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Manually synchronising your Local Land
and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) data across multiple geometry layers and back
office systems could result in a number of potential issues: inaccuracy due to
human error, inconsistency due to delays in propagating data, unnecessary
expense as a result of employing these labour intensive methods. All these
potential problems are reduced or completely removed by using GGP’s range of synchronisation
tools.
By automatically updating front-line
information and applications using the synchronisation tools, staff, citizens
and partner organisations can have confidence that the information they are
using is maintained to the highest levels of accuracy, consistency and
currency.
Quick easy access to accurate up to date
information
Pushing back office data like Housing,
Highways, Education, Council Tax, Planning into your GIS, will enable more
enquiries to be answered during the first call or first enquiry stage. This
negates the need to pass a large number of enquiries to back office staff,
leaving them to focus on other issues.
This is especially important for Call
Centre / Customer First areas where the resident expects their enquiry to be dealt
with quickly.
Reduce your overheads
Empowering staff with the information they need
means that call times or face to face meetings are concluded quickly, reducing
your costs. The Internet enables Local Authorities to reduce their costs
further by allowing the resident to answer their own queries via the web in the
knowledge that data is more accurate and more up to date.
Reduced dependency on existing licences
By spreading information from back office
applications into other applications, it puts less pressure on the existing
back office licenses. Customers can use GGP GIS, eGGP and eGaz to view the information in a
live spatial environment.
Links to Back Office Applications
Build links between GIS and Back Office systems
at minimal cost. Council Tax, Electoral Registration, Environment Health,
Housing and Education are some examples of where the council could benefit. In
addition the synchronisers allow you to publish more information to GIS than an
existing interface currently supports. Interfaces such as CAPs, Plantech,
Civica, Northgate, and Southbank Systems are limited to the number of fields
you can link to GIS and keep updated. The synchronisers allow you to publish as
many fields as you require and are totally user configurable.
Reflect Changes from the LLPG to GIS Layers
If you have existing linked layers to back
office like Council Tax or Housing for example, the synchronizers can reflect
both spatial and textual address changes from the LLPG into these linked
layers.
Spot trends in your data
By having more information in your GIS, you
can use powerful analysis tools to highlight trends that help to focus efforts
where they are needed. Using a range of spatial tools like thematic mapping to
shade areas of a map, council staff and the general public can easily spot
trends between one dataset and another.
This adds a whole new element to the
applications you can use GIS for and will add value to your existing investment
in data.
Working within your IT environments
The tools are windows service applications
designed to automatically reflect changes made in an external database into one
or more geometry layers.
Currently Microsoft Access, SQL-Server and
Oracle are supported. As the service has been implemented using Microsoft ADO
technology, other database environments with suitable OLE DB drivers (e.g.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, FoxPro etc) should work as the SQL query can be configured
for each SQL database environment.
Available tools
The LLPG Sync tool
Where necessary new GGP geometry layers can
be created that will enhance the visual representation of already address
matched data The tool will synchronise address and geocode changes made in the
Gazetteer Management System (GMS) with the geometry layers since the data was
last address matched
The tool will stop address and geocode data
in the geometry layers from going out of sync in the future
Foreign Gazetteer Management tools
Facilitates the creation and synchronisation
of a pre-defined GGP BLPU geometry layer to exploit NGz type street and
property Gazetteer functionality in GGP and eGGP
Facilitates the creation and synchronisation
of GGP geometry layers via UPRN or Application Cross References relating to
datasets address matched in the GMS – especially those datasets which do not
currently contains grid co-ordinates
Application Synchroniser
There are a number of applications for this
tool such as supporting the complex planning process by allowing the public
access to the latest decision information, ensuring up to the minute highway
information is available to road users and even communicating the results of
local elections via the Council website in real time.
For more information please download the brochures on:
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