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Strategic Flooding
20 June 2008, 10:21am
This document provides detail of five important recommendations to help predict, prevent and mitigate the scale and impact of flooding. 1. A consistent approach to flooding 2. Improving flood modelling 3. Improving forecasting and predictions 4. Planning, at a national or local level, the response to a flood event 5. Identification and protection of critical infrastructure
Tackling Climate Change
20 June 2008, 10:16am
For the first time The GeoInformation Group is producing a series of white papers dedicated to key topics that affect our lives. These white papers explore the subject in more detail than conventional product brochures, setting out the problems we face, the current options available and solutions that can be developed using geographic information, and possible actions to solve these problems in an intelligent way. The first paper in this series tackles arguably the biggest challenge to our prosperity and well being, namely global climate change, and looks at how geographic information can make a difference at the local level to our plans and actions for the future.
DHL, T-system and ITRI offer sponsorship!!!
20 June 2008, 8:52am
DHL and T-Systems looking for solutions to optimise freight volume. ITRI to award the best gaming concept with €20,000
‘Citizen Science’ takes off...
03 June 2008, 5:54pm
...as residents tackle neighbourhood noise! Living with too much noise can be damaging to health and make life unbearable. This year residents in two of London‟s noisiest neighbourhoods have tackled their problems by setting up their own noise monitoring systems.
Discover the wood and the trees
20 December 2007, 10:11am
In the ever changing world of retail location planning James Nolan explores some of the available data, and points the way toward the future of GEO-DEMOGRAPHIC.
Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day
16 November 2007, 2:13pm
National survey reveals third of UK thinks Mount Everest is in Europe and DIY superstore is most visited local ‘landmark’. Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day help promote geography amongst young people and teach new skills
Interoperability: ensuring joined-up communication
28 October 2007, 12:47pm
Dave Rogers, Airwave’s fleetmapping consultant & interoperability adviser, discusses the potential benefits of communication between Britain’s emergency and council services.
Data Quality with TENET’s MapRite
24 October 2007, 10:42am
Salisbury district Council, SDC, has had a corporate GIS for 4 years and supplies geographic information to a population of over 100,000 people. With one of the council’s long term goals of ‘transforming business efficiency and customer access to the council’ it is vital that the data provided to the public is of the highest quality and accuracy. With the introduction of the OS PAI programme, many of the council’s features on the base mapping were shifted by several metres. Due to the random shift pattern, no simple transformation method could be applied; also additional factors complicate the picture, such as real world change – new houses, changed courses of rivers, new or moved hedgerows, and the quality of the asset data. This is a brief account of how Salisbury District Council Improved its data quality with the help of TENET’s MapRite.
Integrated Navigation and Fuel Costs Reductions
18 October 2007, 5:01pm
NAVTEQ has launched an Integrated Navigation initiative intended to facilitate the development of solutions based on enterprise user needs. To support the initiative, NAVTEQ’s Enterprise Europe Business Unit commissioned a research study which highlighted significant benefits for integrated navigation solutions, such as a 40% reduction in communications costs, a 15% reduction in fuel costs, and an 18% reduction in driver hours, among many other benefits for mobile enterprise applications.
Research and Teaching now powered by OS MasterMap®
12 September 2007, 2:49pm
EDINA and Snowflake Software announce the launch of innovative, new MasterMap on-line delivery service for UK academia
SHIFTING YORKSHIRE’S ASSETS
30 August 2007, 8:49pm
Yorkshire Water predicted a 2 year programme would be needed to manually address their Positional Accuracy Improvement (PAI) issues. In the end the same results were delivered in just 13 days using automated tools and manual quality assurance. Yorkshire Water’s Mike Turner and Innogistic’s Kevin North explain how.
Designing-out network leakages
30 August 2007, 12:30pm
Reduced network leakage is one of the many benefits being enjoyed by South West Water as updating of its GIS goes hand-in-hand with a re-design of its District Metering Areas
Trakm8 SWIFT Delivers For Sprinter Couriers
03 August 2007, 1:29pm
Sprinter Couriers, the South West’s leading courier, provides logistical services and practical solutions to a growing business customer-base. Progress reports of delivery status and business strategic management are vital for a company in such competitive market. Trakm8 SWIFT explains here how GPS based tracking technology provided the most cost-effective perfect solution.
LaserAce makes light work of power line survey
04 June 2007, 8:31pm
A field survey of trees along the route of a proposed 132k volt power line in Wrexham, North Wales, made good use of a LaserAce Hypsometer for impact assessment
Spicers says "thanks a million"
04 June 2007, 5:44pm
£1 million to the good and 12 years on, Spicers gains more from TruckStops
Online mapping redefines RAJAR survey areas
22 March 2007, 8:53pm
In pursuit of a more effective and meaningful way of defining survey areas for listener research, Britain's Radio Joint Audience Research Ltd commissioned Beacon-Dodsworth to deliver the goods
Microsoft MapPoint puts Avis website on the map
20 February 2007, 10:26am
A recent revamp of the Avis UK website - part of a Europe-wide redesign - features MapPoint functionality to make hiring a car even more customer friendly
Digimap signposts the way for Guernsey
16 November 2006, 4:50pm
The States of Guernsey demonstrates Web mapping at its best ... a resource now widely utilised by government departments and the private sector alike on a daily basis
UKHO backing for SeaZone package
15 November 2006, 9:20am
SeaZone Solutions rides the crest of a wave as the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) buys the company's groundbreaking software and training package
Sharing services in the public sector
25 October 2006, 9:43pm
David Macken reports on some promising joined-up public sector projects and how these are likely to influence the next generation of e-government initiatives
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Data Volume & Geo-Processing
I generally like to try to keep ‘Eye on the web’ inline with the topics of the magazine and this month the seemed a great pair to combine with things such as the Open Source Spatial Databases and Web services and how we can best utilize the vast amount of information available via the Web.
Although the most popular Open Source database on the web is MySQL (23 million sites can’t be wrong!) it isn’t the best Open Source SPATIAL database – for this the trophy goes to PostgreSQL with the PostGIS extension. I do a lot of linking to back office systems and… More…
Mike Saunt
Managing Director, Astun Technology Ltd