Napier City Council

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NapierCity Council

• A Napier Encounter !

Simon Nitz, GIS Administrator, Planning
Department Presentation for Brisbane User Forum -
11/07/2003
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Whereis Napier?
Auckland
NAPIER
Wellington
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A short Geographic History!

• Tuesday 3 Feb 1931
• earthquake reading 7.9 on the Richter scale
• Fires destroy most of the commercial Napier
• Rebuilt in Art Deco Style
• Sea bed area shaded in blue rises 2m to create
  new land

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Napier2003
Airport
Port
CBD
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Property Information 1999

• Disparate Databases
• Duplication
• Access to Info
• Time Consuming
• Cumbersome
• High Risk

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Property Information2003

• Fast Delivery of Info
• Dynamic Links to Corporate System
• Lowered Risk

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How?

• Web based GIS portal to multiple data sources
• Based on MapInfo Encounter
• Lots of hard work on data issues!

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Intranet GIS History
MapInfo Encounter
Proprietry
September 2000
June 1999
Encounter v2.5
Simon Nitz
Encounter v1
Encounter v2
Encounter v3
MAPiT
MAPiT2
MAPiT3
1999
2001
2002
2003
2000
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Why Encounter?
Dynamic Legend
Highly Customisable
Rich Map Toolset
Interactive Map Selection Results
SiteBuilder
Dynamic Tree Menu
XML Architecture
External Databinding
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Internal Environment

• Users
• 109 Encounter
• MI Pro / EasiMaps
• 6 Planning Dept.
• 3 Assets Dept.
• Windows Servers
• File and Print
• GIS Data
• GIS Web Server
• Assets
• SQL Server
• Hansen IMS
• UNIX Server
• Corporate System
• Intranet Web Server

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Napier Encounters

• Intranet
• MAPiT
• MAPiT Public (Front Counter)
• Internet
• www.napierplanning.govt.nz

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Live Demo
MAPiT3 Napier City Council Intranet GIS based
on MapInfo Encounter
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Questions?

• Simon Nitz
• GIS Administrator, Planning Department
• www.napierplanning.govt.nz
• simonn_at_napier.govt.nz