The GIS team at ECDC need to ensure that their GI systems are brought into line with Ordnance Survey MasterMap® following their recent Positional Accuracy Improvement (PAI) programme. ECDC have already migrated most of their spatial datasets, but now require assistance with their three business critical datasets: BLPU (Basic Land Property Units), Land Terrier and Land Assets. The delay in migrating these datasets has resulted in Planning Department projects being put on hold until the PAI shift is completed. Importantly the Council’s participation in NLIS - the National Land (and Property) Information Service – has not been possible until a master set of BLPUs are created. On a wider scale it is also affecting project resourcing and delaying investment in technology, thereby preventing the council from progressing towards improved electronic service deliveries.

ECDC chose 1Spatial’s PAI and automated BLPU extent creation Local Government solutions to ensure that:

• Work can begin straight away – there is no time delay between signing the contract and getting started, no software installation, no training and no data integration issues.
• There is a quick turnaround on the data, meaning that there is minimal interference with the day-to-day work within the department.
• BLPU extents will be automatically captured from point data, which will improve spatial analysis and visualisation functionality.
• ECDC staff are free to work on other projects whilst the services are being completed.
• Rather than purchasing software 1Spatial’s services are more cost-effective, have shorter project timescales and guarantee a high quality of output data.

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