What’s next for councils when it comes to geographic information systems? Patricia Moore charts the growth of tools and applications set to solve even more council challenges in coming years.
Flying High
Through the use of digital mapping cameras and LiDAR sensor technology, Aerial Surveys delivers geospatial products for use in...
Geospatial technologies are capturing the imagination and the headlines. But what impact are they having at local authority level? Patricia Moore looks at the science of where.
Drones, driverless cars and sensor-driven cities; are we living in the future? Are cash-strapped councils accessing these smart solutions to improve performance...
Councils are employing spatial technologies to map infrastructure, track emergency response teams and tap into rain gauge data. They’re also using smart data for their bread and butter work keeping tabs on traffic, fly-tipping and graffiti. Patricia Moore reports on the rise and rise of geographic data.
Being location intelligent is...
How to boost biosecurity, recruit more cost-effectively, deliver news, consult more widely and build intranets that staff really want to use? Councils share the technologies and top-line learnings behind these and a host of other challenges. These handpicked award-winning digital projects were celebrated at the recent ALGIM Web and...
Chris Weir can imagine a time when, maybe 10 years from now, there may be five local government mega-centres beavering away on the GIS smarts needed for local authorities. It’s a shared services idea that, to his mind, marks the natural evolution of a combination of technologies and expertise that is already bringing astonishing...
