What data and functionality will be useful to the public?
It is important that data and functionality being made available in VanMap be useful and not confusing to the public. To determine this, discussions were held with staff who interact directly or indirectly with the public. While no data items were rejected for this reason, some functionality was judged to be potentially too confusing because no training will be available. (iii) What are the impacts on staff workloads of making data publicly available in VanMap? There is a recognition that staff may receive a number of questions from the public as a result of data being accessible through VanMap. These may result from the public asking questions about data they have not seen before. However in time, there will likely be a reduction in calls as the public becomes less dependent on staff for data. The strategy for dealing with this issue is to make data available incrementally and slowly so that staff can better gauge how VanMap is being used and what questions it generates before more da
