Ordnance Survey International, a British company, has created a Geospatial Manual for Oman in order to give a better quality of life to its citizens as well as help the National Survey Authority (NSA) advance its position as the country’s national mapping authority.
Ordnance Survey also undertook a Geospatial Maturity Assessment to establish the maturity of NSA against key geospatial and operational criteria. The results helped identify where NSA should focus its efforts to achieve maximum results and ultimately improve citizen services.
“Ensuring NSA is equipped to provide the Omani government and citizens with reliable, credible and authoritative geospatial information to underpin all location-related decisions (e.g. protecting citizens and assets, maintaining efficient and effective infrastructure),” the company stated.
The Southampton-based company was also tasked to ensure NSA is aligned to, and supports, the implementation of major national initiatives such as the Oman National Spatial Strategy and the National Spatial Data infrastructure, which underpin the successful delivery of the Oman 2020 vision.
Ordnance Survey created the content for the Oman Geospatial Manual as well as build and delivered the technical infrastructure for its publication.
“The manual provides stakeholders with an easily accessible set of policies and specifications for surveying, managing and distributing mapping information. In addition, Ordnance Survey International provided advice and recommendations for the development of existing NSA policies, licensing, practices, standards, products and services in response to future trends and technology,” the company stated.
Ordnance Survey had signed a deal with NSA in 2016 to map sultanate’s world-class geospatial path. Established in 1984, NSA is solely responsible for producing and supplying geospatial data for Oman, including all survey activities and assembling and maintaining the country’s geographic archives.
“Ordnance Survey International’s Geospatial Maturity Assessment has provided us with an invaluable insight into where to focus our efforts, both geospatially and operationally, to transform the organisation in order to meet the demands of a modern nation,” said Saleem bin Abdullah al Hashmi, director of Geospatial Information, NSA.
The company helped NSA and the government to realise the social and environmental benefits of modernisation, supporting the provision of high quality up-to-date geospatial data on which other datasets can be built and referenced (e.g. water, infrastructure and transport) to provide a good quality of life for the Omani population, it said.
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