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Web Solutions
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The benefits of GeoEnviron Web Solutions:
- helps improve service delivery
- saves on time Officers spend responding to
information requests
- helps meet targets for e-government
- improves communication between local authority
departments
- helps ensure you comply with freedom of
information regulations
Most Governments have an ‘e-vision’ for the public
sector and it requires that local authorities deliver
the major part of their services electronically over
time. It acknowledges that the ability of the public
sector to deliver high quality services depends upon the
effective use and sharing of knowledge and information.
In terms of information sharing, this means that data
held within environmental departments should be
accessible to local authority officers as well as to
external agencies (i.e. Environment Agency) and the
interested public (residents, surveyors, etc).
Many local authorities are already using intranets and
the internet to share information as well as to market
their services. However few have gone so far as to
web-enable the environmental information they hold.
GeoEnviron Web is the name given to the web browser
based solutions for sharing the data stored in the
GeoEnviron database on either the Intranet or the
Internet. Being web browser based means that GeoEnviron
Web solutions are extremely easy to use. They offer a
flexible and cost effective way of giving controlled
access to the information in the database to an
unlimited number of people.
A good example is the GeoEnviron Web solution for
contaminated land module, which allows the user to view
information on the location of contaminated sites via a
simple address based search.
The solution also allows the user to carry out a radius
search around a specific address to find out if there
are contaminated sites within a specified distance from
the address. The locations of the sites and other
relevant details can then be displayed on a map. All
this information can be printed out directly or exported
from the browser to Microsoft Word.
This solution can be used by planners (via an intranet)
to quickly ascertain whether it is likely that a
planning application for a housing development should be
referred to the Environmental Department.
Environmental issues are increasingly being considered
as part of the routine conveyance process. GeoEnviron
Web can be set up on the internet so that these searches
can be carried out on-line. The website can be made
secure so that users of the service can pay for the
information on line.
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