... server intranet database.
Using GIS, it is possible to find both the planning and building control applications
within any selected area. Figure 14. 1 illustrates this by showing planning and
building ... products in use: ESRI’s ArcInfo and ArcView; Autodesk MapGuide
Applications: Map production, gazetteer, planning control, building control, LLC, shore-
line management, deprivation mappin...
... implementation of a single-sup-
plier/authority-wide GIS, using the terminology that we introduced in Chapter 8. It
has introduced MapInfo software extensively throughout the council and into its high
schools. ... users initially trained in its use. By the middle of 1994, 27 licenses had been
acquired and 46 users trained (in- house by GIS support staff based in the planning
departmen...
... Information
GIAG Geographic Information Advisory Group
GIG Geographic Information Group
GIM Geographic Information Management
GINIE Geographic Information Network in Europe
GIS Geographic Information System(s)
GISP ... 2004043851
CHAPTER
1
The Background to Geographic Information
Management in Local Government
KEY QUESTIONS AND ISSUES
• Why a book on g...
... Enquiry
into the Handling of Geographic Information, published in April 1987, raised the
whole profile of IM in local government. This committee was appointed in April
1985 with the following terms ... coordinate its activ-
ities and establish an independent GI organization, the Association for Geographic
Information (AGI). The result was a healthy, though perhaps inward-lookin...
... reader who is involved in implementing GIS within local
government, the essence of a successful GIS is to start by thinking about your own
local authorities and their citizens, about their information ... DRIVERS FOR CHANGE IN
LOCAL GOVERNMENT?
In addition to the government s expectations, there are a number of drivers for
changing GIM in local government. These arise fr...
... e -government initiatives, both service providers and users are increasingly requir-
ing spatial data around-the-clock and in a form that readily integrates with other
information. The growth of Web-based ... using the locational or spatial element for trans-
forming data into information, thereby giving it meaning. As we have seen already,
the traditional way of storing, analyzing, and...
... the first local
authorities to
implement Web-based
GIS within the
framework of a strong
corporate approach
Planning
Building control
Environmental health
Local land charges
Shoreline management
Deprivation
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London ... previous chapters have looked at the background of GIM, the principles that
underpin its application, and the key areas of use within local government. Part...
... coun-
cil’s pioneering efforts in GIM have been:
• The climate of cut-backs in services in the early and mid-1990s that forced the
council to be imaginative in looking at how improvements in land ... the
geographic information group (GIG), again at second tier. It was responsible for
setting the overall strategy for, and coordinating the management of, land and
property infor...
... multi-
supplier/authority-wide GIS, using the terminology that we introducedin Chapter
8. Its experience of GIS since 1997 has focused initially on the introduction of
software from MapInfo Corporation’s ... PCs.
• In- house IT section (in computer and printing services department) provided a
packaged GIS service at only £1,500 “one-off” cost per desktop PC (covering
MapInfo software, tra...