Locatum

After 20 years at the helm of emapsite, taking the company from start-up in the dying days of the dot com era to successful and respected multi-million pound business with a team full of talents and a portfolio of loyal blue chip customers for our unique array of products and services, I am stepping aside as CEO. Two years after leading the relocation to Farnborough and setting in train the next phase of emapsite’s evolution with a doubling down on the company’s strategic ambitions including succession planning, the company is set fair for the next steps in that journey. The company has been blessed and is made by its people, past and present – emapsite’s customers, suppliers and partners will know that from day one the company sought to delight and to exceed expectations in making location content accessible and insightful. This team will continue to thrive at emapsite and enrich those experiences. Always one for looking forward, in the immediate short-term I will be looking...

You regular readers will know that I don't put much public relations related material on this blog; however, I do think you will be interested to know that our mapshop now has a plug-in free map interface for the first time. Back in 2000, yes 10 years old this week too, so we see it as a kind of celebration, ERMapper's Image Web Server and the underlying ecw format and its accompanying protocol (ecwp://) opened up the possibilities of an e-commerce data delivery platform. Yes, it required an ActiveX plugin but boy did it change the way in which geographic data, particularly mapping and imagery, could be viewed and obtained. Then 5 years or so ago we launched a Java based solution for viewing large scale (notably OS MasterMap) data online and for completing planning applications and similar things for PDF output. More developments here shortly too. Although IE remains the de facto browser across the vast majority of users in the enterprise space this is changing, fast in som...