Here is a video to showing some queries you can do using geographic data against a location to help inform new insights.
Once you have loaded Ordnance Survey data into a geographical information system (GIS), you can do so much with it.
At a very basic level, you have a map, but you can start to show more than one layer of location information. For example, you can show ward boundaries over a backdrop map to show which streets or addresses fall within the area. This is called a spatial query – using geography to answer a question.
You can also bring in your own information. For example, if you have a spread sheet with addresses in it, you can use a product like Code-Point and, within a GIS, match the postcode in the spreadsheet to the postcode in Code-Point. You can then see where all your addresses are and any clusters or gaps. You can then use the mapping to capture and create data from. For example school catchment areas.
Once the map data is within a GIS, you can then start to look at things spatially. For example, what is the distance between A and B? What is the area? What is the length?
If you have information relating to areas, you can display this as well. This is called a choropleth map or thematic map.
You can use OS MasterMap Highways Network to plot the route between two points. You can then create areas of distance along roads from a point.
You can also use height data to model the landscape for analysis.
