Quo Is Official Mountain Rescue Mapping
Mapyx Quo announced as official partner of Mountain Rescue England and Wales.
Posted: 1 March 2010
by Jon
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.
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