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A wide selection of additional digital road and street map datasets, many covering remoter parts of the world, have been added to the range offered by Kingswood MapMechanics, the leading UK-based specialist in digital mapping and geographic information systems.
Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia are among the countries covered in the company’s latest digital mapping releases, along with many locations that are less often in the news.
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need accurate and detailed mapping of places that can seem far-flung from a UK perspective,” says Chris Greenwood, MapMechanics’ commercial director. “We scour the world for digital mapping that offers the best results in terms of affordability and quality, and check it for consistency and compatibility with existing software.”
He adds: “We’ve recently had significant demand from users involved in Iraq, for example, where accurate mapping might be important for purposes such infrastructure planning and reconstruction. There’s some highly detailed mapping now available for many countries.”
Areas covered by the new mapping include countries in Central and South America, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. Among them are Brazil, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El-Salvador, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Typically the additional map datasets offered by the company include street-level mapping of capitals and other major cities at scales between 1:10,000 and 1:24,000, supported by smaller-scale road map datasets of other settlements or entire regions.
The new maps for Brazil, Iraq and Mexico are particularly detailed. The Iraqi datasets, for instance, feature street-level maps at 1:10,000 of a dozen major cities, as well as cartographic reference files for Baghdad and Basra, and satellite imaging of all cities. Mapping of other smaller locations is also available.
The Brazilian datasets include street names, address ranges and census and boundary data. The Mexican datasets also include census data, and are supplied at the unusually large scale of 1:5,000.
The new mapping supplements the already extensive range of street-level digital map data offered by MapMechanics from major suppliers such as AA, NAVTEQ and Ordnance Survey.
Like these existing products, the new data is available under a range of pricing schemes to ensure that affordable entry points are available for GIS work, online mapping over the Internet, hosted mapping offered by ASP (application service provider) software houses, and tracking/telematics applications.
The mapping is offered by MapMechanics in a range of file formats such as ArcView, GeoConcept, MapInfo and MID/MIF, making it compatible with most mainstream GIS software.
Digital mapping from MapMechanics is listed in the company’s extensive Data Catalogue, now believed to be the only leading digital map reference work of its kind published in Britain in print as well as online. The new datasets are scheduled for inclusion in the next edition. |
