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New watercourse mapping – an example of good public sector data collaboration for Scotland.

Tom Satterthwaite

Product Manager

March 2013

Buachaille Etive Mor, Glen Coe, Highlands

Contents• Background & Context• User requirement• Ordnance Survey in 2010• Collaboration• Process• Implementation plan• Early results & lessons learned

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Scotland22nd December 2011

Context

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• Personal cost of flooding is huge• ‘Public’ cost is huge.• The Pitt review following the summer 2007 floods.

• The Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009.• Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (England & Wales).

• Ordnance Survey seeks to support:• Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)• Environment Agency• and others

Collaboration project• Scottish public sector had/has a requirement to build and

maintain defendable flood risk management policy, practice & reporting.

• Current solutions were• increasingly not fit for purpose• Locally developed• Lacked good interoperability• Inconsistently co-ordinated with OS MasterMap

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Mapping background

• Digital mapping technology continues to get more powerful and more accessible.

• Capture once, use many – for consistent, interoperable data

• Mid-scales (1:50,000) network data• No complete and consistent GB wide

network map.• Mostly available in OS MasterMap

Topography Layer but a significant task to extract and then construct a network view.

Ordnance Survey in 2010

• Phoenix/GDMS/Maia project delivered.

• Licensing environment updated

• PSMA & OSMA in place.• OpenData delivered.

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• A desire to be more customer focussed• Directly reflecting customer requirements and timescales.• So a collaboration project was started.

SDRN project

• Key members:• Scottish Government• Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)• Scottish local authorities (including SCOTS)• Improvement Service• Scottish Water• Marine Scotland• Ordnance Survey

• Environment Agency• Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Collaboration project

• Project Board• High level support• Terms of Reference• Technical Working Group

• Project manager funded by Scottish Government

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Process

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• OS Insight™

• gather detailed requirements

• show illustrative data (Dundee & Benbecula)

• Scottish Water – legacy culvert data

• Scottish Water – supplementary (maintained) culvert data

• SEPA – catchment definitions

• Expert input from Marine Scotland, EA and CEH.

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Process: User requirement• Definition

Best in class’ infrastructure for• Scope

Maintained large scale structured network.

Complete Great Britain

Consistent specification

INSPIRE compliant.• Target users

Environment protection agencies

Environmental science.

Local government (flood management, emergency planning, transport).• Key Drivers

Statutory requirements

Risk mitigation• Top Level Needs

Data sharing & interoperability.

Project roadmap• Alpha – December 2012

• Initial ‘Scotland only’ release• User feedback (corrections, connectivity etc)• Available across the Scottish public sector (OSMA)

• Beta – September 2013• Full GB release• Attribution complete including catchments and

culverts• V1.0 – March 2014

• Maintained and update published quarterly• Full supply or COU (as per OS MasterMap)• Included within PSMA*

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*PSMA inclusion subject to confirmation.

Implementation• Getting the data into people’s hands:

• OS Insight• OSMA

• Now proactively pushing the data to those authorities who have not yet engaged.

• Release notes – explaining what the data is and what users can expect• Early feedback is good.• Further work to ensure adoption and if appropriate, withdrawal of local

solutions• Lead by SDRN Project Manager• With support from SEPA and Scottish Government

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Results to date - & lessons learned• + 3 months• Early feedback is good• Ordnance Survey’s key lessons:

• Engage with user community at earliest opportunity• User OS Insight to illustrate concepts and allow users to

experience (even the earliest) data• Work on 3rd party licensing from day 1.• Consortium licensing arrangements (OSMA in this case) enable

access to data simply and quickly.• Collaborations are jointly defined and there is no single ideal

model.• Collaborations are making some projects possible in a way that

would not be otherwise possible.

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References & contact

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http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/os-mastermap/water-layer/index.html

Tom Satterthwaite (tom.satterthwaite@ordnancesurvey.co.uk)Customer Service CentreOrdnance SurveyAdanac DriveSOUTHAMPTONUnited KingdomSO16 0AS

Phone: +44 (0)8456 05 05 05

Fax: +44 (0)8450 990494

customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

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