Case Study: Glasgow City Council opens hundreds of spatial datasets and accelerates innovation with Ordnance Survey

Glasgow City Council - Customer Case Study

Glasgow City Council led the £24 million Future City Glasgow programme to make the city smarter, safer and more sustainable but faced challenges providing broad access to detailed spatial data, promoting the use of place-based information, encouraging citizen and SME participation, and reducing financial and licensing barriers. Working with Ordnance Survey and using OSMA datasets and a tailored OS Developer Licence, the council sought to open up data to stimulate innovation across the city.

Ordnance Survey worked closely with Glasgow City Council to deliver a unique Developer Licence and simplified OSMA terms that let derived data be shared with third parties and accelerated prototyping and testing. The approach opened hundreds of spatial datasets under a single framework, created the UK’s second-largest “local” open data store, cut staff time spent on individual licences, encouraged new uses of local authority data, and helped GCC win a Geospatial Excellence award (nominated by Ordnance Survey).

Glasgow City Council

Colin Birchenall

Glasgow City Council