As the world grows smaller each day, requirements for high accuracy mapping expand exponentially. The need to use limited land resources well, concerns over environmental issues, and advances in technology all require mapping to be more accurate than ever.
Room to Grow
Cities grow, especially around their edges, at an astounding rate. Skyscrapers, parking areas and shopping centers seem to appear overnight. Highly accurate maps are used to make the most efficient use of limited and rapidly changing land space. Developers, engineers and construction supervisors, who perform their work in tight areas that are developing quickly, depend on maps that show land areas as close to reality as possible.
Responsible Development
People as a whole are generally more concerned about environmental issues than in the recent past. Irresponsible use of land resources without regard to protecting native plants and wildlife has caused severe damage to some of the world’s most precious ecosystems. High accuracy mapping allows ecologically sensitive areas to be identified and protected while still allowing the land to be developed.
Charting a Course to the Future
Rapidly growing technology is propelling the world into a global village more quickly than anyone ever imagined. Advances in communications and the gathering and manipulation of electronic data create an ever increasing need for precise mapping tools to facilitate building trans-global projects such as pipelines that transport resources from one country to another. Planners of international railways, bridges and roads all depend on detailed and correct plotting to ensure they are selecting appropriate routes through sovereign nations and territories.
Throughout history cartography—the art and science of creating the most accurate representation possible of our land resources—has fueled mankind’s development of the natural world to fit the needs of people. The growth of cities and protection of the world’s natural resources as we share them globally require high accuracy mapping to make sure we continue that growth in a sensible manner.
Room to Grow
Cities grow, especially around their edges, at an astounding rate. Skyscrapers, parking areas and shopping centers seem to appear overnight. Highly accurate maps are used to make the most efficient use of limited and rapidly changing land space. Developers, engineers and construction supervisors, who perform their work in tight areas that are developing quickly, depend on maps that show land areas as close to reality as possible.
Responsible Development
People as a whole are generally more concerned about environmental issues than in the recent past. Irresponsible use of land resources without regard to protecting native plants and wildlife has caused severe damage to some of the world’s most precious ecosystems. High accuracy mapping allows ecologically sensitive areas to be identified and protected while still allowing the land to be developed.
Charting a Course to the Future
Rapidly growing technology is propelling the world into a global village more quickly than anyone ever imagined. Advances in communications and the gathering and manipulation of electronic data create an ever increasing need for precise mapping tools to facilitate building trans-global projects such as pipelines that transport resources from one country to another. Planners of international railways, bridges and roads all depend on detailed and correct plotting to ensure they are selecting appropriate routes through sovereign nations and territories.
Throughout history cartography—the art and science of creating the most accurate representation possible of our land resources—has fueled mankind’s development of the natural world to fit the needs of people. The growth of cities and protection of the world’s natural resources as we share them globally require high accuracy mapping to make sure we continue that growth in a sensible manner.