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Data Insight have successfully completed the scanning and geo-referencing of 2,000 highway maps and the document scanning of 2,500 section 38 files for Cambridgeshire County Council. As part of the same project, Data Insight India, completed the digitisation of over 5,000 km of highway and section 38 road adoptions as polygons representing the ownership extents, the results of which will be viewed by Cambridgeshire using their MapInfo GIS and IRISEDMS.

IRISEDMS for the Web is currently in development and expected to be available mid summer 2008.

Data Insight are delighted to announce that we have acquired further warehousing to accommodate the increased demand for our storage, scan on demand and retrieval services.

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Data Insight India, based in Pune, have recently celebrated the completion of their 100th GIS digitisation project in partnership with Data Insight UK for the local authority marketplace. They were established five years ago and now have a team of over 40 highly skilled men and women. Their team is highly motivated and specifically trained to understand and interpret UK data.

Data Insight UK are delighted with the achievements and the attitude of their Indian colleagues and offer our hearty congratulations on achieving their first 'century'.

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Tendring District Council have taken receipt of 40,000 planning and enforcement case files that were scanned by Data Insight during the period of October 2007 to March 2008. This data is soon to be loaded into Tendring's newly acquired IDOX document management software.

This follows a successful project where Data Insight have digitised over 300,000 land charges records and 75,000 BLPU's for the Land Charges Section. These datasets were successfully loaded into IDOX (formerly Caps Solutions) Uniform software.

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Swindon Borough Council has just awarded an asset gathering project to Data Insight and their business partner Asset Data Services. Features such as traffic signs, street lighting, verges, illuminated signs, bus shelters, litter bins, park/street benches etc. will initially be mapped using a combination of OS MasterMap, National Street Gazetteer, Aerial Photographs and street survey techniques incorporating GPS and pen computer applications.

The data will be loaded into a central, Oracle based, Spatial Data Warehouse supplied by Spatial Technology (UK). Once loaded,the data is then available to the council's integrated systems such as Lagan's CRM and iShareMaps the citizen portal.