Newsletter Articles

Further success for OceanWise Raster Charts XL

The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) is the latest customer to take our Raster Charts Excluding Land (XL) product joining a prestigious list of marine industry organisations, such as Vattenfall, Qatar Petroleum, Scottish Government and the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland. Based on the familiar nautical chart series, Raster Charts […]

Videos for Port-Log and our Data Management Training Course available Online

We are always looking for ways to improve the reach and understanding of our products and services which are often quite technical by nature. Videos are the perfect way of doing this as they allow us to showcase the unique functionality of products/services online – putting the user in the driving seat to access the […]

Join ABP, Peel Ports, Teesport and Portland Port at our Ports and Harbours Workshop on June 12th

‘Data – from Liability to Asset!’ This one-day event which is hosted by OceanWise has been organised specifically for the benefit of Ports and Harbours. It is a practical workshop and designed to support anyone working within a Port or Harbour using marine, environmental and other information and data to support decision making and operations. […]

Supply Contract Award for GIS Marine Data to Scottish Government

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Framework Agreement for the provision of GIS Marine Data to the Scottish Government, for the next four years until 2022. We look forward to continuing our work with this important customer for our Marine Mapping Data products and services including Marine Themes Vector, Marine […]

Data may be the New Oil, but is your ‘Oil’ a Liability or an Asset?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) (also known as machine learning) is becoming a reality, but what does that mean for established businesses and what can they do to benefit from these new emergent technologies? According to a recent article by the Harvard Business Review, when asked, most business leaders answer that ‘data is the new oil’, meaning […]

OceanWise Escape for Some Fun

The OceanWise Team and families had a challenging Christmas event this year with two teams pitched against each other to solve the puzzles and clues in order to ‘escape’ without being caught. Great fun was had with both teams escaping within the 60 minute time limit made all the more competitive with partners being in […]

Raster Charts XL Extended Across Europe

As part of our ongoing commitment to product development, we have recently completed the extended coverage of our Raster Charts XL product across Europe to include France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Available as an OGC compliant Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) it is very easy to add this data to your existing GIS […]

Marketing Appointment

We are delighted to welcome Katie Eades to the OceanWise Team, as our new Marketing Coordinator, expanding our team as part of our continued growth. Katie not only brings a wealth of marketing experience but has extensive reseller channel expertise, which will be invaluable as we expand our Licensed Partnering programme overseas. Katie will be […]

Port-Log Connect showcased at Hydro 17 in Rotterdam

OceanWise exhibited and presented at Hydro 17 ‘Connecting 4D’ conference on 14-16 November on board the SS Rotterdam in Rotterdam Port. We showcased our Environmental Monitoring Data Sharing and Publishing services as well as our GIS productivity software tools developed for ports and harbours, specifically about’ Port-Log Connect’ and how it enables third party devices […]

Port ENCs for Major Ports Group in India

Working with our new Licensed Partner, Elcome Integrated Systems PVT, we have taken source hydrographic data, and combined it with infrastructure and navigation aids data, to create a Port ENC for a river in India which currently doesn’t have any standard ENC coverage. The client supplied data in various formats (AutoCAD DXF, XYZ and Microsoft […]