Digital Mapping Systems
Saskatoon, SK
Company Overview
Digital Mapping Systems provides surveying and mapping services to customers with marketing and engineering applications. Since its beginnings in land surveying in 1985, Digital Mapping Systems has expanded its capabilities to computer mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for municipal and marketing applications.
Services provided include:
Surveying precision leveling, control and cadastral surveys GIS conversion of paper maps to digital form, digitizing, software development, digital format translation (AutoCAD, SaskGIS, MapInfo)
Digital Mapping Systems is currently active in two main areas. It continues to provide control and cadastral survey and digital mapping services. The survey services can be provided with electronic total stations and levels, and more recently with GPS receivers.
The company has also been active in the digital data gathering for the cadastral base map compiled by the Central Surveys and Mapping Agency (CSMA) of Saskatchewan. It has developed its own software using AutoCAD Lisp and the C programming language for DOS and UNIX to supply data in the format required by CSMA. The company provided a similar system for CSMA to extract municipal and other boundaries from CSMA data. The system generated enough interest that the package was documented and supplied with training to the other consultants working with the CSMA data. The software can be adapted to convert other formats.
In addition to the digital data gathering, Digital Mapping Systems provided CSMA with software to convert the finished product to MapInfo format. MapInfo is becoming a popular GIS package to handle the CSMA SaskGIS product. The Heritage Branch of the Saskatchewan Municipal Government manages archeological sites with a Windows-based MapInfo GIS data base developed by Digital Mapping Systems using CSMA's SaskGIS product. The system uses the half million quarter section within Saskatchewan as a base for the GIS map. The Heritage Branch also uses the 1: 250, 000 NTS maps as an overlay to provide topographic features for the map.
In other areas, Digital Mapping Systems has developed a boundary and highway map of Saskatchewan suitable for marketing applications. It has topographic features, railways, highways and municipal boundaries with 1986 and 1991 Census Canada data. Also completed are street maps for some Saskatchewan cities that can be used for automated address matching. Several courier, ambulance and transportation companies use the maps for route design.
EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE PROVIDED Digital Mapping
TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES Equipment Graphics Edit Workstations Digitizing Tables Digital Plotting Systems GIS Workstations
Software Packages Horizontal Survey Adjustment Vertical Survey Adjustment Coordinate Geometry Interactive Graphics/Digital Mapping Computer-aided Drafting/Design Data Base Management Geographical Information Processing Format Conversion
Company Information
Physical Address
222 Willoughby Cres.
Saskatoon, SK S7H 4W7
CA
Mailing Address
222 Willoughby Cres.
Saskatoon, SK S7H 4W7
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: Digital Mapping Systems
Number of Employees: 3
CA
Contacts
Murray Marien
Title: Surveyor
Area of Responsibility: Research/Development/Engineering
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Services
- Geodetic/Control Surveying
- Land Surveying
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Land/Geographic Information
Processing and Consulting
- Precision Levelling & Cadastral Surveys Gis, Digital Data Gathering
- Software Development
NAICS Categories
Additional Information
541370