Christmas Festivities
Now that Christmas is upon us, you may be planning Christmas events in your area.
By using digital mapping you can:
- Plan out a Christmas Parade
- Plot where your Christmas trees are located
- Plan a Christmas Tree Trail
- Planning Winter Solstice festivities and activities
- Surveying Christmas and New Year markets
These maps can then be published on your website using the Public Map Tool
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New Data from Bournemouth Council
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council have shared data on Locally Listed Buildings, Parks & Open Spaces and Greens into Parish Online.
This data is now available to all Parish Online users in that area.
Additional Data from Somerset County Council
Somerset County Council is now sharing data for school catchments, gritting routes, salt bins and gullies into Parish Online.
It's free and easy for your principal local authority to share data into Parish Online. It benefits all parishes in your area allowing you to self-serve, and the council receive less enquiries from you! Ask them to share their GIS data to Parish Online today. Copy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. into the email you send and we can support the conversation with them.
Producing a map for a Planning Application
Local Councils may, on occasion, need to produce a Block Plan or a Location Plan as part of a planning application submission. This can be done in Parish Online without having to purchase mapping from other websites.
We've created a knowledge base article which shows you how to create as many planning application maps as you like, for free.
Need some extra help with Parish Online?
Our partner, Graham, is hosting two re-runs of the Parish Online Clinic Session on 14th December 2021 at 5.30pm, and the 17th December at 10am.
We're aware that some users had issues joining the last session Graham held, so this will give those another opportunity to listen in.
This session will cover:
- Why is Parish Online a help to overworked Clerks?
- What should you be doing with Parish Online?
- How to speed up every day tasks
- Putting data in
- Getting data out
- Visualisation - the key to better decision-making
- Shifting the workload - getting others to do the work
- So where are the timesavings?
If you'd like Graham to cover any of your questions during the session, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. beforehand.
The University of Surrey Needs Your Help
The University of Surrey's Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) has called on local councils to complete a survey on climate and ecological emergencies.
With many local councils declaring climate and ecological emergencies, the survey will assess how they are being monitored and evaluated by different user groups (which may or may not include sustainable development goals).
If you'd like to take part, then please complete the survey.
FAQs of the Month
Q. What do I do if your website is down?
A. Recently we've noticed some users can't access the Parish Online website or the login page. We're still investigating the issue but in the meantime you can use https://xmap.cloud to log into Parish Online.
Q. Where can I find training materials?
A. You can find information via our knowledge base, on our YouTube channel, Facebook User Group or you can email us.
If there's anything you need from us, please raise a support ticket.
Many thanks,
The Parish Online team