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NASA’s near real-time fire detection data is now available in Parish Online and XMAP. As wildfires continue to affect communities across Europe, we look at how this data supports local council situational awareness and planning.
On the 16th July, the government announced local government reorganisation decisions for a further 14 areas. We’re offering to help, providing a completely free XMAP licence for shadow councils to make those cost-savings a reality.
Surrey Heath Borough Council has won the **GeoPlace Street Naming & Numbering Collaboration & Innovation Award 2026** after partnering with Geoxphere to develop a bespoke XMAP solution. By connecting property, planning and revenue data across departments, the council has improved collaboration, streamlined processes and unlocked the full value of its location data.
Parish Online Wellbeing, a new coaching service for clerks and councillors was launched in May 2026. It allows clerks to access a free one-to-one session with our wellbeing and business psychologist, Sarah. It’s already helped many councils where staff or councillors are struggling with isolation, civility and respect issues or coping with workload. Due to…
The Parish Online team have been working closely with the Community Nature team at Cambridgeshire County Council to make mapping nature recovery easier for local councils. We’ve enhanced the software with new editing tools, and provided extended free access to the software for all Cambridgeshire parishes through our Community Interest Company fund.
Our latest update brings Ordnance Survey’s National Geographic Database (NGD) Buildings data into the software. Not only are we feeding the data in once a month, we’re also producing on-the-fly analysis of the data to help you get the most out of this vast and in-depth database. We’ve taken the information stored within each building…
XMAP was selected as Reigate’s corporate GIS system due to its strong functionality set and minimal deployment risk. It’s also generated multiple cost savings across the authority whilst increasing the use of GIS.
Rugby Borough Council have adopted the full XMAP suite of GIS services to help them with communication of critical mapping data across the organisation. The council first started using XMAP Data Feeds to stream Ordnance Survey mapping into their QGIS desktop applications to help with validation of LLPG address points. This work then developed into using…
We’ve embarked on a research project on behalf of town, parish and community councils to bring together datasets and guidance for visualising where land could be used for tree planting and woodland creation. We’re working with data and strategic partners including Friends of the Earth, TerraSulis, NALC and Hart District Council. Read our Woodland Planning…
We’re always looking for ways to implement technology or data for the benefit of public sector. One theme that came up was the lack of information local councils had to help them carry out evidence-based research into how housing should be allocated in their local area. One of the key areas of interest was visualising…
Surrey Heath Borough Council adopted XMAP to completely modernise their GIS and mapping services across the council. They needed something that was cost-effective, intuitive and engaging in order to increase GIS adoption across the council. The Challenge GIS information is a critical resource in Local Authorities as it plays a part in all aspects of…
In line with South Somerset District Council’s digital strategy, the switch to Geoxphere’s XMAP suite of geospatial services has enabled even stronger links with Town and Parish Councils. This has been achieved through proactive data sharing and collaborative working to communicate best practice for data and software use. Having an informed and capable team of Local Councils to…