Wednesday 15th November, which was World GIS Day, saw the rescheduled GIS Ireland conference take place following its postponement in October due to Hurricane Ophelia. The irony of an event themed on Climate Change being postponed due to Climate Change was not lost on the conference organising committee who had to make the difficult but correct decision to call the event off last month.
We had a very good day at the conference, and these are 5 of our Key Takeaways from the day.
1. GIS Ireland continues to be the premier annual conference
Despite the rescheduling of the conference it was very well attended, and we were extremely busy at the Gamma stand. We were showcasing Spectrum Spatial Analyst, which is Pitney Bowes Web GIS application, alongside MapInfo 16 which it integrates with seamlessly. If you would like more information on these products, be sure to contact us.
Our colleagues at Autoaddress were also in attendance and were talking to customers, old and new, about Eircode and how the Autoaddress solution reduces overheads and increases accuracy.
2. Food for thought from the Plenary Session
I also gave a keynote presentation on Flood Mapping in Ireland, which looked at the extensive range of data which is now available, from local to international, along with some of the technical solutions for working with this data, including Perilfinder™ and the integrated MapInfo / Spectrum Spatial Analyst solution.