SeaZone History
The History Timeline below shows the evolution of SeaZone from its initial inception as a business unit within Metoc plc, a leading UK marine consultancy, through to its establishment as an independent company and growth to its current position as market leader for marine geographic information, software and services.
History Timeline
Sep 1995 |
Metoc begins digitising paper copies of Admiralty charts, or using third-party data acquired from private producers of digital navigational products, under licence from the UKHO for internal project work. |
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Nov 2001 |
Metoc appointed as a value added reseller of UKHO to licence the data to customers from November 2001 onwards. |
Sep 2002 |
Metoc joins UKHO Licensed Partnering programme as part of the UKHO's wider markets initiative. |
Jun 2003 |
SeaZone branded data service launched at a marine GIS conference, IMarEST, London. |
Apr 2004 |
SeaZone Solutions Limited established as a joint venture company between Metoc and Admiralty Holdings Limited (AHL), a company owned by the UK Secretary of State for Defence and operated on his behalf by the UKHO. |
Sep 2005 |
Metoc relinquished its stake in the business and SeaZone Solutions Limited became wholly-owned by Admiralty Holdings Ltd (AHL), one of many companies wholly owned by Government. |
Nov 2005 |
SeaZone becomes a world leader in the field of marine geographic information as a result of launching the first off the shelf digital marine map, SeaZone HydroSpatial, at AGI Conference, London. |
Sep 2006 |
SeaZone wins AGI 2006 Exhibitors Technical Innovation Award for SeaZone HydroSpatial. |
April 2007 |
SeaZone delivers HydroSpatial harmonised with Ordnance Survey land mapping (Mastermap Topography Layer) for the Thames Estuary to UK Government under SeaZone's Coastal Mapping Improvement Programme. |
Nov 2007 |
SeaZone registers as an INSPIRE spatial data interest community and submits SeaZone HydroSpatial data specification as example of best practice. |
Sept 2008 |
SeaZone continues to improve SeaZone HydroSpatial, including its interoperability with other datasets, and expand its geographic coverage. There are now more than 400 established customers using SeaZone data. |
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