Getmapping works with Harvey Maps

Hartley Wintney, UK, November 27th 2012 - Getmapping aerial photography is being used to help create and update Harvey Maps, which are enthusiastically endorsed by mountaineers, walkers, cyclists and orienteers. Getmapping also provides a WMS feed of its latest UK aerial photography to enable Harvey Maps to detect change so that its maps can be kept up to date. 

Getmapping captures aerial photography with a range of high resolution large format digital cameras. The cameras capture frames with a large degree of vertical overlap so that images can be orthorectified to correct the distortions due to topographic relief, or camera orientation during flight. Image resolution varies according to requirements. Most urban imagery is captured with each pixel equivalent to 12.5cm ground sampled distance (GSD). Rural and mountain areas are generally captured at 25cm GSD.

Harvey Maps has always prided itself on the fact that its walking and other recreational maps are made using sound map making techniques and then checked by a team of experienced field surveyors who are themselves enthusiastic walkers. As a result Harvey Maps are renowned for their accuracy, clarity and practicality with many available in tough waterproof polyethylene. Many of these maps are now available in digital format, for example on an SD card for use with the Satmap Active 10 GPS receiver.

“We get stereo imagery from Getmapping which is then fed in to our photogrammetric process,” said Robin Harvey, co-founder of Harvey Maps.

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Getmapping Street Layer Integration wins Exemplar Award

Hartley Wintney, UK, November 19th 2012 - Getmapping’s integration of its street level imagery (Getmapping Street Layer) has won Bath and North East Somerset Council the GeoPlace Exemplar Award for Services. The locationally accurate 360° high resolution street level images are seamlessly integrated into the Council’s mapping applications which are hosted by Getmapping.  

Street Layer imagery is available to all staff within the Council via Getmapping’s District Online Web GIS. Functionality includes full NLPG integration with search made on an address or UPRN(unique property reference number), with multiple viewing angles displayed in up to three windows. The imagery can be viewed with OS MasterMap or other PSMA data in a split screen arrangement. It is also possible to take point and line measurements at centimetre accuracy with full CSV data export. All the data, is hosted remotely so there is no hardware overhead. The total solution helps to make staff more productive, reduces the number of site visits and car journeys and therefore cuts carbon emissions in line with Council targets. Staff in the contact centre now have an immediate view of a property when people call, all that is required is the caller’s address. This makes it easy to identify, street lights, access or highway problems.

“We are delighted to have won this award,” said Martin Laker, GIS Manager for Bath & North East Somerset Council. “Getmapping Street Layer imagery and its integration into Getmapping’s Web GIS has made it possible to reduce our staff car usage. Planning, Property and Highways are all reporting that they are reducing the number of site visits. A 3% reduction is sufficient to pay for the service and we have achieved that with ease. Elsewhere our CRM team are reporting improved response times from being able to find and visualise the property at the outset of a customer call. Being able to validate what is being reported is now much easier. All the imagery is date stamped which is a great help in determining precisely when events occur,” continued Laker.

“Getmapping Street Layer imagery represents an affordable and superior alternative to other street imagery available on the web. The savings being made will be sufficient to refresh the imagery every two years,” said Chris Mewse, GIS,Business Development Manager at Getmapping. “By integrating the imagery and tools directly into our web applications users can look at aerial photography, a full range of Ordnance Survey maps and then click straight into detailed geometrically accurate street level imagery to understand specific detail. The imagery also provides a very accurate historical record of roads and buildings within the authority much of which falls within the City of Bath, a UNESCO World Heritage Centre,” continued Mewse. 

About Getmapping Plc

Getmapping Plc is a leading provider of aerial photography, digital mapping and web based services. With offices in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire and Cape Town, South Africa and Nairobi, Kenya, Getmapping was the first company to have up to date nationwide coverage of Britain and pioneered online delivery of aerial photography to business and the public at large. A reseller of professional mapping, oblique photography, height data, OS maps and third party aerial photography, Getmapping services a wide variety of markets including press and media, local authorities, property and construction, environmental consultants and the public. It also provides a number of value added mapping products and services tailored to specific client needs including data hosting, online data delivery and web-based GIS. A pioneer of many online products through its website, Getmapping is the only company currently re-flying the whole of the UK at enhanced 12.5cm resolution.

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GeoPlace Exemplar Awards

The annual GeoPlace Exemplar Awards celebrate excellence in address and street information enabled service delivery across local government. The Awards recognise the vital role address and street information professionals play in local service delivery. They celebrate their achievements, providing external acknowledgement of innovation, creativity, best practice, hard work and achievement. Awards.

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Getmapping Opens Kenya Office

Intergeo, UK, October 9th 2012 - Aerial survey specialist Getmapping, in partnership with Survplans and Geomatica, has opened a new office in Nairobi, Kenya, to increase its presence in East Africa. The office will support the activities of GAP (Geospatial Aerial Partnership) - a joint venture between South African companies Geosense (part of the Getmapping Group) and Geomatica and will operate in partnership with Survplans, a leading provider of ground survey services across Kenya and East Africa. 

The Nairobi office will support a full range of data capture, processing and analytical services. As well as large scale LiDAR and aerial photography, the partnership specialises in corridor mapping for power and civil engineering projects, together with asset survey services for mining. It is planned to augment these survey and post processing activities with data hosting and web based GIS software soon.

GAP operates a number of large format survey cameras, including the A3 system from Visionmap which provides rapid capture and processing capabilities. The  A3 has already been used on a range of projects in Africa including a high resolution (6.25cm) survey of the entire City of Cape Town. GAP provides a wide range of aerial survey services across Southern Africa from its offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. 

“By establishing an office in Nairobi, we are making a long term commitment to operate in the region rather than just undertaking occasional projects” said Matt Murphy, Managing Director of Geosense. “GAP has established a reputation for providing high quality survey services across Southern Africa over the last few years, and we now want to provide these services to the East African market as well.”

“This new partnership will provide clients in the region with a complete service for both ground and aerial surveys” said Ken Ndede, Managing Director of Survplans. “East Africa is growing rapidly and we aim to support this development by providing a strong, technically robust, local presence in the region.”

About Getmapping Plc

Getmapping Plc is a leading provider of aerial photography, digital mapping and web based services. With offices in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire and Cape Town, South Africa, Getmapping was the first company to have up to date nationwide coverage of Britain and pioneered online delivery of aerial photography to business and the public at large. A reseller of professional mapping, oblique photography, height data, OS maps and third party aerial photography, Getmapping services a wide variety of markets including press and media, local authorities, property and construction, environmental consultants and the public. It also provides a number of value added mapping products and services tailored to specific client needs including data hosting, online data delivery and web-based GIS. A pioneer of many online products through its website, Getmapping is the only company currently re-flying the whole of the UK at enhanced 12.5cm resolution.

www.getmapping.com/international

About GAP

GAP (Geospatial Aerial Partnership) is a joint venture between South African companies Geosense (part of the Getmapping Group) and Geomatica which will be operating in partnership with Survplans, a leading provider of ground survey services across Kenya and East Africa.

About Survplan Ltd

Established in 1998 Survplans is a surveying and mapping firm based in Nairobi, Kenya, which specialises in topographical, engineering and cadastral surveying. Survplans has undertaken topographical surveys and aerial mapping of roads, water and sewerage delivery systems, large and small scale farms and natural resource mapping for both private customers  and agencies of the Government of Kenya.

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Getmapping Maps Dorset’s Olympic Infrastructure

Hartley Wintney, UK, September 24th 2012 - Getmapping completed a 2012 aerial survey of Dorset in preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Specially commissioned by Dorset County Council the high resolution data provides up to date information for all the recently built Olympic venues and associated infrastructure. The data was supplied at 12cm pixel resolution together with a 1m digital terrain model (both DTM and DSM) derived directly from the aerial imagery.  

Dorset County Council's GIS team was responsible for managing the spatial data requirements for the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Local Resilience Forum, which is in turn responsible for the local ‘Recovery Plan’, a process of rebuilding, restoring and rehabilitating the community following an emergency or disaster.  This was particularly relevant during this summer as Dorset hosted the Olympic and Paralympic sailing events in Weymouth and Portland. The Games also prompted a series of requests for up-to-date mapping and spatial data. The need for-up-to date data had become especially urgent as the area has benefitted from extensive improvements including changes to the highways network, as well as the extensive new infrastructure built to accommodate the Olympic family. 

The new data was provided along with 50 or more other Olympic data sets via the council's own web-based mapping system OlympicExplorer.

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Getmapping Provides Base Maps for Wildlife Trust Guide

Hartley Wintney, UK, September 11th, 2012 - Getmapping has supplied high resolution aerial photography to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust for all of its 48 nature reserves. The imagery will provide the backdrop for the Trust’s soon to be published nature reserve guide as well as site signage and practical habitat management. 

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust has over 28,000 members and manages over 6,000 hectares of land including 48 nature reserves where rare and threatened wildlife can be protected and thrive. The Trust is the leading nature conservation charity in the two counties, committed to improving conditions for wildlife, protecting wildlife, restoring biodiversity and connecting people with the natural world.

The project to produce a reserve guide for its members seeks to provide up to date information about each reserve in an easily accessible A5 format.

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