... individual operational purposes In particular, the main uses were for planning and building regulations applications processing and some specialized housing functions such as painting and maintenance ... of information On the basis of the resulting report, the council decided to put in place as a first priority a common database supporting the rating, planning, local land charges, and housing ... of a multi-supplier/authority-wide GIS, using the terminology that we introduced in Chapter It currently has a mix of software from ESRI (ArcInfo 7; ArcView, and MapExplorer2), MapInfo Corporation...