Massive Success for ODCGIS Seminar

ODCGIS hosted their first face to face Seminar in Birmingham on Wednesday 26th March 2025.  Over 100 delegates from 57 housing associations attended and spent the day networking with each other as well as listening to 8 of their peers from other housing associations explain how they had been using GIS.   The presentations covered a […]

15 new ODCGIS Managed Service Clients in Past 12 Months

The last 12 months have been the busiest in ODCGIS’ 30 years of working with social housing providers and local authorities.  15 major grounds maintenance contracts have been completed, including Clarion’s plus 15 more housing associations have signed up for ODCGIS’ niche GIS Managed Service. Clwyd Alyn, Adra, Clarion, St. Annes Community Service, Greenhill, Pickering […]

ODCGIS invited to join PfH’s SHED 4 Framework

Procurement for Housing (PfH) are one of the most respected organisations in social housing and have launched their latest Framework- SHED 4. (Social Housing Emerging Disruptors). SHED 4 focuses on ‘Innovation in Social Housing’ something that ODCGIS is well placed and offering already to its 57 Managed Service Clients. The solution will enable PfH Members […]

Meet ODCGIS at The Housing Innovation Show or CIH South West 2025

February is a busy month for ODCGIS, specifically the 12th and 13th of February, as there are 2 conferences taking place and we will be attending both! The Housing Innovation Show is at the ICC in Birmingham and ODCGIS are on Stand 24. Furthermore, Director of Operations, Rick Thompson will be speaking at the event […]

ODCGIS Proud To Sponsor Smaller Housing Association Conference

The National Smaller Housing Associations Conference & Exhibition is a one day virtual event taking place on Wednesday 4th December and which ODCGIS are proudly sponsoring alongside Housemark and Aico. Rick Thompson, Director of Operations at ODCGIS commented “Sponsoring an event is a new step for us and to do it here is an indication […]

Ian Usher Joins ODCGIS

ODCGIS are delighted to welcome Ian Usher to our Sales Team who joins us after 10 years as Business Development Manager at Cadcorp.  Ian has 20 years’ worth of experience in GIS, having started in the public sector with Bolsover Council as GIS Officer. He then joined West Yorkshire Police as GIS Manager and was responsible for […]

Meet ODCGIS in Manchester!

ODCGIS will be in Manchester next week as usual, on stand D74, which is pretty much where we were last year.  Our brilliant magician Stephen will again be with us entertaining visitors! Are You Getting the Most Out of GIS? GIS (Geographical Information System) is the most efficient way to keep a spatial record of […]

Regenda Homes Become 50th Managed Service Client!

ODCGIS would like to welcome our 50th GIS Managed Service client -Regenda Homes and also Broadland Housing Association to our Managed Services.  Incredibly, our clients between them manage over 700,000 properties which amounts to 16% the UK’s total social housing stock.   Thomas Wharton Head of Asset Strategy at Regenda said “We are really pleased […]

Smaller Housing Associations Special Offer

ODCGIS have launched a Special Offer for Smaller Housing Associations (Less than 5,000 properties) making GIS Mapping affordable to all housing associations. Railway Housing Association was the first housing association to take up the offer which includes georeferencing all their property points and attributing with the national UPRN, supplying their Land Registry boundaries to identify all […]

ODCGIS Are On The Road In March!

ODCGIS are in Glasgow this week for Scotlands Housing Festival and move onto Liverpool next week for the Finance Show. The Scotland event gives us the opportunity to meet new organisations as well as catch up with current clients ‘north of the border’. With the majority of housing associations in Scotland having less than 5,000 […]