Kildare County Council is one of the central satellite counties of Dublin, with a large commuting population. The overall objective of the council is to maximise collective knowledge, contracts, and expertise to plan strategically and coordinate service delivery in an integrated, efficient, and effective manner.
Project Name
Migration from a desktop GIS to a web GIS.
Project Outcomes
To transform and improve existing business processes associated with the visualisation, presentation and analysis of spatial data.
How Azimap was used to fulfil project requirements?
Before 2015, Kildare Council was dependent on a desktop proprietary GI application to capture, visualise and analyse their spatial data. This was further supplemented with Active-X-based web services to publish and share data with internal stakeholders and the wider community.
This process was not intuitive and resulted in GI professionals working independently, with poor communication with their peers.
After an initial consultation phase, which included multiple requirements gathering workshops to understand existing workflows, the Azimap project delivery team worked closely with Kildare County Council's project manager to document and define project requirements, ensuring the migration project was delivered on time and within budget. Following the consultancy and delivery phases, we conducted a series of knowledge transfer sessions to ensure that key project members possessed the required skills to:
Migrate existing spatial data from legacy systems
Visualise, analyse and publish their spatial data on dynamic web maps
Create a custom visualisation of their spatial data and embed it onto a web page or share the web map with alternative departments
Create a centralised repository for all spatial data
Work remotely from any location on any device
Embed GIS across all departments to support decisions based on the key interests of its community
Publicly share visual representations of spatial data with the citizens of Kildare
Benefits of Azimap
Opportunity to integrate with multiple data sources from various departments
Enterprise pricing model as opposed to costs based on user license fees
It has been developed on a .NET framework around open source technologies, including GeoServer and OpenLayers
Flexible and scalable, enabling the application to be customised to meet specific requirements
Integrates with what3words, which is beneficial as Ireland has only recently created a postcode system
Support for multiple editors administrating data at any one time
Opportunity to create custom visualisations of their spatial data and embed them onto a webpage or share the web map with alternative departments
We continue to work in partnership with Kildare County Council to improve operational efficiencies, reduce lead times, and publish and share data for both public and private consumption.