GeoPlace has marked the opening of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee week by mapping street and building names containing ‘Queen’, ‘Jubilee’ and ‘Queen Elizabeth’. GeoPlace works with every local authority in England and Wales. Local authority Address and Street Custodians from these authorities sent us names from right across the country that mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Using this data, we put together … Read More

The drive for businesses to constantly transform their operations is relentless, and in this blog we discuss the trend of zero or light touch digital channels. Whilst business strategists promote digital first through transformation they often fail to consider the employees and customers who either won’t or can’t engage with the digital first trend. What opportunity are organisations potentially missing … Read More

Cambridge, UK, 23rd May 2022, (www.1spatial.com) Global software and solutions leader, 1Spatial is improving their platform, adding a variety of new capabilities to their patented rule engine technology. Changes in  1Integrate 3.3 include new non-spatial filter conditions to open subsets of data, improved schema transformation and the ability to commit changes back to GeoPackages and ESRI File Geodatabases, avoiding the … Read More

Sustainability is not the first thing that springs to mind when you think about the benefits of using space-based technology in industry. But the reality is that it underpins sustainability solutions every day. This is great news both in terms of reducing our impact on the planet and for industries that are facing increasing requirements from the public, stakeholders and … Read More

In an online conference watched by 1,023 attendees, GeoPlace announced the winners of its 2022 Exemplar Awards. The Exemplar Award for 2022 was won by Conwy County Borough Council for its work on identifying and remediating Ash Die Back (ADB). ADB is a life-threatening tree disease that’s spreading rapidly across the UK. Affected trees fall onto schools and highways and the like … Read More

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software company Cadcorp has updated its cloud services offering to include a new Data Service. The managed service provides direct access to a wide range of open data directly from a secure Cadcorp datastore. The service will allow customers to easily access data overlays within Cadcorp SIS Desktop and Cadcorp SIS WebMap. The new service was … Read More

At CGI, we’re seeing challenges across most industry sectors, leading to the development of new and novel approaches to problem solving, whether it be manufacturing, supply chain and distribution, government, utilities as well as national and critical infrastructure. None of these challenges are more obvious than in the transportation sector, where the economic trends we are experiencing appear aligned: Revenue … Read More

Europa Technologies has announced a significant enhancement to its award-winning location intelligence platform, viaEuropa. “Time Machine” provides simple, high-performance access to historical Ordnance Survey data. The service will initially support over five years of quarterly history, from Q1/2017 to present day, with plans to extend the historical coverage even further. Time Machine will launch with full zoom stacks of OS … Read More

CGI is bringing its Cyber Escape experience to Wales as a part of a UK-wide tour. The escape room-style experience gives businesses, local officials and students the opportunity to learn about online security risks in a fun and interactive way. CGI’s Cyber Escape experience is at Techniquest Science Centre in Cardiff between 9 and 13 May. Guests will team up … Read More