A warm(er) welcome to this Spring edition of Field Views — hopefully we’ve now seen the end of the extended winter snow and associated havoc that it brought! It’s great to see the lighter nights coming in, and also the more pleasant outdoor working conditions which I know signal the start of this year’s field work projects for many of you...

In this edition, we open with a feature on our partner Ordnance Survey, and a look at how the combination of GeoField and OS digital maps has enabled a number of mobile solutions to deliver on their promised benefits. We also feature a powerful new ultra mobile device from Viliv and, while this year’s problems are still fresh in your mind, we have some thoughts on how you could better prepare for the operational difficulties that next winter could bring.

If you are out and about over the coming months, we look forward to meeting you alongside our partners at both the forthcoming Ordnance Survey Local Government & Emergency Services Event and ESRI (UK) Annual Conference. Pop by our stand to say hello and to see how you could benefit from our most recent GeoField developments.

I’d like to finish by saying thanks for all the positive feedback that we’ve received following our most recent edition of Field Views, which now reaches over 450 of our friends and partners in the UK and beyond. Please use this blog to join in the conversation with us and comment on any of our articles, or suggest topics that you’d like us to cover.

Best wishes,
Paul Reid, Managing Director