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Ordnance Survey Transforms Geospatial Data Into Insight With Snowflake

> We've crafted this accurate, advanced map of Britain that contains over 500 million features that describes the natural environment and the built environment of this country.

Show: Snowflake Summit · Publisher: Snowflake · Host: Snowflake editorial

Episode URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBLAH-adTM

Publish date: 2026-04-14
Duration: 136.0s
Default source credibility: MEDIUM — Vendor conference — Snowflake keynotes and product launches are marketing (LOW for claims about own products). Named F500 customer talks with production metrics stay HIGH. Filter aggressively for customer sessions with named speakers and quantified outcomes; skip product demos and partner pitches.

  • Ordnance Survey uses Snowflake to manage over 500 million features in their map of Britain, making 30,000 updates daily.
  • Snowflake enables Ordnance Survey to combine crime data with location data to understand patterns and prevent violence against women and girls.
  • Ordnance Survey collaborates with the Met Office and insurers to assess climate change impacts on properties using Snowflake.

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# Credibility Speaker Org Timestamp Topic Quote
1 MEDIUM Unnamed Speaker (Unnamed Title) Ordnance Survey 0:05 07-adoption-challenges We’ve crafted this accurate, advanced map of Britain that contains over 500 million features that describes the natural environment and the built environment of this country. In order to keep that map accurate, we make around 30,000 updates a day.
2 MEDIUM Unnamed Speaker (Unnamed Title) Ordnance Survey 0:36 07-adoption-challenges With Snowflake, we can combine police’s crime data with the location to understand what bearing location has on whether that crime takes place or it doesn’t. Is it street lights? Visit tall buildings. We understand that location so well, so thoroughly that the insight we can give to people that make decisions on how to prevent these sorts of attacks just increases the chances that their decision is going to have an impact that’s positive and makes a difference.
3 MEDIUM Unnamed Speaker (Unnamed Title) Ordnance Survey 1:16 07-adoption-challenges We’re looking at how the impact of climate change and extreme weather conditions can be better understood for those insurers who have portfolios of properties that they insure or lend against and how to characterize that impact much more locally on the buildings that they’re insuring based upon the topology, the characteristics of those buildings is something that we’re working with Snowflake and with our friends at the Met Office to unlock for the insurance sector.

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1. Unnamed Speaker — Ordnance Survey (0:05)

We’ve crafted this accurate, advanced map of Britain that contains over 500 million features that describes the natural environment and the built environment of this country. In order to keep that map accurate, we make around 30,000 updates a day.

  • Stat: 500 million features, 30,000 updates daily
  • Credibility: MEDIUM — Unnamed speaker with specific metric but no named role.
  • Topic tag: 07-adoption-challenges

2. Unnamed Speaker — Ordnance Survey (0:36)

With Snowflake, we can combine police’s crime data with the location to understand what bearing location has on whether that crime takes place or it doesn’t. Is it street lights? Visit tall buildings. We understand that location so well, so thoroughly that the insight we can give to people that make decisions on how to prevent these sorts of attacks just increases the chances that their decision is going to have an impact that’s positive and makes a difference.

  • Credibility: MEDIUM — Unnamed speaker with specific use case but no named role.
  • Topic tag: 07-adoption-challenges

3. Unnamed Speaker — Ordnance Survey (1:16)

We’re looking at how the impact of climate change and extreme weather conditions can be better understood for those insurers who have portfolios of properties that they insure or lend against and how to characterize that impact much more locally on the buildings that they’re insuring based upon the topology, the characteristics of those buildings is something that we’re working with Snowflake and with our friends at the Met Office to unlock for the insurance sector.

  • Credibility: MEDIUM — Unnamed speaker with specific use case but no named role.
  • Topic tag: 07-adoption-challenges

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