New national Geospatial Data Management System fully operational at Ordnance Survey

New pioneering system coordinates and controls millions of updates to Great Britain’s national mapping agency and lays the foundation for new Ordnance Survey map products.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, August 17th, 2011 – 1Spatial announced today the successful delivery of the innovative Geospatial Data Management System (GDMS) to Great Britain’s national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, by a consortium led by Intergraph and also including Snowflake Software.  Following successful pre-production trials, the new system achieved a successful ‘Go  Live’ in July and is now in full production mode. To satisfy Ordnance Survey’s operational needs, the system had to meet challenging and exacting requirements for both performance and process control.  Most significantly, the system will ensure consistency between Ordnance Survey products and will enable it to develop new, innovative products to address both the current and future business needs of the organisation.

Ordnance Survey manages the definitive mapping database of the entire natural and built landscape of Great Britain at survey level accuracy. The agency’s national geographic database describes more than 440 million individual features – including every road, building, pillar box and field. Each year, more than one million changes to the landscape of Great Britain need to be measured and assimilated into this database using data sources that include field surveyors, remote sensing commercial data capture companies and other national agencies. This creates a data management task of extraordinary complexity and volume that requires efficient planning, control and processing. The GDMS has been developed to address some 5,000 detailed Ordnance Survey requirements in order to support up to 600 staff and 5,000 update jobs daily, which can involve the retrieval of up to 36 million map feature records and the posting of 300,000 updates.

The solution is the result of close collaboration between the design and test teams of both the consortium and Ordnance Survey. It provides an integrated, enterprise-wide solution for the management, planning, coordination and control of Ordnance Survey’s data capture and production activities, using state-of-the-art software technologies from the three partner companies.

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1Spatial strengthens Senior Sales team with new appointment

Cambridge, UK, 26^th July 2011 - 1Spatial, provider of intelligent data quality and integration solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of a respected industry professional Mark Plews, to the new position of General Manager, UK and European Sales.

The new position will enable more focus on 1Spatial’s core data providers market and Mark’s initial objectives will be around developing strategic relationships and driving new business opportunities. He will sit on the Senior Management team and be responsible for delivering the overall sales strategy.

Mark has over 20 years of experience in the geospatial arena, having worked mostly with the UK public sector. He previously worked with industry giant ESRI and was instrumental in helping the company achieve record level of growth in the UK with ESRI (UK) becoming the dominant supplier it is today.  He held a number of positions at ESRI, beginning his career as a top sales performer and eventually becoming Sales Director. Most recently he held the position of Commercial Director, where he achieved notable success in generating new business and increasing software revenues.

Nic Snape, Chief Executive Officer at 1Spatial says:

“Expanding our already experienced sales team with someone of Mark’s calibre and background will provide additional capabilities to develop enterprise and service level agreements. Mark also brings new insight into industry and market trends, particularly in the Central and Local government sectors. We are looking forward to working with Mark and seeing him carry on his great track record in sales creation and revenue generation.”

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IGN France goes into production with 1Spatial technology

Cambridge, UK, 23^rd June 2011. 1Spatial, providers of intelligent data quality and integration solutions, is delighted to announce that their long-term, strategic relationship with IGN France has been strengthened further with the French national mapping agency widening their use of 1Spatial’s Radius Clarity technology.

1Spatial’s Radius Clarity technology is playing a crucial role in IGN France’s “New Base Map” project, which has resulted in a new flowline for topographic map production at 1:25,000 scale and, if needed, at 1:50 000 scale. The production flowline involves generalisation, the process of reducing the number of features within the source data and then modifying the way features appear on the map appropriately for a chosen target scale. Radius Clarity, as 1Spatial’s automatic platform for generalisation, therefore represents a key component in this project and one that IGN France has been able to integrate into their overall technology architecture.

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1Spatial completes data interoperability consultation for English Heritage

Cambridge, UK, 31^st May 2011. 1Spatial is pleased to announce the successful completion of an assessment and technical recommendation project for English Heritage (EH) around data and system interoperability across the historic environment sector.

As the champion of England’s historic places and an advisor to Government on how to ensure that heritage continues to form a foundation for a successful modern society, one of English Heritage’s responsibilities is to assist local planning authorities in achieving compliance with Heritage Protection Reform (HPR) approaches and data interoperability. This includes interoperability between several organisations throughout the historic environment sector, from local planning authorities, through Historic Environment Records services (HERs), to English Heritage itself.

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1Spatial awarded strategically important data re-engineering contract by OSi

Cambridge, UK, 17^th May 2011 - 1Spatial is delighted to announce the signing of a significant contract with Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) to create a seamless, scale independent core database for the integrated management of existing large-scale, small-scale, boundary and address information for Ireland. This database wıll be the foundatıon of OSı's operatıons for the next two decades support the delivery of all future vector and cartographic products and services.

The award of this contract follows a series of prototyping projects during which 1Spatial, with partner RMSI, has worked closely with OSi to ensure that the defined solution will provide a new data model to support Ireland’s economic regeneration. It will leverage existing data and expertise, ensuring no previous investment is lost, while at the same time enhancing OSi’s product and service offerings to deliver customer’s future needs.

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