Map Pages

Welcome Lancashire County Council's Map Pages

These pages show maps dating back to 1610, and include a map forum where you can discuss Lancashire maps at length.

We also include our award winning MARIO system . This innovative Geographic Information System delivers a vast array of public services to the citizen via the Internet, plus internal data sets to its officers and partners via the Intranet. The system is helping the authority to achieve its e-Government targets and will be a major back office system running a Lancashire wide contact centre.

Geographic Information Systems play a central role in e-Government. E-Government requires the joining up of services and the one common element that most services have is information with a location. This can take the form of a point, line or area on the ground and can reference a building, a land parcel, or an area of social, economic or environmental classification.

We are working closely with the emergency services, health and district authorities. We are sharing data and encouraging other agencies to use the Internet GIS to deliver their own goods and services. Partners will own and manage their own data but deliver it through this shared gateway. This allows the citizen to access a seamless range of goods and services through one interface.

Our vision for the short term is to ensure that all road works are available through the Internet GIS. The citizen will be able to select any stretch of road and identify any past, current or planned road working. Roads works will include local authority highway schemes and all statutory undertaker works via the HINCO (Highway Information Network Coordination) system.

Our vision for the long term is to ensure that all public services for Lancashire are available through the Internet GIS. The citizen will be able to select any feature or structure and identify public service information about that feature, and then carry out any relevant transaction, for example:

• Book an appointment at the health centre;
• Order a new recycling bin;
• Pay council tax;
• Report a broken street light;
• Book an appointment to meet a child’s teacher;
• Report a pothole in the road;
• Monitor all road works on any journey in the Lancashire area;
• Monitor crime patterns in any Lancashire area;
• Follow the progress of all highway schemes in Lancashire.