A later technical account by Geoff Howard, Robin Pickering, Dave Mole and Peter Woodsford records that Surveyor-General Bill Robertson approved a business case around 1987 to convert the 1:250,000 mapping into a digital database. The programme was expected to take about three years but was reported as completed in roughly eighteen months.
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The 1999 account adds Dave Mole and Peter Woodsford during the move to Laser-Scan technology.
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- People behind the databaseDigital topography
- A small-scale database firstDigital topography