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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: MI GIS in Local Government.
> Hi David,
> I'm not the head honcho here for GIS, my boss is away on leave, but i can
> provide some unofficial lines on our work here in the London Borough of
> Hackney, in London, England.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David B. Farquhar-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 2:23 AM
> Subject: MI GIS in Local Government.
>
>
> > GIS in Local Government.
> >
> > If you could take a couple of minutes and jot down a few notes it would
be
> > much appreciated.
> >
> > I am interested in finding other people who have or are going to
implement
> > GIS in local (council/shire/municipal/town/county/borough) government.
I
> am
> > particularly interested in Australia but I would like to hear from
people
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > Has the implementation/integration of GIS and spatial data become
> important
> > to your government?
> yes, hackney is an extremely deprived area with much poverty and crime
> and all else that goes with that,
> our gis datastore is growing with stats from central government on
> deprivation, health stats from health authorities, education levels,
> transport routes and shopping centres are some of the data sets we are
> combining to get the 'bigger picture'
>
> >
> > How is it being used?
> Our gis work is split into two divisions. One half works solel on
crime
> stats - incidents of crimes and the mapping of CCTV. Other work focuses on
> local deprivation which is key to additional funding from central
government
> for redevelopment.
>
> >
> > Is it integrated with a central property register? Can most staff
access
> > it?
> Not as yet, the authority's stock/property register is on a seperate
system
> as yet - will be combined soon. The gis has addressmatching from the
> Ordnance Survey's Addresspoint dataset.
>
> >
> > Is it being used for town planning or spatial asset management?
> town planning - no. The town planners are on a different system - and yes,
> it does seem mad to us too.
> i don't know what spatial asset management means. Property - assets? Yes,
we
> are working towards a seamless operation for accessing information on
> hackney's property stock. Housing maintenace are willing to combine their
> stats/costs with the spatial side of the hosuing data.
>
> >
> > Is it being used for environmental monitoring?
> we are presently holding feasibility studies into health, including
> environmental monitoring. We can examine traffic and air pollution and
then
> the other side of the coin - by looking at GP visits and hospital
admissions
> for lung complaints.
>
> >
> > Do you use digital elevation models (DEM's) or topographic contours to
> > understand the land form, visual aspects or drainage flow?
> no, though we do have a geology dataset that is apparently being used by
> some engineers who are examining the structual integrity of some housing
> stock.
>
> >
> > Do you use aerial photography or satellite imagery as backdrops to
monitor
> > land use or temporal change? How else do you use the imagery?.
> we've got aerial photograpy and some thermal imagery (coming soon). The
> aerial photos are so far used as a communicating device (backdrop layer)
to
> indicate the type of area under discussion. They are also 'pretty
pictures'
> and we have received some funding just down to that. Thermal imagery will
be
> used to isolate buildings (residential) where there is great heat loss.
> Apart of Agenda 21, this provides an offer to residents to upgrade home
> insulation at a greatly reduced cost.
>
> >
> > How much digital spatial related data are you storing? How is it being
> > backed up?
> standard Ordnance Survey layers - roads, buildings, general lines,
> powerlines, rail, underground rail, parks, conservation areas, historical
> sites, health stats, administrative boundaries, crime stats, CCTV
locations,
> shop information, housing stock.. err loads more, backed up on another
> server and my hard drive.
>
> >
> > Do staff or local land/property owners have Web/Internet access to some
of
> > the data?
> Soon the internal intranet will be running with a GIS onboard giving
access
> and hotlinks to all our data.
>
> >
> > Thanks for your time it is much appreciated.
> like to hear your results,
> please feel free to ask more questions.
>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > DBFS
> > David B. Farquhar-Smith
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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