Many GIS Managers are turning to Dotted Eyes for assistance in delivering an ever-increasing range of mapping services to their organisation in the face of frozen GIS headcount.
We have recently doubled the size of our Professional Services team to allow us to meet this demand, and have created a wider range of support and consultancy services to assist our clients.
Four new consultancy packages have been launched to help organisations make the most of their mapping assets or support overstretched GIS departments. Prices start from just £500 per annum.
We also have a range of support modules, starting at just £99 per annum, and we’ve increased our range of training courses to include one day refresher courses to assist MapInfo Professional users make the most of their software and time.
For more information, call us on 01527 556920.
In conjunction with the release of MapInfo Professional v10, Dotted Eyes are pleased to announce that we now offer a one day ‘migration’ to MapInfo version 10 training course.
MapInfo version 10 has a number of major updates and enhancements as well as considerable user interface changes. Our new one day ‘Migration to MapInfo Professional v10′ training course, ensures that existing MapInfo users can maximise the benefit of these new updates, as well as ensuring that you’re confident undertaking the tasks you did in your old version of the software.
Please also note that while we will still deliver Introduction to MapInfo and Advanced MapInfo courses for those using previous versions of MapInfo Professional, from July 2009 onwards you can now book a place on a Version 10 course.
To view available dates for any MapInfo v10 course please feel free to view our training schedule.
For more details see the ‘Public Training’ section of our website or contact our Training Co-ordinator on 01527 556920.
NHS emergency planners in Bristol and the Avon region are developing their swine flu pandemic response strategy with spatial data from Dotted Eyes.
The work involves four primary care trusts and is part of a national drive to co-ordinate the distribution of antiviral stocks in the event of a major disease outbreak.
Dotted Eyes data has been used to identify the optimum number and locations of antiviral collection points. Key factors are population statistics and travel times to community pharmacies.
Trevor Foster, GIS Manager at the Avon IM&T Consortium, said: “We took the geographic spread of collection points and performed travel time analysis using TrafficMap, a road network dataset. We determined drive times using road speed parameters in conjunction with RouteFinder software.
We were able to generate zones to identify how accessible the collection points were from the road network. That has allowed us to see where there is a need for more centres.”
As a direct result of the GIS support, the emergency planners have agreed the need and locations of several additional centres to bolster capacity in the Avon region. Overall capability will include community pharmacies, hospitals and other NHS sites.
Dotted Eyes Managing Director Benjamin Allan said: “This is a prime example of the power of GIS to support vital strategic decisions on resource priorities in the NHS. Presenting data in a spatial way can bring an on-the-ground scenario to life in a way that spreadsheets or narrative reports cannot.”
As well as TrafficMap, the GIS analysis has involved the postcode point product MailerMap and various scales of Dotted Eyes raster mapping including 1: 10,000 scale boundary data.
The mapping datasets are available to healthcare organisations across England
Read more about the agreement, or contact Dotted Eyes on 01527 556920.
