Hungarian GIS Market Survey 1997.
Geometria GIS Systems House

Geometria GIS Systems House was founded in 1986 as an independent private company to develop and supply Geographic Information Systems. Geometria is the GIS market leader in Hungary. Geometria took part in the development of the Hungarian GIS market performing a leading role. The non-profit-like activity of Geometria, which included the introduction of professional panels, the support of professional education, the foundation and support of professional organisations (HUNGIS, HUNAGI), significantly contributed to the market development.
Apart from Geometria's domestic business a large proportion of Geometria's business is in EC countries. The company started its export activity in 1991. They based Geometria's business competitiveness on favourable prices and quality services. In the frame of the export activity they sold services in Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden. Beyond these countries Geometria's products are used in Belgium, Czech Republic, Russia. Among Geometria's contractors there are public authorities and private companies.
In the frame of the focusing marketing activity in 1995 they established a subsidiary in The Netherlands which is 100 % owned by Geometria. The company increased its capacity gradually. At present the company's expert teams (85 professionals) offer GIS services ranging from map data conversion to basic and application software development.
Geometria's activities are characterized by the following: Geometria's activity is the combination of the engineer's thinking fused with state of the art technology and information technology.
Geometria's employees are 85 of which 35% perform system developing and 65% data capturing. 60% of Geometria's employees have high degree qualification connected with their activity.

Geometria's services include:

Map Data Conversion
Over 40 professionals convert maps with manual, semi-automatic and automatic procedures including attributing, pre-processing and plotting. All these processes undergo rigorous quality control tests. Service includes customer specific technology development and rule-base to exclude erroneous data already in the input phase. References include the National GIS Database of Hungary, the 1:10.000 topographic map of The Netherlands and Denmark. They have special expertise in topographic and cadastral mapping, facility management for utilities, road database creation for car navigation purposes and remote sensing editing.
The GIS database production activity of the company has an ISO 9001 documented quality assurance system certified by TÜV Rheinland.

Application Software Development
Through many years of experience, as recognised leader of implementation of utility network management systems, Geometria develops complex turn-key solutions. During the development of such systems Geometria co-ordinates all implementation processes which guarantees the quality of each system element to be fit for the demand. Offering complete solutions the following tasks are solved by the company : problem and task definition, system design, software development, database creation, acquisition of hardware, system implementation, training, system monitoring and updating information. Geometria is an Intergraph Solution Centre and an Intergraph Independent Software Developer. There are Intergraph Registered Consultants in-house for FRAMME & GIS Mapping (MGE). Geometria a Bentley Business Center and a Oracle Value Added Relicensor.
References include cadastral (Hungarian Land Offices), electric (Budapest Electricity Board), gas (Central Transdanubian Gas Distribution Company), district heating (Budapest District Heating Company), water supply (Budapest Water Supply) and telecom (Hungarian Telecom, Swedisch Telecom) projects both under FRAMME and MicroStation MDL.

GIS Software Development
Geometria, in co-operation with Dornier GmbH, a German Aerospace Company, developed topoLogic GIS software which is a vector GIS system and function library with built-in digital terrain modelling for Microsoft Windows and UNIX. topoLogic represents an integrated part of a bigger information system developed by Dornier GmbH to order of the German Ministry of Environment for measuring environmental radioactivity (IMIS: Integrated Measurement and Information System for Environmental Radioactivity). In the frame of the cooperation topoLogic is used in more than 200 workplaces (Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark, Russia etc.)

Contact information:

Mail address: 1025 Budapest, Felső Zöldmáli út 128-130.
Telephone: (361)-325-6486
Fax: (361)-325-6491
Contact persons:
János Szilágyi CEO
Miklós Gánics GIS executive
Éva Remete marketing executive
E-mail: postmaster@geometria.hu

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