GIS capability enhanced through Autodesk MapGuide

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GIS capability enhanced
through Autodesk MapGuide?
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council dramatically
enhances accessibility and capability of GIS through
Autodesk MapGuide?.
Impressive suite of Local Authority applications
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (Southend) had
been AutoCAD users for many years. Prior to becoming
a unitary authority in 1998, it also acquired a number
of seats of Autodesk Map as a means of integrating
spatial data sets that included parking restrictions,
traffic signals and pedestrian crossings. Paul
Mathieson looks after capital projects and revenue
activities relating to highways and transportation and
is responsible for the manipulation and creation of
data associated with highways and their maintenance.
Paul is also the Ordnance Survey Liaison Officer with
the responsibility of managing the Council’s mapping
assets and making it more easily available to interested
parties. Paul recalls, “Some years ago we realised we
really needed something that could enhance the GIS
capability of our 18-seat Autodesk Map system and at
the same time make the data easily available to many
more users. So when Autodesk announced its
web-based strategy and launched MapGuide, we
moved over to it.” Paul adds, “That was over four years
ago. We…