tags: civ.tech ; MTech ; GET.misc
No matter who you are or what you do, when you go somewhere new you need a map. Whether you're a driver visiting a foreign country or the captain of a sixty thousand ton oil tanker, there comes a point where you need to stop and get your bearings. The age of a glovebox filled with road atlases is long behind us, as are the days when we would get out of our cars in frustration to unfold acres of map on the car bonnet. We live in an age of data, where everything you need to know is just a few pressed buttons away. Sometimes all that information at once can be a bit too much.
T-O Cartographic specialises in helping you get the information you need and making sense of it. Our products include satnavs and analytical software designed for easy and rewarding data processing. With our systems, high quality map data is only a few clicks away.
When it comes to geographic information systems, we're the only name you need to remember.
Where can you find our systems? Our GIS software is used all across the world, by universities, local government and commercial firms. Our handheld satellite navigation systems are found in millions of cars. Our shipboard navigational equipment is what guarantees Maltropian warships are always on the right track.
Why the name? T-O maps were a kind of simplified representational medieval map of the world, named because the shape of the seas formed a T and the O is the encircling ocean. T-O maps ranged in complexity from an unlabelled T inside an O to the magnificent painted mappae mundi, twice as wide as a man's arm span. They show just how much, and just how little, the art and science of cartography has changed in the past thousands of years, and they perfectly encapsulate the value we put on even the most basic symbology.
That, and they're our founder's initials.
Tomás Oliver founded T-O Cartographic in 1991 after graduating from the University of Newmarsh. Together with his former classmate, Conall Pluincéid, he developed the first Maltropian-made commercial GIS during three months of unemployment. They called their system OmniMap. It was a very basic GIS, but as Oliver and Pluincéid contacted as many local councils and as many consultancies as they could find in their phone books they built up a long list of the needs their customers would have and how they could address them. From the very beginning, our systems have been user-oriented, and that hasn't changed one bit.
For the first three years, T-O Cartographic was a small company with no more than six people working out of a rented office on the outskirts of Corcaigh Nua. Our reputation grew far more rapidly than our staff in those early years. We've always been prudent with our success and cautious with our profits, and by staying small we weathered the Maltropia recession of the late '90s and emerged as a growing business.
Now we're the biggest provider of GIS in Maltropia, with over four thousand employees and offices in a dozen countries. Tens of thousands of companies and local goverment worldwide rely on our systems every day, and we are always there to support them. When you choose T-O Cartographic, you choose consistency, you choose reliability and you choose quality, and we will never let you down.
T-O Cartographic specialises in helping you get the information you need and making sense of it. Our products include satnavs and analytical software designed for easy and rewarding data processing. With our systems, high quality map data is only a few clicks away.
When it comes to geographic information systems, we're the only name you need to remember.
Where can you find our systems? Our GIS software is used all across the world, by universities, local government and commercial firms. Our handheld satellite navigation systems are found in millions of cars. Our shipboard navigational equipment is what guarantees Maltropian warships are always on the right track.
That, and they're our founder's initials.
Tomás Oliver founded T-O Cartographic in 1991 after graduating from the University of Newmarsh. Together with his former classmate, Conall Pluincéid, he developed the first Maltropian-made commercial GIS during three months of unemployment. They called their system OmniMap. It was a very basic GIS, but as Oliver and Pluincéid contacted as many local councils and as many consultancies as they could find in their phone books they built up a long list of the needs their customers would have and how they could address them. From the very beginning, our systems have been user-oriented, and that hasn't changed one bit.
For the first three years, T-O Cartographic was a small company with no more than six people working out of a rented office on the outskirts of Corcaigh Nua. Our reputation grew far more rapidly than our staff in those early years. We've always been prudent with our success and cautious with our profits, and by staying small we weathered the Maltropia recession of the late '90s and emerged as a growing business.
Now we're the biggest provider of GIS in Maltropia, with over four thousand employees and offices in a dozen countries. Tens of thousands of companies and local goverment worldwide rely on our systems every day, and we are always there to support them. When you choose T-O Cartographic, you choose consistency, you choose reliability and you choose quality, and we will never let you down.
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