OUR RESOURCES

The Company occupies a map publishing facility at its primary Coquitlam site which consists of 5200 square feet of office, laboratory, and warehouse space. Our networked NT operating system includes our own design workstations coupled to 21" monitors, a high resolution scanner, 17"x22" high resolution color plotter, HP4450N Color LaserJet printer and other smaller peripherals. Our cartographic laboratory is equipped with a 34"x44" vacuum frame, 2Kw exposure unit, 40"x40" punch register system, and other cartographic lab equipment. We maintain control over photographic, photomechanical, and color processing but outsource our image-setting work.

We operate and continually develop an Intergraph Map Publishing System designed to meet our needs in routine geomatics operations as well as satisfy demand for power and flexibility in spatial analysis and in the design and creation of high resolution graphics required in the outputting of thematic map data.

The core of this system is the Intergraph MGE suite of programs complemented by the Oracle relational database and made fully functional by programs designed for data restoration and restructuring, heads-up interactive digitizing, interactive raster to vector conversion tools, air photo and satellite image processing, projection conversions, and map finishing. The engine of the system is the Bentley MicroStation program.

The system is currently being updated and upgraded to capture new advances in the technology and to increase the system's power and flexibility. The following diagram represents the new system: