GeoData Solutions

So if you can’t afford the vast expense or take the time to understand the complex licensing schemes how do you use high quality map data that we have already paid for?

Well if you live in England, Scotland or Wales the Ordnance Survey is starting to gradually open up its data silos with the OS OpenSpace API. However here in Northern Ireland we are still stuck behind the iron curtain. OSNI doesn’t supply its geodata to OpenSpace but a feint at openness was suggested with the map viewer that is GeoHubNI.

It’s actually a fairly decent viewer compared to their previous attempt and allows the user to view both large and small scale map data.

Now this is all very well if all you want to do is view or print but that’s it, that’s all you can do here…no mashups or spatial analysis possible.

Right now there’s no way of combining external data with OSNI’s maps to build tools such as fixmystreet.