exceptional circumstances this year meant that many authorities including Hampshire began to run low on stocks of salt to grit the roads. Highways authorities were required to produce a strategic plan identifying critical gritting routes that would ensure that important infrastructure remained uncompromised.
Hampshire’s team found using GIS a quick, easy and accurate way of sharing information with the Highways Department and they were subsequently able to plan the critical gritting routes.
The map was printed and exported into a pdf file which allowed further information sharing with non-GIS users across the authority and other responders. The costs involved were minimal and based on data that the authority already had access to under the existing
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Mapping Services Agreement. Geographic information enables those that have to make decisions to make an informed and intelligent decision. It also assists authorities to make the most of the resources that they do have.
Another local authority benefiting from the power of GI was Salford City Council using a Cadcorp solution based on Ordnance Survey mapping to locate and access information from CCTV cameras for crime and disorder prevention, detection and deterrence.
Salford City Council has hundreds of publicly and privately run CCTV cameras across its region. They wanted to see if it was possible to use them all for crime and disorder reduction, but were unable to accurately locate them, ascertain each camera’s technical
capabilities or use them in real- time investigations.
Salford was keen to see how many external CCTV systems operators they could gain access to and whether they could subsequently save on the deployment of additional council operated systems – saving money in the long run and improving services now.
Cadcorp’s CCTV mapping system, underpinned by geographic data from Ordnance Survey enabled users to manage and share CCTV information in their area and access camera details across a wider community. The end result is that Salford can now access a system which aids in crime detection, helps to reduce anti-social behaviour and provides further benefits in crime prevention and CCTV network planning.
“The new system will speed up investigations, saving both police and court time and should reassure the public that we are keeping a close eye on criminals,” said Inspector Andy Sutcliffe of Greater Manchester Police Salford division
Local authorities could do more to harness the power of geography in the support of their cost cutting and make the most of the data that they do have.
Access to a range of Ordnance Survey data products, for local authorities; the police and the fire & rescue services is provided under the Mapping Services Agreement with members being able to share data between each other and use it comprehensively across each organisation.
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