Tamworth City Council has, after a full EOI/Tender process, selected Open Spatial Technologies to supply and implement a full ‘database driven’ GIS. This replaces its existing Genamap GIS software. Tamworth, with a population of 36,000, is a major regional centre in New South Wales.
The MunSys suite of applications is to be used across all areas of Council and will integrate GIS with Council’s other corporate systems.
Tamworth is implementing Open Spatial’s MunSys i application, an intranet data giving asset services, utilities, property, town planning, customer services, and corporate services access to vector based mapping for viewing and querying, and allow updating of database information via the web browser. Initially, 50 users will make use of MunSys i , which will expand to 100 users.
The general public will gain access to certain mapping information via the web as part of Tamworth’s commitment to provide relevant and timely information to the community.
“Open Spatial knows how to work with spatial data and it has been easy working with them,” said Chris Wansink, Tamworth’s IT Manager. “After initial scoping exercises, we have confidence in the implementation going well and being complete by the New Year.We have a lot of investment in AutoCAD and as a regional Council we want to make use of our internal skills. We liked the functionality of MunSys, as a lot of the application development work had been done and we could see what we were going to get.”
Open Spatial completed data conversion to OpenGIS format within a ten week period. Installation and training occurred in November 2002 and the system will go live in December. Integration with major corporate systems will take place in the New Year.
For further information contact Ian Edwards at iedwards@openspatial.com.au, telephone (02) 9889 0066 or visit www.openspatial.com.au and www.munsys.com.
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