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Wednesday, November 19. 2008

UK Gov Speeds Survey, Saves Money with GIS

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The UK government saved £700,000 by using geographic information software (ESRI) on mobile computers to produce the latest detailed Countryside Survey. In the past the survey used paper and took two years to complete. The survey of England, Scotland and Wales covers a sort of environmental change detection. This year's data was available the same day the survey was carried out.

The data capture was done in half the time.

- Computer Weekly

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI at 06:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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What has this got to do with GIS??
#1 Big John on 2008-11-21 04:06 (Reply)
They used GIS to do it faster, cheaper and get the results out faster. Sorry that was not clear.
#1.1 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2008-11-21 08:40 (Reply)

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