The new service is based on Geographical Information System data.  From one web page you can see, for example, the planning history of your home and overlay map information to see details about planning applications related to properties in your neighbourhood. 

With specific reference to your address, you can check when your waste and recycling collection is due, find the name and contact details of your local ward councillors, find your nearest library or household recycling centre and report anti-social behaviour such as fly-tipping and graffiti. 

Cllr Julian Daly, Executive Leader of St Albans City and District Council and Portfolio Holder for Resources said:  “This new web application is easy to use and available to everyone via the Council’s website.  It presents personalised local services information specific to each home in the District.  We want to give the public access to the same data as council officers.”

To see the St Albans City & District online Local Information Service please visit http://gis.stalbans.gov.uk/wmlcustomerservice/ or see the link on the Council’s homepage.

The Council is keen to receive feedback on the new Local Information Service and learn what additional information people would value on this site.  Please email your views to gis@stalbans.gov.uk, or telephone 01727 819324.

Carntogher Community Association is working in collaboration with the Friends of Ballynahone Bog to deliver the ‘ENVISION’ project. The objective of the project is to collate and present the heritage assets of a rural community for the benefit of the local community and for the advancement of a successful rural economy in south Derry. These heritage assets include Archaeology, Built Heritage, Environment, and the Irish language.

The project will involve the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) to record heritage assets associated with Ballynahone National Nature Reserve and Drumnaph Woodland. This will include the creation of computerised 3D Visualisations of the evolution of how today’s landscapes have evolved through human history in Ireland.

Launching the project Minister O’Neill said: “I have a keen interest in any project which will protect and enhance our rural landscape and can contribute to sustainable rural development by utilising our past and present heritage assets. ‘ENVISION’ is an excellent example of such a project."

The Minister added: “I hope through the development of the ‘ENVISION’ project it will give the local community an opportunity to experience, enjoy, care for and protect our heritage for many years to come.”

The Carntogher Community Association was awarded £44,000 funding by Local Action Group SWARD, under a funding stream designed to create opportunities to preserve and upgrade the north of Ireland’s rural heritage and to use the natural and built environment as the basis for sustainable economic growth in rural areas.

The Online Validation Service, Socium’s first offering to the market, provides an independent, simple and easy to use way of validating spatial data against a set of standard or user-defined business rules. The validation process takes a matter of seconds to run through and once completed provides the user with a quantitative analysis of their data quality against each of the rules selected.

In addition a user can download the error report in the same file format as they loaded the data e.g. SHP or TAB. This is then ready to load directly into their own GIS application so that they can visualise exactly where the errors are located and which rule each error has broken. Up until now, the download of this report has required users to purchase credits, but Socium are also announcing today that their freemium version of the service has been extended, to enable users of the free rules to download their error report at no charge.

The global launch comes earlier than originally planned and is the result of both the success and uptake seen in the UK and Ireland and the market demand shown by both government and commercial organisations worldwide.

Duncan Guthrie, Managing Director, Socium Limited said:

“We are thrilled to be able to open up the service, to enable users around the world to start benefiting from using the Online Validation Service and very much look forward to working with them. When we launched the company it was our aim to develop the services that we offered in line with our user community’s needs. This is why we have taken our users’ feedback and decided to extend the freemium version to include downloading the error report.

As provider and distributor of aeronautical charts to the MOD, No1 AIDU has to distribute mission critical data that is accurate and up to date within set timescales. Their 28-day update cycle requires production of up to 72 different En Route Charts in both paper and digital format for use by pilots and flight planners. The actual chart generation, following the data update process, takes place in a short window before final manual checks are carried out.

The new system introduces 1Spatial’s rules-based Radius Studio platform to provide configurable, automated processing capabilities to the production workflow. The new system is also based on one single database, rather than multiple datasets. By relying on a single source of truth for both En-Route charts and digital data exports, the effort of the maintenance task and the risk of inconsistencies between datasets are both reduced.

By automating large sections of the workflow, including processing the data, placing labels and cartographically clarifying the output, No1 AIDU can reduce the risk of inconsistencies between charts. This reduces both the time taken for processing the charts and the amount of manual effort required meaning they can produce a more accurate and consistent product in less time, with less risk and at a lower manual overhead.

After four months of intensive development work and the successful live deployment at Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, all police forces, fire, and ambulance services can start to integrate the Ordnance Survey’s AddressBase Premium into their frontline and back office systems.

Combining a corporate gazetteer management system, web services, data matching software and the ability to automate updates to all other systems, Symphony Bluelight is a comprehensive software suite, built in collaboration with the emergency services to address their specific needs and requirements.

It will enable them to hold AddressBase Premium, import change-only updates, build in and maintain local records, add access points, security classifications and high priority flags to addresses, plus incorporate a customisable list of abbreviations to make searching the data far more intuitive and user-friendly.

“For many, the transition to AddressBase Premium will be a lengthy process,” explained Dinesh Thanigasalam, Managing Director of Aligned Assets.

Said a delighted Mike Bartlett, Managing Director, "We have long recognised the importance of environmental issues for our customers, and have made great strides in the past 12 months to manage our company’s impacts on the environment. Now with the award of ISO 14001 certification, this has been confirmed by outside experts who are used to judging standards on a daily basis in a wide variety of trades and industries".

Andrew Denchfield, who undertook the assessment for QMS Quality Management Systems, paid particular tribute to "the investment in people and training that enables Symology to provide an efficient and environmentally friendly service to their customers."

Symology is the UK’s leading provider of integrated Highway Asset Management and Street Works Management solutions. Symology’s software and professional services are designed to meet the needs of Local and Central Government, Utilities, Construction and Engineering organisations. Its clients include some of the largest UK Highway Authorities, and many of the foremost Utility companies throughout the UK. With unparalleled expertise and offices throughout the UK, Symology’s best-in-class product lines empower thousands of users to plan, coordinate, manage, protect, operate and sustain highly efficient highway networks and associated assets, and provide an enduring platform for customer success. For more information, call Symology on 01582 842626, or visit www.symology.co.uk.

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Blom will receive a consideration of DKK 19.4 million as compensation for the equity in BlomInfo A/S and working capital provided by Blom to BlomInfo A/S. After the completion date Blom may receive up to an additional DKK 4.5 million as further repayment of the working capital in BlomInfo A/S.

The transaction is expected to be completed within the end of next week.

The transaction comprises the activities of BlomInfo A/S in Denmark and certain projects for mapping and property registration carried out outside Denmark. The transaction does not comprise the shares hold by BlomInfo A/S in PT Blom Nusantara, Indonesia (95%), Blom Romania SRL, Romania (100%),  Blom Bulgaria EODD, Bulgaria (100%), BlomInfo Polska Sp.zo.o., Poland (100%), Blom Kosova Shpk, Kosovo (100%)  and BlomInfo Ukraine Ltd., Ukraine (51%), which ownership will remain with Blom.

BlomInfo A/S had 42 employees at 30. September 2011 and its Board and Management consisted of the following members:

iShare is designed to provide public access to vital information via a Council’s website and is in use with over thirty Local Authorities in England and Wales. It uses a citizen’s address held in the Local Land and Property Gazetteer to pull information from a Council’s numerous service delivery systems and presents it in a single view. Citizens can also carry out ‘my nearest’ searches on local facilities and services, report faults, receive alerts and much more. iShare also works internally helping different Council departments to share data and includes an intelligent mapping facility. This provides everyone working in the Council with detailed access to Ordnance Survey mapping, aerial photography and selectable overlays of Council held assets and data together with comprehensive search and annotation tools. All the software is web based, underpinned by Open Source components and can be accessed through a web browser. 

The iShare Services model takes into account existing joint working arrangements between Councils to promote ‘Shared Services’ for those organisations with limited in-house skills or infrastructure.  The lead authority, in this case West Oxfordshire District Council acts as a ‘Node.’ The ‘Sub-Node’, Cotswolds District Council, will use services provided by WODC, primarily the Internet hosting of iShare. WODC already has a standard on site installation of iShare and will perform the administration tasks for CDC. These arrangements are extremely cost effective. Under the proposed plan the ‘My Cotswolds’ site will be up and running by April 2012.

“We are essentially taking a carbon copy of what we already have here with the only real difference being the underlying data,” said Sarah Turner, West Oxfordshire’s Business Solutions Manager. 

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SciSys is pleased to announce that it is now a Google Geo Partner. SciSys has specialist GEO staff with skills in Google Maps and Earth and have satisfied Google that SciSys has the range of skills and competencies to offer customers the full suite of Google Geo Offerings.  

SciSys recognises that the visualisation of spatially enabled data across the enterprise can bring enormous benefit to decision makers. However, this data is often locked in proprietary systems that have high costs of entry, either in terms of staff training and / or licence costs.  Google brings technology that unlocks this data and makes it visible on a platform that users are already familiar with.  

Steve Brignall, SciSys CTO commented:  
“ This agreement with Google recognises the fact that spatially enabled data is a key component in many business decisions from managing environmental risk, visualising assets through to more dynamic situational awareness scenarios. The Google technologies are an ideal platform on which to visualise this data and compliment our existing skills around more traditional Geographic Information Systems".

For more on the SciSys approach to bringing value using mapping and GIS see our   GIS capability page.

For more information contact the SciSys Business Communications Team on +44 (0)1249 466466 or by email on   marketing@scisys.co.uk