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ENHANCING THE ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION, AND USE OF GEOSPATIAL DATA WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
“ Not just a tool, but the tectonic shift for geospatial.”
At a time when most industries are starting to feel the influence of AI, the geospatial sector is at a transformation point. Idox Geospatial’ s Nicholas Duggan FRGS CGeog( GIS), shares how we’ re integrating AI across multiple areas of our work – with compelling results.
At Idox Geospatial, we’ re always looking to push the boundaries of what’ s possible with geospatial data. Indeed, it’ s a key part of my role here as Research and Innovation Manager, and it’ s clear that AI is not just a tool, it represents a tectonic shift for the geospatial sector.
The technology is already reshaping how we process, interpret and act on spatial information. From planning analysis to software development and licensing, through to helping to improve outcomes for clients across the public and private sectors, the opportunities are extensive. Here are just a handful of examples:
Unlocking Local Plan intelligence
Local Plans are essential for controlling development and identifying growth in communities across the UK. However, extracting structured data from these long, map-heavy PDF documents has traditionally been a slow and manual task – made more complex by inconsistencies in formats and embedded spatial data.
To streamline this process, we’ re developing a prototype AI tool that goes beyond reading these documents – it understands them.
What does it do?
• Identifies change in policies or plans where it occurs
• Extracts textual information using advanced natural language processing( NLP)
• Processes embedded maps, reorienting and geo-referencing them to their real-world UK locations
• Outputs structured data for quick verification and analysis n
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