Quo Is Official Mountain Rescue Mapping

Mapyx Quo is now the official GIS and mapping partner of Mountain Rescue England and Wales - MREW - with each recognised team and member of the organisation receiving a free copy of the software. GIS, if you were wondering, stands for Geographical Information Systems.


Mark Lewis, the Communications Officer for MREW, says: 'Digital mapping has been a project we’ve been investigating for some time and the wait has certainly paid off in choosing Mapyx as a partner to supply a solution to our specification at no cost. Since our first meeting with Mapyx I have never looked back.

'Every recognised team and member of Mountain Rescue England & Wales will benefit from the Quo package receiving a free copy with associated maps.

'This is a great achievement for MREW to enable a common GIS platform to be available across England & Wales - and without teams having to spend any of their limited funds.'

The development has been welcomed by the Ordnance Survey, which describes Quo mapping software as 'a superb digital mapping solution' and by Mapyx itself, with chairman Steve Wood who says:

'REW is a charity and not only needs support and funding from the public at large, but also needs improved technological capability, which Mapyx is pleased to deliver.  Our first step will be to ensure MREW has full digital mapping capability for the whole of England and Wales and then Mapyx will provide MREW with better search and rescue technology, which is currently under development.'

Mapyx Quo is free digital PC mapping software which you can download from the web site at www.mapyx.com/quo and use to run downloadable, paid-for OS digital mapping.