Dotted Eyes News

Dotted Eyes, data and information specialists to the UK public sector and commercial business, today announces that Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership (BHWP) has selected its Health Portal solution to facilitate unprecedented information sharing at every level of the Partnership organisations.

Hot-on-the-heels of the new NHS White Paper release, which focuses heavily on shared information for patients, local authorities and healthcare professionals, the BHWP announcement marks the formal launch of Health Portal, developed by Dotted Eyes to meet the burgeoning need of healthcare professionals to access, visualise and share data through a simple and cost-effective system; freeing up the resources of data analysts and decentralising cumbersome data hubs to deliver access at the point of need.

“In many ways, the key imperatives of the new healthcare reform are already established principles of Birmingham Health & Wellbeing Partnership,” said Jim McManus, Joint Director of Public Health at BHWP.
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After a general election resulting in a coalition government, we have published a new way of charting the nation’s political landscape.

ParliaMap is a free OpenData product for the Geographic Information System (GIS) community, portraying the make up of the House of Commons today - the first day of the new Parliament.

The constituency of each Member of Parliament (MP) is represented as a hexagonal cell in a standard size, regardless of its true geographical extent. The arrangement of cells closely resembles the shape of the United Kingdom, making it obvious who has been elected in which part of the country. To emphasise those relationships, ParliaMap is supplied in the British National Grid coordinate system, though of course the geometry is deliberately distorted by using the same cell size for every MP.

“This style of presentation has previously been used in the media and online, but had never been available to GIS professionals. Many users need to produce this form of map and analysis so Dotted Eyes is offering ParliaMap free of charge as part of its OpenData policy”, says Jamie Justham, Dotted Eyes Chairman.

Dotted Eyes data products offer a rich set of value added attributes, and in ParliaMap these include constituency name, constituency code, MP name, party, votes, percent majority and the percentage swing between the parties in each seat.

ParliaMap is available for download free of charge from our ParliaMap page.

This is the fourth in our popular Open Source, Standards and Data seminar series of 2010. Over 100 delegates have already joined us to dispel the myths around Open Source Software, and find out more about Open Standards and Data.

The event will be held on Thursday 13th May from 9.30am - 2pm, at Swansea University, SA2 8PP. Existing customers and potential customers are all welcome.

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View our new OS OpenData page to find out which datasets are to be made free of charge, and register for updates so we can keep you informed…

Following on from our popular Open Source, Standards and Data events in Birmingham and London, we’re delighted to invite you to the next Open Source, Standards and Data event, to be held in Stirling on 23rd April, 2010.

The event will be held on Friday 23rd April from 9.30am - 2pm.

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Avon IM&T Consortium, who used mapping data from Dotted Eyes to support swine flu pandemic planning, is in the running for PBBI’s Meridian Award for ‘Organizational Impact’ as a result.Trevor Foster, GIS Specialist Team Leader, used MapInfo Professional, RouteFinder, OS and NAVTEQ data, to provide GIS analysis to identify where antiviral drug collection points should be located.

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ScalerMap Loading Services are now available from Dotted Eyes to translate OS VectorMap™ Local into ESRI, MapInfo or Autodesk files. ScalerMap is ideal for internet mapping, and lightweight mobile applications, overlaid with your own data.

ScalerMap enhances OS VectorMapLocal – a flexible data set based on the most detailed mapping available from Britain’s national mapping agency. This enables precise and rapid location of incidents.

Dotted Eyes converts the data set supplied by Ordnance Survey into popular formats, ready for use in GIS or CAD software. Cartographic styling is provided for widely-used GIS and web mapping systems. This unique approach saves time and money in translation and maintenance.

ScalerMap is designed for use in web mapping and GIS or CAD software. Its styling is consistent throughout a wide range of scales, from 1:1,000 to 1:1,000,000. The cartography displays as much information as possible while ensuring the map is easily legible. Its appearance is readily configurable to suit particular applications.

·         ScalerMap Tiled Service Processes the exact area you require, made up of 5km square tiles. You can benefit from a single point of contact, because Dotted Eyes can supply ScalerMap, with licensing options from a single user to a corporate licence. We’ll obtain OS VectorMap Local data on your behalf and you’ll receive the finished product ready to use. Alternatively if you already have the OS data set, we can load and enhance all your tiles.

·         ScalerMap Custom Service Combines all the tiles covering an area such as the Government Office Regions or Ambulance Services in England. Building numbers are added, based on the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) or the OS MasterMap Address Layer (AL2), using a fle of points provided by the customer. In the custom service we can produce both vector fles and the raster images which are required by certain Command and Control systems for the fastest possible drawing speed.

As part of our loading service, value-added features are created, including cartographic hachures for slopes and colour-coded areas for roads, railway track beds and tunnels.

For more information, view the ScalerMap web page, download the infosheet or contact info@dottedeyes.com

PGA members are invited to attend a free workshop run by Dotted Eyes with Landmark Information Group. The session will focus on the use of geographic boundaries for spatial analysis, including MarkerMap REGIONS as supplied to PGA members. The workshop will run from 10:30 to 14:00 on Thursday 26th November at our offices in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Refreshments and lunch are provided. To sign-up click here or email duncan.hill@dottedeyes.com for more information.

Liverpool Direct, the joint venture company formed by Liverpool City Council and BT, is one of the first customers to sign up for Contractor Portal, the web application for local government organisations that simplifies the distribution of Ordnanace Survey and other datasets to their contractors.

Brian Jones, Geodata Team Manager at Liverpool Direct, said: “Whenever a contractor has to use Ordnance Survey mapping they need to apply for a licence. That requires the contracting body to source and exchange the data and manage the licence application.

“Contractor Portal completely automates that process as it enables the contractor to self-serve.

“We anticipate considerable efficiency savings being generated from this avoidance of contact with contractors. The lighter touch minimises the amount of resource required from my team, freeing us up to do a lot more of our business critical, internally driven GIS work.

“On top of that we will be supplying a much more reliable service that can turn round requests a lot more quickly than before.”

For more information, register for our webinar on 25th September at 10AM or telephone us on 01527 556920.

We’re delighted to announce the launch of Contractor Portal, a web application for local government organisations that simplifies the distribution of Ordnance Survey and other spatial datasets to their contractors.

Local authorities carry a significant workload when distributing datasets including preparation and completion of paperwork, selection and processing of datasets, timely distribution of the completed data cutouts and compliance with strict licensing terms.

Contractor Portal provides an automated, audited workflow that streamlines the entire licensing and ordering process. It enables contractors to access data on a self-service basis and allows authorities to manage their data distribution through a real-time console.

For more information contact us on 01527 556920 or register for our webinar on 25th September at 10AM.