AGI is extremely pleased to see an important GI figure in both commercial and academic spheres being honoured with an MBE ‘for services to geographic information’. Professor Peter Peter Woodsford has been one of the major figures in the Geographic Information (GI) industry for more than 35 years. At the birth of the industry, he helped to launch Laser-Scan a highly innovative UK digital mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) company in the early 1970s which became a well recognised brand internationally, and subsequently held technical management and executive roles up to position of Chairman of its successor 1Spatial (retiring in late 2009). He has also been involved with Snowflake Software since 2002 and is currently its Non-Executive Chairman. Read More
