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About Us

What We Do

It starts with the data! We receive several thousand Engineering Drawings, Legal Plans and Concept Plans that we track, scan, and digitize into our GIS. This GIS data becomes all of the layers you see in our Maps which we create and analyze to make better decisions. We also develop Mapping Applications like our popular COSMOS.

Over the years we've been featured in case studies and have been forturnate enough to receive a few awards. If you want to stay informed on what we're doing or hear about new features and datasets, visit our Stay Connected page for more information.

If you have a question or want more information, please visit our Contact Us page.

 

Awards

2008 ESRI - Special Achievement in GIS

2006 ESRI Canada - Award of Excellence for Enterprise GIS

2000 ESRI Canada - Award for Innovation In the Field of GIS

 

Selected Articles and News

2008 SAFE Software Case Study: City of Surrey's Self-Service Data System 

2007 ESRI Canada ArcNorth News Article

2005 Latitude Geocortex Featured Application - COSMOS 

2000 ICIS Member Profile: City of Surrey

 

Selection of Conference Presentations

Keep it Simple Stupid: or If The Shoe Fits Wear It

2009 URISA BC Seminar 'The Changing Face of GIS' presented by Bill McKay GIS Coordinator

Surrey City Centre Digital 3D Building Model 

2009 URISA BC Seminar 'The New Dimension in GIS 3D Analysis' presented by Stuart Jones Senior Planner

COSMOS - Hotlinking with IMF

2007 Latitude User Conference presentation by Sean Simpson GIS Manager and Kyler Storm GIS Analyst. Discussed how custom COSMOS tools are used to locate and view drawings using a spatial search.

Service Request in the Management Lifecycle 

2007 URISA BC Semiar 'Asset Management/Asset Accounting: GIS Bring Them Together'. Presentation by Rob Costanzo Deputy Operations Manager Engineering.

E-Commerce Based GIS Data Delivery via Spatial Direct

2008 SAFE Software International User Conference presentation by Mark Laudon Senior GIS Analyst

Moving to GIS from CAD with Custom Tools: Leveraging the Power of the Geodatabase

2008 ESRI User Conference presentation by Sean Simpson GIS Manager. Discussed how Surrey developed custom tools to automated data input and maintenance.

Integrating Cityworks & Musing on the #13 

2007 URISA BC Seminar 'GIS Applications & Data Integration' presented by Barbara Davey Applications Manager and Gary Harms Application Architect.