Recent News
Frankston City Council Wins Telstra Award for Excellence with IntraMaps Innovation
We are excited to announce that Frankston City Council recently won the Innovation category of the Telstra Local Government Excellence in ICT Awards for their My Address project. The My Address project was selected from a short list of nine other projects. Selection criteria were based on innovation, adding value and the project’s sustainability.
The Frankston City Council My Address project is a customised public web portal that integrates Digital Mapping Solutions’ IntraMaps MapControl to deploy spatial data to the general public. It allows residents to easily perform online searches for geospatial information on community services and facilities such as their waste collection dates, the locations of schools, community halls, animal exercise areas and other relevant information.
Frankston worked closely with DMS to create the My Address project as part of their vision for Frankston becoming a “connected community”. The goal was to not only ensure that the project is relevant and of benefit to many stakeholders now, but to “future proof” My Address so that it fits with Frankston’s objectives as they move into their next planning phase.
Frankston’s busy Customer Service Civic Centre has already noticed a decline in call times as residents can now access a significant amount of community information via Frankston’s web site.
DMS Now an Authorised Reseller of NearMap PhotoMaps
DMS is pleased to announce the signing of a reseller agreement with NearMap which sees them become one of the first suppliers of PhotoMap licences to Local Governments Australia wide. NearMap PhotoMaps deliver a powerful way for Local Government to access up to date high resolution imagery. With the benefit of regular updates and the ability to easily access multiple temporal imagery views, P...
Upcoming IntraMaps Training Courses
IntraMaps MapServer Administrator training courses are currently scheduled for Melbourne and Perth in 2012. This course caters for beginners to advanced users. It is designed to familarise long-term users with the latest IntraMaps release 2012, whilst providing newer users with an introduction to all the working knowledge required to set-up and manage the IntraMaps Enterprise application. The...
DMS User Group Meetings Coming Up in Melbourne, Perth and New Zealand
DMS will be holding User Group Meetings in Australia and New Zealand during November and December. These promise to be exciting and informative events where DMS will be showcasing the new release of IntraMaps 2012. As well as being a great place to network with others in the GIS community, the meetings are designed to provide a relaxed, informal environment where IntraMaps users can discuss t...
Frankston City Council Wins Telstra Award for Excellence with IntraMaps Innovation
We are excited to announce that Frankston City Council recently won the Innovation category of the Telstra Local Government Excellence in ICT Awards for their My Address project. The My Address project was selected from a short list of nine other projects. Selection criteria were based on innovation, adding value and the project’s sustainability. The Frankston City Council My Address projec...
DMS Launches Two New Support Initatives
We are very pleased to announce the launch of two initiatives designed to enhance our technical support services and assist our clients in maximizing their investment in our technology. Online Knowledge Base The first initiative now available to clients is the DMS Online Knowledge Base. With over 60 articles already published covering the IntraMaps suite of applications, MapServer and SQL ...
IntraMaps at the City of Fremantle
In Western Australia, City of Fremantle has chosen IntraMaps as their preferred Enterprise GIS solution. This decision comes as part of Fremantle’s current IT strategy which involved the implementation of a new Corporate System. DMS is currently in the process of implementing and integrating IntraMaps Enterprise and Fremantle is also looking to provide IntraMaps Public for their ratepayers i...
SQL Server 2008 OGR Driver
DMS is sponsoring the SQL Server 2008 OGR driver which allows translation to/from SQL 2008 and from/to any OGR supported data source. The driver is a free download from the GDAL web site. This will enable users to upload data into SQL 2008 from any of the various formats supported by OGR (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html), perform coordinate transformation on SQL 2008 tables (currentl...
Welcome on board Simon Nitz
The team at DMS is delighted to welcome on board Simon Nitz as a Senior Consultant. Simon brings with him 17 years experience in the GIS industry within Local Government. Simon is highly regarded throughout Australia and New Zealand as a leader in his field and we look forward to working with him. If you wish to contact Simon he can be emailed at simon.nitz@mapsolutions.com.au.
IntraMaps at Macedon Ranges Shire Council
DMS is pleased to announce that following a competitive tender process IntraMaps has been selected as the Enterprise GIS Solution at Macedon Ranges Shire Council. We welcome the team at MRSC to the IntraMaps User Community and look forward to a successful implementation of IntraMaps in the coming weeks.
IntraMaps User Forums
The IntraMaps User Forums held in Perth and Melbourne at the end of last year were a huge success. Around 150 people attended the events and the feedback received has been very positive. The main focus of the events was the preview of IntraMaps v7 which was extremely well received by the audience. This release is due to ship in February 2010. Another key feature was the discussions aroun...
IntraMaps MapControl at Frankston City Council
When Frankston City Council needed a better way for their ratepayers to access information on rubbish collection days they turned to the IntraMaps MapControl to help solve the innacuracies that were inherent with their previous mapping component. The IntraMaps map control was able to be tightly integrated into the corporate website allowing address verification and greater accuracy in determin...