Welcome to our latest newsletter; it has been a while since our last but an incredible amount seems to have happened in the interim and I hope the following excites you as much as it does us.

-> GIS2001
-> Kiosks
-> Ordnance Survey Land-form Profile
-> Website Update
-> OS MasterMap
-> Aerial Photography
-> OS Internet Street Map
-> Spreading the Word

GIS2001
Good to see you there if you were and sorry if you were unable to make it to the first chance to see our mapping application kiosks. Taking a rather different approach from GIS2000 eMapSite had instead a small booth and 4 colourful and exciting kiosks located around the show showing a variety of applications.

Visitor-centric map kiosks are ideal for Tourist Information Centres (TICs), train, tube and bus stations, the tourism and leisure industries, corporate hospitality and any other location where the public might seek information on a 24 hour basis.

Citizen-centric or "citizen-links" versions also offer local authorities the facility to provide locality specific information to their stakeholders using different data. The key thing is the ease of access and the role of mapping.

- contact Justin Saunders (justin.saunders@emapsite.com) to find out more or check it out by clicking here.

Kiosks
And talking of kiosks:

Camden Lock Information Centre opens for business this weekend. As you extract yourself from the market this Sunday in search of a cup of coffee, dive into the Grade II listed building next to the lock and sample a latte, a light lunch and a look at the latest in map centric public information points. Four touch screen interfaces afford access to over 5,000 locations within the Borough of Camden enabling you to find a museum to visit, a specialist retail outlet, an ATM or even somewhere else to eat, all through the easy to use map and airphoto interface showing your favourite haunts as you've never seen them before. And the kiosk tells you how to get between all these places by bus too!

New Forest Tourist Information Centre, Lyndhurst, England: the Ordnance Survey recently completed installation of their latest map viewing and printing kiosk developed by eMapSite If you are passing pop-in to print off a full colour map of your area of interest at 1:50,000 scale or 1:25,000 scale.

Ordnance Survey, Southampton, England: has taken delivery of a variant of the printing kiosk for use in their Business Centre and in external marketing activities. Any time you visit their headquarters keep an eye out.

Please contact us for our Press Release on the coming of mapping applications for kiosks.

Ordnance Survey Land-form Profile
Many of our users will know that we offer OS Land-form Panorama online. Now, for the first time anywhere users can purchase 1:10,000 scale high resolution (10m interval) Profile data from eMapSite in ready-to-use interpolated grids for their own areas of interest.

With prices from as low as £1/sq km there has never been a better time to start using this data.

If you are a surveyor, landscape architect, civil engineer, geologist or geotechnical expert, games developer, visualisation or modelling specialist, this is the product for you.

To learn more please contact Miles Gabriel (miles.gabriel@emapsite.com) for our press release and additional information.

Website Update
See our improvements in the Buy process, keep track of our press releases, see what other software now supports ECW format data and URL delivery; keep coming back as we will be augmenting the applications pages and other areas of the website over the next quarter.

OS MasterMap
We can't pretend you read about it here first as the OS has a major marketing blitz on ahead of the formal launch of the much-heralded national data infrastructure that is the OS MasterMap.

If you have any questions at all about this data set and its implications for your business in technical and commercial areas please contact us. And, if you are wondering what products eMapSite are bringing to market based on OS MasterMap then watch this space.

In the meantime you can request quotes for period licensed data with us by emailing osm@emapsite.com or faxing (0118 973 0002) the details of your area of interest. Please use full OS grid references and advise your preferred delivery format and we will return a quote to you.

Aerial Photography
England is covered - at 25cm resolution! If you live in England, work in England, have friends or relations in England or have business interests in England then geo-corrected aerial photography for your area of interest is available from eMapSite.

Wales and Scotland are also nearing completion with all the major urban areas now available and more than 50% of Northern Ireland has now been flown.

So, whatever your area, come browse and buy at eMapSite.

AGI Conference 2001
As those who attended will know our Chief Executive gave the opening paper on the first day. If you would like a copy of his paper "G2B - bringing geography to business, e-procurement comes to mapping" or of the presentation please contact this office.

OS Internet Street Map
As you may know eMapSite was the first (and still only) reseller to offer this 1:10000 scale street level mapping product from the OS online. It is exceptionally priced for the quantity of information within it and should be a must-have procurement item where street-sensitive information is essential in communicating with stakeholders. While the product has been taken up extensively online it offers a host of benefits in other areas.

Please contact Miles Gabriel (miles.gabriel@emapsite.com) to find out more.

Spreading the Word
In our endeavours to minimise spam and maintain good customer relations we recognise that we may only be communicating with one individual, project or department within your organisation.

If you are a client then we value your custom, your goodwill and your feedback and we hope that you appreciate the benefits of using eMapSite for your geographic data procurement requirements. We would be delighted if you were able to advise us of other individuals to whom we could send this newsletter or if you can circulate this within your organisation yourself. We are sure that your colleagues will also want to benefit from eMapSite's services. Even if you are not yet a client please visit our website or contact us directly to learn more about the benefits and why the country's blue-chips continue to migrate to our services.

Wrapping up for autumn but keeping our nose and our services out front!

The eMapSite Team