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British Transport Police and Aligned Assets join F
05 July 2007, 11:34am
British Transport Police (BTP) has chosen Aligned Assets Ltd as their Spatial Data Management Solution provider.
BTP is divided into seven geographical areas covering 10,000 miles of track and more than 3,000 railway stations and depots.
This vast responsibility requires one centrally managed Geographical Information software (GIS) solution to support BTP’s GIS vision and the effective use and sharing of mission critical information.
The pioneering solution provided by Aligned Assets will ensure that all systems integrate with common, centrally maintained and controlled Spatial data and will enable full usage of OS Mastermap and other map layers. The solution will also be providing a fully integrated gazetteer solution based upon the National land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) together with other gazetteer databases currently in use at BTP.
Key components of the overall solution will be an open, inter-operable spatial data warehouse based upon Oracle, supplied by Spatial Technology AB of Sweden. GB wide management of OS MasterMap will be provided by use of SuperpOSe from Dotted Eyes based in Bromsgrove. Widespread use of the spatial data across the BTP network will be facilitated by use of software components from ESRI (UK) Ltd based in Aylesbury.
Said Ian Rudd, Senior Sales Consultant for Aligned Assets; “Aligned Assets is very pleased to be starting an exciting new venture with British Transport Police. We will be providing an integrated spatial management solution based upon open solutions, linking all their key systems including Command and Control into an open spatial environment with single address database based upon the NLPG.
This is the first major use of the NLPG by the emergency services in the UK. It will be a prime example of the benefits of open solutions bringing the best of breed working together to provide the best solution for the customer”.
Aligned Assets’ Symphony Gazetteer effectively combines BTP’s multiple gazetteers into one sustainable, synchronised, manageable and integrated gazetteer. Because the organisation will be working with just one central system, the incidences of officers being set to the wrong location or the use of inaccurate information is eliminated. This saves time, money, resources and in the cases of emergency situations; lives. It also means that information between different systems can be correlated and matched against a single address enabling efficient data management.
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