Wednesday 14 October 2009

New Geo Event Announced For 2010


David Rhind (Ex, DG of OS), Ed Parsons (GI Guru), Chris Roper (GI Entrepreneur) all on one stage at the Cities Revealed 2010 event.  Open to all.
This years event celebrates 10 years of Cities Revealed with a Smörgåsbord of GI activities, including Workshops, Seminars, User case studies and Key note speakers.
Topics include Mash Ups, Mapping, GPS, Map output, route finding and some insights into where the future for GI lies.
This year looks like being the best yet.
As with each year the event is always fully booked so make sure you book now, or soon to get a fresh perspective on the road ahead and some training to go with it.

Thursday 8 October 2009

UKMap countrywide flying programme



Yes, as you may have guessed we have just announced our plans to deliver a new countrywide aerial survey programme for the UK. Why you may ask are we doing this given that there are a few others already attempting to do this.

Well to put it simply we need high quality, up to date aerial imagery that is our copyright to be the base for our UKMap product.

Thanks to our friends at Aerodata we have in fact already started the process by flying the West Midlands, Yorkshire, and Nottinghamshire areas of the country, with a digital camera at 10 cm resolution.
One unique part of our plan is to fly all year round - obviously only in good weather - but we feel this will give us the ability to collect all the imagery we need in a few years and will give the advantage of imagery without the blanket of leaves that accompany summer flying programmes.

Keep an eye out for more developments soon.