Award
Category
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Submitting
User - Project Name
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Project
Information & Highlights
(Source: Information provided from award submission
material)
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Project
Example
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AEC-GIS
Vision
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Oldham
Metropolitan Borough
Council, United Kingdom - Environmental Protection Management Project
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Oldham and its
districts were at the heart of
the Industrial Revolution.This brought with it prosperity but left a
legacy that required investigation.Through the use of Bentley V8
Geographics, PowerMap, Descartes, Publisher, NTF Translator and
particularly the benefits of Training Subscription this dilemma was
successfully resolved.Bentley's versatility even allowed Oldham to
link into non-ODBC compliant databases.Historic raster maps were made
available by means of Descartes warping
and locating tools.These provided a backdrop that was not available or
possible before.Being able to quickly load, manipulate and view these
raster files has allowed investigations to be carried out at the users
desk.
The project was started in April 2003 and was completed for use in July
2003.The Bentley based corporate infrastructure previously installed
allowed this project to be achieved at a cost of approximately
£11,000.
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Extreme
Mapping
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City
of Toronto, Canada - 3D
Topographic Mapping
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In just nine
months, the entire topographic
mapping base for the City
of Toronto had been rebuilt.To date, the City of Toronto has collected
over six million features across the entire city, including 427,392
building outlines, 1,174,297 trees (differentiated by public and
private, coniferous and deciduous), 132,893 catch basins, 187,805
streetlights and 36,852 hydrants.The project has cost approximately $4
million to date, but has saved the City of Toronto an estimated $7
million.
Data stored in the MicroStation Geographics files; all vectors
contained in the DGN file are linked to a table stored in an Oracle
database that describes the vectors.The fundamental challenge of
rebuilding the City of Toronto's topographic mapping base and being
able to maintain it in a cost efficient manner was achieved through the
development of an environment called Enterprise Stereoscopic Model
(ESM).The ESM consists of two major components: an aerial image
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Integrated
City
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Gdansk
Development Agency -
Urban planning as part of the Gdansk Municipal GIS
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In June 1999, the
City Council of Gdansk set up
the Gdansk Development Agency (BRG).The main task of this organization
was to produce local urban plans in order to ensure sustainable
development of Gdansk, which is more than 1,000 years old and has about
500,000 inhabitants.
One of the challenges for a new management team of BRG was to develop
an IT system which would allow for the efficient production of local
urban plans as well as the effective data exchange between the City
Hall and BRG.The system needed to allow for continuous adjustment due
to changing legal requirements, which is typical for countries in
transition to EU.As a digital base map in Gdansk is maintained in the
MicroStation/GeoGraphics format, the same platform was chosen for
developing applications to be used in BRG.To date both software and
hardware related expenditures have amounted to about $400,000 USD.Some
of the benefits realized by the project was that the time of production
of one local urban plan was shortened by about 50% and there was a
significant increase in quality and coherence of plans.
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New
Technology Adoption
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City
of Helsinki, Finland,
City Survey Division - 3D Municipal Information System
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A general 3D model
of whole city territory was
completed in the year 2002.This model was created from the 2D base map
database, city's building cadastre and orthophotos.Laser scanning and
digital photogrammetry were used in collecting 3D information of built
and terrain objects.The general 3D model was used in the Helsinki
Master Plan 2002 project, which was approved by Helsinki City Council
in November 2003.The accurate 3D city model, which is replacing the
digital 1:500 base map, is widening constantly and is used in many city
planning and construction projects.
Laser point clouds and orthophotos have been applied in mapping out
dated map features and in vectorizing 3D buildings and 3D streets
manually, semi automatically and automatically.In modeling,
MicroStation was used as well as TerraScan, TerraPhoto and TerraModeler
software packages, which are developed in Finland for 3D modeling
purposes.
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Spatially
Enabled Managed
Environment
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Proyecto
de
Administracion de Tierras de Honduras (PATH) - Sistema Unificado
de Registro (SURE)
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PATH is a World
Bank financed project.The Land
Administration Project of Honduras has as its main objective
development of an
integrated and decentralized land administration system (composed of
public and privates entities) to provide users in the project area with
accurate information on urban and rural land parcels and effective land
administration services (purchase, mortgages, cadastral and registry
certifications, etc.) in a timely and cost effective manner.The
Unified System of Registries (SURE) is part of the National System of
Property Administration (SINAP) and is a pivotal tool of PATH.It has
been
conceived with the purpose of administering the rights of property that
fall on personal property and real estate in Honduras.The scope of
administration extends to the geometric and alphanumeric attributes of
these goods and their respective legal reference.
SURE is built under a multi tier web architecture that allows complete
access through the intranet of the project and related institutions.
The development of the first phase of SURE started in September of 2002
and was finalized in October of the 2003.This first phase includes the
management of the information of the offices of Cadastre and Real
Estate Property and the production process of the Project: a massive
process of investigation and legalization.SURE was developed with an
approximate cost of US$270,000.00 (without including the cost of
development software).
PATH has a ProjectWise Extranet server to enable work in a managed
environment.SURE has used the SDK API of ProjectWise to build a web
base system to manage each legalization request.It is expected that
more than 800,000 legalization requests will be managed in ProjectWise
following a workflow operated by each municipality, the Instituto
Nacional Agrario (INA) and PATH.
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