Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels Project: Developing Community Action - Review of Data Management Processes Client: Scottish Wildlife Trust We reviewed the data management processes used by the Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels project to identify any problems or limitations and make recommendations. We also wrote a specification for an online Community Hub. ... read more December 2016. Categories: Biodiversity Desk research
Wrexham CAMS Mobile Survey Client: Wrexham County Borough Council This survey of around 140km of public rights of way in Wrexham marks the first use of our new CAMS Mobile solution on a large structured survey. ... read more November 2016. Categories: App CAMS Countryside access Mobile Path survey Rights of Way Survey
Managing a Commons and Village Greens Registry Client: Ceredigion County Council Ceredigion County Council are using CAMS to manage their Register of Common Land and Village Greens. Site boundaries are mapped and information held on ownership and the rights exercised across the sites. Because the system is shared with ROW staff, management of the sites can be integrated with access management. ... read more April 2016. Categories: CAMS Common Land Countryside access Village Greens
Survey of a new footpath with high precision GPS Client: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority had a new footpath dedicated by a landowner. ExeGesIS were asked to capture the precise line of the path on the ground using GPS to add the route to their digital Definitive Map, held in their CAMS application. ... read more April 2016. Categories: CAMS Countryside access Path survey Rights of Way Spatial data capture Survey
Wood-pasture and parkland data analysis Client: Natural England We demonstrated through spatial processing and statistical analysis that it may be possible to predict wood pasture and parkland quality. This project generated a model that could be used to target survey effort to those sites with the highest predicted quality. ... read more April 2016. Categories: Biodiversity Data analysis Data processing Desk research Ecology GIS Invertebrate survey Statistical analysis
QGIS Suitability Assessment Client: JNCC JNCC contracted Exegesis to undertake a review comparing the functionality available in ArcGIS with that in QGIS. Nearly 1,000 items of functionality were reviewed to ascertain whether they occurred in QGIS. We also assessed the required changes to JNCC’s IT infrastructure in order to implement QGIS, as well as the associated costs. ... read more April 2016. Categories: Desk research GIS
Powys Section 31(6) Deposit Digitisation Client: Powys County Council In order to meet Welsh Government requirements for planning application searches Powys County Council required their Section 31(6) deposits to be available as digital data. Exegesis SDM were contracted to create a digital layer and associated scanned deposit documents. ... read more March 2016. Categories: Countryside access Rights of Way Spatial data capture
Green Shoots Client: The British Association for Shooting & Conservation (BASC) We developed the BASC Green Shoots website, which is designed to encourage their members to contribute to biodiversity conservation by recording shooting areas, habitats and species they see. ... read more March 2016. Categories: Biodiversity Web map Web site
Powys Definitive Map Digitisation - Breconshire/Radnorshire Client: Powys County Council The definitive map data relating to rights of way in Breconshire and Radnorshire was out of date, and exeGesIS was asked to assist Powys County Council with two project to update and correct this data for Breconshire and Radnorshire, using data from multiple sources to do so. ... read more February 2016. Categories: CAMS Countryside access Rights of Way Spatial data capture
Church Heritage Cymru Client: Church in Wales Church Heritage Cymru is a digital database of church buildings with integrated GIS. exeGesIS developed the system in 2015 for the Church in Wales in order to capture information on all its churches. ... read more January 2016. Categories: Archaeology Database HBSMR Heritage Historic Environment Record Listed Buildings Web map Web site