Case Study: Neath Port Talbot Council achieves 250% rise in GIS users and significant cost savings with Ordnance Survey

Neath Port Talbot Council - Customer Case Study

Neath Port Talbot Council faced pressure to cut costs and widen the use of geographic information across departments but was limited by expensive proprietary desktop licences and a small number of technical users. The council explored open-source GIS because of its compatibility with Ordnance Survey data—using Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) products and OS OpenData™—to enable broader access to mapping and spatial services.

By integrating Ordnance Survey PSMA products and OS datasets (OS MasterMap Topography, OS VectorMap Local) with an open-source stack (PostGIS, GeoServer, QGIS), the council built a single central spatial repository and moved to virtualised servers. The solution increased Ordnance Survey data users by over 250% (now 120+ users, including 90 new users), brought at least eight more departments onto GIS, produced first-year and ongoing maintenance savings, removed duplication, and improved resilience and readiness for future INSPIRE services.

Neath Port Talbot Council

Kevin Williams

Business Consultant and Team Leader