Pafec Ltd of Strelley Hall, Nottingham is to help the National Trust in setting up a computer aided geographic information system: the trust is the UK’s largest private landowner and it has to manage some 500,000 acres of land, 500 miles of coastline and a total of 302 houses and gardens; in an effort to manage it properties, it decided to implement a Regional Information Technology Strategy with a geographic information system at the core to record and document operations; the first phase is a pilot scheme in the East Midlands, and it will support a regional office, several major properties and two large estates; data is stored in an Oracle Corp database and integrated with a graphical mapbase; as well as pre-defined database queries, and SQL commands can be used within the Pafec-GIS macro language; the system runs on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations.
