Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Standardises Cadcorp GIS Software
去年成功推出了Cadcorp Corporate GIS之后，Essex County Fire and Rescue Service（ECFRS）现在正在添加专门的桌面GIS软件，用于资源计划和绩效报告。
特蕾西王,欧盟GIS官说:“直到两years ago, we were using GIS in a very limited way. The Performance and Data Department had two licences of Cadcorp SIS desktop software, and there were a number of GIS products in other departments. However, they were being used in a fragmented, autonomous and uncoordinated way. There was little sharing of technology, and little sharing of data. Starting in 2012, we developed a business case to consolidate our GIS solutions. Two years later we had put in place a centralised spatial data store on SQL Server; extended the number of desktop SIS licences; rolled out a web GIS which can now be accessed by 1600 staff throughout the service; put in place an embedded web mapping tool to our Incident Recording System and we are sharing maps with our Command and Control system on a large video display.”
合并练习的关键部分是确定Intranet GIS的供应商。卡德科普（Cadcorp）在五名GIS供应商的入围名单中被选中。Tracy指出：“无论格式如何，我们都对Cadcorp SIS读取和编写空间数据的能力有很多价值。”“过去，我们有GIS的唯一方法是雇用知道如何使用特定专有数据格式的顾问。当消防部门削减预算时，这根本是不可持续的。借助Cadcorp SIS，我们可以以多种格式导入数据，因为GIS软件将负责其导出到SQL Server的导出和管理。”
Web GIS已在整个服务中都以许多不同的方式使用。特雷西说：“可能最广泛使用的操作是通过地址进行搜索，并查看以该地址为中心的地图。”“一些用户将继续从地图视图创建PDF文档，以此作为与他人共享地图的一种方式。该应用程序还广泛用于创建战术火计划图。我们还看到使用该应用程序将自己的数据与合作伙伴机构合并的价值。我们从警察局获取犯罪数据和环境局的洪水数据，并将其与我们自己的数据一起支持风险评估和紧急计划。”
The same GIS software which is behind this multi-purpose web GIS, is also being used to power other systems in ECFRS, as Tracy describes: “We use Cadcorp’s geospatial web services engine – GeognoSIS – to provide us with a map-based front end to our Incident Recording System (IRS). An IRS user can now view the recorded location of an incident against a map, and if the recorded location is not sufficiently accurate, they can amend it online. Similarly, GeognoSIS is enabling us to publish maps as WMS layers into our Command and Control System. Controllers can now overlay and switch on map layers covering features such as highway marker posts, road junction numbers, fire hydrants, and flood zones.”
Although the web-mapping project has been completed, Tracy is far from finished in her drive to spatially-enable the service. ECFRS has recently acquired Workload Modeller from Cadcorp. “We have to prepare for changes in the service”, noted Tracy, “and this resource planning and performance monitoring application will be invaluable. It will help us relate the spatial distribution of our resources with the spatial distribution of known risk and help to break our dependency on external contractors to provide us with this analysis. Remodelling the way we deploy our resources is not a one-time activity. We need to constantly review the impact of any changes we make. Workload Modeller will provide us with this interactive capability, in-house.”
Cadcorp首席执行官Mike O’Neil说：“知道消防部门所做的一切的核心。预防，保护和响应都通过更好地了解风险的地理分布来了解。ECFR提醒我们，有多种方法可以分享此位置智能，从推出多功能网络GIS到部署专家台式GI，再到空间增强现有的业务支持系统。”
