Thursday 17 February 2011

Data Improvement Blog

Posted - Bob Chell:  I have been consulting at 1Spatial for over 10 years, and have worked with some exceptional colleagues and great clients. We have spent almost all our time solving the difficult, data-intensive problems in the spatial arena, problems that many people do not know how to solve. And along the way, collectively we have picked up a vast range of valuable skills and experiences.

Like the company we work for, despite changes in focus over the years from the GI industry (desktop, web, centralised databases, web-services) we have always maintained a constant focus on  your data - ensuring its quality and looking to automate as much of the data quality management and improvement process as we can.

We are way overdue in sharing some of our experiences, so this is our first foray into rectifying that, so I hope you find the posts interesting.

I plan to use this blog to allow the whole team to keep people up-to-date with the projects and discoveries that we all make along the way. And as this is the first post, I thought you might like to know about the types of things we are currently working on.

Matt Beare co-chairs the OGC Data Quality and is in the closing stages of ESDIN Project, where we have been contributing to a number of successful work packages. Although based in our Cambridge office, this has kept him busy right across Europe.

Tom Spencer supports PSMA on site down in Canberra, Australia. He also has a trip out to Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) in the near future to get them up and running with Radius Studio, as well as supporting our Managing Director for Asia Pacific Guy Perkins.

Chris Wright is also in our Consulting and brings over 20 years of experience to the team. He recently helped establish our Australian office, (now operated by Tom), originally helping MidCoast Water using Radius Studio to produce Geo-Schematic data from MidCoast's TopoBase database and engineering data quality business rules during the migration to TopoBase from Munsys GIS.

From Belgium, Luc Van Linden has his time divided between looking at our ventures with INSPIRE and helping Tom with some project work for Queensland Transport and Main Roads (QTMR). He has also recently found some time to look at Deegree OSGeo project, and he keeps his number 3 status on the Oracle Technology Forum too.

I'm currently working with English Heritage to assist them in future strategic guidance around interoperability. I’m also working on data migration and quality improvement programmes at the Environment Agency. Outside this I have also started to implement solutions using GeoServer and explore OBIEE 11g.

As you can see, it is a talented team that covers a range of tools and technologies. So if you want to find out anymore, get in touch.  You can email us at: consulting@1spatial.com

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