Implementing the Countryside and Rights of Way act

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 established the need to identify and map open country and registered common land in England. This was the first large project to employ DNF principles. By reusing and referencing the topographic features in the landscape, the project was transformed from a wholly data capture programme to one of predominantly information collection and attribution...

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Achieving Interoperability at Staffordshire County Council

Using Digital National Framework (DNF) principles, Staffordshire County Council worked with spatial data experts 1Spatial to prove and achieve an open and interoperable solution to data management. By sharing regional mapping data across the organisation, a single repository was created for business and spatial data to be stored together, which meets Staffordshire County Council’s initial business requirement of improved spatial data access and sharing.

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Atlantis floods onto the net

The Atlantis Initiative, a collaborative project that is working on ways to provide better information to address the impact of climate change and flood risks, is now live on the Internet.

DNF Enables Mapping Project Success

Black & Veatch scored a notable double at the tenth annual Information Management awards (IM2005) by winning the prestigious Premier Project Award and the coveted GIS Project Prize for its outstanding work on the Countryside Agency’s Mapping Access Land Project.

IM2005 recognises excellence and innovation in the management of business information and is a showcase for organisations that have demonstrated the vision and the business skills to implement new technology to reap business benefits.

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Enabling Information Integrity within Spatial Data infrastructures

Two case studies are described (index to land ownership parcels and a new database of land now open to public access) and progress towards the DNF principles are assessed in this paper, which was presented at the GSDI FIG in Cairo, 2005.

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