At Esri UK Annual Conference 2014 Sport England is a government organisation responsible for helping people and communities across the country to create a sporting habit for life. To do so Sport England uses GIS to provide mapping and spatial analysis services to both partner organisations and within the business. Sport England’s ability to deliver these GIS services with limited resource, is considerably enhanced by the use of Esri UK’s data services. This presentation summarises Sport England’s experiences in using these services, which have not only saved a considerable amount of time and cost for Sport England but have also enabled access to a broader selection of data, such as Ordnance Survey MasterMap, not previously possible due to data management overheads.

1. Creating a sporting habit for life
Data as a Service
better solutions, less effort
11th June 2014
Mark Critchley
GIS Manager

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Who we are and what we do
Sport England is a non
departmental government body
Focused on community level sport
Aim to increase the number of
people playing sport regularly
Over 15.3 million people play sport
once a week, every week
Most adults (52.3%) still play no
sport

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How we do it
Distribute lottery money through
partner organisations such as Local
Authorities and NGBs
Investments supported with advice,
expertise and insight
Geography is key to:
- establish relationships between
data sets
- determine where things happen
and why

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- Active People Survey and
interactive online tool
- Sport market segmentation
and online analysis tool
- Active Places facility
database and Active Places
Power website
- Grants Management
System
GI and GIS based business solutions
Applications include:

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Solution delivery
Common to all projects:
- Budget, deadlines, scope
Sport England challenges:
- Limited in-house resources
- Multiple third party contractors
Solution components:
- Technology / software
- Data
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Esri UK data services
- Consistent
appearance from
local to national
scales
- Various
cartographic
representations
- Access to OS
MasterMap
- Referenced to
British National
Grid

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Benefits of data services
- Externally hosted data
significantly reduces
local storage and backup
requirements
- Managed services
ensure data is always
up-to-date
- Service optimisation
ensures fast and
performant experience

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Benefits of data services
- Monthly usage reports
allows monitoring of
services
- Lowest cost annual
subscription provides
sufficient usage
allowance

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Considerations
- Dependency on third party
and good connectivity
- Services optimized for Esri
software only
- Quality of large print based
outputs
- Proxy and firewall
configuration
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Future developments
Continued and expanded
uses of DaaS services:
- Inclusion in ArcGIS
Online subscription
- Gazetteer and
geocode services
- Other third party data
(aerial photography /
ONS census statistics)
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Summary
- Significant time
and cost savings
- Benefits far
outweigh
limitations
- Better solutions
established with
less effort
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Links and contact details
Esri UK Data Services
http://www.esriuk.com/products/data
Sport England home page:
http://www.sportengland.org/
Active Places Power:
https://www.activeplacespower.com
Mark Critchley – GIS Manager
mark.critchley@sportengland.org
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