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17 April 2008, 10:22am
SOUTHWARK COUNCIL MAKE CITIES REVEALED AERIAL IMAGERY ITS CLEAR CHOICE
The GeoInformation® Group, publishers of Cities Revealed aerial photography (www.citiesrevealed.com), announce today that Southwark Council recently updated its aerial imagery survey for the entire borough. The council chose Cities Revealed Modern, captured in 2007 at 10 cm resolution, for its clarity and accuracy.
The GIS team at Southwark Council manage a corporate GIS server that hosts extensive datasets and base mapping, including the Cities Revealed Modern aerial imagery. The server receives approximately 5000 hits per month; each hit represents a council GIS user accessing the geographic information held centrally. The GIS team also publishes the aerial imagery on the Council's corporate intranet using Pitney Bowes MapInfo PlanWeb, for all council employees to access.
Southwark is one of the busiest and most demanding metropolitan authorities in the country. It is undergoing one of the most ambitious social and physical regeneration programmes of any authority in the country, together with a wide range of initiatives aimed at improving educational standards, reducing crime and improving health, housing and the environment. The availability and use Cities Revealed Modern aerial imagery across all of the departments will aid the Council in achieving these objectives.
A survey, to assess client satisfaction regarding the new aerial imagery, was conducted by the GIS Manager of Southwark Council and was sent to all of the council’s corporate GIS users. Reponses were gathered from the full breadth of the council’s departments from the Chief Executives Office, through Planning and Regeneration to Housing and Social Services. The vast majority of respondents noticed a difference and improvement between the new Cities Revealed aerial imagery and the previous winter-flown aerial survey supplied by another aerial imagery company. The GeoInformation Group recommended that the new survey be flown in the summer, to ensure clearer, sharper and more accurate imagery. A Planning Enforcement Officer at Southwark Council commented, “The quality of the new imagery is clearly better and more detailed.”
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