Baz Newman Senior Product Developer 11 th June 2014 Rapid Product Prototyping in Ordnance Survey
Jul 12, 2015
Baz Newman
Senior Product Developer
11th June 2014
Rapid Product Prototyping in Ordnance Survey
• Who am I and who is Ordnance Survey
• Product Development
• The variety of projects
• How FME is invaluable to us
Overview
• Been at Ordnance Survey for 10 years • Worked in Cartography for over 8 years • Been a Senior Product Developer for the last year and a half • Love playing sport
Bit about me
Who is Ordnance Survey?
The Na'onal Mapping Authority of Great Britain
An informa'on service provider
• Creates and maintains the defini've na'onal database of geographical informa'on
• Updated with 5 000 changes every day by dedicated surveyors
• Used to create a wide range of digital data products as well as paper maps
• Draws on skills of 1 500 staff
Product Development
Brief • In preparation for a new production system devise a way to automatically place
and snap existing contour value labels onto new contours • Current contour labelling not intelligent enough • Data sources
• iDTM contours • ESRI Geodatabase text feature classes
Contour Value Placement Problem Solving
Contour Value Placement
Contour Value Placement
Contour Value Placement
Contour Value Placement
Brief • Create some prototype illustrative .csv data • Show relationships between features • Data sources:
• OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer • Boundary-Line • In house settlement names database
Illustrative Gazetteer
Illustrative Gazetteer
Illustrative Gazetteer
Illustrative Gazetteer
Illustrative Gazetteer – Sample Data
Gazetteer prototype web front end
The Gazetteer will contain, amongst other attributes:
• Unique IDs • Road names and numbers • Settlements by hierarchy • Postcodes
And will be incrementally updated with further themes each release, such as;
• Hills and mountains • Forests • Lakes
Gazetteer of Great Britain
Brief • Create a prototype 3D PDF • Will be used to show customers what could be done with their data • Data sources:
• .DGN file supplied to us by the customer
Illustrative 3D PDF
Illustrative 3D PDF
Illustrative 3D PDF
Illustrative 3D PDF
Brief • Transform raw data to product specification • Build a fulfilment system that can produce specific area of interest alpha data to
enable delivery to customers • Source data
• Building height information • Contract Polygon Store • OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer Building Height Attribute: Alpha
Product Creation
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Digital Terrain Model
Digital Surface Model
OS MasterMap Topography
Layer
Building Height Attribute
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha
Visualisation
Brief • Create some prototype beta data for OSMM Sites Layer • Will go out to customers to show what the final product will look like • Data sources
• Functional Sites • Access Points • OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
Routing Points Access Points
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta
• Vast array of projects come through the Product Development team at Ordnance Survey
• FME is vital to many of them
• Without the use of FME some projects would take a lot longer to complete and some of the past projects would never have been delivered on time
Summary
Baz Newman [email protected]