• 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

• Sorting out Swindon — In a day?

  Every month at Nautoguide we put aside a day to carry out some research and development, challenging ourselves to push our product set forward as a result. Last month we signed up to become a partner of Cadcorp with a view to integrating our web based offerings with their SIS/GeognoSIS product set

  11 December 2017

• Predicting the planning process

  I spent many years working in the financial and marketing data industry and during my time there learnt a thing or two about profiling. I'm sure that it's news to nobody that a huge variety

  27 October 2017