GIS for infrastructure and government
Organisations where the map is an operational tool, not a nice-to-have, and where downtime has consequences.
Networks and assets that people depend on
Telecommunications, roads, railways, energy and water networks are spatial by nature, and their operators need an accurate, always available record of what is where.
- Network registries for telecom operators and infrastructure owners
- Road and asset management: inventory, condition, works and permits
- Planning and analysis: capacity, coverage, routing, impact
- Field work: mobile data collection and synchronised updates
Telecommunications and road management are the fields we have worked in most so far.
Spatial data infrastructure you can rely on and own
Public bodies need systems that last, can be audited and fit procurement rules.
- Open standards: OGC services and INSPIRE-aligned data and metadata, so systems interoperate between agencies
- Data sovereignty: on-premise, national or private cloud and air-gapped deployments, with no dependency on a foreign SaaS
- Independence from vendors: open licences mean the next tender is open too
- Security and access control: single sign-on, roles, audit logs and a patch routine, in support of your security requirements
- Emergency and operational mapping: platforms that stay up when demand spikes
What mission-critical means in practice
Availability
Targets such as 99.9% or higher, set per system and met through redundancy and automatic failover.
Recoverability
Agreed recovery time and data loss limits, backed by regular, documented restore drills.
Data integrity
Constraints, topology rules, history and audit trail, so you can always say who changed what.
Long-term maintainability
Standard components, documentation and automation, so the system outlives any one person or supplier.
The mapping engine of a utility work management system
Live map of work items, routing, workforce optimisation and geocoding for an electricity and gas distribution company, on PostGIS, pgRouting, vector tiles and MapLibre.
Specifying a linear asset register: referencing and time
Linear referencing and change over time explained, from the specification and quality assurance of a government project worth tens of millions of euros.
From a municipality's request to a right-sized architecture
How we scoped an on-premise web GIS for a city administration, and what changes for larger municipalities.
SURVIOT: the always-on platform we built
The founders of MaptIQ created SURVIOT, a structural health monitoring platform for bridges, tunnels and buildings. It was born in 2020 on the construction of the M85 motorway tunnel in Sopron. When SURVIOT Monitoring Ltd. was founded in 2022, we transferred the intellectual property to the new company, which now develops and sells the product. We remain its founders.
- Always on: sensors and total stations stream data around the clock into one web platform
- Many users, one truth: contractors, designers and authorities work from the same live data, with alerts and reports
- Proven on site: the M85 Sopron tunnel, the twin-tube tunnels of the Romanian A1 motorway, and load tests on bridges for the Hungarian public road operator
SURVIOT is a separate company with its own product. For structural monitoring, go to surviot.com. For custom GIS development, high availability and data integration, that is what MaptIQ does, with the same people and the same engineering discipline.