GOVERNMENT
Municipal Web Publishing
at Gemeente Maastricht
Gemeente Maastricht SBF
the municipality measured an efficiency gain
of 7 percent among employees using the sys-
tem. By providing correct, up-to-date informa-
tion, the system annually saves Maastricht the
equivalent of 18 worker-years. ;
The city of Maastricht began its Web publishing initiatives in 1999, with the idea of making geospatial and administrative information
available to all city employees. Important
considerations included developing a system
that was simple and easily managed, as well
as capable of handling all types of geospatial
information.
In mid-2000, Maastricht began Web publication of aerial photographs, large-scale maps,
and cadastral information. Under the city’s
management, the system now provides
dozens of categories of CAD and GIS information to 500 municipal employees.
With its Web publishing system operational
for five years, Maastricht conducted a study
to quantify the benefits. Among the results,
GOVERNMENT
Geographical Information
System
significantly enhance both
operational and planning-based decision-making.
Port of Brisbane
The Port of Brisbane Corporation is responsible for the operation and management of
Australia’s third busiest container port, a
deep-water port with 30 berths and nearly
7,500 meters of quay line. The operations at
the port include integrated services including cargo-handling infrastructure, an interface between rail, road, and sea transport, and
management of other industrial backup lands
totaling 5,400 acres.
The dynamic nature of the Port of Brisbane
calls for ready access to spatially related information about the corporation’s land and
physical assets. About 80 percent of the information the corporation holds is related to a
location. The ability to integrate that data
visually and at the database level can
Therefore, the corporation
has implement a corporate-wide GIS based on
MicroStation and Bentley
Web publishing software.
The DGN files and other
associated data still reside
on different data servers,
and the Bentley system can
publish these different
data and their sources into a
common user interface. The
system has quickened the
delivery of spatial information,
allowed the integration of spatial data with corporate databases, improved the quality of
information available, and allowed the spatial integration of data visually and at the
database level. ;
