OS NGD Webinars, Tutorials and Case Studies

🖥️ Webinars

If you are a PSGA Member or OS Partner and you'd like to know more about how to get the most out of the OS NGD, head to the PSGA Members area or the Partner Portal and watch the recordings of our recent webinars, including 'An introduction to the OS NGD' and 'Maximising the benefits of ordering OS NGD data using OS Select+Build'. New webinars are added to both areas periodically.

👩‍🏫 Tutorials

To help make getting started easier with OS Select+Build and the OS NGD APIs, we have created the following tutorial videos (available from our YouTube channel) to give you step-by-step guidance:

• OS Select+Build: How to build a recipe

• OS Select+Build: How to download a data package

• OS Select+Build: How to add attribute filters to a new recipe

• How to use OS NGD API – Features

• How to use OS NGD API – Tiles

Numerous OS NGD tutorials are available on our 'More than Maps' site (a self-serve platform that provides a one-stop shop for all your OS technical geospatial support, including demonstrators, tutorials and case studies). They introduce the OS NGD data themes, collections and feature types and show you what can be achieved using OS NGD data and how. New tutorials are added to the More than Maps site periodically.

The same tutorials are available to PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) Members and OS Partners from the PSGA Members area and the Partner Portal, respectively (just search for 'Lightning Talks').

The OS Blog also has the following useful OS NGD data tutorial:

• Using OS's new buildings data attribute: Number of Floors

📔 Case studies

Find out how customers across numerous sectors are using and benefiting from OS NGD data:

• Analysing roof attribution data: Discover how enhanced roof attribution data can benefit a wide range of sectors, including sustainability and energy, insurance and property, and Emergency Services.
• Emergency Services: Find out how new data on pedestrian and vehicular access points to key public buildings will help the Emergency Services to enhance their emergency planning and response times and improve their situational awareness.
• Solar panel presence case study: Discover how to use OS NGD Buildings features data to locate and map solar panels on roofs across Great Britain.
• OS and Office for National Statistics case study: Learn how OS and the ONS worked together to measure travel times and access to amenities.
• Greater Manchester Ecology Unit case study: Learn how the OS NGD is supporting nature conservation in Greater Manchester and saving ecologists lots of time.
• Emergency Services: Find out how new data for number of floors, sites, and bridge interactions will help the Emergency Services.
• Supporting planning and new housing developments: Discover how OS NGD data can support better planning and future modelling for new housing developments.
• British Army case study: Discover how the British Army use OS NGD API – Features for battlefield training.
• Analysing pavement widths using OS Select+Build case study: Learn how to determine pavement widths in OS NGD data.
• Speed data case study: Find out more about how the OS NGD speed datasets make it easier to analyse travel times, enhance routing analytics and provide accurate insight for safety and infrastructure policy decisions.
• North Wales Cave Rescue Organisation case study: Discover how the North Wales Cave Rescue Organisation has used OS NGD data to enable faster responses to underground incidents in North Wales.
• Office for National Statistics case study: Learn how ONS are using OS NGD data to provide up-to-date estimates of the value that green and blue spaces add to house prices.
• Identifying hard to heat homes case study: Explore how using attributes from OS NGD data can help to identify homes which are hard to heat.
• North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service case study: Find out how North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service used OS Select+Build to reduce data analysis timeframes.