"Government mandated standards have helped facilitate communications between the products of different software vendors, and this has given more freedom to Dutch municipalities to select ‘best-of-breed’ components from different vendors. Vicrea was one of the first suppliers to ‘open up’ their products to facilitate interoperability, and Cadcorp technology with its …

“Once GIS is fully linked to the housing databases, we will have a holistic organisation which shares the core information that is currently restricted to individual departments. Each time a new property is added, we will add every other piece of information so that the data really works for all …