Within this project the East Border Region Environmental Working Group, implemented a co-ordinated corporate Geographical Information System (GIS) within seven of the member authorities of the East Border Region Committee, and Cavan County Council. The project initially promoted joined up working relationships within and between councils in terms of a wide variety of data and information, and eventually delivered information, interaction and services to the wider public in participating council areas.

The primary aim of the project was to implement, in partnership between the councils, a corporate GIS by employing a GIS team for the region, which developed the systems, trained staff on its use, set data management protocols and rolled out the system to the organisations to access up to date and easily understood data at the user level, allowing better informed decisions to be made on the delivery of services.

The second phase then provided direct access information to the general public and other stakeholders through the setting up of www.eastborderregionmaps.com. Through this site members of the public can utilise detailed maps of the region, use the ‘find my

nearest facility’ and contact their local authority.