EMPLOYEE WELLBEING
a service was located, now the citizen can use a council’s Web- based GIS to put a point or an area on it and populate it with information they wish to share with the council. We are all familiar with the pot-hole and broken streetlight examples but there are others.
What GIS won’t do is make the ‘right’ decisions for you. Producing the right maps, the right analysis and the right interfaces needs appropriate skill-sets like in any other walk of life. GIS is like any tool, it is best served by those with experience and can mislead if misused.
To what extent can GIS enable councils to be better informed?
By this I assume you mean Sep/Oct 10
how can councils work better internally?
Councils have been users of GIS for many years. That said some are better than others and some are better integrated in their use and sharing of GIS capabilities than others. My point about great penetration of GIS into councils is a valid one, but saturation is a long way off. Typically, you will find GIS in use in local planning, building control, environmental services, highways, grounds maintenance, facilities management, education and many others.
I must add that one fear of GIS professionals working in these environments is that the current period of public financial cutbacks could see the
strategic work they do being undermined by fiscal cuts meaning that staff levels may be cut or not replaced, training and maintenance budgets restricted and that the progressive implementation and perceived value of GIS challenged in the struggle to maintain conventional front-line services.
In the public mind, reducing the council GIS section is likely to be less controversial than cutting the highways maintenance budget. The fact that the former can make the latter more efficient is not necessarily understood or articulated. Helping GIS users express ROI is something that the AGI has been dealing with for some time.
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