GIS Geographical Information Systems

MapInfo . Intergraph . Unisys - International Experience
Our years of personal experience in the dynamic field of GIS have gained us international recognition by GIS software vendors and GIS end-users as leading consultants in the business. Having previosuly worked for several major vendors prior to the formation of netcarve, we are in the ideal position to assist clients with GIS solutions, be it MapInfo, Intergraph, or ESRI.

From specification to design to implementation; netcarve is the only independent GIS consultancy in Switzerland, whose consultants have such a vast range of experience of different GIS projects. We also publish, so watch our for our article in the May 1998 version of GIS Europe where we present the case for High return on Investment from large datasets.

Our consultants have experience with Swiss & international organizations including; MapInfo Deutschland and UK, Bureaux de Cadastre Geneva (CH), Ville de Fribourg (CH), ENSA Neuchatel, Canton Vaud Bureaux de Cadastre (CH), Neuchatel Bureaux de Cadastre (CH), Novasys SA (CH), Midlands Electricity (UK), South West Water (UK), British Telecom (UK), Southern Electric (UK).

One of our first clients was MapInfo, who required GIS specialists to help with customer solutions. We worked with MapInfo providing consultancy, software solutions, prototyping and training. Novasys SA of Lausanne, Berne and Geneva have also called upon our specialist to design and implement innovative GIS solutions for some of their key clients.

How to achieve a High ROI Return of Investment from your data
The focus of many GIS users in the beginning is data capture, the cost is immense, and the process often takes longer than initially expected. During the capture process however and following completion, every user wants to know how they can plough back some of the time and expense that they spent. GIS offers data-management, data-reporting, data-updates, data-output (graphical and non-graphical) and so on. It is a known fact however that payback from GIS does take time. Using GIS tools alone does also not allow you to explore the high-value data hidden in your data-sets. This is where the Artificial Intelligence AI technologies such as data-mining can help. Used with GIS data and tools, interactive data-mining can identify important patterns and rules from data within days or weeks. The discovered knowledge can then be applied to the business situation as appropriate.

We work closely with MapInfo, and are currently developing a link between MapInfo desktop mapping tools and the Clementine data-mining tool. Clementine has also recently announced a link with the leading statistics package SPSS.

Our article, to appear in GIS Europe May 1998, is an extract from our white paper "Does GIS Discover Knowledge?", where we have exposed the benefits of merging desktop mapping tools such as MapInfo with commercial interactive data-mining tools such as Clementine™ from ISL UK. For more information about how to profit from your data, after having spent many years collecting it, you can down load our white paper from this website. The paper should be an eye-opener for GIS users and data-mining users alike.
Large databases, spatial databases, data marts and data warehouses. Once you have the data, profit from it. GIS and data-mining.
For more information about our GIS services, contact netcarve.