Project Abstract

Experience and evidence gathered during the summer of 2023 with Neath Port Talbot Council?��s Highways survey team, highlighted issues with the mobile data capture software, which was adversely affecting the speed, efficiency of the work and quality of the captured data. By designing a new solution which leveraged the existing hardware and knowledge of the team, and introducing a modern application which was able to be supported by the team themselves, addressing all the shortfalls of the previous legacy software. It was important to keep costs to a bare minimum, adhere to UK government policy on opensource, make use of existing licences for services such as Ordnance Survey mapping and most importantly, keeping it simple. It was important that the solution was easy to use, improving on the previous user experience and be sustainable in terms of support and further development. The solution used industry mature and open standards, developed with python and spatial extensions and utilised high performance offline databases. It now allows the team to develop the solution further, with some training and full documentation. The project has been a good learning experience for all involved and has proven the technology and agile development lifecycle process works well.

Keywords: Geospatial Python, Open Source, UX/UI

 Conference Details

Session: Poster Session A at Poster Stand 121

Location: Sir Stanley Clarke Auditorium at Tuesday 7th 13:30 – 17:00

Markers: C�cilia Pradic, Joe Macinnes

Course: BSc Software Engineering, 3rd Year

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