A new selection of location datasets, including two new products, have been released today (Thursday 28 March) as part of the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA). The new data and products have been delivered by Ordnance Survey (OS) and are set to support customers across a range of markets, including the emergency services, sustainability, land management, transport and property both in public and private sectors.
One of the new products is the OS Emergency Services Gazetteer (ESG), which will enhance the way that emergency services respond to and manage incidents. The OS ESG is a comprehensive and maintained database of locations. It will contain 1.3 million features (names, places and objects), such as motorway, road junctions and roundabouts.
The other new product is the OS Multi-modal Routing Network that has been developed in response to customer feedback and brings all OS transport information together in one place, reducing the effort required in preparing the data for use in routing applications. Local authorities will be able to use this data to plan safe routes to school and colleges, and emergency services will be able to improve their emergency planning for incidents at specific locations.
The release also includes enhancements to the OS National Geographic Database (NGD) such as:
buildings data – which will help users develop a better understanding about the energy performance of buildings
new Field Boundary and land cover information – beneficial for a range of environmental sector customers, environment agencies across England, Scotland and Wales, major landowners and farmers, as well as both local and central government in delivering net zero ambitions
enhancements like the Tram Track attribution – showing where trams are present on the road network, beneficial for road safety and streetworks
