Leading 3D models from CentremapsLive

From showcasing your designs to rights of light surveys, 3D models can give great context to a site and provide architects/designer/stakeholders with impressive visuals. Our state of the art photogram…

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Introducing OS MasterMap Add-ons

Ordnance Survey’s MasterMap provides the most accurate, detailed, current and comprehensive mapping of the British landscape. Now CentreMapsLive (CML) has made it even easier to further enhance the richess of the data with additional layers of aerial imagery and/or height data.…

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Upgrade your Utility Search Records with FastView?

Centremaps have been producing desktop utility reports (PAS128D) for a number of years and, as part of a survey company with a specialist underground services department, consuming the collated reports internally. Working across reports nationally has enabled us to build a knowledge base of profiled responses by utility which enables efficiency in georeferencing and consistency in interpretation and digitising that ensure both dependable content and great value.…

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Drainage considerations in site development - SuDS

Site development and redevelopment require consideration of any changes in the volume and rate at which rainfall exits the site. Failing to consider this can be costly in potentially rejected or delayed planning applications or missing the natural benefits/challenges of the site early on. The GeoSmart SuDSmart range available through centremapslive.com for the first time provide standardised reports nationally to accelerate and simplify this aspect of your project.…

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London's growing skyline

We're taking a look at the ever growing skyline of London and how it's effecting light and perspectives in the capital.…

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UAV Services Ready for Launch

CentremapsLive + Team UAV have joined forces. Deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicle inspection & survey services. Get new dimensions to projects.…

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EA LiDAR for Wales

We've still got Environment Agency LiDAR for Wales. CentremapsLive. EA recently removed LiDAR Height Data for Wales from their site.…

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Utility Search Reports From CentremapsLive

Utility Search Reports from CentremapsLive Identify features below the surface. Gas & oil pipelines | Electricity cables | Telecommunication wires Mains water supplies | Sewers | Fibre-optic cables…

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Ordnance Survey New Map Symbols

Ordnance Survey have been running a competition asking entrants to design 10 new map symbols for their mapping. Here are the results as show on 'The One Show'.…

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Alasdair Rae - Beating Heart of London

The vast majority of people who work in central London are commuters. Alasdair Rae thought it would be great to map their movement giving a visual representation of where people travel from each day around the country's capital. Take a look!…

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Tweet Mapping

Eric Fischer has been tracking geotagged tweets from Twitter’s public API for the last three and a half years. There are about 10 million public geotagged tweets every day, which is about 120 per second. The accumulated history adds up to nearly three terabytes of compressed JSON and is growing by four gigabytes a day. And here is what those 6,341,973,478 tweets look like on a map, at any scale you want.…

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Case Study: Map Creation in QGIS and Illustrator

The beauty of creating custom maps is that each one represents a new challenge to overcome. For this map, the client came to me asking for a series of maps that they could include in a brochure which was to be handed out to journalists on a driving experience of their cars.…

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