FFW advises Ordnance Survey on Transport Direct service
12 August 2004
City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse has advised Ordnance
Survey in connection with its partnering agreement with the
Department for Transport (DfT), which could significantly improve
UK journey planning. The partnership will allow the DfT to draw on
Ordnance Survey’s most sophisticated data products for its
forthcoming web-based Transport Direct service
(www.transportdirect.info).
The Transport Direct Internet portal will provide users with
detailed travel information, making journeys by car and public
transport easier and more efficient. Users will benefit from the
most advanced digital mapping system available, access to
up-to-the-minute travel information and online transport ticket
booking facilities.
The FFW team was led by partner Nigel Wildish of the firm’s
Information, Communications and Technology Group. He was assisted
by Caroline Barton and Liz McSweeney. Nigel says:
“The technology behind this web-service is staggeringly
sophisticated. The OS MasterMap – Integrated Transport Network
layer together with road routing information, provides the detailed
overview of the complete road network for GB and information that
may affect a driver’s choice of route including height and vehicle
type restrictions, traffic calming, turn restrictions and one-way
roads. In addition OS ADDRESS-POINT is a dataset that uniquely
defines and locates 27 million residential, business and public
postal addresses in Great Britain.
Ordnance Survey were able to supply the DfT with the most
advanced digital mapping technology for this project and we feel
very proud to have worked on the agreement.”
Transport Direct were advised in-house.
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Ben Girdlestone, Communications Manager on 020 7861 4968
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