Latest news and information from Dotted Eyes.
You are invited to join our Open Source, Standards and Data roadshow as it continues its travels:
Over 100 delegates have now taken part, and found out the benefits of implementing Open Source technology.
For more information, visit our Events page.
We’re delighted to announce that Dotted Eyes is again co-hosting the free UK FME User Group. It will be held on 29th April 2010, at Ordnance Survey’s offices in Southampton.
Don Murray, Co-Founder of Safe Software, who was described as ‘fantastic, approachable and enthusiastic’ will be joining us once again to give a lively overview of FME 2010.
Over 100 attendees joined us in 2009, and all of them rated the event as being excellent or very good in terms of usefulness. The event is suited to existing users, and those who want to find out more about FME before purchasing.
This year, the event is flanked by optional training on FME Desktop (£800 ex VAT for 2 days) and FME Server (£400 ex VAT for 1 day).
To find out more view the invitation or the agenda. Registration is available online.
We hope to see you there!
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Now’s the time to buy the additional licences you need or upgrade to the latest versions as Dotted Eyes is offering 10% off FME licences and MapInfo Professional purchases until January 25th 2010, even if your current arrangements don’t expire until the end of March 2010! The offer includes:
And just in case you think you might get a better offer elsewhere, we also guarantee to beat any other offer you’ve had! As long as we can verify it, of course…
To benefit from this offer call 01527 556920 or email us outlining your requirements. Please quote “WEBSEASON” to receive the special pricing. Terms and conditions apply.*
The customer must quote “WEBSEASON” at the time of placing an order. The promotional code cannot be retrospectively applied. Orders must be received and acknowledged before the closing date of 25/01/2010. Dotted Eyes reserves the right to terminate this offer without notice. This cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, and only applies to direct sales.
We’re delighted to announce the launch of Contractor Portal, a web application for local government organisations that simplifies the distribution of Ordnance Survey and other spatial datasets to their contractors.
Local authorities carry a significant workload when distributing datasets including preparation and completion of paperwork, selection and processing of datasets, timely distribution of the completed data cutouts and compliance with strict licensing terms.
Contractor Portal provides an automated, audited workflow that streamlines the entire licensing and ordering process. It enables contractors to access data on a self-service basis and allows authorities to manage their data distribution through a real-time console.
For more information contact us on 01527 556920 or register for our webinar on 25th September at 10AM.
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.
We’ve already hired some great graduates, but we need two more to help us lead the field in spatial intelligence. We need driven, innovative, energetic professionals who want to make a difference. Ideally, they will be due to graduate from a GIS course this summer, or have graduated in the last few years.
The successful candidates will be joining our Professional Services Team, which is responsible for support, training, consultancy and data management.
If you meet our criteria, please apply for a place at our Open Day on 10th July at our Midlands HQ. Download our PDF for more information, or apply online.
Local government data users are invited to an informal round table workshop where they can meet with other local government CAD and GIS users and managers, plus experts from Dotted Eyes and Autodesk, to openly discuss the data related challenges which face them each day, and explore potential solutions.
Whether someone is a CAD user trying to access maps or a GIS user managing spatial data, they can find out through networking and idea sharing how to benefit from the increased efficiency possible through CAD and GIS integration.
If you’re a local government data user please register online for this FREE breakfast event, to be held at the Royal Armouries, Leeds, on 25th June from 8.30 AM to 11 AM. All delegates will have free entry to the Royal Armouries immediately after the event.
For more information contact our Commercial Team on 01527 556920.
If you aren’t free that day, please contact us so we can help you evaluate your CAD strategy free of charge.
Dotted Eyes are pleased to announce the addition of a 1 day MapInfo Refresher training course to their training portfolio!
This one day course is open to all users of MapInfo Professional and aims to refresh your knowledge of the softwares core functionality, including: Thematic Mapping, Buffering, Table Structure, SQL and Layout Printing options. In addition to rediscovering how to maximise your potential with MapInfo Professional, this course teaches you some of the most useful ‘tips and tricks’ which our GIS Consultants have discovered!
So if you’re looking to consolidate your existing knowledge or simply wish to refresh your skill sets then why not book a place on our one day MapInfo Refresher training course? For more details see the ‘Public Training’ section of our website or contact Paula Holdstock (Training Co-ordinator) on 01527 556920.
We currently have availability on our MapInfo Advanced course on the 27th-28th May. Book now and take advantage of a £75 discount on one training place, reducing the normal delegate rate from £575 to £500.
For more information, email training@dottedeyes.com or call our Training Co-ordinator, Paula Holdstock, on 01527 556920.
All prices are ex VAT.
Key business benefits of linking CAD software with GIS were the focus of a seminar held by Dotted Eyes and Autodesk which officially launched a partnership between the two organisations. The event, at Dotted Eyes’ Bromsgrove office, attracted spatial data managers, business and healthcare analysts from the NHS and different tiers of local government across England. It was designed to show how CAD/GIS integration can deliver greater value through an emerging model called the Unified Spatial Environment (USE).
Among those to benefit from USE will be designers, engineers, asset and estate managers, architects and many other decision makers across the public and private sectors.
Tracey Stone, Autodesk’s Geospatial Sales Manager for Northern Europe, who presented at the seminar, said: “This was the first opportunity to showcase our partnership with Dotted Eyes and the benefits that our solutions bring to the USE. Anyone who uses spatial data with a design element has the same challenge: how to maximise their investment in this data by ensuring all those who need it have fast and easy secure access to a single, centralised source. By eliminating CAD and GIS silos, the USE model does exactly this.”
In his presentation, Benjamin Allan, Dotted Eyes Managing Director, said USE offers a seamless way to reduce overheads at a time when spatial data managers face a twin headache of growing complexity and greater customer demand.
He said: “Unifying the traditionally separate technologies of CAD and GIS will facilitate better cross-functional management of spatial data. The priorities and timetable for developing USE will be driven by customer demand. The real power will be as an enabler for greater data sharing within and beyond organisations so saving them time and money and enhancing the quality of their work.”
Mr Allan said the partnership with Autodesk was crucial to the development of USE as it will help bring much needed solutions which enable the integration of CAD and GIS to the market.
The seminar looked at a series of examples of where CAD and GIS integration is already feasible. David Eagle, Professional Services Manager at Dotted Eyes, showed how translation tools can link design software with data storage files, databases, open source tools and web services.
Neil Brooker, Autodesk Geospatial Technical Manager for Northern Europe, explained the aspects of current design visualisation tools which enable GIS professionals to style spatial data and carry out geographic analysis.
One of the key products available from Dotted Eyes under its partnership with Autodesk is AutoCAD Map 3D.
The agreement adds a further world-leading name to Dotted Eyes’ partner list of GIS and data vendors. The company is already the biggest Pitney Bowes MapInfo partner in the UK and a premier partner of Ordnance Survey.
