Victoria Government Choose eSpatial & 1Spatial

29 April 2008, 6:37pm

April 29, 2008, 1Spatial Conference, Stansted, UK - eSpatial, a global enterprise geospatial software and technology company and 1Spatial, a leading provider of spatial data quality software and solutions today announce that through their mutual Australian Partner, Geomatic Technologies (GT), a new web based distributed data maintenance service will be deployed for Victoria, Australia through the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE)

GT, one of Australia’s leading providers of location-based business intelligence solutions, information products and services, will deliver The Notification and Editing System (NES) which provides a web based distributed data maintenance application, using eSpatial’s latest iSMART pure web editing technology, integrated with 1Spatial’s Radius Studio technology for processing, analysis and compliance. The new application will increase efficiency and accuracy of mapping data using pure web-enabled map-based systems connecting data originators with authoritative data.

The NES enhances the existing ONE (online notification system) by adding a map editing component, built using eSpatial’s iSMART product, which allows end users to carry out controlled edits including name changes, split areas, create address points and move address points. Updates are carried out using a standard web browser over a secure internet connection and all changes to the system are controlled using an internal workflow which maintains proposed changes in parallel with agreed updates.

With the increase in data accessibility that the NES delivers, so increases the importance of ensuring and maintaining data quality. The NES addresses this utilising 1Spatial’s Radius Studio product, whereby a series of business conformance rules are automatically applied as changes to data occur. Any non-conformances are flagged and either automatically fixed within Radius Studio or manually edited utilising eSpatial’s iSMART.

The applications allow data originators in Victoria, such as Local Government and State Government bodies, to directly access and modify authoritative property, address and parcel information through a web-based mapping interface. The direct access to editing through stringent access and quality control procedures streamlines the data adoption process and enables data updates to be delivered in shorter timeframes to end users.

The principle behind the system is very simple – allow data originators who are responsible for key record creation throughout the State to correct or update the authoritative mapping data directly. With strict quality control processes built into the application, updates can be incorporated into the State dataset in a fraction of the time taken by current practices.

The resulting application is used to increase process efficiencies resulting in more accurate spatial data. The solution is delivered on top of Oracle10g database and utilises Oracle Workspace Manager to support the data versioning requirements.

“We are very pleased to be working with 1Spatial, Geomatic Technologies and DSE to support this application”, said David Miller, COO eSpatial, “This is a great example of how Web based technologies can be used to streamline data maintenance and increase accuracy and efficiencies.”

Duncan Guthrie, Managing Director of 1Spatial Ltd said ‘The NES is a perfect example of a complex geospatial data supply chain being simplified. The results are higher quality data being delivered in a more timely fashion, ultimately resulting in efficiency gains for all parties involved.’

“Increasing the efficiency and accuracy of our mapping data is a core requirement” said Bruce Thompson, Director, Spatial Information Infrastructure Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE), “with this map based editing system we are able to empower the data originators to make modifications to components of the State database that they know better than anyone – allowing us to focus on delivering an improved service to our customers. We are confident that this will result in reduced resource requirements for data originators, particularly local government”.

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