the central statistics office
The CSO is the government agency with the responsibility for the compilation and publication of official statistics.
CSO publishes statistical data on People and Society, Labour Market and Earnings, Business Sectors, the Economy and the Environment and Climate. CSO publishes all its statistical releases and publications on the CSO website www.CSO.ie. The web site also has a new Data Dissemination Service which gives users access to a vast quantity of statistical data. The web site also has a facility to extract population reports using Census Interactive Tables. All CSO web site services are free of charge to users.
Gamma
Gamma is a solutions provider that integrates software, data and services to help our clients realise greater benefits from location-based information. Established in Dublin, Ireland in 1993, the company has expanded to become a global provider of information systems, micro-marketing solutions and geographical analysis services.
Gamma has developed advanced spatial databases and geographical information systems to deliver our unique information offerings. Through our specialised business units, the company provides a full range of services from site profiling and address validation to environmental mapping and route optimisation.
Gamma provides solutions to most industries and has clients in the financial, retail, telecommunications, insurance and government sectors. The company is an authorised reseller and developer for the principal spatial data providers and has strategic alliances with several leading international corporations.
ESRI
Esri Ireland, with offices in both Dublin & Belfast, is the exclusive local partner of Esri Inc, the global leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In collaboration with its customers, the company is responsible for designing and building some of the largest and most advanced GIS solutions in Ireland for business, society and the environment with clients from Government departments, Government agencies, Local Government, Utilities, Transport, Distribution and Logistics and the GIS Professional Community.
DecisionMap.ie utilises the Esri ArcGIS Web API (Flex) for an intuitive, visually rich and responsive user interface onto the supporting web services, consisting of dynamic and cached maps (including amongst others OSi's Map Genie). In addition, Esri's ArcGIS technology (server and desktop) was used to design, build and publish each of those supporting web services.
NUI MAYNOOTH
All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) The All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) is a research unit and interactive spatial data portal based in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Under the guidance of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) and the National Centre for Geo-computation (NCG), AIRO has been funded by the Higher Education Authority under Cycle Four of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI4). AIRO also acts as an integral resource for the Irish Social Science Platform (ISSP).
AIRO seeks to produce all-island, spatial datasets and specialist tools to aid their analysis and to undertake academic and applied mapping research. AIRO aims to act as a single point of access to a wide variety of spatial data and information about the various regions of Ireland. The intended audience of the site are planners, policy makers, researchers and those interested in gaining an understanding of the dynamics that are shaping the island of Ireland today.
AIRO currently host interactive mapping tools containing detailed census data as well as indicators on accessibility, crime, deprivation, elections, education, health, housing, unemployment, transport, retail and more. Data is available from the local (Small Area, Output Area, Electoral Division etc) to regional to a pan-European level.
National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) NIRSA's remit is to undertake fundamental, applied and comparative research on spatial processes and their effects on social and economic development in Ireland. The Institute, centred in NUI Maynooth, is a collaborative project between scholars from a number of social science disciplines, located in four partner institutions:
• NUI Maynooth
• Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
• Institute of Technology, Sligo
• Queen's University, BelfastNIRSA's research consists of the comparative study of global processes as they impact on regional and spatial development in Ireland. NIRSA's Associates and Fellows are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including Anthropology, Applied Social Studies, Business Studies, Economics, Engineering, Geography, History, and Sociology.