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Atkins was commissioned to develop and host an interactive web portal on behalf of Marine Scotland. Marine Scotland Web Portal The business challenge Marine Scotland, a directorate of the Scottish Government, has responsibilities under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 to consult the public on the development of the National Marine Plan. It identified that the provision of a public web site would help to improve this process. Atkins was commissioned to develop and host an interactive web mapping portal on behalf of Marine Scotland. A primary objective of the site is to help the Directorate to gain public input as part of the consultation process. The Atkins solution The interactive web mapping application, known as National Marine Plan Interactive (NMP Interactive), allows stakeholders and members of the public to view and contribute to the spatial data within the draft National Marine Plan. The system has four primary areas of functionality: an interactive web map; data creation tools for registered users; a data download service for registered users; and an administration portal. The interactive web map allows layered data to be viewed through a standard ‘Google-like’ interface which enables users to pan and zoom around the map, query underlying attribute data and control the visibility of layers. Each layer links to the text of the draft National Marine Plan providing further detail and giving the context of the data. spatial data format and coordinate system for the data requested. An administration portal allows Marine Scotland staff to manage the data layers, generate reports, and manage users. New data can be uploaded and existing data updated or removed. The composition of the interactive map can be customised using the administration portal. The system has been built using a range of Open Source components with Safe Software’s FME Server being utilised to facilitate data import and export. Outcomes and key benefits Atkins designed and implemented the entire system during a three month period, and now hosts the portal on behalf of Marine Scotland. It offers: An interactive public consultation tool Low total cost of ownership through use of Open Source software Private cloud infrastructure providing: o High availability o Scalability o Performance efficiencies Flexibility through use of industry leading transformation software from Safe Software EU INSPIRE directive compliance Registered users can create data for submission to the draft National Marine Plan. Such data is assessed by Marine Scotland administrative users before being incorporated within the draft National Marine Plan. Amended data can be uploaded and is visible immediately within the portal. Registered users also have access to the interactive data download service. Users are able to specify a www.atkinsglobal.com/communications