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Our latest press releases
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Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman has joined Astun Technology as a Product Support Specialist. Simon will be working as part of the Astun consultancy team, mainly in a product support role.
Our Customers are Better Connected!
A number of Astun Technology customers have reported that they have been very pleased with what the SOCITM Better Connected survey had to say about their websites.
Using Interactive Maps for Public Consultation
Surrey Heath Borough Council is using interactive maps for the public consultation stage of a major development, the Camberley Town Centre Area Action Plan.
AGI Open Source Training
We are sponsoring and taking part in this AGI training event which introduces users to Free and Open Source (FOSS) G.I.S. Software and how it can be implemented within existing architectures and integrated with other systems.
NHS Choices
NHS Choices data is coming to iShare. As part of Astun Data Services, we will be taking a direct feed of NHS Choices data, spatialising it using PostGIS and then serving it to iShare clients as GML via WFS.
New Shared Service
West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) and Cotswold District Council (CDC) have entered into a ‘Shared Service’ agreement with Astun Technology.
iShare User Group
Last year customers were asked if they were interested in participating in an iShare User Group. Needless to say the response was unequivocally in favour. We now have our first Chairman, Richard Lewis from Newport City Council.
iShare News Christmas Edition
The Christmas Edition of iShare News is now available. For those who don't receive it by post it is available from the download section of this website
The Rise of the Geotache!
Two intrepid Geo Professionals from Astun Technology, Managing Director, Mike Saunt and Matt Walker have spent the last month developing the latest Open Source technology the ‘Geotache’.
AGI Cymru
We are sponsoring and attending Location Wales 2011, the 13th AGI Cymru Annual Conference which takes place on 29th November at Cardiff City Hall. It would be great to see you there. Full conference programme.
Movember
Mike Saunt and Matt Walker are taking part in the Movember 'upper lip area' challenge in aid of Prostrate Cancer. If you wish to sponsor the Astun team please click here and search on Astun. We'll post pictures on the site in due course!
2011 Exemplar Awards
We are sponsoring the 'Everything Happens Somewhere' conference, exhibition and Exemplar Awards. The event takes place at Albert Hall, Nottingham – Thursday, 3 November 2011. Find out more here
iShare Backup
We have just introduced ‘iShare Backup’ an effective backup solution for iShare deployments. iShare Backup uses a specially written Python script to back up all data held in the Postgres database that is the foundation of all iShare installs.
Surrey Heath Signs OEA
Surrey Heath Borough Council has signed an iShare Open Enterprise Agreement (OEA). The move to a virtual server environment gave the Council an opportunity to review their ageing data arrangements which have now been replaced by a modern Open Source spatial data warehouse solution.
AGI GeoCommunity Conference
Mike Saunt, Mike Smith, Jo Cook and Matt Walker will be attending the AGI GeoCommunity Conference taking place at the East Midlands Conference Centre between 20th-22nd September - Find out more here
36 PostGIS Installations
We have recently integrated our iShare platform with the Origin Local Information System (LIS) from Fluent Technology. DORIC (Data Observatory Research Intelligence Collaborative) the LIS for Cheshire, Warrington and Halton and Surreyi for the whole of Surrey are just coming on stream and mark our latest PostGIS deployments.
UK MasterMap loading in 40 hours
Working with the Ordnance Survey our recently developed Open Source GML data loader has successfully loaded National Coverage of Mastermap (that is over 440 million features) into PostGIS in under 40 hours! We’ve also tested against Vector Map Local loading all of Cambridgeshire.
iShare News
The Summer edition of iShare News is now available. For those who don't receive it by post you can download it from the download section of this website.
User Group & Training Survey
We have set up a survey for existing iShare users regarding the possibility of setting up an iShare user group and assessing specific training needs.
Huntingdonshire District Council
‘myHuntingdonshire’ uses the latest iteration of the iShare platform and is constantly refreshed with data from both the Council’s service delivery systems and Cambridgeshire County Council's own iShare solution.
OSGIS 2011
The annual OSGIS Conference is being hosted by the Centre for Geospatial Science at Nottingham University on June 21-22nd. Find out more here Registrations close on 31st May.
Astun is a 'Silver' sponsor.Wycombe District Council
Wycombe District Council has gone live with iShare enabling local residents to use their Postcode to find information about local services, locate facilities on maps and sign up for automated email alerts.
iShare News
The spring edition of iShare news is now available. For those who don't receive it by post you can download it from here
Jo Cook
Jo will be working as part of the the Astun consultancy team particularly on software deployment and data integration.
New Logger Case Study
We have just published a new case study focused on our Logger module. It features the use of Logger for Highways fault reporting via the Cambridgeshire County Council Website and CRM integration in the Contact Centre.
New Website
You may have noticed that the site has changed somewhat. Since the old site had been around for over two years we decided to freshen things up. Please let us know your thoughts.
Matt Walker Joins
He will be responsible for enterprise deployment of Astun’s range of web based GIS, data integration and publishing solutions to local authorities.
Mike Smith Joins
He will be responsible for widening the take-up of the company’s growing range of web based GIS, data integration and publishing solutions to local authorities
Channel Shift
A new report, ‘The Value of Geospatial Information to Local Public Service Delivery in England and Wales’ published by the report features a deployment of Astun Technology’s iShare software platform as a successful example of ‘Channel Shift’.
iShare powering Online Planning searches
We're really happy to let you all know that the iShare Publisher module has been powering the planning applications (Development Control , Building Control and Licensing ) at Rochford Council for the last few months (as well as their My Neighbourhood section!). We think it is pretty neat and shows how having a flexible tool where YOU can build web page templates and have a Search Engine type interface to make life easier for your customers. Why don't you test it out!