News Archive

• December 2006 - Manchester Geomatics complete major national addressing audit.
• September 2006 - New version of Trafford Children and Young Peoples services (TCYPS) released incorporating Manchester Geomatic's easier-to-use GEDI software components such as "Where's my nearest .... service?" and with service information and statistics grouped into themes to aid browsing and searching. See the new version at www.traffordCYPS.org. Read more about TCYPS...
• August 2006 - AGMA - Making Housing Count website launched. The website contains housing statistics for a large area of the northwest including the ten authorities in the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) and a further six neighbouring authorities. See the website www.mgeomatics.com/AGMA. Read more about the AGMA project ...
• April 2006 - ELEVATE, the local information system for East Lancashire is launched. See www.elevate-lis.co.uk. Read more about ELEVATE...
• March 2006 - New version of OldhamInfo released with powerful new GEDI software components such as the time series animations and custom reporting wizard. See the new version at www.OldhamInfo.org. Read more about OldhamInfo...
• January 2006 - JUGT-II project successfully completed and highlighted the strengths and weaknesses inherent in all the available national address datasets. One output was an interactive toolkit for addressing and this is available online at AddressingIT. Read more about JUGT-II ...
• November 2005 - Online data browser for Trafford Childrens and Young Peoples Services (TCYPS) www.traffordcyps.org launched. The system uses standard GEDI software components with additional customisation to meet the specific needs of TCYPS. More ....
• September 2005 - New version of the Manchester Community Health Profiler (mCHIP) www.healthprofile.org.uk launched using Scalable Vector Graphics and with a more intuitive interface.
• March 2005 - MGL office move
  By 1st April 2005 MGL will have completed there relocation to new offices in Ancoats Urban Village. We are moving to a converted 1820s former Cotton Mill which is at the heart of the Ancoats urban regeneration area. For our new address please.
• December 2004 - Completed phases I-III Address Auditing for Glasgow City Council.
• December 2004 - Phase 1 Address Auditing for Forest Heath, Islington and Southend Councils complete. 
• December 2004 - Latest LLPG maintenance software released. MGL software & services provide the seamless creation and maintenance of address gazetteers in accordance with BS7666 standards.
• November 2004 - Latest sponsor’s meeting for the second phase of the Joined-up Geography Testbed Project (JUG-T II) was held at MGL offices in Manchester. Latest results and the ongoing work program were discussed.
• November 2004 - Public launch of the OldhamInfo www.oldhaminfo.org website
• September 2004 - MGL secures Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) funding for the development of CHIP II. This will mean changes to CHIP to:
• Align it closely to the Strategic Health Plan. As well as the existing view of the system, an alternative interface will let users select information about a policy theme (such as tackling heart disease), or information particularly relevant for a group (such as older people).
• Add new information to support the Strategic Health Plan’s main themes. This will mean adding – and in some cases helping to develop – new quantitative indicators. Because some of the most valuable information about needs and services is not easy to capture in this fashion, qualitative material will also be included, using CHIP’s multi media capabilities to illuminate key issues in innovative ways.
• Improve access to this information for the public and key workers. New ways of providing access (such as kiosks and secure terminals) in public locations, and to workers on the move (eg through mobile phones and hand-held computers) will be piloted. Awareness and use of the system will be increased through greater publicity.
• September 2004 - MGL, as part of a consortium, has successfully bid for a major research contract to support the Manchester - Salford Housing Market Renewal programme. The Manchester-Salford Partnership (MSP) is one of 9 Housing Market Renewal areas set up to tackle the problems of housing abandonment, dereliction and poor environment in urban areas. The contract provides a Research, Intelligence and Foresight (RFI) function for MSP. This will assist in developing a robust prospectus for the next stage of the work, and to monitor the impact of the programme in the longer term. 
• August 2004 - Launch of the "Dirty Diesels" campaign, an extension to the Cleaner Vehicles campaign launched by the 10 Greater Manchester and Warrington local authorities.  MGL developed the website: www.cleanervehicles.org.uk
• July 2004 - Derby City Council clerical address matching carried out with software developed by MGL.  Using the software allowed the council to complete the exercise significantly faster than with their previous methods. 
• April 2004 - Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) bus stop data added to CHIP www.healthprofile.org.uk
• January 2004 - Manchester Air Pollution Advisory Council (MAPAC) Realtime Air Quality Monitoring website launched www.greatairmanchester.org.uk
• September 2003 - MGL in the news: The Financial Times reports that an exercise conducted by independent consultants for Westminster City Council, which 'lost' a quarter of its population in the 2001 census, revealed a large gap between the Westminster Address List and that used by the ONS. MGL were the independent consultants.
  
  Other Articles relating to work carried out by MGL in resolving the disputes between Local Authorities and the results of the 2001 Census:
  Strange case of the disappearing city (The Guardian, 14 Feb 2003)
  Where is everybody? (The Guardian, 28 Jan 2003)
  Anger over census bungle (The Guardian, 8 Jan 2003)
  Census drop prompts fears over funding cuts (The Guardian, 4 Oct 2002)
• July 2003 - Manchester City Council’s Cleaner air campaign launched website developed by MGL
• October 2002 - New Census Mapper software launched based on shared vision platform.
• September 2002 - MAST HAZ Health Information Profile (CHIP) released using shared.vision VERSION 5.
• September 2002 - JUG-T Phase 1 - Final Report Compete
• March 2002 - MGL presents JUG-T paper at Laria Conference
• February 2002 - MGL secures order to build follow-up Air quality web site for MAPAC
• January 2002 - ManchesterCHIP website cited as an example of Best Practice by Health Special Interest Group of the Association for Geographic information
• December 2002 - MGL Director invited to contribute to Government sponsored Northern Ireland spatial data infrastructure workshop
• September 2001 - MGL paper on JUG-T wins technical paper award at the AGI Conference
• June 2001 - MGL secures interactive information system contract for Sheffield Young Children's Services
• June 2001 - MGL secures Phase 2 development of the Health Profile
• June 2001 - Feasibility study on the development of a GIS for East Lancashire Drugs Service