Sport England - GIS
At Esri UK Annual Conference 2014 Sport England is a government organisation responsible for helping people and communities across the country to create a sporting habit for life. To do so Sport England uses GIS to provide mapping and spatial analysis services to both partner organisations and within the business. Sport England’s ability to deliver these GIS services with limited resource, is considerably enhanced by the use of Esri UK’s data services. This presentation summarises Sport England’s experiences in using these services, which have not only saved a considerable amount of time and cost for Sport England but have also enabled access to a broader selection of data, such as Ordnance Survey MasterMap, not previously possible due to data management overheads.
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Sport England - GIS
- 1. Creating a sporting habit for life Data as a Service better solutions, less effort 11th June 2014 Mark Critchley GIS Manager
- 2. Creating a sporting habit for life Who we are and what we do Sport England is a non departmental government body Focused on community level sport Aim to increase the number of people playing sport regularly Over 15.3 million people play sport once a week, every week Most adults (52.3%) still play no sport
- 3. Creating a sporting habit for life How we do it Distribute lottery money through partner organisations such as Local Authorities and NGBs Investments supported with advice, expertise and insight Geography is key to: - establish relationships between data sets - determine where things happen and why
- 4. Creating a sporting habit for life - Active People Survey and interactive online tool - Sport market segmentation and online analysis tool - Active Places facility database and Active Places Power website - Grants Management System GI and GIS based business solutions Applications include:
- 5. Creating a sporting habit for life Solution delivery Common to all projects: - Budget, deadlines, scope Sport England challenges: - Limited in-house resources - Multiple third party contractors Solution components: - Technology / software - Data © Copyright BCS 2014
- 6. Creating a sporting habit for life Esri UK data services - Consistent appearance from local to national scales - Various cartographic representations - Access to OS MasterMap - Referenced to British National Grid
- 7. Creating a sporting habit for life Benefits of data services - Externally hosted data significantly reduces local storage and backup requirements - Managed services ensure data is always up-to-date - Service optimisation ensures fast and performant experience
- 8. Creating a sporting habit for life Benefits of data services - Monthly usage reports allows monitoring of services - Lowest cost annual subscription provides sufficient usage allowance
- 9. Creating a sporting habit for life Considerations - Dependency on third party and good connectivity - Services optimized for Esri software only - Quality of large print based outputs - Proxy and firewall configuration 9
- 10. Creating a sporting habit for life Future developments Continued and expanded uses of DaaS services: - Inclusion in ArcGIS Online subscription - Gazetteer and geocode services - Other third party data (aerial photography / ONS census statistics) 10
- 11. Creating a sporting habit for life Summary - Significant time and cost savings - Benefits far outweigh limitations - Better solutions established with less effort 11
- 12. Creating a sporting habit for life Links and contact details Esri UK Data Services http://www.esriuk.com/products/data Sport England home page: http://www.sportengland.org/ Active Places Power: https://www.activeplacespower.com Mark Critchley – GIS Manager mark.critchley@sportengland.org 12