Eric D. Colburn, PLS

The GeoInformation Group Announces UKMap Programme

New large-scale mapping for the UK

Cambridge, 1 June 2009: The GeoInformation® Group today announces a ground breaking and innovative new mapping programme. UKMap® is the UK’s first commercially funded, large-scale topographic mapping and address database created completely independently of the Ordnance Survey®.

Started more than two years ago, the GeoInformation Group can reveal for the first time the full scale of the UKMap Programme. Employing more than 100 people across three continents, UKMap forms part of an ambitious five-year programme to map over 500 towns and cities covering all urban areas with a population greater than 10,000 — some 24,000 square kilometres throughout the UK. Read the rest of this entry →