Company Overview

Established in 1977, Hunter and Associates is an integrated multidisciplinary environmental and engineering consulting firm with advanced remote sensing, geographic information system and information technology experience. Services encompass concept development, research, surveys, project evaluation, feasibility studies, planning and design, assessment, modelling, licensing and permitting, and expert witness support. Hunter and Associates is authorized to practice professional Engineering in the Province of Ontario in accordance with the provisions of the Professional Engineers Act, 1970.

Hunter GIS was established in 1985 to reflect Hunter's corporate initiatives in geographic information systems (GIS) software development ongoing in Canada since 1981. Hunter GIS offers a broad range of comprehensive GIS solutions for Local Government, Utilities, Telecommunications, Transportation and Natural Resources industries. A number of fundamental services are provided in support of their clients, including application development and customization, project management and design, fit (needs) analysis, business plan development, network and system analysis, data conversion, and turnkey system and project delivery.

For nearly five years, Hunter GIS has been maximizing the power of the web for the GIS community by developing advanced enterprise solutions using Autodesk MapGuide as the core technology. Hunter GIS has established itself as the Premier Application and Solution developer for Autodesk MapGuide. Hunter's leading-edge MapGuide Toolkits and Solutions extend 'out-of-the-box' MapGuide spatial query (point and pick) capabilities into fully topological GIS applications. MapGuide becomes an interactive web-enabled GIS product capable of analysis and on-line update of enterprise data sets.

Hunter GIS is a member of the Autodesk Developer Network and is an Autodesk GIS System Center for MapGuide.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Garry T. Hunter & Associates Limited

Number of Employees: 10

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Services

• Computer Software And Services - Application Development And Customization
• Computer Software And Services - Data Conversion
• Computer Software And Services - Geographic Information Systems (gis)

  Hunter GIS offers a complete range of turnkey GIS implementation services, including software development, data conversion, systems integration, outsourcing, technical support and consulting.

• Computer Software And Services - Network And System Analysis
• Computer Software And Services - Project Management And Design
• Computer Software And Services - Remote Sensing
• Computer Software And Services - Systems Integration
• Computer Software And Services - Technology Transfer And Support
• Computer Software And Services - Web Services
• Computer Software And Services - Web-based Gis

  Utility infrastructure, resource, planning, work management and customer information may be web-enabled on Corporate Intranets, as well as on the Internet. This impressive technology has the potential to produce dramatic operational benefits through improved data communication. Information may be delivered to the desktop at very low cost in easily accessible formats throughout and beyond the enterprise.

• Environmental Consultant - Biological And Ecosystem Studies
• Environmental Consultant - Coastal Areas And Shoreline Management
• Environmental Consultant - Consulting
• Environmental Consultant - Engineering Design/Specifications
• Environmental Consultant - Environmental Impact Assessments
• Environmental Consultant - Erosion Control/Landslide Protection
• Environmental Consultant - Field Sampling And Monitoring
• Environmental Consultant - Gis Applications
• Environmental Consultant - Hydrogeology
• Environmental Consultant - Industry-mining And Metallurgy
• Environmental Consultant - Integrated Resource Management
• Environmental Consultant - Mapping Of Resources/Land Types
• Environmental Consultant - Natural Area Parks, Recreation And Tourism
• Environmental Consultant - Oceanography/Hydrography
• Environmental Consultant - Remote Sensing & Image Analysis
• Environmental Consultant - Risk Assessment
• Environmental Consultant - Rural Land Management
• Environmental Consultant - Silviculture And Other Forestry
• Environmental Consultant - Site Assessment
• Environmental Consultant - Site/Land Reclamations
• Environmental Consultant - Socioeconomic Studies
• Environmental Consultant - Soil And Groundwater
• Environmental Consultant - Stormwater Runoff
• Environmental Consultant - Systems Modelling Or Design
• Environmental Consultant - Urban Planning
• Environmental Consultant - Water Quality
• Environmental Consultant - Water Resources Planning
• Environmental Consultant - Wildlife And Natural Habitat Enhancement
• Gis Database Design And Preparation

Products

• Hunter Gis Mapguide Application Toolkits

  Through the use of Hunter GIS MapGuide Application Toolkits, a developer can transform Autodesk MapGuide from a viewing tool into an interactive web-enabled GIS product capable of analysis and on-line update of enterprise data sets. Each Hunter GIS Application Toolkit contains a set of design concepts and programming components which assists in the development of customized intranet/Internet applications for Autodesk MapGuide. Sample applications provided with each Toolkit may be modified to access customer data sets and provide simplified universal access to functions such as querying databases and generating notifications (mailing lists). Applications can be written as HTML and ColdFusion pages using a typical HTML editor. Experienced developers may extend the functionality of the Toolkits with additional CGI programs and Java/JavaScript development.

  Currently available Toolkits include Automated Query/Buffer, Shortest Path / Travelling Salesman, Interactive Map Editing and Redlining, Interactive Map Clipping, Thematic Mapping, Thiessen Polygons, Transect Profiling and Utility Shutoff.

• Hunter Gis Solutions For Autodesk Mapguide

  Hunter GIS develops economically efficient, robust web- based Solutions using Autodesk MapGuide and Allaire's ColdFusion. These Solutions are optimized for network performance and are driven from Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, ORACLE and other ODBC compliant databases. The focus of Hunter's efforts is to provide universal, ready access to corporate data utilizing a common user-friendly interface. Hunter GIS offers a complete range of consulting and customization services for all of their product offerings.

  Hunter GIS MapGuide Solutions are structured in such a way that an authorized user may simultaneously access from the desktop local and/or remote servers with up-to-date base mapping, orthophotos, single line street networks, parcel tax assessment, underground utility infrastructure (gas, electric, water, sewer, telephone, cable and fibre optics), call centre and corporate billing information maintained by others.

  Hunter's extensive library of MapGuide Solutions created for the municipal, utility and natural resource sectors include: Parcel Tax Assessment, 911' Emergency Services, Road Information Management, Electrical, Gas, Water & Sewer Infrastructure, One Call' Locate, Web-Enabled Drawings, Development Tracking, Call Centre (Trouble Call), Well Records Management, Forest Resource Inventory, Soil Mapping and Inventory.

• Hunter Gis V5.4 (geographic Information Systems Software)

NAICS Categories

• 541330 Engineering Services
• 541510 Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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