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Simpler licensing puts more mapping on the web |
| New Ordnance Survey rules make use of maps to enhance websites a far more attractive proposition. It is now much easier to customise Ordnance Survey mapping for the web while staying on the right side of copyright law. | |
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Content good, shame about the design, and where's the interactivity? - Council Websites today |
| Much remains to be done if councils are to meet 2005 e-government targets. Only 5% of councils get full marks for interactivity, and 6% lack any interactive dimension whatsoever. Nevertheless there are significant grounds for optimism that local government will come up with the goods, concludes a report from BestValueCommunity | |
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The Breadcrumb Trail |
| Living...enjoying...working... Are these the new 'in'-terms for council website menus? Are more traditional terms such as Tourism and Leisure old hat, and well past their sell-by dates? Not necessarily - according to recent research commissioned by Birmingham City Council. Des Farrington considers the implications. | |
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e-Ready - or not? : EPI Scotland 2001 delegates assess Scotland's readiness for e-Government |
| 81% of delegates thought that cultural change within their organisation was the key e-Government issue faced by their employers. But only 8% thought their organisation understood e-Government. Not too surprising then that only 46% felt their organisation had the ability to cope with the e-Government. Bob Coyle looks at the detail of the delegate consultation carried out at SPIN's Scottish Conference. | |
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Have you been framed? |
| One of the problems with using frames is that of deep-linking from another site. Typically the main content frame appears without the surrounding frames the designer intended to accompany it. Goff Sargent shows us a simple trick to put this right. | |
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Addressing the future |
| The UK now has its NLPG. No-one is exactly shouting the news, but the infrastructure is now in place to support much of what we want to do with addresses in the way of e-government and efficient information management. Sam Boote looks at the NLPG and its likely impact on all our lives - as citizens and as managers of information. | |
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| SPIN's second Scottish conference on 10 October was a hugely successful occasion | |
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