1Spatial News

1Spatial’s ‘Sensor Web Enablement’ Capability Enters Live Field Trials

Alan Howie — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:00:00

The SWIMA project (‘Sensor Web for Infrastructure Management’) is using live field trials in the River Tamar catchment to demonstrate how the use of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) international ‘Sensor Web Enablement’ (SWE) standards can improve environmental monitoring capabilities. Supported by the Technology Strategy Board, the two-year £900,000 project involves a QinetiQ-led consortium which includes: 1Spatial Group Limited, the Environment Agency of England and Wales; South West Water; YSI Hydrodata Limited and the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS).

Second draft of Technical Guidance on Schema Transformation Network Service published

Alan Howie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce that the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published the second draft of the Technical Guidance for Schema Transformation Network Service (TNS) for community review and comment.

1Spatial to showcase Technical Guidance for Transformation Network Services at INSPIRE Conference

Alan Howie — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce their participation in the European Commission’s INSPIRE Conference in Kraków, Poland from 22nd - 25th June 2010.

1Spatial encourages local entrepreneurial spirit

Alan Howie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to report that the company is fostering some entrepreneurial spirit amongst young people in the area.

1Spatial hosts His Royal Highness The Duke of York

Alan Howie — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:00:00

His Royal Highness (HRH) The Duke of York visited 1Spatial today and officially opened its new headquarters on the Cambridge Business Park.

1Spatial sponsoring ISO/TC 211 event

Alan Howie — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce the company’s sponsorship of the forthcoming International Standards committee for Geographic Information ISO/TC 211 meeting at the Ordnance Survey Great Britain (OSGB) headquarters in Southampton from 24th to 28th May.

Delegates INSPIREd on 1Spatial training course!

Alan Howie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to report that its first INSPIRE training course was well received by a full house of delegates!

1Spatial delivers ship counter-piracy software to form Pole Star's "Ship Security and ...

Alan Howie — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce the delivery of ship counter-piracy software to Pole Star Space Applications Limited (UK) to form their new ‘Ship Security and Reporting System’ (www.ssrs.org).

1Spatial delivers landmark solution in Southeast Asia with JUPEM

Alan Howie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:00

1Spatial is proud to announce the delivery of an advanced mapping solution to JUPEM, the Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia. Working closely with local partners MecSpatial and Digital Leader, a new Thematic Map Publishing System has been delivered, introducing the benefits of automation into JUPEM.

1Spatial announces new Executive Chairman and Chief Executive

Alan Howie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce a change in the senior management team structure. Dr Michael Sanderson, the former Chief Executive, is now the Executive Chairman and Nic Snape has taken over the day-to-day running of the 1Spatial Group as Chief Executive.

1Spatial and RMSI collaborate at Map India 2010

Alan Howie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce their involvement in Map India 2010 through RMSI, to present a co-authored paper entitled SDI considerations: a European perspective has been accepted for this prestigious international conference.

1Spatial in consortium to develop Technical Guidance for INSPIRE Transformation Services

Howard Diamond — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:00:00

Following extensive investment in European activities, 1Spatial is pleased to announce their role in the consortium awarded the contract to 'Develop Technical Guidance for the INSPIRE Transformation Service'. This is specifically for schema transformation of geospatial datasets in Europe.

1Spatial helps PSMA Australia secure international Spatial Awards

Howard Diamond — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00

Last week, PSMA Australia, one of 1Spatial’s largest Australian customers, were judged winners in the top two categories of Innovation & Commercialisation and Spatial Professional of the Year in the prestigious Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA).

1Spatial celebrates 40 years in business!

Howard Diamond — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to be celebrating its 40th Anniversary on Tuesday 17th November 2009. The company has evolved over 40 years from a small group of academics that produced a machine utilising lasers and mirrors to scan images, into an industry-leading geospatial software and solutions provider, employing over 100 people in several offices around the World.

1Spatial to talk SDIs and generalisation at ICC 2009 in Chile

Howard Diamond — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce its participation in the 24th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in Santiago, Chile.

1Spatial and PSMA Australia sign landmark agreement

Howard Diamond — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce that they have recently signed a landmark agreement that will establish a dedicated 1Spatial office in Australia and provide local access to highly sought after technical expertise in 1Spatial products.

1Spatial helps LINZ to publish a new map series and realise significant cost benefits

Howard Diamond — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce that through the implementation of a fully-integrated map production flowline, they have enabled Land Information New Zealand to publish a new map series. The development of the flowline has delivered LINZ’s vision for a map production system, whilst realising a number of significant operational and cost benefits.

1Spatial customers announce collaboration as a result of meeting at a 1Spatial industry event

Howard Diamond — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:00:00

Earlier today, EuroGeographics and PSMA Australia Limited signed a landmark agreement in Vilnius, Lithuania which will enable the sharing of market intelligence, geospatial knowledge and governance protocols creating broad linkages across continents that have not previously been achieved.

1Spatial sponsors AGI GeoCommunity 2009

Howard Diamond — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial is very pleased to announce that they are both sponsoring and participating in next week’s industry-leading AGI GeoCommunity event. In addition to being a Silver Sponsor, 1Spatial is also sponsoring the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Stream for the event, the Association for Geographic Information’s annual conference.

First 500 registrations on 1Spatial's new website get Radius Check for free!

Howard Diamond — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to offer a free, fully functional version of the latest release of Radius Check as a download from their new, updated website.

1Spatial supports AutoCAD 2010 releases with MapRelate™ 1.7

Howard Diamond — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7 of its popular entry-level CAD-GIS integration tool MapRelate™. MapRelate is a complementary component for AutoCAD that allows users to gain instant and direct access to their local or corporately held spatial data from within their native AutoCAD environment. This means a user can combine or overlay their design accurately against detailed spatial data, improving design precision and providing a simple solution for architects, engineers and data administrators to meet legal and customer obligations.

1Spatial staff ready to get their hands dirty!

Howard Diamond — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce that a team of volunteers from the Cambridge office will be undertaking a Community Challenge day for the Cambridge Cyrenians homeless charity of Friday 31st July.

1Spatial offers solutions for business continuity and impact assessment at the GSDI 11 World ...

Howard Diamond — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial will be presenting their SDI Conformance Model at this prestigious international gathering in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 15th to 19th June 2009.

1Spatial’s Chief Scientist interviewed in 200th VerySpatial podcast

Howard Diamond — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to be involved in a milestone achievement for www.VerySpatial.com - the 200th episode of their industry podcasts.

Scottish Government ePlanning National Launch

Howard Diamond — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:00

John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the Scottish Government and a Member of the Scottish Parliament, officially launched the Scottish Government’s new ePlanning website at the Scottish Planning Summit in Edinburgh.

1Spatial keynotes GI2009: AUTOMATED GENERALISATION ACROSS EUROPE

Howard Diamond — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial is very pleased to announce their collaboration with IGN e.V. - the Symposium organisers, and highlight their involvement in this international symposium taking place in Dresden (Saxony / Germany).

1Spatial becomes Platinum Sponsor of CC The Exchange

Howard Diamond — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:00:00

1Spatial is very pleased to announce their sponsorship and involvement with this prestigious international event. As a systems supplier to Ordnance Survey and a number of regional and national mapping and cadastre agencies (NMCAs) worldwide, 1Spatial is supporting this version of the Cambridge Conference.

1Spatial appointed to target UK and Ireland Utilities with a proven infrastructure management ...

Howard Diamond — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial has announced that it is extending its already successful partner relationship with software giant, Autodesk, to become the first value-added reseller in the UK and Ireland of Autodesk's infrastructure asset management tool, Topobase. This infrastructure design and management solution has already been installed at around 500 sites worldwide and, because of its proven success and impressive ROI record, interest from the UK and Ireland Utility Sector is expected to be strong.

1Spatial delivers Advanced Geospatial Analysis Subsystem to form part of Pole Star’s MarVTS ...

Howard Diamond — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial, through its subsidiary ComSine, has delivered to Pole Star Space Applications Limited (UK) an advanced geospatial analysis subsystem to form part of its MarVTS LRIT-DC product and in addition its suite of associated Fleet Management and Alert offerings.

1Spatial & VISTA's drive towards saving streetworks reductions

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial has supported the VISTA¹ project since 2007. VISTA is being run under the auspices of UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) and is funded by the Department of Trade and Industry. The project involves both Leeds and Nottingham Universities and a wide pantheon of industrial partners seeking to reduce the impacts of streetworks on congestion.

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial awarded ISO9001: 2008 accreditation

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:00

Following an ongoing programme of quality management and 4 days of intensive auditing 1Spatial has successfully upgraded its ISO9001 accreditation to comply with the 2008 specification and TickIT version 5.5.

1Spatial supports AGI INSPIRE Data Specifications Workshop

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00

1Spatial is exhibiting at a workshop being organised by the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in London on 8th January 2009. The event will provide an opportunity for all parties with an interest in INSPIRE* to learn more about the Data Specifications for Annex 1 (Reference Datasets**). These have now been published by the European Commission for comment by registered organisations (such as AGI).

1Spatial and CSI-Piemonte to create the first Italian implementation of a region-wide ...

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce that CSI-Piemonte has chosen Radius Topology as the key component to support the implementation of Italy's GIS TopographicDB Specification under the Intesa GIS initiative.

1Spatial enhances functionality of Radius Check with the release of version 2.1

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce the release of version 2.1 of its Radius Check suite of products. Version 2.1 features enhanced functionality, such as easy to view dashboards and new accessibility features, as well as additional operational capacity that enables users to effectively manage large datasets.

1Spatial is helping exploit the benefits of location

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce their participation in the Maltese geo-community event "Location: Exploiting the benefits", being held in St Julian's Malta on Friday 5th December.

1Spatial addresses geospatial data integration issues at Autodesk University 2008

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00

1Spatial is presenting a session in the Geospatial track at Autodesk University 2008 to highlight the geospatial data integration issues faced by organisations across the World today.

1Spatial helping LINZ to produce new map series

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce their involvement in Land Information New Zealand's NZTopo50 project, which will facilitate the production of an updated 1:50,000 scale map series

1Spatial announces web seminar to promote the OGC and the Data Quality Working Group to non-OGC ...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:00:00

Following on from the recently released results of the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) global survey on spatial data quality, 1Spatial is delighted to announce a web seminar on 25th November to explain the current activities of the Data Quality Working Group (WG) and how to get involved.

1Spatial plays integral part in European Spatial Data Infrastructure Network

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce their involvement in the European Spatial Data Infrastructure Network (ESDIN), established by the European Commission to develop a Best Practice Network and to evaluate the theory of integrating national Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs).

The 1Spatial team completes the 3 Peaks Challenge!

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce that a team of staff from its head office in Cambridge, have successfully completed the 3 Peaks Challenge to raise money for the Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT).

1Spatial enables significant time-savings for Local Government Boundaries Commissioner review

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial technology has helped the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner (LGBC) for Northern Ireland to cut the boundary definition time of its current review of all Local Government boundaries in Northern Ireland. The purpose of the review was to provide for the establishment of 11 local government districts in Northern Ireland and for the division of the districts into wards.

1Spatial flies the flag in Australia targeting the AU$1.37bn spatial information industry

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial, Britain's leading provider of spatial data management software announces the opening of its first Australasian office, in Melbourne, Australia.

PSMA Australia purchases 1Spatial's Radius Studio

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce that PSMA Australia have purchased their Radius Studio product to provide data quality conformance services.

Victoria Government Australia launches first phase of Notification and Editing Service (NES) ...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:00

NES delivers an advanced distributed data editing and quality conformance checking application to allow Local Government Associations and other organisations across the State of Victoria to access, analyse and update their geospatial datasets from a web browser.

1Spatial supports GITA 2008 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to be actively involved in the GITA 2008 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference as a bronze sponsor. The event takes place from the 25th to 27th August at the Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, Australia.

Geomatic Technologies and 1Spatial partner to deliver products in Australia

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce their partnership with Geomatic Technologies in Australia to deliver their Radius Studio and Radius Topology products.

1Spatial, 3 Peaks and 1 Big Challenge!

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00

A team of 1Spatial staff will be taking on the 3 Peaks Challenge on the 18th and 19th September 2008 to raise money for the Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT).

Ordnance Survey Ireland launches new Environmental Reporting system

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial is pleased to announce the recent launch of a new Environmental Reporting system for Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi), which has been developed in part by 1Spatial. This new facility forms part of the new corporate website for OSi, launched by Seán Power, Minister for State at the Department for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. The new site also incorporates other ECommerce functionality for OSi.

IGN France choose Radius Clarity for new generalisation project

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:00:00

1Spatial is delighted to announce that IGN France has chosen Radius Clarity to undertake automatic cartographic generalisation of their data.