An August 2000 MapInfo-L message from Jolanda Simon, Hurunui District Council’s IT Officer, describes a MapInfo 6 Hotlink workflow. From a map layer, 78 mapped objects opened separate MapInfo workspaces. Simon also records a mixed desktop environment running Windows 2000 and Windows 95/98. The correspondence documents operational desktop GIS at Hurunui by that date without establishing when the council first used GIS.
At Gore, technical correspondence and a separate official cemetery plan show a different desktop arrangement: MapInfo Professional 5.5 and MapBasic on Windows NT 4.0, an HP DesignJet 750C for plots, and AutoCAD 2000 alongside MapInfo on the council’s CAD/GIS system. The plan’s cadastral information came from the LINZ Digital Cadastral Database.
These records show GIS as working desktop equipment, scripts, links between map objects and files, cadastral data and printed plans. They document two council environments in 1999–2002; they do not establish a national first or a single platform used by councils generally.
A map opens a workspace
An August 2000 MapInfo-L message from Jolanda Simon, Hurunui District Council’s IT Officer, describes a MapInfo 6 Hotlink workflow. From a map layer, 78 mapped objects opened separate MapInfo workspaces. Simon also records a mixed desktop environment running Windows 2000 and Windows 95/98. The correspondence documents operational desktop GIS at Hurunui by that date without establishing when the council first used GIS.
At Gore, technical correspondence and a separate official cemetery plan show a different desktop arrangement: MapInfo Professional 5.5 and MapBasic on Windows NT 4.0, an HP DesignJet 750C for plots, and AutoCAD 2000 alongside MapInfo on the council’s CAD/GIS system. The plan’s cadastral information came from the LINZ Digital Cadastral Database.
Local council workflows
These records show GIS as working desktop equipment, scripts, links between map objects and files, cadastral data and printed plans. They document two council environments in 1999–2002; they do not establish a national first or a single platform used by councils generally.