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| You can see here real examples of how MapMechanics' customers are using data products available in the catalogue to provide benefits for their organisation. These examples also include software solutions provided by MapMechanics.
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Enhanced drive-times stand up to scrutiny of Wal-Mart board
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By introducing an advanced drive-time calculation system from MapMechanics, using real-life road speeds to determine catchment areas, retailer ASDA (part of the Wal-Mart group) is improving and speeding up the process of evaluating the market potential for proposed new stores. Strategic Development Manager Neal Stevenson says, “it is undoubtedly the biggest single development in routing systems that I’ve experienced in my career.”
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30% Fuel Reduction for Phocol |
The journeys of mobile staff can be planned and routed much more quickly, and in finer detail than ever before, in the latest version of a ground-breaking system in use with Phocol, one of Britain’s leading firms of civil enforcement agents. Built for the company by MapMechanics, the system uses routing, scheduling and digital mapping technology. Every year Phocol’s team of over 50 agents deals with around 300,000 client cases made up mainly of parking offences and other fines.
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Interflora refines its routes with GeoConcept |
Interflora British Unit has undertaken a major analysis exercise to gain a clearer picture than ever before of the resources that are involved within the organisation’s delivery network. With the aid of a new pricing matrix based on travel time and distance, which has been developed with the help of the GeoConcept geographic information system from MapMechanics, Interflora can now pinpoint what a delivery actually involves.
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Map Analysis picks GeoConcept for education sector Web portal |
Maps generated by GeoConcept Internet Server that illustrate and analyse patterns and trends in local and regional education can be downloaded directly over the Internet by clients using a brand new portal Web site launched this month. It is the product of Map Analysis Ltd, a geographic information systems consultancy specialising in the education sector. GeoConcept is supplied in the UK by Kingswood MapMechanics, which also provided map data and support for the project.
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GeoConcept underpins demand-led passenger transport system |
Suppose you’re taking bookings for a community bus service, for a staff transport operation or for a vehicle hire business. Which vehicle should you allocate to ensure you get each job done quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively, and also meet all your public service or contractual commitments? What happens if subsequent bookings completely upset your schedule?
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TRACKER Network’s seamless mapping switch enhances and saves |
| TRACKER Network (UK) Ltd, the leading automatic vehicle location and asset management specialist, has made a fundamental change in the way it generates on-screen mapping for its Web-based fleet management systems – reducing costs significantly and paving the way to add a range of new features. Yet to end users the move has been completely invisible. “As far as our customers are concerned, nothing has changed – except for the better,” says product development manager Peter Crinson. Full Story>>> |
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Off the wall or on the wall – Customised Mapping has the answer |
Where would you turn if you wanted a detailed wall map the size of a small room? Or a set of maps showing the outlines of UK counties as they were fifty years ago? Or a map mounted on metal sheet? In every case, the answer could be a specialist company called Customised Mapping Limited. As founder and managing director David Yelland puts it: “We tend to get calls from people saying ‘I don’t suppose you could help me, but …’” He adds: “The answer is nearly always yes.”
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Thirsty Work shakes up water cooler
delivery with GeoConcept |
Thirsty Work, the premier UK
supplier of water coolers to
the workplace, has cut around
200,000 km of travel from its
monthly delivery cycle by
remodelling its distribution
network with GeoConcept,
the leading geographic
information system. Now the
system is helping the
company to exploit market
opportunities.
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Leading doordrop company overhauls territory definitions |
Circular Distributors, the UK’s
leading doordrop marketing
company, has completed what is
described as “a major overhaul” of
its territory definition process. The compnay can now create delivery areas by unit postcode for the first time, gaining new power to update and refine distribution routes in-house.
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GeoConcept streamlines road congestion display |
Hampshire County Council
has installed a new
countywide system to
enable control room staff to
see traffic congestion
trouble spots at a glance. MapMechanics developed the new
application with ITIS Holdings to
enhance its system called TAG
Traffic Alert Generator),which
overlays real-time traffic
information on maps for use in control rooms.
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Scheduling more efficiently in a fraction of the time |
Milk processor and haulier Robert Wiseman Dairies has
significantly increased the number of milk collections it makes,
and the company has paid tribute to the essential role played in
the planning process by the TruckStops routing and scheduling
system, which was supplied by MapMechanics.
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Find-a-football-pitch website majors on interactive mapping |
The site has been developed for the
Football Foundation, Britain’s biggest
sports charity, by PWC and PMP, a
leading consultancy in the sports
world, and presents the results of the
most comprehensive survey of English
football pitches ever conducted.
Already the site lists over 22,000
grounds with around 45,000 football
pitches, and the Foundation is currently
encouraging schools to check the
accuracy of their details, or submit
unlisted facilities for
future inclusion.
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| The above are just examples of the many applications that use map data and software technology provided by MapMechanics. Visit the press room for more customer examples. |
