Dotted Eyes is sponsoring and exhibiting at Interact 08, the Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Pitney Bowes Group 1 user event, to be held at Birmingham’s NEC on 29th and 30th April.
Charlie Gilbert from Dotted Eyes will be joining West Midlands Police to give a presentation on ‘Safer Neighbourhoods’. West Midlands Police use our ResponseMX web mapping software to power MyNeighbourhood, a website which gives the general public access to crime maps online. These easy to understand maps show the public crime levels and trends whilst polls generate feedback allowing West Midlands Police to identify areas of concern. (more…)
On April 30th, join Safe Software co-founders, Dale Lutz and Don Murray, for an informative 45 minute webinar on FME Server. Through demos and customer stories, you can learn how to:
- Publish FME workspaces to the server so others can access them and run them over the web;
- Offload intensive spatial ETL processing tasks to the server for faster throughput;
- Provide end-users with real-time, self-service access to custom views of your spatial data;
- Distribute spatial data as a streaming or download service.
Register today for the 8AM PDT seminar which equates to 4PM UK time. Joining instructions will be sent by Safe Software nearer the time. Please note this webinar is intended for experienced FME users who have floating licences or at least 5 FME Desktop licences and/or SpatialDirect users.
Stop Press! Dotted Eyes will be running a FME event at our offices in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on 18th June 2008. Email marketing@dottedeyes.com for more information.
An innovative website to store and map countywide community safety information is in development.
The website will provide members of the public with interactive maps showing crime levels in their neighbourhood. In addition, community safety data will be gathered from a wide variety of sources and displayed to allow users a true understanding of issues facing a local community. This approach will also ensure that numerous public agencies and voluntary groups target their limited resources effectively by working closely together and sharing the data they collect.
Buckinghamshire County Council; working in partnership with the four District Councils, Thames Valley Police and Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Service; have awarded the contract to develop this website to Bromsgrove-based GIS specialists – Dotted Eyes.
Dotted Eyes has a strong reputation for developing partnership led community safety web applications, most notably the MyNeighbourhood website for West Midlands Police and COSMOS for Birmingham Community Safety Partnership.
Charlie Gilbert, Associate Director of Dotted Eyes, comments, “We are delighted to be working with Buckinghamshire County Council and its partners on this project. Our ResponseMX web mapping technology will enable users of both the public website and the secure extranet to be engaged with and informed through a collaborative approach.”
Margaret Dewar, Cabinet Member for Community Service at Buckinghamshire County Council has supported this project and the benefits it will bring to our communities: “The Community Safety Partnership has been working towards this project for many months and I am delighted that we can start developing this website. It will become a critical tool for making the neighbourhoods of Buckinghamshire an even safer place to live, work and visit.”
Paul Tinnion as Chair of the Partnership Board and BCU Commander explains how the project will benefit partners: ”The Information Hub is an exciting development and will provide all the partners with up to date information concerning safety. The success that the partnership has achieved in reducing crime can only be enhanced by development of this new venture.
The website will be launched in Autumn 2008 – watch this space!
Dotted Eyes has appointed Benjamin Allan as its new Managing Director. Ben has successfully managed various technology businesses, most recently the secure communications specialist i-Sentral Security. Ben comments, “The market for location intelligence and geographic information is at a very exciting stage and Dotted Eyes is in a fantastic position to take full advantage of its growth opportunities. The company continues to be a leading authority in the market and I look forward to helping the company build on this success.”
Jamie Justham, the founder of Dotted Eyes, adds, “Since the company was incorporated in 2002, our outstanding team has achieved consistent growth in profits averaging 20% per annum by building close working relationships with our loyal customers and attracting new clients. I remain fully committed to Dotted Eyes in my new role as Head of Business Development and also as an ongoing investor, in partnership with Ben. We are all energised by the prospect of vigorous new leadership and a clear focus.
Ben Allan (left) and Jamie Justham (right)
Our new Guide to Location Intelligence for Housing is now available. It features real-life case studies from Shoreline Housing Partnership and Midland Heart. To request your free copy, visit our housing section.
If you work in housing, either for a housing association or for a council, you might like to attend our User Group, to be held at our offices near Birmingham on 9th April from 10AM - 3PM. For more information, visit www.dottedeyes.com/housing or call Andrew Brittan on 01527 556935.
Dotted Eyes, specialists in digital mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has been recognised as a Premier Partner by Ordnance Survey as part of their new tiered Partner Accreditation Programme.
“Dotted Eyes is proud to be an accredited Premier Partner of Ordnance Survey,” says Jamie Justham (Managing Director), “because for ten years or more we’ve made a big investment in developing easy to use products and services based on the full range of Ordnance Survey data sets, as well as those from other data originators such as Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. (more…)
