Women in geospatial at Idox

For International Women's Day Fiona Frost (UK Account Manager, Emapsite) and Alison Moon (Head of Geospatial Projects, Idox), to share some of their thoughts on 'women in geospatial'.

Planning for the Future

As the State Opening of Parliament confirms expected reforms to planning, streamlining processes, leveraging location analysis, and prioritising sustainability are essential to meet future housing and infrastructure challenges.

Data can be powerful...

But does your data pose a risk to analysing risk? The three things stop you from being competitive, we share three simple solutions.

Talking Points: Housing Community Summit

Idox Geospatial’s Fiona Frost considers social housing’s hot property topics – and offers her expert take on each.

Data Currency

Discover why up-to-date location data is essential for risk management, compliance, and future-proofing your projects. Learn how accurate data helps industries navigate climate change, infrastructure challenges, and regulatory shifts.

Emapsite.com is now Idox Geospatial Ltd - what this means for you.

Geospatial Expertise For Greater Returns On Greener Insurance

This blog explores how geospatial insights can cut through the noise, helping insurers find, assess, and manage renewable projects with greater accuracy and confidence. The result? Smarter strategies, greener portfolios, and stronger returns.

Decoding the OS National Geographic Database - the opportunity for Utilities

The OS National Geographic Database (OS NGD) offers utility companies powerful, up-to-date geographic data to improve asset management, risk planning, and sustainability efforts. While adoption has been slow, partners like Idox Geospatial make access and integration easier than ever.

Why address data is the unsung hero in the UK’s new-build recovery

Based on insights from our latest whitepaper, New Builds, New Advantages, we explore how early access to accurate address data can unlock commercial gains. Read on for the highlights – or dive deeper by downloading the full report.

Rising waters, rising stakes: Why futureproofing assets against flooding is critical for Britain

A recent investigation by The Guardian has revealed a sobering reality: millions more properties across Britain are now at risk of flooding as climate change intensifies. This makes it more crucial than ever to act - and to ensure those actions are guided by reliable, high-quality data.

The Hidden Data Issues Holding Back Consultancy Projects

Location data is critical to consultancy work, yet common issues like outdated datasets, licensing uncertainty, and incompatible formats can slow projects down and increase risk. This infographic explores six of the most frequent location data challenges faced by consultancies today — and how teams are overcoming them with reliable, compliant, and easy-to-use spatial data.

UK geospatial data licensing - A practical guide

Whether you're building a mapping application, producing client reports, or supporting operational decisions, understanding your mapping data licence in the UK is essential to staying compliant and controlling costs.

OS NGD Explained: A beginner’s guide to Ordnance Survey’s National Geographic Database

Learn what the OS National Geographic Database (OS NGD) is, how it works, and why it matters. A simple guide to Britain’s next-generation geospatial data platform.

Subsidence Risk analysis

Many organisations are now looking at recent weather patterns to work out how subsidence might affect property owners over the longer term. We're asking, "why aren't more teams analysing subsidence risk right now?"

Emapsite is carbon neutral

Since March 2022 Emapsite has been carbon neutral, find out more.

Future-proofing fibre

Location data enables fibre builders and alternative network providers to reach more customers and drive growth by future-proofing fibre networks. Emapsite is at Connected Britain 2023 to explain how.

What Is OS MasterMap®: A Comprehensive Guide

Discover more about OS MasterMap® features, applications and benefits for professionals.

Mapping the future of business

How location data can identify land and property risks and opportunities.

Ask Emapsite about Licensing

How do you navigate the licensing labyrinth? We know map licensing inside and out, and we want to help you to get outstanding results from the data you’ve licenced. Check out our essential overview.

Empower Your Sustainability Strategy

More and more organisations are discovering that location is where the answers to their sustainability challenges lie.

Connecting to tidal power.

Tidal turbines and hydropower are an important part of the Renewables mix, but connecting offshore to onshore is an ongoing challenge.

Emapsite flood risk mapping and data

The BBC recently published details of a detailed "future flood map" of Britain. Having access to accurate and detailed flood data is essential for understanding the extent, frequency, and intensity of flooding events in a particular area.

Know your Geospatial Data Services

WMTS (Web Map Tile Service), WFS (Web Feature Service), and WMS (Web Map Service) are all web-based geospatial data services that allow for the delivery of geographic data over the internet. This week we explain the difference.

How do I create a location plan?

A location plan helps to show wider impact on the location. If your planning authority requests this they will need more detail of the area. Create your location plan now.

Quick Guide to Site Plans for Planning Applications

Site / Block Plans and Location Plans available from our new Plans Platform. Here we explain what a site plan is and why it's sometimes referred to as a block plan.

Last Mile to Fast Mile

In e-commerce and logistics, the final stage of customer delivery – the last mile – can be the most inefficient, expensive and challenging. But it needn’t be that way. Here, we examine the intricacies of reaching the ultimate delivery point at speed and consider proven strategies for success.

The Role of the Geospatial Sector in Driving ‘Net Zero’

At Emapsite, we believe that the geospatial sector can be pivotal in unlocking invaluable insights that can also help tackle climate change and drive to ‘net zero’ emissions.

Understanding the Role of Geospatial Insight in Digital Transformation

As we see more and more businesses create competitive value from detailed geospatial insight, emapsite MD, Rich Pawlyn discusses how innovative leveraging of geospatial data can support an organisation's digital transformation strategy.

Emapsite is expanding its range of flood modelling data

emapsite is expanding its range of flood modelling data for specialists through its new partnership with Ambiental Risk Analytics.

Access to mapping made easy, through LSBUD searches

It’s now become second nature to run a search on the LineSearchB4UDig (LSBUD) portal, in most projects. We provide instant access to the mapping options that enable LSBUD users to tie their search results to the right mapping for their site.

Enterprise brain damage and the data wonks

Companies want a competitive advantage and they’re looking at their data for intelligent answers that will make sense right across a portfolio. Why is the enterprise finding it so hard to manipulate and present business intelligence well?

emapsite - response to PSGA announcement

Location data has the potential to improve everyone’s lives. We are pleased to hear that a new, 10-year Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) has been commissioned.

An increase in rainfall, an increase in insight

A flood may cause hardship and mental anguish for families, and a loss of business – current and future – for commercial enterprises. There’s never been a greater need to make sure we’re using flood data properly, with as many stakeholders as possible factoring it into their analysis

Data, data, data...value

For professionals, the new Groundsure Insight reports really do set a new standard in landscape discovery and detailed insights about a specific environment. We look at what these new reports bring to our customers.

The ownership data challenge for Housing Associations

How can Housing Associations avoid paying too much for the data they need? emapsite's Social Housing sector expert, Lee Williams, tells us how.

Mapping the journey to a greener world

Cymru wants to lead the way to a greener world – but will all of their stakeholders be mapping the journey as well as they could be?

Understanding Empty Homes

Last week was National Empty Homes week, but homelessness doesn’t use a calendar. The information detailing our nation’s empty home portfolio is easily accessible, and there are many different types of agency that would benefit from using it more effectively.

Taking care of the natural world

It was good to hear the recent government announcement advocating more consideration for wildlife protection across in Britain. Our natural habitats and the biodiversity they support will always be national, capital assets – but our developer community should capitalise on them for their own benefit, as well as the greater good.

Dig deep? Yes! And at a lower cost…

We’ve partnered with LinesearchbeforeUdig to create a ‘One Click’ service that helps you save time and reduces the costs of finding and understanding the location of sub-surface assets, across the UK.

Keener insights, greener energy

The renewables’ sector needs to capture more-tangible value in its supply chain. How can businesses make better-informed decisions? With location data insights…

Who Owns What Today – and Tomorrow?

Keeping on top of who owns what is a full time job, which is why we work so hard on relationships with key data suppliers, so we can give you whole picture.

Taking on the Brownfield Challenge

Land Consultants and Agents are under pressure to reappraise their thinking and search for suitable alternatives to open land for development - by taking on the Brownfield challenge.

Open Data - Under Surveillance

Can Open Data ever really be open? Be careful what you wish for, warns emapsite's James Cutler.

Expanding on Wind Sector Investment

The government’s new deal for the offshore wind sector aims to ensure production of up to one third of the UK’s electricity needs using wind power by 2030. emapsite’s Natalie Stevens considers the welcome challenge for the renewables sector.

Subsidence claims have gone up, but insurers could be bringing those risks down

Reports by the Association of British Insurers show the impact of this year’s heatwave, with subsidence claims reaching their highest levels for 12 years. Yet many insurers still aren’t using the tools available to help reduce these risks.

UPRNs - not new but in the news

We're seeing UPRNs being referenced more frequently in the mainstream media. Lee Williams discusses the value of the Unique Property Reference Number

Subsidence claims are up - so what can insurers do?

Subsidence still represents around 4% of all claims per annum, which in real terms is between £110 million and £120 million every year – so the question is, can insurers do anything to help combat this problem?

Coldplay, the kings of geo?

It’s the X&Y of things that connects people, places and processes. CEO James Cutler ponders whether there's more to it than that...

OS MasterMap Announcement

At Emapsite, we always welcome better access to information that can help our customers drive the economy forward. Today’s announcement by the Geospatial Commission on the opening up of OS MasterMap signals a long-term commitment to helping everyone get more value from mapping and location data.

New data product adds clarity to Plus Dane's management of housing stock

Plus Dane Housing Association has been working together with data provider emapsite to assist in the creation of an innovative data product to use for asset management of their housing stock.

Leica Geosystems and Emapsite announce new strategic partnership

Leica Geosystems and Emapsite announced today a strategic partnership which launches an industry-first subscription service to Ordnance Survey flagship product, OS MasterMap, available exclusively on the Leica Zeno 20 high accuracy field data collector.