GIS portal

Horizons staff, on behalf of the CDEM Group, are currently working on a project to integrate GIS data from a variety of sources for use in day to day management of lifeline assets (by the utility operators) and emergency management decision making. This will include dynamic data relating to utility status and static data such as known hazards such as flood plains and earthquake faults. We believe that the project will be of interest to other CDEM Groups. Hawkes Bay Group has already expressed a significant interest and we are working collaboratively with Nigel and the team from HB in an effort to meet their needs too.

The project is in its infancy and as part of the development process we are inviting those interested to keep tabs on the project and to provide feedback throughout the process. At this stage, we think the end product will be a web portal with varying levels of access. Near real-time data will be fed into each layer by the agency responsible for the asset (or information contained in the layer). We hope to be able to achieve this without the agencies having to significantly change their operating systems or procedures... hopefully some clever automation can do this for us.

So far, we have posted information from the project management software to this site. We would welcome your feedback via our Google Group here.

Adrienne Bonnington is leading the development of this project from a technical perspective and I'm playing the part of the ever hopeful end user.