GeoDATA 2008: Partners

Please find below a list of all the partners involved in the GeoDATA 2008 seminar series along with their company description.

Training4GIS

Training4GIS is the training and consultancy division of The GeoInformation Group. It has over a decade of experience in providing training and education programmes as well as consultancy solutions to thousands of customers throughout the UK and overseas.

Our team of expert trainers gives the optimum solution for career development through a diverse range of solutions including; customised training programmes, awareness events and a comprehensive GIS distance learning programme. Our flexible approach to developing training programmes on GIS technology endeavours to provide students with knowledge to deliver practical solutions to real-life problems.

www.training4gis.com

The GeoInformation Group

The GeoInformation Group is a leading provider of high-resolution aerial photography and geospatial information products and consultancy and training services. Its clients cover a broad array of professionals and undertakes contracts to provide bespoke mapping and image databases worldwide. Its image and imagery derived products are published under the Cities Revealed brand.

The success of Cities Revealed is built on a core philosophy of innovation combined with the latest aerial mapping technologies, expertise in aerial imagery and an established product brand. This consistent and information rich suite of products are a hugely valuable resource for technicians to decision makers for whom geography really matters.

www.citiesrevealed.com

STAR-APIC

STAR-APIC is a leading supplier of software for creating and managing maps and managing and sharing information about location. We help government, utilities and the private sector to make the best use geographic data to improve efficiency and derive real business benefits. We offer software products for web, desktop and enterprise platforms, a range of complimentary services and complete solutions for specific markets.

Our customers are local and central Government, utilities, mapping agencies and private companies. These include The Ordnance Survey, Northumbrian and Severn Trent Water, the Scottish Executive, the Coal Authority and more than 30 local authorities.

www.star-apic.co.uk

Environment Systems

Environment Systems is an innovative and enthusiastic geographic information consultancy. Our work is carried out within the environment, agriculture and land/property sectors, and includes; consultancy and research, data capture and analysis, and development of innovative solutions using 3D and remotely sensed data.

www.envsys.co.uk

Association for Geographic Information (AGI)

The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) exists to represent the interests of the UK's geographic information (GI) industry; a wide-ranging group of public and private sector organisations, suppliers of GI software, hardware, data and services, consultants, academics and interested individuals. The AGI, by way of its unique membership forum, brings together this previously disparate GI community to share ideas on best practice, experience and innovation, and offers access to unparalleled networking opportunities and events with significant business benefits.

www.agi.org.uk

Autodesk

Founded in 1982, Autodesk, Inc., is the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. The company serves a diverse portfolio of markets, including building design, geographic information systems, manufacturing, digital media, and wireless data services. By delivering tools that foster innovation and creativity, Autodesk helps customers throughout the value chain leverage digital design data to work better, faster, and smarter, and is one of the largest global software companies.

Autodesk Geospatial software and services are used by mappers, civil engineers, land planners and other professionals who deliver critical services in the utilities, communications, building, and government industries. With their tools, customers use location-based information to enhance customer care, increase operational efficiency, and create new revenue opportunities. Unlike GIS or engineering-only software vendors, they address all phases of the workflow, from planning and designing infrastructure, to building and managing physical assets.

www.autodesk.co.uk

Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans AEC and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2,400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research study.

www.bentley.com

British Geological Survey (BGS)

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is the national centre for geological information, providing impartial advice and data to clients in the UK and overseas. Many BGS databases are now available under licence in digital format, ready for GIS applications, in addition to a range of interpreted data delivered through the GeoReports service. Digital information available includes geology maps, ground stability datasets, and minerals resource information, alongside a wide range of other datasets. BGS also designs detailed 3D geological models to meet customers' specifications which show geology in an easily understandable format. BGS aims to provide users of Geoscience data with relevant, comprehensive, and up-to-date information in a timely manner, to the highest professional standards.

www.bgs.ac.uk

Cadcorp

Cadcorp is a leading UK developer of digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software. With offices in the UK and the USA, Cadcorp's distribution and value-added reseller (VAR) network stretches worldwide. The Cadcorp SIS® - Spatial Information System® product family encompasses desktop GIS modules, web-based GIS software (GeognoSIS.NET™), software developer kits and a mobile data capture solution (mSIS®). Cadcorp is an ISO9001:2000 certified company, an Ordnance Survey GB Licensed Partner and Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland Licensed Partner, and plays a pivotal technical role in the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC®). Cadcorp SIS applications exist in local and central government, emergency services, insurance, mapping, commercial and many other markets.

www.cadcorp.com

CENTREMAPS®

Since 1975 Laser Surveys has been providing a unique pre-contract survey service to the Construction Industry. Our experience and in-house technical expertise have enabled the design and development of our new on-line mapping portal - centremapslive.com.

As Licensed Partners to Ordnance Survey® and British Geological Survey we are able to offer a broad range of mapping and geographic information including planning location maps, height information, environmental and planning reports, historical and geological mapping, aerial photography and the 'UK Land Survey Register'.

centremapslive.com provides fast access to data, easy account management and a customer service guarantee with free training and technical support.

www.centremapslive.com

Intermap Technologies

Intermap TechnologiesTM is creating uniform 3D models of the earth's surface and building a library of affordably priced digital elevation data and geometric images of unprecedented accuracy. The Company is proactively remapping entire countries and building uniform national databases, called NEXTMap®. The NEXTMap program is well underway, with the majority of Europe scheduled for collection in early 2008 and completion of the U.S. slated for the beginning of 2009. In addition, new applications for NEXTMap data are rapidly emerging within the GIS, engineering, automotive, personal navigation device, insurance risk assessment, environmental planning, wireless communications, and 3D visualization industries.

www.intermap.com

KOREC

KOREC is one Trimble's largest distributors worldwide; providing single source supply for advanced GPS solutions to the Construction, Surveying and GIS Mapping Industries. For more information on our products and services please visit www.korecgroup.com.

The GIS Mapping team have products and solutions that are used across a wide variety of Applications including Utility As-laid, Tree Mapping, Highway Inventories, Fire Hydrant surveys, Golf Course Management, Mobile GIS. We offer a comprehensive range of Trimble GPS Data Capture solutions ranging from a simple handheld GPS to professional high-accuracy GPS systems.

With Regional Service and Training Centres across the UK and Ireland we are able to offer our customers a highly responsive local service with the full backing and resources of an international company.

www.korecgroup.com

Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell, created in February 2007 by merging Blackwell Publishing with Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business, is now one of the world's foremost academic and professional publishers and the largest society publisher. With a combined list of more than 1,400 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books with global appeal, this new business sets the standard for publishing in the life and physical sciences, medicine and allied health, engineering, humanities and social sciences. Visit www.wiley.com to browse our full collection of books.

www.wiley.com