Caged Fish web design Market Harborough

Leicestershire, UK – March 2008

Bluesky Photomap Powers Council Services in Northampton

Northampton Borough Council is using highly detailed 10cm aerial photography from Bluesky to boost the provision of council services across the entire organisation. The 2007 aerial survey images are facilitating service delivery in virtually every department, from the reporting of Abandoned Vehicles to the creation of Zones as part of the authorities planning, for example.

Accessible from each of the 250 GIS communities desktops via the Councils geographical information system (GIS), the Bluesky aerial photography, part of the GeoPerspectives product range, will also power a brand new online mapping portal delivering a range of information and council services to both residents of England’s largest town via the council’s website and to all 1600 employees of the council via the Intranet.

“By making the imagery accessible from every desktop via our Intranet based GIS, ‘MapGEM’, we will discover new applications on an almost daily basis,” said Karen Chapman, GIS Manager at Northampton Borough Council. “From A to Z virtually every service delivery area is gaining benefit through the use of the Bluesky aerial photography, for example Neighbourhood Wardens can analyse crime locations in their real world context identifying possibly contributing factors such as overgrown footpaths, trees or unlit public spaces.”

The current ‘Interactive Mapping’ Module has been piloted on the Council’s public facing website as a prelude to ‘MapGEM’. The trial site currently delivers map-based information about a range of council services including Waste Management and Recycling, Parks and Leisure together with Housing, Transport and Planning. The addition of more advanced map layers, such as the Bluesky photomap, plus third party information will lead to the launch of the new ‘MapGEM’ site later this year. “We have ambitious plans designed to deliver the maximum return on the investment we have made in the Bluesky aerial photographs,” continues Karen. “These include a total revamp of our online mapping service plus additional development of our Intranet based GIS and partnership working wherever possible.”

The Bluesky imagery captured in 2007 using the latest digital imaging technology also provides the 250 users of Northampton Council’s full GIS corporate software from Innogistic plc, an easy to interpret real world view of the Borough. Perfectly complimenting the Council’s Ordnance Survey MasterMap data, other mapping layers and previous aerial survey images, the Bluesky photomap is also gives real world context to the Council’s centralised property and street gazetteers.

Bluesky is a UK-based specialist in aerial imaging and remote sensing data collection and processing. An internationally recognised leader with projects extending around the globe, Bluesky has unrivalled expertise in the creation of seamless, digital aerial photography and 3D landscape/cityscape visualisations. Bluesky also runs a national mapping centre, providing digital maps, site plans, satellite imagery, aerial photography and ultra-high resolution imagery of cities and towns.

GeoPerspectives is a joint venture between BlueSky and Infoterra providing national coverage of orthorectified aerial photography, digital terrain & surface models (DTM/DSM) for 3D modelling, and colour infra-red imagery (CIR) for vegetation analysis.

Do you ever sit and wonder where the next bit of business is coming from??
This is something that troubles many small and large businesses alike.
So what can you do about it?
Well about five years ago I was talked into going to a meeting of the BNI Leicester, as many of you know the BNI is a business referral organisation worldwide.
This worked pretty well for us until the membership felt that the funds and fees were better kept within the group. So three years ago we formed Working Breakfast, a breakfast business club owned and run by its members.

We meet every Thursday at the old BNI Leicester venue of the Regency Hotel on London Road Leicester at 6.45 AM.

So are you still sitting there worrying? or would you like 25 new salespeople on the team? We have spaces available, but limited email enquiries@workingbreakfast.com for details

Caged Fish are pleased to announce the relaunch of pet insurance site www.buddies.co.uk The new site was created with new design elements to maximise the companies pet insurance market. The site features an online breed and breeders directory, links are and pet advice blog.

Ciliaryblue asked Caged Fish web design to produce an online store to allow the ordering of replacement spectacle lenses  the site allows you to enter your current prescription, pay securely online and order.

I get really frustrated when clients give me stupid lists of “keywords” for the optomisation of their sites, example.. if you were going shoe shopping, you would’t walk into a shoe store and ask for “shoes” you would at least say “shoes, brown, size nine” this needs to be taken into account when deciding upon your keyphrase stragety. If I could get you a first page Google listing for “shoes” I wouln’t be writing this Blog, I’d be sitting in the Bahamas.

Great quote from the Webpro news site

“Brian Ussery, an Atlanta SEOer and blogger, reported last week that Google searchers have broken the three-word search term barrier as of the fourth quarter of 2007. The average query is now four words.

That means a lot to SEOers targeting that long tail of search. It also means (maybe) that, collectively, searchers are becoming a bit more sophisticated in their searching, or at least more specific.”

Fantastic news for one of our clients,  read the press review below…..

Things have been pretty hectic of late here at The Alchemy Studios. Particularly so in the design and cabinet-making workshops, as our exclusive Elegy Brand Furniture has really captured some imaginations of late, and designers are burning the midnight oil over some new blueprints.

For those not familiar with Elegy, it’s Alchemy’s bespoke brand of Gothic and eccentric furnishing and interiors, in woods and other traditional materials, designed and handcrafted to order. (For images and info, check out the Elegy site at: www.alchemyopusmagnus.com/elegy.htm )Current projects include a bar for a new West End restaurant, and a full, gothic bedroom suite, complete with a massive and decadent, carved, four-poster bed, while past commissions have included a eight-seater dining suite headed by a skull-throne fit for a Carpathian count. The flagship of the range, however, remains the 1.5 tonne solid, carved-oak ‘Highgate’ tomb-coffin bar, a macabre device which not only looks impressively eerie, but is mechanised so by remote control, the lid slowly and silently rises up to reveal the emerging serving counter. If the dining suite is fit for a count, then we reckon this is fit for the Prince of Darkness himself! Some of the organisers behind the Brits appear to agree, and last minute negotiations are currently under way to secure the late services of The Highgate Coffin Cocktail Cabinet, for the appearance of everybody’s favourite Prince of Darkness and his equally famous wife at the upcoming Awards in London. As they say, watch this space…

What a weekend, Garry and I went along to the alternative fashion show the London Edge, held at Olympia 2 twice a year the site caters for Goths, skaters, Rockabilly and much more. We were scouting for new products for the relaunch of our store Dark Emporium. The store will be launched in the next few weeks. Below are a few photos from the Exhibitor party with the Gals from Alchemy.

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Caged fish web design market Harborough are working closely with www.abodewindowfilms.co.uk to assist them in a higher Google natural listing. As a part of this a Wordpress blog has been added to their existing ecommerce site, the blog can be found at http://www.abodewindowfilms.co.uk/windowfilm/

Looking for an quality networking club similar to BNI Leicester come along to Working Breakfast. We meet every Thursday at the Regency hotel on London Road Leicester. The meeting starts at 6.45 AM with open networking followed by the main meeting at 7.15 AM.  Just bring along a good supply of business cards, if you would like to join there is a small joining fee, followed by a yearly subscription. All monies stay within the group for promotion of it’s members. Quite unique.

Caged Fish web design are in the process of assisting www.dent-technique.co.uk  in optimising their site for a better Google ranking, watch this space and we’ll keep you informed of how we get on.

Paintless dent removal by www.dent-technique.co.uk