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Hi @Koye. The integration of datasets from different suppliers is one of the main challenges of this sort of combined platform. We’ve worked with dozens of asset owners during the pilots, and there is a real disparity between how data is represented and stored at source (quite understandably – the data held by asset owners needs to support many, many use cases and business processes of course, not just NUAR!)
We’re trying to manage this in two main ways:
– by adopting a harmonised data model (based on the evolving OGC MUDDI standard) that allows us to represent disparate source data in a standardised way
– by providing as much flexibility as possible in the ways that asset owners can provide data to the system
There are 700+ asset owners in the UK, so a one size fits all approach to ingesting data won’t work. The pilot projects have given us great confidence that, while this is a significant challenge, it is not insoluble.
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Regards your question about an OS licence, this honestly isn’t my area, so I will need to take this offline. Our analysis of data requirements includes consideration of the background mapping of course, and this question also cuts across who will have access of course – initially, access will be to statutory undertakers and their supply chain.