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.
NHS emergency planners in Bristol and the Avon region are developing their swine flu pandemic response strategy with spatial data from Dotted Eyes.
The work involves four primary care trusts and is part of a national drive to co-ordinate the distribution of antiviral stocks in the event of a major disease outbreak.
Dotted Eyes data has been used to identify the optimum number and locations of antiviral collection points. Key factors are population statistics and travel times to community pharmacies.
Trevor Foster, GIS Manager at the Avon IM&T Consortium, said: “We took the geographic spread of collection points and performed travel time analysis using TrafficMap, a road network dataset. We determined drive times using road speed parameters in conjunction with RouteFinder software.
We were able to generate zones to identify how accessible the collection points were from the road network. That has allowed us to see where there is a need for more centres.”
As a direct result of the GIS support, the emergency planners have agreed the need and locations of several additional centres to bolster capacity in the Avon region. Overall capability will include community pharmacies, hospitals and other NHS sites.
Dotted Eyes Managing Director Benjamin Allan said: “This is a prime example of the power of GIS to support vital strategic decisions on resource priorities in the NHS. Presenting data in a spatial way can bring an on-the-ground scenario to life in a way that spreadsheets or narrative reports cannot.”
As well as TrafficMap, the GIS analysis has involved the postcode point product MailerMap and various scales of Dotted Eyes raster mapping including 1: 10,000 scale boundary data.
The mapping datasets are available to healthcare organisations across England
Read more about the agreement, or contact Dotted Eyes on 01527 556920.
Ambulance crews responding to emergencies across Wales are to use critical address and vehicle routing information from Dotted Eyes, the leading provider of spatial data solutions.
It follows a competitive tender by the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust – the UK’s third largest ambulance service – designed to equip frontline and control room managers with the best available digital mapping products.
The contract award is Dotted Eyes’ third major public sector procurement win in just over a year.
The company secured a landmark collective purchase agreement to supply digital maps to the NHS in May 2008 and earlier this year it won part of the wider Pan-Government Agreement, by which central government organisations source their main mapping data.
Dotted Eyes Managing Director Benjamin Allan said: ‘This third major contract win reflects our success in delivering consistency and quality with an absolute focus on the needs of the customer.
‘The Welsh Ambulance Service will benefit from fully interoperable address and transport mapping data that works across their systems to support emergency response, resource management, service planning and performance analysis.’
Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Programme Manager Gavin Bryce said: ‘We are committed to investing in technology that supports improvements to response times to our patients at their point of need.
‘The outcome of this tendered contract marks a significant step forward and complements a number of key projects. Most notably it will support operational crews in navigation when we launch our mobile data terminals later in the year.’
The one-year contract will see the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust using two Dotted Eyes’ datasets – Transport Map and AddressView Plus – for command and control and in mobile terminals among a fleet of 700 vehicles.
TransportMap is based on Ordnance Survey’s most detailed road network data, the OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network Layer. TransportMap includes comprehensive restriction and advisory route information such as weight and width restrictions – ideal for vehicle fleet management.
AddressView Plus, based on OS MasterMap Address Layer 2, includes postal addresses and sub-divided buildings that have a single external letter-box but multiple occupiers. These include housing association properties and student residences. The product contains names in English and Welsh and also covers properties without any postal address where emergency response can still be required.
Dotted Eyes is a Platinum partner of Ordnance Survey. Mark Salter, Ordnance Survey’s Head of Partners and Alliances, said: ‘Ordnance Survey data plays a vital role in the work of emergency services across Great Britain. We congratulate Dotted Eyes on their success with the Welsh Ambulance Service. The contract will deliver data benefits that will support many mission-critical activities.’
The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust employs more than 2,500 people and covers the whole of Wales. It receives £72 million in annual funding and attends more than 250,000 emergency calls a year. Its geographic extent makes it the third largest ambulance service in the UK.
Local government data users are invited to an informal round table workshop where they can meet with other local government CAD and GIS users and managers, plus experts from Dotted Eyes and Autodesk, to openly discuss the data related challenges which face them each day, and explore potential solutions.
Whether someone is a CAD user trying to access maps or a GIS user managing spatial data, they can find out through networking and idea sharing how to benefit from the increased efficiency possible through CAD and GIS integration.
If you’re a local government data user please register online for this FREE breakfast event, to be held at the Royal Armouries, Leeds, on 25th June from 8.30 AM to 11 AM. All delegates will have free entry to the Royal Armouries immediately after the event.
For more information contact our Commercial Team on 01527 556920.
If you aren’t free that day, please contact us so we can help you evaluate your CAD strategy free of charge.
This one day seminar for councils and NHS organisations, hosted by Dotted Eyes in conjunction with Autodesk, will help attendees maximise their return on investment in CAD software. Autodesk will outline a user case study on behalf of a local council, showcasing how AutoCAD Map 3D brings together design and geographic information, and Dotted Eyes will present on key issues such as configuration, optimisation of data storage and future proofing.
For more information, view the attached seminar invitation.
Two Dotted Eyes data sets, InterestMap and MarkerMap, have been chosen by Communities and Local Government for inclusion in the Pan-Government Agreement. The products, which were part of a successful bid placed by Exeter-based Landmark Information Group, in conjunction with Dotted Eyes, will be available under the Agreement from 1st April 2009.
Dotted Eyes Chairman Jamie Justham comments: “We’re delighted that the British Government has selected Dotted Eyes products as part of the Pan-Government Agreement. This decision cements our reputation for adding value to the high quality datasets produced by Ordnance Survey, a standing strengthened in 2008 by the award of a major agreement to supply digital maps to the NHS in England and Wales. ”
For more information, visit our PGA2b web pages.
Dotted Eyes will be running various events in 2009, focusing on mapping and health. The first of these events will be hosted at our offices in Bromsgrove on the 5th March, and is aimed at PCTs. Attendees at the event are welcome from both organisations that are Members of the NHS Agreement, and organisations who have not yet signed up. Presentations at the event will focus on case study examples including addressing health inequalities, World Class Commissioning, mapping healthy living, using third party data sources to improve mapping, and siting services using GIS.
The PCT event will encourage networking and best practice sharing between organisations, and there will be plenty of opportunities for discussion and questions. Organisations can send more than one delegate to this free event, which includes a networking buffet lunch. Find out more on our NHS Events page.
Our other 2 events will be held on the 25th February, at the NHS Information Centre offices in London. These events are designed to introduce the Agreement to potential Members, and will include examples and user driven content based on the best practice use of mapping in health. Visit our NHS Events page to find out more, and register for the morning or afternoon session.
If you would like any further information then please contact Andrew Brittan on 01527 556925 or andrew.brittan@dottedeyes.com
We are about to embark on another wave of expansion at Dotted Eyes and we’re looking for talented and committed individuals to help drive the business forward.
We have Data Supply Coordinator, Account Manager and Web Developer vacancies at our Bromsgrove offices, near Birmingham, but we are also on the look out for an experienced sales person based in the South East who will be able to service the needs of our healthcare clients. We are extremely well placed in this sector, having won a landmark 4 year contract to supply digital map data to the NHS.
Visit our Careers section to view full job descriptions and find out how to apply.
Dotted Eyes has been chosen by the NHS in England and Wales to provide digital mapping data to the NHS in a landmark four-year agreement.
The company has been awarded the contract following an OJEU competitive tendering process run by The NHS Information Centre (The IC) on behalf of both ambulance trusts and the wider NHS in England.
The new arrangement provides NHS organisations with a range of digital mapping data products available through a fixed schedule of prices.
Ben Allan, managing director of Dotted Eyes, said: “Around 500 NHS organisations including NHS trusts, strategic health authorities and primary care trusts can apply to purchase mapping data under the scheme. All 11 ambulance service NHS trusts have already signed up and we delivered a full set of core data products to them within hours of the contract being signed.”
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Dotted Eyes, specialists in digital mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has been recognised as a Premier Partner by Ordnance Survey as part of their new tiered Partner Accreditation Programme.
“Dotted Eyes is proud to be an accredited Premier Partner of Ordnance Survey,” says Jamie Justham (Managing Director), “because for ten years or more we’ve made a big investment in developing easy to use products and services based on the full range of Ordnance Survey data sets, as well as those from other data originators such as Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. (more…)
