Taupo District Council

Taupo District Council want to manage their assets effectively. Like many other organisations they see the value in field based data capture. GBS provided a set of tools and consultancy to help them develop a process to ensure that data was easy to capture in the field as well as maintain back in the office

 

 

 

Who are Taupo District Council?

 

The Taupo district is located in the Central North Island of New Zealand. It includes the vast catchment area for the whole of Lake Taupo, the hydroelectric dams on the Tongariro and Upper Waikato rivers and substantial geothermal resources. The district contains expansive areas of exotic pine forests and farmlands as the predominant land use, and includes native forests, parts of the Tongariro National Park and Kaimanawa Ranges and the Central Plateau mountains. The district’s major resources are forestry, agriculture, hydroelectric and geothermal energy, tourism, and scenic and recreational attractions.

 

Their Requirements

 

Taupo Parks & Recreation Services needed a system to allow them to effectively manage their asset base. They needed us to:

 

  • Assist in the design and development of a master GIS database for parks and reserves data
  • Provide a hand-held field GIS solution capable of capturing and maintaining information regarding parks and reserves assets
  • Provide desktop tools to facilitate the loading of the field data back to a master GIS database for parks and reserves asset data
  • Provide tools to facilitate the easy update of the field device with data from the master GIS database as required

 

How GBS Helped

 

GBS delivered a suite of software including:

 

  •  A hand-held computer-based GIS application which facilited the capture and maintenance of parks and reserves assets
  • Hand-held and desktop GIS tools to enable the easy transfer of data to and from the hand-held and desktop computer
  • A GIS database for the interim storage and maintenance of parks and reserves asset information.