Council to buy geographic system

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 508, 19 October 1993, Page 4

Council to buy geographic system

Councillors last week gave their approval to the resolution: "that the Chief Executive be given delegated authority for the awarding of a contract for the supply and installation of computer-aided draughting and geographic information system software and hardware." The geographic information system (GIS) is a "system of hardware, software and processors to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, modelling and display of referenced data for solving planning and management problems". Corporate services director Chris Ryan explained the system and its benefits.

He said the equipment had the ability to draw together all the information held in separate and widely scattered council flies. By collecting and retaining all the information within the one piece of equipment it could be retrieved and used in a variety of ways. He said with the requirement under the Resource Management Act for Council to maintain its obligations to the District Plan, the Building Act, Local Government Act, Land Information memoranda, Health Act, Corporate and Engineering Management and public enquiries response, the benefit to Council in terms of time and savings in costs would be significant. "We will have to have such a system sooner or later but the Council won' t grind

to a halt if we don't get it immediately," he said. The recommendation from Ruapehu District Council' s technical services directorate and corporate services directorate is for

the purchase of hardware and software for a GIS and to make provision for it in the Annual Plan. The document provides for a capital expenditure of $100,000 under this heading.