The Adoption of QGIS at Plymouth Community Homes John Yates – Senior IT Business Analyst / Project Manager Brian London – IT Application Support Analyst

Who are we? We are a Social Housing provider in Plymouth with approximately 19,500 properties (Private tenancies and Leasehold) PCH formed following property transfer from Plymouth City Council in 2010

A bit of background . . . I started at PCH in May 2014 One of my initial tasks was to undertake a “drains-up” of PCH’s GIS use Initial findings indicated somewhat rudimentary use of an application called GGP 10 x user licences No real application ownership Lack of training / investment etc

How did PCH become aware of QGIS? GGP Account Mgr referred me to the IT Department at PCC to understand their use of GGP Established that PCC were becoming less reliant on GGP and had since started using an open source GIS application . . . . QGIS! Free Provided more powerful data / spatial analysis tools than GGP

What happened next? With the help of PCH’s Asset Manager, we developed a vision of how GIS could be used across PCH Brian was tasked with getting under the bonnet of QGIS and understanding what made it tick The results were ground-breaking (for PCH!) The next few slides illustrate how PCH have leveraged the power and capability of QGIS . . .

Asset & HMS Data Creation of spatial SQL tables by adding Eastings and Northings Used QT Designer to create user friendly tabulated forms to display data Made data “Read-Only” to ensure that core systems were used to update information Added Title Deed data from Land Registry Uploaded tree data from PCH’s cloud-based tree management system Estates teams using QGIS to ID areas of shared / sole responsibility to help avoid disputes!

2014 vs 2016 As of September 2016 . . . Approximately 75 users of QGIS (vs 10 occasional users of GGP) User base has tripled since Jan 2016 Dedicated GIS User Group intranet site Greater use by Estates teams who are creating their own layers Use Open map data to avoid issues with OS MasterMap licencing Use of Open Data provided by PCC The Future . . . Designated GIS officers to undertake GIS data admin tasks Web based maps to allow users to: access map data from hand-held devices tenants to access information via self-service portal and this includes data such as amenities, libraries etc.

Thank you! Any questions . . . ?