Previous Issues - What's Happening in Mapping
August 2010
MDS Foundation Map, MDS joins AfMA, Esri's Dekho product leverages MDS Foundation Map, latest data updates, farwell to Laurie Edwards, Floods in Pakistan and the moon walk.
July 2010
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)- It's all about Geography, So what is GIS?, Industry solution - Retail and Franchise, MDS Foundation Map - The Perfect Background, New Zealand updates now shipping, Staff News - Eric Harrison, Did you know?- Standards, Metadata and Interoperability.....What's the big deal?
June 2010
Route Optimisation, automated tracking and real-time fleet reporting, Points of Interest (POI) continue to grow, one stop shop makes MDS the experts, Boat owners motor as new service puts wind in their sails, Did You Know - You can follow the soccer madness with Bing.
May 2010
What is Quality Geocoding, The next generation locators, new POI webpage, Customer Corner with Men of League and Did You Know - reading maps and spatial awareness.
April 2010
End of Financial Year - ANZAC and Mapping Data special, POI's get smarter, new staff join MDS, Field Service Mangement 2010 review, "I would walk 5,000 miles" and "I spy with my little eye".
March 2010
ESRI Australia Acquires MDS, Roadnet Updates - Clem7 in Brisbane, Route Optimisation a real winner, why you should track vehicles, Feedback from a customers' customer, FSM2010, "I like traffic lights".
February 2010
'Tenties' trend #5 Location-Based Everything, Data updates, QuickMap® Developer Toolkit, new POI's for cinemas, What's new in Tactician Online V6, What is Tactician Territory Manager, Impact of flood on insurance premiums "Let the buyer beware", How dangerous are level crossings?
January 2010
Report from Santa, iPhone still the rage in 2010, free site or territory offer extended, Toro upgrades, NTC releases online portal, Proximity study on cancer and the first road, traffic accident and car
December 2009
Sally writes to Santa, MDS adds locations of learning dataset, free site or territory report, Nationwide News benefits from improved distribution, MDS' hours over Christmas plus track Santa's live and what is the significance of holly at Christmas time.
November 2009
Spatilly Aware and Spatially Enabled, MDS improves planning and distribution performance, hear from the President of Tactician Corp, Lessons from Europe drive optimisation, ITS09 conference and Location Intelligence Seminar, new Product Marketing Manager and Did you Know that Nov 18th was GIS Day.
October 2009
Why customers are choosing MDS' Digital Mapping Data, Data updates, Events - Intelligent Transport Systems Summit, National Franchise Conference, Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2009, Tracking vehicles in PNG, NZ leads the way in efficient appliance, Origin Energy "Quick Swap" gas, Did you know NZ added $1.2 billion in benefits or where is the most remote place on earth.
September 2009
MDS Partners with the Franchisor to boost business, NFC09 - Perth (19-21 Oct), Data Update, Optus says “Yes” to MDS helping to map customer territories, MDS Drives Repco Rally Volunteers to Starting Positions, MDS to provide live traffic via the cloud, There's a lot we know about Australia, NZ and beyond.
August 2009
Tactician V6 Released, Attention Conveyancers, New "Kerb Side" Optimisation feature, Data Updates (suburbs, locality, postcodes), MDS provide ceiling insulation locator for rebate scheme, Loretta joins MDS, Landmark "The Hungry Mile" name officially recognised.
July 2009
Demographic revolution - Prospect, Plan, Play; New Categories - Points of Interest, Risk Frontiers V3.1 - Update to Flood database, MDS/Vodafone and voice recognition service, Medicare Australia updates online service, Celebrate winter in Canberra and discover with Vinefinders.