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Mapping the Underworld: MTU and VISTA

Media and Press interest in

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VISTA had its press launch  on 21/3/06 at the Science Media Centre in London: http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/press_briefings/06-03-21_pipes.pdf .
The two projects have since attracted considerable publicity in the media, including:

Printed Media

22/3/06: The Times, Map to untangle 8 million miles of pipes and cables

22/3/06: The Guardian, Getting to bottom of 4m holes

23/3/06: Yorkshire Post, Pipe dream to get road-diggers out of a hole

24/3/06: Yorkshire Evening Post, Why bid to map the underworld is no pipe dream

27/3/06: The Engineer, Mapping out what's happening down under in this country

29/3/06: Auto Express, Maps going underground,

13/4/06: The Times, The hole truth, (and Department for Transport: good intentions, no commitment? which appeared on the same page on the print version).

June 2006: Nottinghamshire Today, Satellite technology aims to get us all out of a hole

April 2006: Building Services Journal, What Lies Beneath

June 2006: The Drain Trader, Changes on the horizon for UK buried works utilities

01/06/06: Contract Journal, Going Underground

21/9/06: The Guardian, Roadworks database is caught in a jam

Broadcast Media

23/3/06: BBC Radio Solent: a short interview with Prof. Tony Cohn

28/3/06: BBC Radio 4, "You and Yours": an item entitled "Holes in the ground" with Prof. Tony Cohn

31/3/06: BBC Look North, with Prof. Tony Cohn and David Owen (Yorkshire Water)

31/3/06: BBC Radio Leeds, with Prof. Tony Cohn

Presentations

Oct 2006: Institute of Gas Engineers and Managers meeting at National Grid, Warwick.

Oct 2006: Institute of Civil Engineering meeting on the Future of Buried Assets,

May 2006: Ordnance Survey organised Symposium for the Utilities sector, Leicester, with Prof. Tony Cohn.

Reports on the Internet

01/09/07: Geoconnexions, interview with Mike Sanderson from 1Spatial

01/09/07: Geoconnexions, report on the surveying of National Grid Gas assets

22/3/06: BBC interactive, Pipe network to be mapped in 3D

http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/research/where_did_the_gas_main_go_.cfm

http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39157474,00.htm

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/informationstechnologie/bericht-56974.html

http://news.com.com/Satellite+tech+to+map+underground+cables/2100-11395_3-6052559.html

http://www.physorg.com/news12008.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39258740,00.htm

http://business2-cnet.com.com/Satellite+tech+to+map+U.K.s+underground+cables/2100-11395_3-6052559.html

http://arks02.blogspot.com/

http://www.sitecandie.com/post-3814.html&no=1

http://www.iee.org/oncomms/sector/transport/SectionNews/Object/3C3D9B1E-FE71-F60E-A08161BF730A1144

http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/03/uk-underworld-of-pipes-and-cables-to.html

http://news.com.com/2100-11395_3-6052559.html

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information_technology/report-56974.html

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=511147

http://quiztimeuk.blogspot.com/2006/03/pipe-network-to-be-mapped-in-3d.html

http://pda.physorg.com/lofi-news-pipes-leeds-research_12008.html

http://www.motorinsurance.co.uk/news/1511.html

http://www.endofcyberspace.com/2006/03/takin_it_to_the.html

http://www.yorkshire-forward.com/www/view.asp?content_id=2897&parent_id=263

http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/03/26/rolands_sunday.html

http://future.iftf.org/2006/03/londons_pipes_t.html

http://msn-cnet.com.com/Satellite+tech+to+map+U.K.s+underground+cables/2100-11395_3-6052559.html

http://www.sourceuk.net/article/8/8445/going_underground_in_3d.html

http://www.modernutilitymanagement.com/content_archives/AprMay06/01.html

http://www.iee.org/oncomms/sector/transport/SectionNews/Object/3C3D9B1E-FE71-F60E-A08161BF730A1144

http://www.ambascience.co.uk/article.php3?id_article=798

 

 

 

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Mapping the Underworld page Leeds page

Mapping the underworld network page