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XYZ Digital Map Company Latest News.
July 9 2010
The XYZ Digital Map Company win the Stanfords Award for Best Printed Map 2010, with their Postcode Sector Wall Map of Inner London.
XYZ sprung a surprise at the Annual Awards Gala Dinner of the British Cartographic Society when their Postcode Sector Wall Map of Inner London won the Stanfords Award for Best Printed Map 2010 beating some well known names in Map Publishing.
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June 30 2010
New City Map Postcode Sector Maps Launched
XYZ have launched A Series of 6 Map Sheets of the Most Congested Urban Areas, for Clearer Postcode Sector Boundaries.
These Large A0 (1189 x 841mm) Postcode Sector Maps. Have a Colour Map Background with all Roads and Street Names. Overlayed are Thick Red Lines Depicting Postcode Areas (EH, etc) and Thinner Red Lines Showing the Boundaries for the Postcode Sectors (EH14 1, EH14 2, etc) These are the most Detailed Postcode Maps Available.
There are 6 Map Sheets in the Series, Covering the City Centres of, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, with Liverpool and Manchester Following Shortly.
For Examples of the Sheets and Prices click here.
June 30 2010
New City Map Postcode Sector Maps Launched
XYZ have launched A Series of 6 Map Sheets of the Most Congested Urban Areas, for Clearer Postcode Sector Boundaries.
These Large A0 (1189 x 841mm) Postcode Sector Maps. Have a Colour Map Background with all Roads and Street Names. Overlayed are Thick Red Lines Depicting Postcode Areas (EH, etc) and Thinner Red Lines Showing the Boundaries for the Postcode Sectors (EH14 1, EH14 2, etc) These are the most Detailed Postcode Maps Available.
There are 6 Map Sheets in the Series, Covering the City Centres of, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, with Liverpool and Manchester Following Shortly.
For Examples of the Sheets and Prices click here.
June 30 2010
New City Map Postcode Sector Maps Launched
XYZ have launched A Series of 6 Map Sheets of the Most Congested Urban Areas, for Clearer Postcode Sector Boundaries.
These Large A0 (1189 x 841mm) Postcode Sector Maps. Have a Colour Map Background with all Roads and Street Names. Overlayed are Thick Red Lines Depicting Postcode Areas (EH, etc) and Thinner Red Lines Showing the Boundaries for the Postcode Sectors (EH14 1, EH14 2, etc) These are the most Detailed Postcode Maps Available.
There are 6 Map Sheets in the Series, Covering the City Centres of, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, with Liverpool and Manchester Following Shortly.
For Examples of the Sheets and Prices click here.
June 30 2010
New City Map Postcode Sector Maps Launched
XYZ have launched A Series of 6 Map Sheets of the Most Congested Urban Areas, for Clearer Postcode Sector Boundaries.
These Large A0 (1189 x 841mm) Postcode Sector Maps. Have a Colour Map Background with all Roads and Street Names. Overlayed are Thick Red Lines Depicting Postcode Areas (EH, etc) and Thinner Red Lines Showing the Boundaries for the Postcode Sectors (EH14 1, EH14 2, etc) These are the most Detailed Postcode Maps Available.
There are 6 Map Sheets in the Series, Covering the City Centres of, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, with Liverpool and Manchester Following Shortly.
For Examples of the Sheets and Prices click here.
June 6 2010
New Postcode Product Launched
XYZ have launched their Latest Dataset in their Postcode Range, Post Locator.
Post Locator which has all the Mainland UK Postcodes and is Accurate to 1m.
Post Locator contains A Positional Quality Indicator (PQI), which Indicates the Quality of the Data Underlying the Post Locator's Location Coordinate (PPLC), a Country Indicator (Scotland, England, Wales or Northern Ireland), National Health Service Region and Area Code, Local Goverment County, District and Wards Codes.
Post Locator provides a Comprehensive Base of Geographiclally Located Data on to which a Wide Range of Applications can be Built. Possible uses for Post Locator, Market Analysis, Risk Analysis for Insurance, Financial and Environmental Services, Site Location Analysis for Retailing, Lifestyle Analysis, Approximate Site Location for Route Planning.
Post Locator Details.
April 1st 2010
New Licence Terms from 1st April 2010
We have now received the new PAF® Data Licence Agreement that will be effective from April 2010. Please note the new licence does not effect Postzon at the present, Royal Mail are still working on that particular licence.
- The Locality level licence has been removed, the "Part PAF®" fees will cover data at Thoroughfare level or below.
System or Multi-System licences have been removed. Instead volume licensing is by 300 user blocks with a cap at 900 for internal use, or unlimited external transactions.
February 26th 2010
People’s Map gets Silver Award for Best Digital Data Product
We are very pleased to announce that the People’s Map London received the Silver Award for Best Digital Data Product at the Gala Awards Dinner on Friday 26th February in Bayonne, France. The International Map Trade Association is the World Wide association for map makers and retailers. The award was made for the four tiles of Inner London. Attendees came from across the World, including Nigeria, the USA, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Germany, France, Australia, the UK, etc, and included, to name just one, the Vice President of Cartography for National Geographic in Washington.
The following maps we have made, but which appeared under a different brand, also won awards:
The Millennium House Great World Atlas (not to be confused with the Earth Atlas) won the Gold Award for best map book. We did all the maps of Europe.
The AGT Geocentre World Political and Thematic Wall Map won Gold for the best wall map. This is our World 1:30 million scale map translated into Russian and with the addition of some panels of thematic information.
PAF Quarter 2 2010 Updates Released
The latest versions of the popular Royal Mail PAF Data is now available.
Avenza MAPublisher 8.3 and Geographic Imager 3.0 now released
Avenza Systems of Canada have released the latest upgrades to their widely used Cartographic / GIS plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator and Abode Photoshop.
October 2008
Scottish Cartographers Work on World's Largest Atlas
21st October 2008
Scottish map company The XYZ Digital Map Company are proud to welcome the publication this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair of EARTH - The World Atlas. Earth is the largest atlas available and weighs in at over 30kgs, 576 pages, and a £2,000 price tag. Only 3,000 numbered leather bound copies have been produced with the printing plates then destroyed. It has a staggering 610mm x 469mm page size (36" by 18"), with a small number of fold-out pages for special feature images extending the width to nearly 2 metres (6ft).
The first copy of the atlas went on show at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, with stock for the UK market expected to arrive in early November. In the first week 26 copies have been sold in the UK, with nearly half the total already sold world-wide (including special gold-leaf covered copies for the Middle East).
Millennium House, the Australian based publishers, contracted The XYZ Digital Map Company to undertake the map plates for the Europe section of the atlas. Dr Tim Rideout, a Director, commented "we are delighted to have worked on such a prestigious project. These were definitely not just the largest format, but also the largest scale and most detailed atlas pages we have ever been asked for". The book is not just a magnificient record of our time with hundreds of the best available photographs, comprehensive facts and figures on each country, and extensive highly detailed maps, but it is also a collector's item and an investment for the future (and with a weight that means the delivery couriers need special health and safety clearance to lift it, a rather more solid investment than a bank share!).
We are also pleased that our involvement has not ended with the delivery of the maps as XYZ are acting as one of the UK retailers of the atlas. The first copy was sold by our online shop (shop.xyzmaps.com) a week ago.
April 2007
XYZ Trains Nigerian Army
25th April 2007. - Tim Rideout and Mark Fairbairn, directors of The XYZ Digital Map Company, have just recently returned from a successful ten day trip to Lagos, Nigeria where they were hired to train 15 Nigerian army engineers, and software consultants in the use of MapInfo, MAPublisher, and Adobe Illustrator.
Tim and Mark with the army engineers in Lagos, Nigeria.
The Nigerian army soldiers were trained for three days in MapInfo, and for a day each in MAPublisher and Adobe Illustrator.
Of his experience training in Lagos, Tim Rideout said: "All of the students were keen and enthusiastic, despite the heat and constant power outages. This marks a major venture by the Nigerian Army into the field of digital mapping."
In 2006 XYZ undertook training in Damascus in Syria for the Ministry of Surveys in association with SyriaCom, so are delighted to have extended training and consultancy activities to Africa, in addition to Europe and the Middle East.
July 2007
MAPublisher 7.5 includes some improvements to the functionality, but is primarily a maintenance release to provide compatibility with the new Illustrator CS3 (Illustrator 13). Users with CS1 or earlier should continue to use MAPublisher 7.3.
The latest major new UK user is RAF Northolt for the production of military aeronautical charts. This means major UK users now include the UK Hydrographic Office, Royal School of Military Survey, the RAF, the Royal Engineers, and the Civil Aviation Authority, amongst many others.
MAPublisher v. 7.5
March 2007
28th March 2007 - The XYZ Digital Map Company have recently updated their UK Postcode Districts and Sectors vector data sets for 2007. These changes reflect the last updates made by Royal Mail.
The data sets can be obtained from the online shop.
