Woodward I.T. Sutherland Web Top

Woodward IT is a partner of:

Sutherland Shire Council implemented their GIS web intranet application whilst already having a web app and another 2 types of applications developed in Genius. The problem came when a rationalisation of X-Emulation licenses, suddenly cut the number of desktops with access to GIS.

The first attempt to solve this solution was to lease a Java application that could be used over the intranet. This application was extremely limited in functionality and by using the browser, Java made it quite slow.

Sutherland were desperate for a desktop solution that would be cheap to develop or purchase, be scalable and also ready to go in a limited time.

After seeing some of the other sites developed by Woodward IT, Sutherland were keen to initially see a prototype, to prove the concept and the speed of a properly developed web tool. After the prototype, development commenced on a production app.

The Sutherland GISWeb interface allows users to quickly and easily navigate, and display the information they require.

Standard navigation tools: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Scroll
Zooming to a predefined scale
Full layer control, where the user can turn on/off multiple layers at one time. The layers are generated from an ASCII configuration file
Certain classes can be selected in the layer manager to automatically turn on all layers associated with a theme. These classes are generated from an ASCII configuration file.

The users can click on certain geographical features to produce a series of formatted HTML reports.

Property reports for owner and address information
Adjoining Owner reports
Waste management service reports
Planning reports
All queries interact with Citipac data stored in Oracle

Some of the other functionality includes:

The ability to automatically create DXF or Arc Shape files from the contents of certain layers in the window.
Printing to scale. Users can select their paper size, rotation and scale and obtain a postscript copy of all layers they currently have turned on including aerial photography and Sydways images.
Integration with aerial photography and Sydways imagery.
The ability to perform wildcard searches on owners names and addresses.
The ability to search on places of interest listed in the front of Sydways.

Mailing list files can be downloaded.

There are tools that allow users to individually select properties or to select neighbouring properties and have the property addresses, owners name and owner's address to be sent to a comma delimited file.
At any stage there is a download tool where users can download the address file and load it straight into Microsoft Access.