The challenge aims to generate innovative solutions that address the increasing pressures on social housing providers, including tenant needs, asset performance, compliance, and decarbonisation. Entries are free, with the winning concept receiving consultancy, geospatial software, and data to develop a pilot project.
Housing providers are encouraged to propose new ways to tackle challenges such as assisting vulnerable households with heatwave preparation, identifying new housing opportunities, predicting repair needs more rapidly, or uncovering new insights from existing data. The winning entry will receive expert consultancy from OS and Esri UK, along with free Esri GIS software and OS National Geographic Database (NGD) data.
Entrants do not require a fully developed technical solution and can submit ideas from any housing department, including operations, property asset management, estates, sustainability, IT, and GIS. The challenge is open until 30 November 2026.
Ordnance Survey and Esri UK have a long-standing partnership, with over 2,000 joint UK customers utilising OS data within Esri geospatial applications.
