MapInfo Forums 2014Location intelligence at ECQ

Greg Rowe

Electoral Commission of Queensland

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Electoral Commission of Queensland

Services provided by ECQ include

Supplying quality electoral services to clients in Queensland

State, Local Government and Industrial elections

Political party and election funding and financial disclosure

Local government boundary and electoral arrangement reviews

Assisting State Redistribution Commission

Assisting the AEC in maintaining Queensland’s electoral roll

Inquiries into preselection ballots

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Electoral Commission of Queensland

Assistant Director Special Projects

Report directly to the Commissioner on the management and

implementation of local government reviews and State Redistribution

Manager, Election Information Services unit

Location Intelligence

Statistical Publications and data analysis

Information system administration

Roll printing and image scanning project

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ECQ Business Problem

Overview

Online mapping solution for ECQ staff without skills

Make more extensive use of our GIS throughout ECQ

Use MapInfo Pro rather than Google maps and kml files

Challenges

Hard copy maps

Underutilization of GIS system and Intranet

EIS team workload and support for ECQ staff project deadlines

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ECQ Solution

MapInfo Stratus in conjunction with MapInfo Pro

Intranet – Internal use

12 staff and 1 Administrator to date

Map configurations developed for three areas of ECQ

Call Centre

Enrolment

Polling Place planning

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Address Search

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Polling Booth Planning

Find Nearest

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Find Nearest Polling Booth

for a searched address

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Staff members are able add turn off/on layers, search for address of interest, add various types

of annotation features to highlight or label certain areas of interest and also able to print maps

to a PDF format and collaborate and communicate the data with other staff members.

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Outcomes and lessons learnt

EIS team in now more productive has more time to invest in

improving our GIS and Electoral Systems

Staff members with access to Stratus able to make informative

decisions and access high-quality, interactive maps to gain the

insights they need – whenever and wherever they need

Benefits are qualitative, such as improved collaboration, better

decision making, and more efficient business processes and

inform decisions

Further savings have been realised through the consolidation of

other software licenses that are no longer required

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Next steps

Integrate and deploy ECQ GIS to allow the data to be used and

shared within and outside the Commission.

Schedule data updates to ensure users are viewing current

information.

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Questions?