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Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service the first brigade to implement web map service from Ordnance Survey
OS OnDemand is a national web map service that serves raster images, including OS MasterMap Topography Layer, directly into a customer’s geospatial application using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) WMS standards.
HFRS is accessing the service using specialist functionality available in OpenWINGS, the brigade’s GIS solution supplied by Bristol based software developer, Innogistic.
Innogistic’s OpenWINGS GIS application is fully OGC compliant and is one of the first commercially available packages to be able to interface with this type of WMS service.
John Hinton Risk Intelligence Data Manager at HFRS said: “We are very pleased with the service. Accessing OS OnDemand through OpenWINGS means that we can reduce our reliance on the costly data storage infrastructure we have been using.
“Similarly we also know that the data served to us is as current as possible without our having to worry about managing updates. We have been an OpenWINGS customer for some time now and have been very impressed by the way Innogistic have kept pace with new technology such as this.”
Julian Cooper, Service Development Manager at Ordnance Survey, commented: “I’m really pleased that the OS OnDemand service from Ordnance Survey is playing a key role, along with Innogistic’s OpenWINGS software, in delivering an effective solution for Hampshire Fire.” Although HFRS is one of the first, it is likely that there will be a lot of interest in this service from other existing and future Ordnance Survey and Innogistic customers too.
