NPDC’s GIS team, from left, Matt Pawson, Melissa Brooks, Jake Hechter and Clinton Ballandis with the Covid-19 Public Information Map. New Plymouth District Council staff have received praise from Harvard University for their public information map during the covid-19 lockdown. The council’s geographic information systems (GIS) map showed what key public facilities and businesses were open and provided support to the Taranaki Emergency Management Office (TEMO) and Civil Defence. The map is ready to be used by TEMO again if the alert levels rise. Matthew Leger, from Harvard’s Innovations in Government Programme, highlighted the map as an example of best practice in local government from across the world for how GIS is being applied to the covid-19 response.

Source: Stuff August 19, 2020 23:26 UTC