MapMechanics

Everbloom Growers Inc., has upgraded to the latest version of the TruckStops vehicle routing and scheduling optimization system from MapMechanics, and proprietor Peter Hew says TruckStops remains a key element in the company’s expanding business.

Time-based analysis of geographical data, taking GIS firmly into the fourth dimension, is the highlight of the newly-released version 6 of GeoXploit, the powerful but user-friendly GIS, digital mapping and data package from MapMechanics.

TruckStops, one of the world’s longest-established and most widely-used vehicle routing and scheduling optimisation systems, has been rewritten from the ground up by its UK-based developer and proprietor, MapMechanics.

Dixons Retail, the specialist international electrical retail group, reports that it is achieving greater precision in evaluating store transformation projects and potential new store locations and saving on the cost of periodic map updates.

Significant enhancements have been made to road and street-level map data sets offered at allmapdata.com. These maps are widely used in GIS and logistics solutions for processes such as route-planning, drive time analysis and navigation.

For businesses doing geographically-based planning and analysis at regional and local level, an appealing new option for mapping postcode data, offering greater accuracy and detail than rival systems at a more competitive price.

A package of digital mapping software, map data and postcode data from MapMechanics has formed the lynchpin of a marketing project developed by customer communications and direct marketing specialist dmbgroup for a retail client.

Where can you park in the UK… and where must you not park, or in many cases even stop? These two fundamental requirements often arise in routing, scheduling and navigational applications, and both are tackled with these invaluable new data sets.

Goodman Fielder, Australasia’s leading listed food company, has made far-reaching improvements to the way it distributes bakery products in Australia by introducing a package of planning, mapping, routing, scheduling and optimisation resources.

Organisations using postcodes for delivery planning, mobile workforce scheduling, leaflet drops and similar activities in Northern Ireland can now make use of a very precise geographically-based data set from MapMechanics.