Part of Getmapping’s air ops team from New Zealand Aerial Mapping (NZAM) featured in the BBC’s ‘One Show’ on 18th August. The light hearted piece presented by Phil Tufnell, initially dressed as a Russian soldier, looked back to the Cold War when many of Britain’s, military bases and secret installations were restricted from appearing on [...]

3rd September 2009 – Visitors to this year’s Edinburgh Festivals including the Fringe were able to locate the numerous venues for the thousands of events with a new map based on the People’s Map of Edinburgh. The map produced by the Festival Fringe Society was available stand alone at A3 sponsored by Becks and also [...]

17th August 2009 – As the People’s Map readies itself for the impending launch of its 1:10,000 map of London it has announced details of a new competition to help find and verify points of interest (POIs) for inclusion on the map. A POI can be anything from a restaurant to a gallery, a football [...]

Hartley Wintney, July 15th 2009 – Getmapping has delivered a new aerial photographic map to South Gloucestershire Council. Unusually the imagery was captured in 1991 and until recently lay dormant as negatives in the old Avon County Council film archive. Getmapping scanned each negative and processed the resulting digital files to produce a geographically accurate [...]

Hartley Wintney, June 30th 2009 – Getmapping has released details of its new ‘AZICAM’ oblique camera system. The system is used to capture sharp full colour oblique digital images of towns and cities. When combined with traditional vertical imagery and desktop software users have a rich multidimensional viewing environment, that can be explored, measured and [...]

Up to date Aerial Imagery of London Now Available
Hartley Wintney, May 27th 2009 – Getmapping has released the most up to date and detailed aerial imagery of London and it is available for immediate download from Getmapping.com. Captured during September 2008 the new imagery covers the whole of central London stretching from Heathrow [...]

Hartley Wintney, April 22nd 2009 – Getmapping has teamed up with New Zealand Aerial Mapping (NZAM) in an arrangement which enables both companies to share resources and equipment to increase their flying and aerial survey capabilities. Getmapping has ambitious plans for the UK flying season in 2009 including the completion of its aerial survey of [...]

Hartley Wintney, March 30th 2009 – Getmapping has announced a new enhanced height dataset of Scotland derived directly from its aerial photographic survey of the country. Processing for the rest of the Britain is now underway. The arrival of a new more accurate height model will be welcome coming shortly after scientists at the recent [...]

27th March 2009 – Today the People’s Map project launches a significant upgrade to its website bringing the vision of affordable mapping for all one step closer. The People’s Map represents the democratisation of the mapping process. Anyone can register, contribute and use the map for private, non-commercial use for free apart from a small [...]

Hartley Wintney, February 11th 2009 – Getmapping has launched a new website to focus attention on the new products and services it will be offering to its customers during 2009. Getmapping are pioneers in the capture of digital aerial photography of Britain and online delivery to businesses and the public at large through getmapping.com. The [...]