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AddressBase and Augmented Reality

Posted on Monday October 9, 2017

Written by Andy Hird who is the Managing Director for address management specialist Aligned Assets

AddressBase and Augmented Reality

Last week saw the announcement by Ordnance Survey that they had introduced Augmented Reality into their already excellent OS Maps application available from Apple iTunes or Google Play.  Here at Aligned Assets we think this is a brilliant step forward and it will lead to further enhancements for AR within the geospatial community.  For some time now, we have been advocating the role that AR will play when delivering services and providing information to both staff and customers.

Since 2014  (Aligned Assets adopt augmented reality) we have been involved with multiple iterations of the AR experience, from Google Glass and Epson smart glasses through to the traditional smart phone – we have successfully developed and refined viable AR solutions for a range of organisations culminating in the recent Stamford Georgian Festival application release

Earlier this year (AR and the UPRN) I wrote a short blog on the usage of the UPRN with AR –  highlighting how existing address users (those who use LLPG or AddressBase) could be using AR to serve up an enhanced user experience.  In today’s latest blog, I wanted to highlight some of the recent work undertaken to allow an organisation to make use of the address data in AR.

Symphony Location Manager is a product provided by us to enable an organisation to load and configure data to be shown in Augmented Reality themselves. This means that any organisation can display their own spatial data in augmented reality without the need of specialist software developers. It also allows you to configure a link to an address database such as LLPG or AddressBase, so that the data can be formatted for display as AR markers.  To make this as simple as possible we first create a base view of all address data. From that, we provide a collection of different views to filter which addresses to show. As an example, here are a few of those views relevant to the AddressBase data.

  1. A view to show all the commercial properties.
  2. A view to show all the properties created in the last 90 days.
  3. A view to show all the properties updated in the last 90 days.
  4. A view to show all the residential properties.

 

It means that any of these views can be viewed in AR and all the properties within the user’s surroundings are filtered by that view.  Using these views to filter the address data by property classification is when things start getting really useful. You can show AR markers for things like:

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Libraries Museums Public
Convenience		 Fast Food Outlet
(Takeaways)		 Cash machines Bus Shelters
Example AR marker used to show Libraries Example AR marker used to show Museums Example AR marker used to show Toilets Example AR marker used to show Takeaways Example AR marker used to show Example AR marker used to show ATMS Example AR marker used to show Bus Shelters

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In case you didn’t know AddressBase data has the ability to store the classification as one of 570 available meaning that you can choose to display AR markers for pretty much anything!  If you also consider how the presence of a BLPU Cross Reference could be used as well, you will start to see the potential that exists for displaying AR information relevant to properties held within either LLPG or AddressBase data.

We will be making an announcement on Symphony AR and AddressBase very shortly, and if you are in local government you wont want to miss it!

 

Symphony AR - Library Marker

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