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(City of) Amsterdam

City of Amsterdam chose 1Spatial's Radius Topology to perform a number of data quality tasks to ensure the delivery of high quality data and products to both on and offline customers. By deploying Radius Topology to automatically detect and correct data errors, City of Amsterdam has made an 80-85% time-saving when compared to a manual process, whilst guaranteeing that all data is accurate and error-free.

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(No. 1) AIDU

1Spatial worked closely with No. 1 AIDU to develop an Aeronautical Production System (APS). This AGI award winning system has enabled No. 1 AIDU to improve the quality and consistency of their data by maintaining it in a single, central database, rather than numerous individual charts. The creation of a single data source has also increased efficiency in the unit by minimising duplication of effort and reducing inconsistencies. Overall, No. 1 AIDU is enjoying substantial time and cost savings, alongside increased productivity.

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(The) Local Government Boundaries Commissioner (LGBC) for Northern Ireland

1Spatial assisted the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner (LGBC) for Northern Ireland with building an integrated Boundaries GIS, by migrating their GIS to a Windows-based platform, utilising their Radius Vision product. In doing so, 1Spatial were able to facilitate a much more efficient boundaries review than had ever been possible before. The new system meant that the time taken to define electoral boundaries within Northern Ireland was cut from 12 months to two months and the process used half the number of staff.

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AdV

1Spatial has been working in partnership with AdV on one of the largest generalisation projects in Europe to improve business efficiencies in Germany's state mapping agencies. Taking 1:10000 base data 1Spatial has delivered an automatic generalisation flowline to generate digital landscape models at 1:50,000 scale. This enables AdV to derive more up to date digital topographic products at their target scale and make time and cost savings at the same time.

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Automotive Manufacturer

1Spatial assisted a large Japanese automotive manufacturer to reduce their engine development costs by undertaking advanced spatial data analysis. By using advanced processing algorithms, 1Spatial were able to simulate driving a given road network and then process the data within the Radius Studio platform. This analysis pinpointed the most extreme G-force corners to permitting the manufacturer to test their engines in the most taxing environment, without actually driving the entire network. This enabled them to provide mechanical reliability whilst keeping operational costs as low as possible.

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BPN - Indonesia

BPN utilises 1Spatial's Radius Topology product as the spatial data quality component within an Oracle data hub. By automating the clean up and alignment of BPN's legacy data, and by checking and aligning any new data entering the hub, Radius Topology ensures effective, enterprise-wide data management.

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Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)

1Spatial worked with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and Ordnance Survey Great Britain on a feasibility study to investigate the generalisation of OS MasterMap® as a potential foundation for CEH's Land Cover Map (LCM) 2007. Generalisation of the OS MasterMap data was necessary to reduce the number of objects and provide a spatial framework for land parcels for the LCM. The spatial framework envisaged by CEH and 1Spatial was successfully realised, with the sample data being reduced from 120,000 objects to 10,000 objects. The generalised sample data met CEH's objectives and demonstrated that a full-scale operation would be both possible and beneficial. CEH could make production cost savings and the estimated creation time of the LCM2007 was reduced by two thirds.

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Colchester Borough Council

Following a PAI shift, Colchester Borough Council utilised 1Spatial's Radius Topology to process their data, modifying the asset data to remove any small differences between that and the underlying OSGB base data. Radius Topology is then able to automatically maintain and validate data accordingly to pre-defined business rules, ensuring the council's data is always error free and ready for fast and meaningful business queries.

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Dartford Borough Council

Dartford Borough Council utilised 1Spatial's software and experience to eradicate errors throughout the geographic layers of their spatial data before they embarked on their PAI programme. 1Spatial consultants processed the council's data using their Radius Topology product, producing correctly aligned data and highlighting where problems might occur during the PAI shift.

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Dorset County Council

Dorset County Council chose 1Spatial to assist with migration to OS MasterMap® and AutoCAD® Map 3D. 1Spatial provided the Council's Corporate Property section with a solution that connected OS MasterMap and other departmental spatial and non-spatial datasets using a single application that bridges the gap between CAD and GIS. This solution has allowed the department to access the data they need within a few mouse clicks, enabling them to fulfill their business tasks more efficiently whilst providing the management team with increased confidence in the data that they are using to make business-critical decisions.

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East Ayrshire Council

1Spatial assisted East Ayrshire Council's Planning, Development and Building Standards division in providing public access to planning information through their website. The department are now able to deliver up-to-date information on planning applications through an interactive and intuitive online facility featuring a user-friendly tab design. The solution combines both spatial and attribute data in a single interface so users can view the location of the application and the associated documentation easily.

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East Dunbartonshire Council

1Spatial worked with East Dunbartonshire Council on two projects; the migration of their spatial data from an internal GI solution to an external web-enabled solution, and the development of an interactive Local Plan. The web-enabled GI solution provided East Dunbartonshire Council's population with an interactive and intuitive online facility combining spatial and attribute data in a single interface that constantly provides up-to-date information. The interactive Local Plan delivered by 1Spatial has provided the council with an effective way of communicating the Local Plan and was developed as part of a wider information resource that allows the user to move from the local plan into other topic areas.

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East Sussex County Council

1Spatial assisted East Sussex County Council's Highways Department to make full use of its new Infrastructure Management System by improving data quality and merging two separate networks. Using their Radius Studio product, 1Spatial consultants assessed the level of conformance between the two networks and automatically fixed the vast majority of the data errors, according to rules pre-defined by the Highways Department. The department now has a single, accurate dataset, including attribute data, providing "fit for purpose" data, meaning that users can be confident in their analysis and in their resulting business decisions.

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Environment Agency

1Spatial enabled the Environment Agency to make significant time-savings and improve system performance by increasing the efficiency of spatial queries and data updates in their National Flood and Coastal Defence Database. 1Spatial achieved this by using Radius Topology to accurately fix the LIDAR data and then reduce the volume of data being traversed and finally re-constructing the topology for each one to ensure correct connectivity between the simplified objects. Overall, the process enabled error-free data to be analysed and results obtained 35% faster than was possible before.

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IGN France

In 1999, the Carto2001 project was launched by Institut Geographique National (IGN), with IGN selecting 1Spatial's automated generalisation technology to achieve its target of creating 1:100,000 mapping (Top100) from the BD Carto® database at 1:50,000. Since the BD Carto® database does not hold buildings as elementary objects, the generalisation fl owline needed to focus on road networks. The project was initiated on the back of IGN's leading involvement in the European AGENT project (Automated GEneralisation New Technology).

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Land & Property Services

For Land & Property Services (LPS) Northern Ireland, GeoHub NI® has delivered a sophisticated infrastructure based on Oracle Database 10g and OGC-compliant technologies.

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Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) publishes maps in new geodetic reference system (NZTM). The New Zealand Topographic Information Strategy 2005-2010 identified a high priority for LINZ to replace the current NZMG-based topographic map series with a new series based on the NZ Transverse Mercator projection: NZTopo50. Since 2001 LINZ has been contracting its aerial flying, orthophoto production and data maintenance work based on this datum, projection and sheet layout.

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London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield chose 1Spatial to help them improve the quality of their data. Following the migration to OS MasterMap®, initial trials had highlighted discrepancies between the council's own data and the MasterMap base data.1Spatial's Radius Topology was used to clean any errors in the data so that such discrepancies were removed before the data was migrated into a single, centralised, enterprise-wide database. Radius Topology was then able to act as a "gatekeeper", only allowing clean, accurate data into the database, ensuring that all of the council's data is error-free and accessible across the entire organisation.

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MidCoast Water

MidCoast Water implemented 1Spatial's Radius Topology product to ensure both ongoing data quality and compliance with state government legislation that requires accurate asset information. Radius Topology assures topological connectivity between MidCoast Water's networks, thus preventing the duplication of editing tasks and saving valuable time. It also cleaned all of the existing data and now ensures the continued quality of the data by acting as a "gatekeeper", only allowing clean accurate data into the central database. This has enabled MidCoast Water to accurately pinpoint their assets and allows their staff to make fast, confident business decisions.

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Online Digitiser, Shannon Development Ltd

Shannon Development is a government owned regional development company dedicated to promoting and developing the Shannon Region of Ireland. Employees have a need to create spatial data as an integrated part of the normal day-to-day data capture and maintenance. However, the creation of spatial data typically required access to, and skills in the use of, specialist desktop GIS applications.

The 1Spatial Online Digitiser was specifically developed to allow the organisation to rapidly provide controlled access to spatial data capture and maintenance facilities for their internal user base. In addition, the system provides integrated functionality for Shannon Development's land bank asset management function. Overall, the Online Digistiser is delivering major cost savings over traditional desktop GIS applications, while at the same time providing Shannon Development with a flexible but controlled environment for the creation and sharing of combined spatial and non-spatial data.

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Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi)

1Spatial worked in partnership with Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) to deliver an end-to-end solution for effective data management. The solution features centralised, version-controlled map storage that can be utilised for a range of digital mapping activities. The system delivered by 1Spatial has enabled OSi to streamline and improve their operational processes, make time and cost savings and be confident that their data is of consistently high integrity and quality.

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Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI)

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) delivers maps to its customers via the ACEmap®™ (Address Centred Extract) system, developed by 1Spatial and OSNI. An ACEmap is a customised extract from OSNI’s large scale database, and consists of an A4 map centred on a user-defi ned address or property. This system is also used to manage changes to the base data: ACEmap Update Requests (AUR) come from the Land Registry, local councils and other OSNI customers. Once OSNI has been notifi ed, the Government requires the updates to be completed within 6 months.

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Planning Enquiry System - Galway County Council

Galway County Council (www.galway.ie) serves a current population of 160,000 and has seen considerable development in the last decade, with commercial building in the towns, a range of public agencies and facilities in the region and housing both in towns and scenic rural areas. Galway County Council is responsible for the provision of an extensive range of public services the Galway area. The Council has a staff of 1,400 to look after the wide range of local authority responsibilities in Ireland, with a strong IT Department and an emphasis on planning because of the county's unique historical and environmental heritage. Galway County Council decides whether to grant or refuse Planning Permission for Building and Development in Galway County.

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Property Registration Authority (PRA)

1Spatial provided the Property Registration Authority (PRA) in Ireland with DMapS, a new web-based, digital mapping system for managing and accessing geospatial information relating to Land Title in Ireland. The connectivity and intelligence for this data is managed by 1Spatial's Radius Topology product, providing accurate, reliable information quickly and efficiently. By using Radius Topology in this way the PRA have the level of system performance required to enable them to process and deliver large volumes of information of guaranteed accuracy, quality and consistency to a large volume of people using the system simultaneously.

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PSMA Australia Ltd

PSMA Australia purchased Radius Studio from 1Spatial to provide automated conformance checking of spatial data against a pre-defined set of business rules. The implementation of Radius Studio has allowed PSMA Australia to gain and retain the knowledge about the data itself and understand the requirements for processing the data. This improved level of understanding has helped develop relationships with the external data managers and other spatial industry partners.

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Scottish Enterprise

1Spatial worked closely with Scottish Enterprise to develop a Broadband Portal to help improve broadband availability across Scotland. The portal integrates databases and datasets from across Scotland and displays live coverage mapping and represents a cost-effective way of disseminating information to a large community. Telecommunications companies are able to use it to assess the viability of installing a broadband service through population and business classification queries and Local Enterprise Councils and the Scottish Executive have utilised it to circulate related local and national policy initiatives.

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South Lanarkshire Council

1Spatial provided South Lanarkshire Council with a corporate licence for our MapRelate™ solution that is designed to provide live spatial connectivity directly from within AutoCAD. MapRelate fits seamlessly into a wide variety of existing spatial infrastructure such as Oracle databases, ESRI ArcSDE, ESRI SHP files and many more industry standard formats simultaneously.

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Staffordshire County Council

1Spatial worked with Staffordshire County Council to develop an open and interoperable solution for data management, based on Digital National Framework (DNF) principles. They consolidated the council's data into a single, central database where it could be accessed by all the council's existing applications and shared across the organisation, avoiding duplication of effort. 1Spatial's Radius Topology product was employed to provide a persistent, server-side solution for ensuring ongoing data quality management. The solution has enabled the council to streamline it's operations and increase efficiency.

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US Army Corps

1Spatial, working in collaboration with LSI, has been engaged in a continuing series of research projects to examine the viability of tools, to address the fundamental issues of data quality and connectivity, based on 3D topology. These data elements are vital requirements for allowing analysis to be performed on 3D data, as well as allowing scalability to a contiguous city and even countrywide dataset. Results so far have shown significant reductions in response times using 3D topological queries rather than 2D geometric ones and the execution of various test scenarios demonstrated that the ISO 19107-compliant 3D topology model was scalable.

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Vodafone Ireland

1Spatial developed a system for Vodafone Ireland that provided them with a more effective way of coordinating and presenting information to users. The system, NetGIS, ties together the existing departmental systems, maximising existing investment and enabling staff to view information from all of them via a browser interface over the Vodafone Ireland intranet. In doing so, it eliminates the need to access multiple systems, increasing efficiency for users and enhancing the quality of service to customers.

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West Lothian Council

1Spatial worked with West Lothian Council to develop and implement an OS MasterMap® migration strategy. The chosen method allowed 1Spatial to streamline the management and administration of the council's data by consolidating it into a single, corporate database. By streamlining the process, duplication of effort has been removed enabling staff to use their time more effectively and overall time-savings to be made.

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