Ordnance Survey Transforms Vast Geospatial Data Into An Insight Engine with Snowflake

Ninety-five percent of what we do is data. Ordnance Survey is a data powerhouse, having crafted an accurate, advanced map of Britain that contains over 500 million features describing both the natural and built environments of the country. In order to keep that map accurate, we make around 30,000 updates a day. It is our passion to produce better data than we can get into the hands of more people who can make better decisions to unlock positive outcomes for Britain. Snowflake helps our customers turn that data into the insight that answers their most critical questions.

For example, through a "violence against women and girls" demo built with Snowflake, we can combine police crime data with precise locations to understand what bearing environment has on whether a crime takes place. We look at factors like street lights or the presence of tall buildings. Because we understand location so thoroughly, the insight we provide to decision-makers increases the chances that their interventions will have a positive impact and truly make a difference.

We know that the underlying geography of Britain is a base plate upon which other data can be layered. By providing this physical context, we are helping the financial sector understand how climate change and extreme weather conditions impact property portfolios. By working with Snowflake and the Met Office, we are enabling insurers to characterize those impacts locally, looking at specific building topologies and characteristics to better understand the risks to the properties they insure or lend against.

Putting our data centrally in the Snowflake platform does more than just give us access to thousands of customers on the marketplace; it allows us to work seamlessly within a partner ecosystem. Because technology integrations are already established, our data can flow directly into a user's tool of choice. The opportunity is vast, and we are already in discussions with some of the biggest companies in the world. As an organization, we are passionate about making Britain better through location understanding, and Snowflake is making that task much easier.