Ville de Namur

Opportunity

The City of Namur, located in Belgium, is the capital of Wallonia and its 3.5 million inhabitants. For many years, she has focused on the computerisation of its Urban Geography Department. The City of Namur wished to develop the former GIS system into a new 100% interoperable architecture based on Oracle Spatial, and then selected 1Spatial to implement this new solution.

Solution

All the software components of the 1Spatial solution provide direct access to Oracle Spatial databases, selected as the central warehouse of map (graphic and attribute) data of the City of Namur. The deployed solution proposes different technical modules: an expert module (input, edit and control data integrity, topology, digitizing, etc.), an office module (data query and use, print, customisation, etc.), and a Web module (for both industry-focused and public applications). The solution is used to meet the City’s mission in areas as diverse as mobility, sewage network, town-planning, environment, snow clearance plan, emergency response plan, anti-social behaviour, etc.

Outcome

Thanks to the rigorous work made by operators to keep land data up to date, the GIS of the City of Namur is a real success given the increasing number of daily accesses.