use from April 2011

Covers eligible public sector bodies from Central Government, Local Government and Health in England

and Wales

Provides a set of core datasets from Ordnance Survey – GB coverage

It is a ten year agreement with wider licensing rights to …

Enable more effective joint working between public sector bodies and private organisations that support your “core

business” and create a collaborative partnership between public sector users of GI and Ordnance Survey

PSMA Sign Up

• 2821 PSMA Members fully signed as at 31st December 2012

• Includes 1836 Parish/Town/Community Councils: Tatenhill Parish Council (Cheshire) being the 2000th member to sign up

• Visit PSMA website for full list of members

PSMA member

PSMAmember

Internal business use / display and promotion to public via internet

Reports

Any other OS data

user

Anyone for“Core

Business”

Contractor

What members can / cannot do with the data?Commercial services

Competing activities

One Scotlandmember

However…..

You are entitled to make a charge for the provision of mapping or data where:

• The charge is to cover the costs of providing any such data / mapping (i.e. an Administration fee). Such a charge cannot include Copyright fees as these are already covered

• Where a statute permits a charge to be levied for the supply of information

The Principal Contact – main roles & responsibilities

• Become the point of contact between Ordnance Survey and the PSMA member organisation

• Act as a recipient for communications from Ordnance Survey, including data and literature

• Be a source of information in all matters relating to Ordnance Survey (data, PSMA licensing, etc.)

• Attend relevant meetings and events

• Manage other user access to the PSMA web site

• Liaise with other PSMA members on data sharing

• Manage the provision of data under the Contractors’ and End Users’ licenses

• Provide feedback to Ordnance Survey

• Liaise with Principal Contacts at principal authorities

PSMA Products - reference sheet

OS OpenData

• Introduced 1 April 2010

• Can be ordered through the PSMA on-line service

• No restrictions on reuse

• Can be passed to anyone

• Can be commercially exploited

• No limitations on publishing

• Still requires a Copyright acknowledgment

• Boundary-Line™• Meridian™ 2• Strategi®

• 1:50 000 Gazetteer • 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster• MiniScale®

• OS Street View®

• Land-Form PANORAMA® • OS Locator™• OS VectorMap® District • Code-Point® Open

Case Studies: town & parish council uses of geographic data

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Suggested uses/benefits

• Grounds / buildings maintenance contracts

• Planning major events

• Consultation with other bodies: police / fire / utilities / local authorities and your parishioners

• Sharing data with other bodies

• Easier to use data provided by other PSMA members

• Website – location of facilities (e.g. Allotments)

• Reports

• Meeting the Government’s localism objectives

• Neighbourhood planning

• Parish (Community Lead Planning)

How are local councils using the data?

84 local councils responded to a recent “Customer Value Questionnaire” sent to every PSMA member organisations

(over 11 000 individual PSMA contacts )

Most frequent uses of data reported:

•Flood Modelling & Flood risk assessment

•Protection and Conservation (rural and urban)

•PROW Management

•Visitor / tourist information

•Grounds / parks maintenance

•Estates building and / or housing management

Mapping for Emergencies

SummarySo we will -

• Continue to act as a partner to the public sector

• Develop and promulgate examples of local councils delivering cost savings & efficiency improvements with geographic information

• Offer advice and consultancy support (including “Proof of Concept” projects)

Town, parish & community councils –

• Join the Public Sector Mapping Agreement

• Access a range of geographic data sets

• Use data for contextualisation and as a platform from which to share information

Geographic information is not just paper mapping – it is seamless, edgeless digital data

Questions?

ian.carter@ordnancesurvey.co.uk07776 495076