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Introduction

Basildon Council use Cadcorp services to define land ownership and land classifications and create map and tabular reports for tendering purposes.

Challenges

Basildon Council runs a weed control programme throughout the borough. The council owns many, small parcels of land that are distributed right across the borough. To set out a tender for grounds maintenance, it first had to ascertain land ownership and then separate these areas by type of surface. Having a member of council staff measuring each individual block and working it out was going to be too time-consuming.

Solutions

Basildon Council has been using Cadcorp SIS as their GIS for many years. For this project, th­­e council selected the Cadcorp Data Analysis and Modelling Service. Cadcorp was able to create a definitive layer of land ownership, calculate the corresponding Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer® land classifications and create a report including both a map and tabular output. This included detailed PDFs and spreadsheets with all the necessary information broken down.

Results

Having the output in this report format makes tendering easier for Basildon Council. Long term, it brings the benefit of a proactive weed control programme. The data analysis by Cadcorp is reusable and is already being used by its cleansing department for a similar project. As Basildon Council starts using it more, it will bring efficiencies to tendering and their general maintenance programming.

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