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Urban Redevelopment Authority

Project Goal

1. To migrate existing Integrated Land Use Information System (ILUS) in SICAD format to new Integrated Land Use and Planning System (iPLAN) in ESRI format.
2. To develop a comprehensive GIS system for creating, managing, maintaining and sharing geographic data.
3. To provide Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) staff easy and user-friendly desktop and web-based access to mission critical business data via enterprise GIS solution.
4. To create an enterprise geo-database to facilitate URA’s planning work and robust enough to make provision for future internal applications and e-Services for public use.

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Business Problem Solved

1. Able to overlay and view unlimited number of map layers (both vector and raster) covering the whole Singapore.
2. Able to integrate information from various formats (e.g. GIS, CAD and Raster) on a single software platform to facilitate data sharing with internal users as well as external customers and business partners/suppliers.
3. Able to improve efficiency in digitizing of maps.
4. Able to have an online metadata, alpha and graphics dictionary for data administration and users’ search.

Technology Implemented

ArcGIS 9.1
ArcSDE 9.1
ArcView – 5 users
ArcEditor – 44 users
ArcInfo + ArcGIS extensions – 1 user
ArcGIS Server 9.1 – 60 concurrent users
ArcIMS 8.2 – 2 server licenses
Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) – 2 licenses
DBMS – Oracle 10 g
Operating System – Windows 2003 Server
Database Server – 2
Web Server - 2
Map Server – 3
Application Server – 2
Plot Server – 1

Development Team Biography

Development team :
1. HCL Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd
2. URA Information System section
3. URA division users
The duration of iPLAN project is two years and includes active involvement of 15 URA officers (5 IS and 10 users) and 15 team members from vendor. The project management included three committees, a GIS Steering Committee chaired by Deputy CEO of URA, a Project Management Committee (PMC) chaired by divisional management and Project Working Group (PWG) chaired by a project manager. The project was implemented using URA’s ISO certified application development methodology and the vendor’s CMMI methodology.