The Use of GIS in Local Government - The City of Monash
- 1. Sub Heading Main Heading May 2016 1 Steven Truman Coordinator Corporate Applications How is GIS used at Council - People, Process and Technology Geographic Information Systems at the City of Monash
- 2. What is Council Range of Services GIS Use in Councils Range of applications Internet, Intranet, Desktop GIS Major Datasets Challenges Future Tech Overview of…
- 3. Industry Verticals using GIS Utilities • Water • Electricity • Roads • Renewables Government • Federal • State • Local Commercial •Banking •Finance •Superannuation Education • Primary & Secondary • TAFE’s • Universities Telecomms • Telstra, Optus • Private Networks Information Technology • Software and applications • Services & consulting Energy and Mining • Oil & Gas • Mining
- 4. General Sir John Monash Amalgamation 1994 Current political issues: Control of income sources by State Government – Rate Capping Data issues in GIS Data Sovereignty Privacy Context
- 5. Federal Government State Government Local GovernmentFocus of Today Tiers of Government Three tiers of government
- 6. 320 Staff All Corporate Applications Civic Centre
- 7. Libraries 134 publicly available computers 125 Staff Library Software - Spydus
- 8. 165 Staff Works / Asset Management Software Operations Centre
- 9. Recreation Centres 280 Staff Centre Management Software
- 10. Other Sites Maternal Child Health Centres (9) Oakleigh Service Centre Monash Youth & Family Services Brine Street (Children’s Services) Monash Gallery of Art Glen Waverley and Oakleigh Golf Courses Meals on Wheels Halcyon Day Care Centre (Disability Care) Monash Enterprise Centre (Business Development)
- 11. Infrastructure • Corporate Wide • 900 Computers • 100 + Servers • 35 Sites • 420 Telephones • 350 Mobiles • 150 Devices Business Applications • 8 Core applications • 60+ Secondary Applications Information • >70 Tb1 Data, • > 5 Million of Documents • > 1,000,000’s Images • ? Email’s People • 800 Staff • Centralised IT (12 Staff) • Library IT (3 Staff) • >200 computers persupport person Shared business processes and technology Corporate systems 1 One Terabyte ≈ 1024Gb
- 12. Library System 1990 1993 20102007199819961995 Aged Care System Email @ Monash Payroll System Financial System Internet @ Monash Land Information System Major Applications 2009 Phone System Wide Area Network Records System Payroll Rostering System GIS (desktop) Intranet GIS Residential Care System Internet GIS Internet GIS v2 2012 2013 2015 Home & Community Care System New Internet Site
- 13. • Access to information • Better decision making • Improved communications (a thousand words) • Most ‘things’ have a geographic component • Relationships between things • Scenario Urban Strategic Planning Why do we use GIS at Local Government? i.e. what is the business case?
- 14. Who uses GIS at Monash? Infrastructure Services • Environmental Managers • Construction Engineers • Building Maintenance • Waste Cleansing • Asset Managers • Sports & Park maintenance • Arboriculturalists • Project Managers Corporate Administration • Capital Works Managers • Information Technology City Development • Town Planners • Urban Designers • Property Managers • Traffic Engineers • Civil Engineers • Project Managers • Asset Protection • Design Engineers • Building Inspectors • Strategic Planners • Health Inspectors • Traffic Officers • Economic Development Community Development • Social Planners • Maternal Health & Childcare workers • Aged Carers • Community Carers • Events Management • Recreation Centres CEO’s Office • Journalists • Communications Public Relations • Graphic Designers
- 15. City Development Infrastructure Services Office of the CEO Community Development Corporate Services Organisational Development Strategic Procurement Finance Services Information Technology Applications GIS Resourcing ~55 staff in Corporate Services 12 staff in IT ~1.8 EFT in GIS GIS Coordinator Property Management (part time) GIS Analyst (part time)
- 16. GIS Co-ordinator / GIS specialist 5 yrs experience or more Database manipulation, web mapping experience, change management, mapping, GPS, software development. Property Maintenance (specialist) M1 processes, property and rates understanding, cadastre management, SQL. GIS Officer / GIS Analyst Mapping, data capture. 2-5 yrs experience GIS Data Capturer / Junior GIS Officer 0-2 yrs experience GIS is usually part of the Information System / Technology group within Council, but not always Typical GIS Roles in a Council GIS
- 17. Property Management • Pathway Property and Rates System • Nexus Software – XML data exchange • Common Ground - M1 process • Address Creation : Local Government • Spatial Data Creation : State of Victoria – VicMap products • Together manage the updating process using the “M1 Process”
- 18. Property Management • Automation of data loading using ESRI ModelBuilder
- 19. Asset Mobility and Asset Collection
- 20. Asset Mobility and Asset Collection
- 21. Intranet GIS – GIS on every Desktop
- 22. Internet GIS – Beyond Google and Bing • Aerial Photography from many different years • Information about Council facilities & services • Highly searchable • Create hardcopy maps
- 23. Intranet GIS – GIS on every Desktop • Table of Contents + Layer Control • Spatial vs Attribute Data • Toolbars • Information status panels • Zoom / pan tools • Query & Identify • Selection Tools • Sketch Tools • Legend • Canned Reports • XY information • Integration Tools: • Pathway Property & Rates System • Confirm Asset Management System)
- 24. Intranet GIS – GIS on every Desktop • Location –Where is it…? • Condition –What is at…? • Trends – What has changed since…? • Patterns – What spatial patterns exist…? • Modelling – What if…? Features: • Vector and raster data • Spatial information and Attribute table • Spatial Analysis (Raster calcs, Zonal, Interpolation) • Map Algebra • Map design processes • Data selection • Classification • Symbolisation • Map layout design • Transformation of data • Scale –graphical;
- 25. GIS Client / desktop tools
- 26. Mapping and Data Capture
- 27. Mapping and Data Capture
- 28. Mapping and Data Capture
- 29. Mapping
- 30. Mapping
- 31. Data Capture – ArcGIS Online
- 32. Data Capture – ArcGIS Online
- 33. Data Capture – ArcGIS Online
- 34. Data Capture – ArcGIS Online
- 35. Data Capture – ArcGIS Online
- 36. Aerial Photography Property – cadastre Stormwater drainage Council Assets – roads, buildings etc Planning Zones overlays Community facilities Major Datasets
- 40. Council Assets
- 41. Planning Zones
- 44. LIDAR
- 46. 1951
- 47. 1963
- 48. 1972
- 49. 1982
- 50. 1992
- 51. 1999
- 52. 2001
- 53. 2004
- 54. 2006
- 55. 2008
- 56. 2009
- 57. 2010
- 58. 2012
- 59. 2014 Quick View
- 60. 2014 Infra- red
- 61. 2014
- 62. 2015
- 63. Nov 2014 (8cm)GIS Intranet GIS Internet GIS Internet v2 1963 1951 Land Information System Aerial Photography 2015 Oct 2010 (8cm) Nov 2008 (8cm) Sep 2004 (8cm) 1982 1992 Colour 1999 Monash CaptureState of Victoria Black & White 19721951 1992 (~25cm) Oct 2006 (8cm) Nov 2009 (8cm) Nov 2012 (8cm) GIS (Desktop) May 1999 (20cm) Aug 2001 (15cm) Jan 2014 (8cm) Nov 2014 Infra Red Sept 2015 (8cm)
- 64. Federal Government State Government Local GovernmentAddress Information Relationships to Other Organisations Property (spatial) GNAF Co-ordinated Imagery Project (CIP) Utilities Water Companies Dial before you Dig Melways & UBD Consultants working for Council Educational Institutions Google & others Other Councils
- 65. • Providing Spatial Services to Internal & External customersBusiness Service • Web Browser, ArcGIS Desktop, MapInfoPresentation • Scheduled data exchanges between databasesWindows Services • Weave GIS (Internet Intranet) on Windows IISWeb Service • ESRI ArcSDE (Spatial Data Engine), ArcGIS ServerApplication Service • SQL Server 2012Database • ~6Tb data on Storage Area Network (SAN)Storage • Flash, HTML5, .Net, VB scriptReliant Technology •Property & Rates System, Asset Management System, Image ManagementIntegration •Across all departments of Council & external web customersDelivery Scope •Service Level Agreement (SLA) 8am – 6pm business days •External – 24/7Service Hours Tech Stack
- 66. Python VB Script ESRI ModelBuilder SQL (sort of) Scripting – Automation, complex processes, repeatability Programming & Scripting C# .Net The next programming language in favour Programming – designing something new
- 67. •User base – geographic spread, varying skill levels •Applications (quantity, type & age) •Unstructured Data Diversity •Interoperability between applications •Between business processesIntegration •Standardisation where appropriate •Subsumed into an Information technology serviceConsistency •Agility to meet changing business needs Alignment with Business •3D visualisation •ModellingHigher Level Analysis •Internet of Things (IoT) •Massive quantities of data (transfer, store, analyse, archive – data lifecycle)Quantity of Data Challenges
- 68. • Crowd sourced GIS (a la OpenStreet Maps) • Social media – Around Me, Waze, Twitter, SnapChat, WhatsApp etc • Interaction with Councils – report a problem: CitySourced • Integration with standardised platforms - Google Maps Bing • Pervasive Mobility – hardware form factors, communications (3G,4G,5G..) • Cloud Services (private, public, semi-public clouds) Mircosoft Azure, Amazon Web Service…), Saas, Paas, Iaas • 3D visualisation, 3D photogrammetry (Pictometry), Lidar, Game engines • Temporal GIS – more data, change over time (patterns) • Big Data / Data Analytics - Hadoop • HCI changes – Google Glass (augmented reality), Xbox Kinect, Wii type interactions e.g. LeapMotion, Oculus Rift, The Void, Samsung Gear VR, MS HoloLens •Internet of Things (IoT) – huge data flows, requires use case and analysis e.g. Smart Cities : infrastructure, traffic, parking, structures, noise, lighting, bins Future Tech