• Making the four day week a reality

  The "Four Day Week", a headline grabbing aspiration put out by the T.U.C or a reality? Is it really possible to operate a company on a four day week and remain productive and competitive?

  9 October 2018

• Painting history upon a digital canvas

  Imagine life as a historian in a world that demands the public purse focuses intimately upon economic growth. How do you justify your research when all you’re doing is looking backwards? How can this work be used to feed back into the public purse?

  21 September 2018

• OS Zoomstack - A mini adventure

  Ordnance Survey recently released OS Zoomstack a new mapping dataset that is currently available to anyone on a trial basis. Zoomstack presents map data as vector tiles. We've been playing with it a lot. Find out how we got on.

  13 September 2018

• The "adventurers protocol" a path to compressed delivery

  How do you achieve a compressed delivery in an imperfect world? We do this all the time within Nautoguide using something we call the "adventure protocol". It's based on five key principles we apply to such projects. But first we must find some special people.

  9 August 2018

• PostgreSQL - A Thank you from Nautoguide

  PostgreSQL is stuffed full of brilliant stuff that we regularly use in Nautoguide. This article gives you an insight into a few of its most powerful features when facing the web.

  17 July 2018

• G-Cloud - A pigeon sat on a branch

  I firmly believe a G-Cloud search should become a standard/mandatory part of public sector purchasing. Tenders cost us all, both buyer and supplier and G-Cloud was conceived to remove a lot of that cost.

  3 July 2018

• Redistricting for Dummies

  Redistricting is a complex process that involves many dispart variable. Learn how we worked with Reigate and Banstead Borough Council to create a service that makes the process simple

  22 June 2018

• Who lives the furthest from the sea?

  As a young lad I lived in Padstow and went to school a stone's throw from the sea. I'm sure that you can imagine that these were fun filled formative days with evenings spent exploring

  14 June 2018

• Fixing planning - The pub methodology

  Conversations are brilliant. Sometimes pointless, sometimes heated, sometimes downright surreal but so many of them have lead to fantastic outcomes. Add conversations to your plans and they will often be improved. Bright ideas evolve or snags are uncovered.

  8 June 2018

• People not boxes - a rediscovery

  I've been following the development of machine-learning avidly and it's tempting to assume that the robots are going to take over the world. However, like "The War of the Worlds" there's a fly in the ointment that will kill their domination stone dead.

  1 June 2018

• Marketeers - Is this you?

  Is this you? You love product marketing and are bursting with ideas. You’re looking for a company that doesn’t care about your experience but values enthusiasm and drive above all else. You’re

  29 May 2018

• The Temporal Map

  Temporal maps change over time. Vector tiles provide an enabling technology to make them happen. Nautoguide tell you how they did it.

  24 May 2018

• Three *Unique* Climbs — A Friday GIS Challenge

  Andy Williams is our main man and I share a common love of cycling with him. As a result I follow @andy_tyfelin on twitter to see what he is up to. Last week he tweeted me off the sofa with this challenge

  4 May 2018

• Converting Mapfiles to Greyscale

  We use Mapserver a lot within Nautoguide and I’ve spent a significant amount of time building map files to create our base mapping. Some of these are quite complex as they traverse multiple data sets and sources, including shapefiles and PostgreSQL connections.

  12 April 2018

• Postcodes and personalised number plates

  I walk to work every day and pass lines of traffic with bored drivers staring vacantly into the distance. Many of these commuters have invested in personalised number plates for their cars to help enhance

  17 January 2018