OS NGD Webinars, Tutorials and Case Studies
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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.
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:
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:
Find out how customers across numerous sectors are using and benefiting from OS NGD data:
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.