USE OF THE ADDRESS REGISTER DATA IN LOCATIONBASED SERVICES

Address register is one of the basic and most commonly used spatial data records. One of its uses is finding addresses in location-based services (geocoding), which for the specified address (city, street, number) return the position in the form of coordinates. The paper presents a comparison of two services: ULA (Usługa Lokalizacji Adresów from Geo-System) and OpenLS (available as a part of the Polish national geoportal). The analysis includes both theoretical aspects (amount of data in the resource, its timeliness, documentation, request and response formats), as well as practical - in the form of testing the performance and accuracy of both services.

Transforming Birmingham City with Smart Applications

Since the amount of people living in cities is expected to increase to 70% by 2050, cities will face many social and urbanisation challenges, and they will need to operate with reduced budgets and limited number of staff. The productivity of computers offers means to address city challenges and do more with less. In this paper, two Smart City projects carried out in Birmingham UK are presented. Firstly, in the Innovation Engine project, conceptual graphs were used to translate innovation experts' ideas into the specification of an open innovation model that may address the needs of large organisations with the capabilities of SMEs and citizens. Secondly, we present results of the pilot evaluation of the Digital Log Book, a smart web portal that enables citizens to access a whole range of public and private services including social housing, universal job match and jobseeker's allowance benefits. We can conclude that smart applications can be very useful to produce better public services and to support cities in the co-creation of new tools that empower citizens and organisations.