The Challenge
Local Authorities need to maintain and update Local Land Charges (LLCs) held by HM Land Registry.
Halton Borough Council wanted to automate the updating and creation of these time consuming LLC updates.
The Solution
The team used FME to read 500,000 records nightly (from Oracle spatial and non-spatial, SQL spatial and non-spatial, CSV, TAB and XLS).
These were then validated and combined into 30,000 LLCs, which were transformed into GEOJSON and JSON file for upload to HMLR.
Updated or new records were then automatically sent to HMLR through their API.
The Benefits
Half a million records are processed in less than 2 minutes.
The alternative would be manually inputting LLCs through HMLR’s website, which saves the planning team 5-10 minutes per update.
"FME is one of the most powerful data manipulation programs I’ve ever used. What's great about it is that it goes far beyond spatial information into the non-spatial world too."
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