Case Study: LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) achieves a safe, secure and smoothly coordinated London 2012 with Ordnance Survey geospatial support

LOCOG - Customer Case Study

London 2012 (the Games Organising Committee, LOCOG) faced the challenge of running a safe, secure and smoothly operated national-scale event involving dozens of public and private organisations that needed current, accurate location-based data for planning, traffic management, public safety and emergency response. Ordnance Survey provided the geospatial information and intelligence services required, coordinating stakeholders and supplying mapping, positioning, reference frameworks and web services to link and standardise location data across agencies.

Ordnance Survey formed a Production Coordination Group and delivered large-scale mapping and technical consultancy, collecting over half a million additional objects and producing more than 7,000 unique maps and plans. OS supplied 24/7 geospatial support, enabled TfL real-time traffic mapping, provided 300-layer policing datasets, distributed six million walking maps, and helped share 400 datasets—contributing to a secure Games with 20 million spectator journeys, 2.4 million visits to the Olympic Park, and no major security incidents.

LOCOG

Shaun Bennett

LOCOG