Mornington
Mornington
6 May 2014
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A SMALL army troop of actors and a TV production crew gathered on Canadian Bay beach in Mt Eliza last month to film scenes for a Channel 9 miniseries Gallipoli. The multi-million dollar production used the Mt Eliza beach as a stand in for the Gallipoli beaches and cliff-face in Turkey. See page 8. Picture: Gary Sissons
Shire’s moment of ‘Truth’ By David Harrison MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council is developing and refining a huge new central data system that has been dubbed The Single Source of Truth. On it will be stored information on more than 200,000 shire assets – buildings, roads and properties among them. The GeoMedia Smart Client system enables shire staff, councillors and contractors, in their offices or in the
field, to update progress on tasks as varied as weeding shire land and repairing pavilion roofs, from portable computers. The information is then immediately available to all who have viewing or data entry rights. Details of the system were provided to councillors by David “Davey” Smith, acting team leader, traffic and road management at the 28 April community council meeting, held at Safety Beach Yacht Club,.
The Truth system will eliminate manual and double handling and thus bring cost-saving efficiencies, Mr Smith told the meeting. It will enable regular checks on work progress, to ensure contractors are meeting contract requirements. A significant cost benefit is that the system moves the shire away from Apple Mac products, which will be another cost saving. A Mac app could have been developed to do the tasks that will
be undertaken by the Truth system but would have cost about twice as much as the system chosen, councillors heard. Senior shire managers and contractors have embraced the proposal, providing “outstanding” support for it, Mr Smith said. Service providers also co-operated in helping develop “a brand new product” rather than falling back on an out-of-the-box solution that would have fallen short of shire
requirements. “This is cutting edge software that has not been used for this type of work across the world – we are the very first,” the meeting was told. Accessing cutting-edge technology was important to the shire. The project took longer than expected because of the fact that it involved “immature” software, requiring “bug” fixes as work proceeded. Continued Page 6
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