Neetmaps was set up in 2014 by Dave Partridge and is based in Bude, Cornwall overlooking the river Neet.
Developments with open source software and database platforms over the past few years and the sheer number of data available today as Open Data have really transformed what is on offer to individuals and organisations for whom up until recently digital mapping was an un-affordable luxury.
Neetmaps has been set up to help others each with their own unique set of mapping related issues – either training clients to produce mapping for themselves or providing bespoke services and expert technical support.
Dave has 20 years experience in digital mapping and Geographic Information. He gained his original degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Surveying and Mapping Science in the mid 1990’s and went on to qualify as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shortly after in 1997.
He has worked for a number of Survey and Mapping companies across the UK including Simmons Mapping (now part of Blom), Survey Supplies (now Korec) and Landmark Information Group. He has had a wide variety of experience ranging from updating Ordnance Survey 1:2500 scale rural mapping to working on 3D models of the channel tunnel rail link, to assisting with the data capture and editing of the Royal Parks grounds maintenance GIS.
He has spent over 12 years working as the GIS Officer for Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) ten years of which, he had sole responsibility for the day to day management of the Authority’s Mapping system. He has skills in training people of all abilities, managing data (capture and loading) and dealing with copyright issues as well as procuring new data including Aerial Photography and latterly getting to grips with LiDAR data.
Neetmaps aim is to offer training and support to others to help share knowledge as well as to produce high quality products for valued clients.