1. ResilienceDirect Maps A common operating picture for the United Kingdom
23rd March 2017

2. Storm Desmond 2015
We might not have volcanos, earthquakes and hurricanes but we do have frequent storms in the United Kingdom, and in recent years we have been deluged by some exceptionally heavy rain storms that have caused loss of life and devastation to land and property – as depicted in these pictures taken during the Cumbria floods in the north of England in late Severe gales and record breaking rainfall resulted in 3 people losing their lives, over 5000 homes being flooded, bridges washed away and the army brought in to help first responders rescue people from their homes and stranded vehicles.
I’d like to spend a few minutes today sharing what we’ve done in the UK to enable multi-agency collaboration and information sharing prior to and during extreme events like this to minimise impacts and reduce loss of life.

3. Free to all users across the UK Secure and accredited cloud hosting
Simple, intuitive and fully responsive
Secure and accredited cloud hosting
Real time map sharing and annotating
OpenSource stack that supports OGC web map services
Cue ResilienceDirect…
Launched in April 2014 it has revolutionised the way public authorities share information for emergency planning and response, including during disruptive incidents like floods, fires and terrorist threats.
The service is provided by UK Cabinet Office and is available free of charge to all category 1 and 2 responders in the UK. This includes resilience officers, ‘blue light’ services such as police, fire and ambulance, local authorities, NHS providers and the Environment Agency.
ResilienceDirect enables effective multi-agency collaboration via a suite of secure cloud-based tools for sharing information and providing users with a common operating picture. A key component of the tool set is ResilienceDirect Maps which was developed by Ordnance Survey in collaboration with users and Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat. As the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain, Ordnance Survey used their knowledge of open-source geospatial technologies, OGC web mapping service standards and agile development approaches to iteratively develop a simple and intuitive web based mapping system for up to 15,000 resilience users across more than 1,500 agencies in the United Kingdom.
Key features include [ref post its on slide]
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4. Met Office live weather feeds
Ordnance Survey GB mapping and addresses
Met Office live weather feeds
Environment Agency live flood alerts
Health & Safety Labs Population data
British Geological Survey datasets
Global base maps from Open Street Map
OGC compliant WMS web feeds
Local datasets, photos & videos uploaded by users
Over 2,000 live web
feeds and datasets from multiple sources…
ResilienceDirect Maps is the first system of its kind in the United Kingdom to bring together content from a wide variety of Government and private sources that helps inform decision making during times of crisis. This includes detailed surface mapping from Ordnance Survey, geological data from the BGS, environmental datasets from the EA, weather data from the Met Office an population data from the HSL.
OS worked closely with key government agencies to unlock new datasets to make them spatially aware and to publish them as OGC web compliant web services for easy consumption within RD Maps. Critically these datasets now come live and direct from the agencies that are responsible for the collection and maintenance of the information ensuring that users have access to the latest information at all times from the trusted sources.
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5. View live weather feeds and forecasts
The benefits of aggregating such a vast array of information and live web map services, annotating them and sharing them within RD Maps is clear.
It facilitates improved decision making and ensures that users across the country have access to a single, trusted view of the latest situation – a ‘common operational picture’ to provide a shared situational awareness.
Here we can see live weather information – in this case rainfall radar presented via an OGC web mapping service from the UK Meteorological office – it provides both historical and forecasted time series information which users can animate within ResilienceDirect.
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6. View live river gauge information and flood alerts
The threat of heavy rainfall in the previous slide requires first responders to keep an eye on river levels and flood warnings from the Environment Agency – in this example we have live feeds of that information presented as a simple point-based dataset and colour coded to indicate severity – again, provided as a web map service and updated on a minute by minute basis..
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7. View live flood extents and predictions
As river levels rise, the Environment Agency models flood risks and publishes another web map service, this time predicting flood extents to indicate areas for closer monitoring and potential evacuation of residents. We can switch the layers on and off to get a sense of the impacts.
Dynamic querying tools allow us to drill further into the data to generate a list of properties affected by the flooding, pulling that information directly from source via an API call to the Ordnance Survey national address database.
But it’s not just floods that ResilienceDirect Maps is used for…
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8. Quickly draw evacuation cordons Add civil contingency specific markers
It’s used to predict and respond to major fires and incidents such as this example showing the potential impact of an explosion at a UK power station.
Evacuation cordons can be rapidly added to the map in a couple of simple steps to highlight the scale of the impact and provide evacuation instructions to the first responders.
A civil contingencies symbology set has also been designed specifically for the resilience community. This ensures that all users have a common understanding of the situation based on the map and can rapidly annotate the base mapping layers with real time information.
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9. Response & Planning core capabilities
What’s next?
Resilience Hub
Single Secure Login
Ministers
Commercial
Business capabilities
Response & Planning core capabilities
Third Party apps
Docs
Flooded Property Tool
Dynamic Reporting (e.g. SitReps)
Tasking & Logging
Chat
Paid apps
T&L lite
T&L lite
Group Pages
Surveys & Polls
Free apps
FAQs/Help
T&L lite
Maps
T&L lite
Control Rooms
News
General Public
People Directory
e.g. London Prepared App
User Admin
Events Calendar
Asset Library
With over 15,000 users across the UK regularly using the ResilienceDirect service we are developing exciting plans with UK Cabinet Office to integrate RD maps with a broader suite of collaboration and information sharing tools for the whole community.
This Resilience Hub will provide a secure platform for government agencies and accredited private sector organisations to develop new and innovative applications for the wider benefit of the UK resilience community, central government stakeholders and citizens.
Secure cloud provider(s)
First Responders
Exercises
External
data feeds
Emergency Services Network (ESN)
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10. A real success story
ResilienceDirect Maps has proven to be a highly effective platform for collaboration and data sharing across the UK resilience community, especially during the severe floods in the north of England in late 2015, as you can see here.
As the service evolves into the new Resilience Hub it will provide capabilities that benefit other parts of UK Government and will continue to stimulate and drive demand for more geo-enabled content and data from Government agencies and private sector bodies such as the utilities.
The growing demand for real time imagery, be that from drones, aircraft or satellites, and new land-based sensor information and the ability to collect, process and visulise that information in real time will be made possible by the flexible and open nature of the ResilienceDirect Maps platform.
It has been put to the test in many real-life incidents and has proven to be a highly effective visual collaboration tool for all response agencies around the UK.
Exciting times lie ahead, we’ve learned a lot on this journey and I would love to be able to demo the system and share more with you about this revolutionary tool at the demonstration session this afternoon. Please do come and see me!
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11. Thank you Ben Rodgers Strategic Product Manager Ordnance Survey
Thank you and I look forward to meeting many of you later today!