Press Releases & Case Studies
MapMechanics distributes a wide range of data products including AA, NAVTEQ and Ordnance Survey digital mapping, as well as leading business and demographic datasets from many sources throughout the world. MapMechanics also uses digital map-based technologies to offer an extensive range of Web, desktop, paper and component solutions for a variety of business applications, from atlas production to business analysis, site selection, customer profiling and vehicle routing and scheduling. Backing up its extensive product range, MapMechanics offers a comprehensive service of implementation support and training.
Here is a selection of press releases and case studies that show how we have helped our customers to achieve their goals and where we have added new enhancements to our digital data product ranges.
Dixons Retail sharpens retail network planning with map data from MapMechanics
Dixons Retail, the specialist international electrical retail group, reports that by switching to MapMechanics as its primary supplier of digital map data for planning and analysis, it is achieving greater precision in evaluating store transformation projects and potential new store locations. Yet at the same time the company has saved on the cost of periodic map updates. Read More
MapMechanics’ enhanced road and street mapping adds precision to analysis
Significant enhancements have been made to three different road and street-level map data sets offered at www.allmapdata.com, the online digital data store from MapMechanics. These road and street-level maps are widely used in geographic information systems and logistics solutions for processes such as route-planning, drive time analysis and navigation. Read More
Boundary data from MapMechanics puts postcodes in geographical context
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, is now available from MapMechanics, one of the UK’s leaders in digital mapping and related data. Read More
Red routes and car park data now available from MapMechanics
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 invaluable new data sets from UK-based mapping and logistics specialist MapMechanics. They are now available through www.allmapdata.com, the company’s fully transactional web site. Read More
Vertical street information in postcode data for Northern Ireland from MapMechanics
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, one of the UK’s leaders in digital mapping and related data. Read More
Mapping and speed data from MapMechanics underpin Tesco.com’s delivery proposition
Digital map data assembled, prepared and formatted by MapMechanics is playing a key role in the continuing expansion of Tesco.com, Britain’s biggest grocery home shopping retail business. Having originally supplied map data to Tesco for strategic analysis and planning, MapMechanics is now also the supplier of the mapping used in the daily scheduling of Tesco.com’s fleet of home delivery vehicles.
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MapMechanics’ ultra-fast drivetime calculations underpin fire response prediction tool
An extremely rapid yet accurate travel-time calculation system supplied by MapMechanics has proved a key element in the development of a significant new risk assessment tool that will eventually plot fire service response times to any postcode in the UK. It includes an interactive map display that allows users to select a time band and immediately see which areas can be reached by a fire service within that time.Read More
More seamless Oracle mapping integration as MapMechanics gains Gold status
More seamless integration between digital mapping and Oracle enterprise-level software is now available to users through enhanced Oracle support introduced by MapMechanics, one of Britain’s leaders in digital mapping and geographic information systems.Read More
The future mapped out in composite data set from Barbour ABI and MapMechanics
Business planners, strategists and analysts can now view the location of future building developments on detailed maps of the surrounding area, thanks to a new initiative led jointly by MapMechanics, a specialist in mapping and geographic information systems, and Barbour ABI, an expert in gathering, processing and presenting information on UK planning applications and construction contracts. Read More
Which postcode sectors adjoin each other? MapMechanics offers fast way to find out
Two new products from MapMechanics, the UK-based specialist in digital mapping and related data, underline the benefits of the company’s Process Promise scheme, which saves users from many of the intricacies and hassles of preparing and formatting map data for their specific requirements. MapMechanics processes the data so the user doesn’t have to. Read More
NAVTEQ map data helps Celtrak monitor speeds and build bespoke speed zones
NAVTEQ digital mapping and road speed limit data supplied by UK-based mapping and logistics software specialist MapMechanics have become key components in the fast-growing range of driver performance and safety products offered by Celtrak, an international telematics and GPS vehicle tracking company based in Ireland. Read More
ITIS speed data renamed and enhanced following INRIX acquisition
The popular ITIS road speed data, which is processed by UK-based mapping technology company MapMechanics for use in drivetime and vehicle routing and scheduling software, is now known informally as INRIX data. The change follows the acquisition of ITIS Holdings plc by INRIX Inc. MapMechanics markets the data under the brand name GB Speeds.Read More
More maps and geodemographics, lower prices
Just what does it cost to live and work in the UK these days? Where is the retail market performing well and badly? How is consumer spending faring elsewhere in the world? New data providing detailed information on these and other highly topical issues is listed in the extensively revised and updated allmapdata web site, www.allmapdata.com Read More
MapMechanics’ wide-ranging transport resource set helps cope with the games
Although most organisations likely to be affected by travel and transport restrictions during this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games now know about the challenge they face, many have still not determined how best to cope with it. Read More
GeoXploit helps HomeSun find households suitable for solar energy
GeoXploit, the powerful but user-friendly package of mapping and geographical analysis tools from MapMechanics, is playing a key role in supporting and streamlining a nationwide drive by HomeSun Ltd to stimulate the take-up of solar-generated electricity in homes across Britain.. Read More
Henkel maps out field merchandising territories with help from MapMechanics
Henkel UK & Ireland, the producer of famous adhesive brands such as Solvite, Loctite, Unibond and Pritt Stick, has set up an in-house field merchandising team to enhance its interaction with leading DIY retail businesses. Logical and economical regions for each merchandiser have been created in a geographic modelling project from MapMechanics. Read More
Intuitive new allmapdata web resource puts users in control
A major new online resource has been launched for organisations buying digital map data and related information such as business data and demographic data. It is called allmapdata, and can be viewed at www.allmapdata.com. Read More
MapMechanics helps L'Oréal keep professional product sales on target
A package of software and digital mapping products from MapMechanics is playing a key role in helping the L'Oréal Professional Products Division (LPPD), part of the international L'Oréal cosmetics group, to sustain strong growth in a constantly changing market. Read More
MapMechanics' rounded GIS streamlines analysis for BNP Paribas Real Estate
the UK's commercial property market, has gained new ability to provide clients with detailed geographical-based analysis and planning support with a wide-ranging package of software, maps and data from MapMechanics. Read More
MapMechanics helps MVA refine greener, more cost-effective modelling
"Real-world road speeds without the need for expensive data collection" – that is how MVA Consultancy sums up one of the key potential economic benefits of the NAVTEQ mapping and travel data sets it has licensed through MapMechanics. Read More
