Case Study: Runnymede Borough Council achieves major cost and time savings with Ordnance Survey's OS Maps API

Runnymede Borough Council - Customer Case Study

Runnymede Borough Council faced pressure to find cost savings and improve delivery of its GIS service across departments. To reduce licence and maintenance overhead and streamline access to Ordnance Survey mapping, the Council migrated to an open-source GIS stack and adopted Ordnance Survey’s OS Maps API.

Ordnance Survey helped implement a new web mapping application using the OS Maps API alongside PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers and QGIS, enabling fast tile delivery, frequent base‑map updates and configurable cartography. The change delivered substantial savings in licence and maintenance costs, reduced the GIS team’s time spent updating and processing OS data, cleaned up redundant datasets, expanded desktop GIS use across the Council and allowed users to capture their own service-area data.

Runnymede Borough Council

Chris Buckmaster

Principal GIS Officer