{"id":1424,"date":"2010-06-02T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/2010\/06\/02\/uk-ordnance-survey-opendata\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:55:00","slug":"uk-ordnance-survey-opendata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/2010\/06\/02\/uk-ordnance-survey-opendata\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Ordnance Survey OpenData"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK our mapping agency has released a huge amount of their datasets to the public and commercial use for free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/oswebsite\/opendata\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OS OpenData Logo\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e1f7970c image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e1f7970c-800wi\" title=\"OS OpenData Logo\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/oswebsite\/opendata\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ordnance Survey Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data is in vector and raster formats that AutoCAD Civil 3D can read.<\/p>\n<p>I have been having a play with Panorama dataset which is height data in .asc format.<\/p>\n<p>About 812 files for the whole of the UK and 130 million plus points.<\/p>\n<p>So of course I have thrown them all into a point cloud for fun!<\/p>\n<p>After a little wait I have one ISD file for the whole of the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e035970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ISD file size\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e035970c image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e035970c-800wi\" title=\"ISD file size\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a40133ef9d8b42970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK Point Cloud\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a40133ef9d8b42970b image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a40133ef9d8b42970b-800wi\" title=\"UK Point Cloud\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a40133ef9d8bb7970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK Point Cloud Stats\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a40133ef9d8bb7970b image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a40133ef9d8bb7970b-800wi\" title=\"UK Point Cloud Stats\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e114970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK Point Cloud Draped Map\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e114970c image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a4013482c9e114970c-800wi\" title=\"UK Point Cloud Draped Map\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Nice!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jack Strongitharm<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<br \/>&#160;<br \/>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK our mapping agency has released a huge amount of their datasets to the public and commercial use for free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/oswebsite\/opendata\/index.html\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/oswebsite\/opendata\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ordnance Survey Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data is in vector and raster formats that AutoCAD Civil 3D can read.<\/p>\n<p>I have been having a play with Panorama dataset which is height data in .asc 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