OS Net is currently used by 130 of our surveyors to collect field data for the production of our various mapping products. The use of GPS has meant significant changes to the way we collect data and has enabled cost savings over time.

Ordnance Survey products are supplied to organisations for internal business use (IBU) only, as set out in the NHS terms. You will be sent a copy of these terms and conditions once we receive your application to join the pilot. a headline, IBU is defined as the use of Ordnance Survey data in the ordinary day-to-day activities involved in the internal administration and running of your business or organisation, and not for other commercial exploitation.

Ordnance Survey is Britain's National Mapping Agency, find out more here http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Yes. Clause 3.1.11 states that you may use the maps and data as part of a presentation at a seminar, conference, or workshop or other similar activity. Remember, however, that you must be an Authorised User and that you cannot give the data to a third party for any reason or leave the data behind in any form.

Ordnance Survey is Great Britain's national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and the public.

Under the terms of the Pilot NHS (England) Agreement, fees for most members are paid centrally by The IC. For further information on either payment requirements or the agreement, please contact the Information Centre directly by e-mailing the IC Helpdesk or phoning them on 0845 300 6016 (lines open 9am – 5pm, Mon – Fri).

The rules of the JISC-Ordnance Survey sub-licence apply to data derived from Ordnance Survey data as well as to the original Ordnance Survey data itself. Derived data is defined as: "any data that originates from an original Ordnance Survey Dataset is considered to be derived data."

Different members of staff will each need to register to obtain their own MapPilot passwords. Teachers and other school staff may allow other users (such as pupils in class) to use of the Ordnance Survey maps and data under their direct and personal supervision. It is important that individual password holders never divulge their password to any of their supervised users. All usage is tracked to individual passwords and Authorised Users remain responsible for data obtained via their passwords.

Our plan is that in due course we will upgrade the OS Net base-station network to receive both GPS and Galileo signals. Some OS Net services are ‘free to air’ through the GPS website. Will this continue now that commercial services are available. Yes. A free service for post-process applications will be maintained (using readings every 30 seconds) and this will continue to be available on our web site. Partners will provide higher update rate readings where they are required.

OS Net is a national GPS correction network. Ordnance Survey® has established a network of more than 90 permanent GPS stations around the country. From the observations made by these stations errors can be calculated in the GPS system to provide a range of correction services.

Order forms are supplied to eligible organisations as part of the joining process – once they have registered their details via the Ordnance Survey website. They are then also available to download from the Members' area.

The scientific stations have antenna monuments that are effectively fixed to solid rock or stable structures and data recorded there are suitable for high accuracy long term monitoring applications such as ocean tide loading and vertical land movement research. Some formerly scientific stations, Barking and Camborne for example, are now operated by the OSGB.

The University has an Ordnance Survey Educational Copyright Licence. Allows photocopying (but not digitisation) of OS maps for teaching, research and educational purposes.

Other Ordnance Survey products may be added in future years, although this is entirely at the discretion of JISC and Ordnance Survey. However, Digimap is a delivery mechanism to which many other datasets can be added. If there are particular datasets you would like to see available through Digimap, please contact EDINA (edina@ed.ac.uk).

The operating system used in a CD-i player is called CD-RTOS, which stands for Compact Disc Real-Time Operating System. It is hard coded in a ROM of at least 512 KB, along with other player-specific software such as the player's startup shell. CD-RTOS is based on version 2.4 of Microware's OS-9/68K operating system. OS-9 is very similar to Unix, and supports full multitasking and multi-user operation.

The permitted use of the data and maps from Digimap are described in the Terms of Use for the service, and in the Frequently Asked Questions on the Sub-Licence Agreement. Each user must read the Terms of Use for Digimap when they register. These and the Frequently Asked Questions on the Sub-Licence Agreement can be viewed from any point within the service. Institutions will need to make separate licensing arrangements with Ordnance Survey for activities not covered by the Digimap service.

Unlike in England and Wales, there is no 'definitive map' of rights of way in Scotland, and as a result they have not been marked on Ordnance Survey maps.

part of the Agreement, there is some technical support available from Ordnance Survey to assist participants with the use of our data. In the first instance, please email the NHS Helpdesk with your request. They will pass it on to one of our data consultants if they are not able to answer the question.

To find out, please look at the entitlement chart below which shows the products avilable to the different membership tiers. You can then use the links to find out more about the individual products. Details about the products are also contained in the NHS (England) Pilot Agreement product portfolio (2.7 Mb .pdf). With the 1:10000 scale raster product, under the agreement you can have either Colour, or Black and White, but not both.

Yes, but only if all the course attendees are Authorised Users. The status of Continuing Education students varies between institutions. You should check the rules which apply to you. No. Firstly, the course attendees are not Authorised Users. Secondly, a course which generates a profit is regarded as "Commercial Use", which is not permitted under the terms of the licence (see clause 4.1.

You can publish maps taken from Digimap or created by you in a variety of publications. Clause 3.1.7 states that you may incorporate maps in printed and electronic versions of conference papers, articles, articles published in a journal publication and poster sessions. Clause 3.1.14 states that you may publish maps on your institution's website as part of a course or project. There are limits on the size of maps you can publish. These are listed in Appendix 4 of the Sub-Licence Agreement.

Ordnance Survey is the foremost supplier of geographic data in the UK, providing products and services that underpin over £100-billion worth of business within Great Britain. We have an order and supply process that allows us to dispatch, on average a large volume of orders every week.

The following products are available through Digimap. 100% of national coverage is available for all the products: Strategi®: (1:250,000) "road atlas" scale mapping, showing major settlements, roads, railways and land use; MeridianTM2: (1:50,000) comprehensive road and railway networks, land use areas, boundaries and place names; Land-Line.

Ordnance Survey achieves an RTK rmse accuracy of 1-2 cm in plan and 3 cm in height (though this is dependent on the user’s equipment and refers to a real-time ‘RTK’ service). The dGPS service will provide from 20 cm to sub-metre positioning (again depending on the user’s equipment). A choice of positional accuracy levels will be available for different applications and for different costs via partner GPS correction services. No.

We use the Windows operating system to create and modify files for graphic and sign production. We are capable of importing some Macintosh file formats. Please contact us for details.

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Not necessarily, but our user studies have found that without wireless connectivity, there was considerable "commode congestion" in an average 2.5-person household whose one bathroom typically can provide a comfortable workspace for just one user at a time. We therefore strongly recommend using the wireless connection to alleviate potential multi-user congestion and encourage widespread "couch computing."

VPN network support is only available from Academic Computing for the Macintosh OSX operating system. We recommend upgrading to OSX if you wish to use VPN. Faculty, Academic Staff and Students: Contact the Help Desk, 204 Stokes, 610-896-1480, or your computing support liaison. The Help Desk is open Monday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM; Tuesday - Friday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM.