Annual Report 2011 - Roscommon County Council
Annual Report 2011 - Roscommon County Council
Annual Report 2011 - Roscommon County Council
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Information Technology<br />
<strong>Roscommon</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Council</strong> Web Site<br />
<strong>Roscommon</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Council</strong>’s web site at www.roscommoncoco.ie is maintained by the<br />
<strong>Council</strong>’s I.T. Department. The web site serves as a primary resource for communicating<br />
information about the <strong>Council</strong> to the public. The site is updated frequently with information<br />
received from the various departments of the <strong>Council</strong>. The entire website has been changed<br />
and a number of enhancements were brought to the site including:<br />
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Customers can pay council rates using our new Online Payment System.<br />
Upgrade of the Virtual <strong>Roscommon</strong>, interactive map based information system.<br />
Integration of Google Maps, open source technology, to provide interactive map based<br />
content.<br />
Round the clock updates during extreme weather.<br />
The I.T. Department also manages both www.kinghouse.ie and www.roscommonroots.ie<br />
websites.<br />
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)<br />
In addition to ongoing GIS related management, training and support there were a number of<br />
new developments in the area of GIS in <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
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Expansion of Virtual <strong>Roscommon</strong> to include tourism information sources.<br />
Continued expansion of the number of datasets and associated functionality available<br />
in the corporate Map Data Viewer.<br />
Directing the <strong>Council</strong> in meeting its requirements under the Inspire directive through<br />
making <strong>Council</strong> datasets, services, and associated metadata available in compliance<br />
with Inspire specifications.<br />
The following projects were initiated this year:<br />
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Implementation of the Mapalerter email and SMS location based alert service for<br />
members of the general public.<br />
Development and implementation of a corporate Intranet based Land Agreement<br />
Management<br />
System – to replace existing manual methods for recording and storing information on<br />
land agreements.<br />
Development of an application to create and make available Spatial Planning <strong>Report</strong>s<br />
through the <strong>Council</strong> Intranet.<br />
Moving both Virtual <strong>Roscommon</strong> and Map Data Viewer applications to an open source<br />
architecture.<br />
GIS Officer Barry Doyle at the<br />
launch of Virtual <strong>Roscommon</strong><br />
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