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Our aim is to develop innovative solutions that help to make a positive difference in the world.

By utilising open source geospatial technology, we can design and deliver cutting edge web and mobile applications at a fraction of the cost compared to our proprietary rivals whilst also helping contribute to the wider open source community.   

Our mission is to support our transition towards sustainable, low carbon and inclusive societies.

We design solutions empower us to become increasingly informed, connected and self reliant.  Over the years, we have contributed to a host of development sectors, including public health, natural resource management, rural development and smart cities.  In every solution, we advocate the role of citizens as 'partners', not just as users, across a plethora of issues, including health, transport, energy and disaster response.  

modern mapping can applications drive Solutions To Human And Environmental Challenges

We play an active role within the open source geospatial community as we set out to deliver state-of-the-art mapping applications to help our clients capture, analyse and visualise geographic information in new, exciting ways.  We offer scalable, design-focused, cloud-based solutions which are underpinned by a practical understanding of working within a number of sectors.  

CASE PROJECTS
Energy Archipelago
Energy Archipelago

With a 'One World, One Geography' philosophy, Energy Archipelago is the first global data portal for community renewables.  This web platform helps a growing number of nations connect with their local community-owned renewable energy projects to better understand the progress, contribution and benefits these projects bring.  Look out for the mobile app release in 2016!

Orissa (India) Solar Atlas
Orissa (India) Solar Atlas

Solar technology has the potential to change lives and increase access to sustainable energy across the world.  We are supporting Urjaa Samadhan to provide mobile and web tools that connect people with broken solar equipment to people who can fix it.  

Our Solar Atlas is based on CartoDB cloud services with D3 interactive charts, using QGIS to manage and analyse the incoming spatial data.

Community Crowd Mapping
Community Crowd Mapping

Deploying the best open source mapping tool is our bread & butter.  Our award-winning approach to community mapping was piloted in Scotland in 2013 for climate resilience in the Carse of Gowrie area. As part of this approach, we helped local residents create a reporting app for iOS and Android (based on Ushahidi) relevant to their local issues; for example extreme weather, service disruption and local events.

Our solutions team (including designers, consultants, social scientists and software engineers) offer a very unique and broad range of professional web and mobile development services that help governments, organisations and communities adopt modern mapping, including:

  • Scoping out functional needs and technical solutions for clients;

  • Creation of Web and Mobile GIS applications and solutions;

  • Management and visualisation of spatial datasets;

  • Developing workfows and systems integration with GIS;

  • Providing GIS support and strategic consulting.

If you would like to know how our expertise can better enable your organisation, please get in touch.  For examples of our previous work, please take a look at our projects map.