Case Study: Waitaki District Council achieves public self-service access to interactive district plan maps with Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division

Waitaki District Council - Customer Case Study

Waitaki District Council faced a challenge modernizing how it shared planning and land-use information with its roughly 22,300 residents: public-facing maps were limited to static PDFs and requests for parcel information were time-consuming. To support the revision of its district plan under New Zealand’s Resource Management Act, WDC needed an interactive, publicly accessible mapping solution. Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division supplied GeoMedia products (GeoMedia Professional, GeoMedia Smart Client and GeoMedia WebMap) to meet that need.

Using Hexagon's GeoMedia suite, WDC implemented a two-stage solution—data preparation and validation with GeoMedia Professional and GeoMedia Smart Client, then a public-facing GeoMedia WebMap portal embedded on the council website. The portal lets residents, planners and consultants self-serve address searches and layered maps (zoning, utilities, hazards, heritage, etc.), supports a three-month public engagement on the revised plan, reduces manual report requests and topology rework, and advances the council’s digital transformation by making planning data transparent and readily available.

Waitaki District Council

Isabel Granado

Information Systems (IS) Manager