Vector’s mobile GIS work brought network information into field operations. Gareth Williams described this work in the research collected for this history.
Its 1999 asset plan documents early 1990s GIS data conversion and subsequent Smallworld migration.
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- Building a workstation laboratoryUniversity teaching and research
- Teaching with scarce accessUniversity teaching and research
- A mixed software marketCompanies and user groups
- Converting the archiveLandonline
- The map reaches the browserDigital topography
- Position and interpretationGPS in practice
- People between antenna and databaseGPS in practice
- GIS goes into the fieldGPS in practice
- Maintaining imageryAerial imagery
- A photograph you can measureAerial imagery
- From project image to GIS layerAerial imagery
- Interpreting imageryAerial imagery
- Discrete global gridsSpatial data infrastructure
- Formats become everyday infrastructureDesktop GIS
- Parallel software systemsDesktop GIS
- Desktop limitationsDesktop GIS
- The network as operational dataUtility networks
- Paper plans become a registerUtility networks
- Wellington Electricity rebuilds the linksUtility networks
- Gas and the layered network stackUtility networks
- Keeping the model currentUtility networks
- One asset, several systemsUtility networks
- Smallworld at VectorUtility networks
- The field moves closerUtility networks
- Auckland lifelines, established in 1996Utility networks
- One dataset, several patternsHealth population and place
- A map without GIS softwareEarly web mapping
- Synchronising back to the officeGIS in the field
- Handheld equipmentGIS in the field
- Forty iPAQs and six ToughbooksGIS in the field
- S-map and Our EnvironmentMapping applications
- The point cloud becomes a datasetLiDAR mapping
- Raster work before commercial GISEarly remote sensing
- Location joins the business systemsEnterprise GIS
- Types of serviceSpatial services and the cloud
- Applications call geographySpatial services and the cloud
- A geospatial surgeDisaster response and live mapping
- AI enters practiceGIS and AI in 2025
- AI before the boomGIS and AI in 2025
- Learning from examplesGIS and AI in 2025
- Custom GIS developmentDigital land inventories
- A national land inventoryDigital land inventories
- From in-house to commercial GISDigital land inventories
- LADEDADigital land inventories
- Inventory boundariesDigital land inventories
- A local marketEarly GIS systems
- From LADEDA to ARC/INFOEarly GIS systems
- By the end of the 1980sEarly GIS systems
- Defining GISEarly GIS systems
- Teaching GISEarly GIS systems
- Scientific map recordsScientific mapping
- Rebuilding the geological mapScientific mapping