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Mandate & Strategy Statement

Mandate

Our mandate from Government expands on our Mission statement and outlines the principal responsibilities of Ordnance Survey Ireland as follows:

  • To maintain and develop the underlying physical infrastructure to support mapping and mapping applications, including to maintain a national grid and the geodetic and height frameworks and to link these to international systems.
  • To create and maintain for the entire State mapping and related geographic databases which have national consistency of content, currency, style and manner.
  • To provide mapping and related geographic data to the public and private sectors in support of social, economic, legislative, security, business and administrative functions and requirements.
  • To encourage and promote the benefits of the use of OSi's national mapping and related databases and to promote the development of its products, services and markets to meet national and user needs.
  • To advise Government and public sector organisations on matters relating to the policy and practice of survey, mapping and geographic information and on the development of national spatial database infrastructures.
  • To represent the State at international level on matters relating to mapping and geographic information.
  • To provide the necessary technical support to the Chief Boundary Surveyor in the performance of his/her duties in delimiting statutory boundaries and the delineation of such boundaries on maps.
  • To depict placenames and ancient features in the national mapping and related databases as advised by An Coimisiun Logainmneacha and the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
  • To protect Government copyright on OSi databases, products and published material.

Statement of Strategy

This Strategy Statement is the fifth to be published by Ordnance Survey Ireland in accordance with the requirements of the Public Service Management Act, 1997.

The Statement represents a further advance and development of our original strategy and reflects the constantly changing environment in which Ordnance Survey Ireland operates.

Staff at all levels in the organisation were involved in the production of this statement and in preparing an overall strategic view of the future of the organisation.

Read the foreword to the strategy statement, by Geraldine Ruane, CEO, Ordnance Survey Ireland, or download the strategy statement as a PDF file.

OSi Strategy Statement 2007-2009 OSi_Strategy_Statement_2007-2009.pdf (0.63 MB, Adobe PDF)