MapInfo Professional v11.0 Shows the Way to Tipperary

Pitney Bowes Software (PBS) announced that South Tipperary County Council (STCC) in Ireland has upgraded to Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional v11.0 - the most cost-effective way to provide desktop mapping to its users. The new system, supplied through one of PBS’ Irish partners, Troyteq, goes live this month and  means that council teams will now have the latest desktop mapping application and direct access to OSi MapGenie, a new service from the Ordnance Survey that provides online access to the most complete and highest quality map data of Ireland that is available.

The service gives the council national mapping coverage and enables it to map local infrastructure that extends beyond county lines. In the short term this cuts down administration as STCC no longer has to obtain this information from neighbouring counties. More significantly, in the longer term the council is likely to drive significant cost efficiencies by no longer having to maintain a local version of its mapping data.

Before upgrading the Council did a detailed user analysis which identified about 10 high-end data creators, 20 analysts and report writers, and around 30 occasional users, classified as ‘dippers’. STCC considered an open source solution but this was impractical because switching to a new system would have been disruptive, the low cost did not offset the high cost of training, and there was neither back-up nor access to OSi MapGenie.

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