Points Of Interest Data
- Can you provide the public with detailed information on local 'points of interest' at the click of a button?
- Can you pinpoint the exact location of all the nursery schools, playgrounds & picnic areas in your area?
- Can you accurately locate all the restaurants & take-aways?
- Can you map all the local schools & colleges precisely?
- Can you identify the location of engineering works & manufacturing plants in relation to the above?
- Can you easily produce tourist maps showing cinemas, sports centres, venues & recreational facilities?
- Can you identify all transport facilities in your area?
- Can you identify all health and social services facilities in your?
- Do you know where all the public services and facilities in your area are?
- Can you make the above information readily available to the public?
The PointXİ database, which has been collected from over 150 individual suppliers, including Ordnance Survey & Thomson Directories, as a joint venture between Landmark Information Group and Ordnance Survey, can assisst you with all of the above challenges and many more. The database provides essential information for users in both local and central government and the emergency services, with access to around 750 classes, containing over 3.5 million features ranging from hospitals to hotels, schools to sewage disposal facilities and pubs to pesticide production.
The PointXİ database contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date points of interest information available for Great Britain and quarterly updates are provided as standard. Addressable features have been accurately geocoded to the National Grid, with the majority being pinpointed to a precision of 1m.
The data can be purchased either nationally or by region, county or Local Authority district and can be ordered either as a whole or by group or category. It can be easily incorporated into any GIS to provide accurate visual representation of the information in the database.
For sample PointX data, please visit the PointX web site.
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How Can PointX Be Used?
- Environmental Health, Pollution Control & Food Hygiene issues
- Identification of potential sources & receptors as part of the Contaminated Land Regime
- Trading Standards regulations
- Local Area Plans and for the analysis of facilities available in the urban and rural environment
- Tourist Information services
- Analysis of planning applications
- Dissemination of information about local facilities to the public
- More effective management of public infrastructure
- The completion of Housing Quality Indicators for proposed housing schemes
Within Leicestershire PointX data has been taken for use by all of the council websites and initiatives, including providing the outlying villages and towns with online access to a multitude of local and regional information. The County Council plan to work with partners in adjacent authorities that are alrady using PointX, such as Derbyshire County Council, to provide cross-border access.
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