Understanding the Impact of PAI on your Organisation

Geographic and spatial intelligence allows companies to improve the way they manage their business and interface with the outside world. Most commonly, a company's data, with the use of GIS, will have been captured against this OS 'backdrop', facilitating improved planning, monitoring and analysis through enhanced knowledge of assets.

For instance, decision making regarding location of distribution plant can be assisted resulting in digging fewer, smaller, and cheaper holes.

However, applying the PAI changes issued by the OS will inevitably have a knock-on effect; the captured data sets and the OS data will no longer match! A pipe or cable that was previously plotted in a footpath may well look as though it is running through a garden or perhaps even a building.

In the below image the user's GIS data is aligned to the old OS map data.

When the same user data is overlaid onto the more accurate, resurveyed map data, the problem becomes apparent. The user's data no longer matches the background!