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Enablis competition winner
21 December 2009
The winners of the 2009 FNB Enablis Seda Business LaunchPad competition were announced recently and Paul Storry, a director of Quartex technologies, is the winner in the ICT, business expansion category.

Geographical Load Forecasting
14 October 2009
Quartex technologies were appointed as part of the VAMP consortium to undertake Eskom's Western Gauteng Network Master Plan. Our role in this project was the development of the Geographical Load Forecast.

Forestry Web Map
29 September 2009
We have recently completed a web-based mapping application for a forestry company. The solution allows the end-users to interact with their data and extract critical information related to the forestry compartments. They also have the ability to create and print Pdf maps.

Rural Settlements Update
23 July 2009
This project was initiated by the Department of Land Affairs (DRDLR) in KwaZulu-Natal with the view to updating the 2008 rural settlement database on the size, location and nature of services available to these areas in the province

Mapexchange API

QuarteX technologies hosts our own implementation of MAPexchange, our web mapping service (WMS), and provides access to developers through a fully featured application programming interface (API). The MAPexchange API is a toolbox which developers may use in conjunction with the MAPexchange WMS to create their own map enabled application. The currently available tools are:

  • Standard interactive mapping tools for:
    • Display map
    • Display features on a map with popup identity box
    • Zooming in and out
    • Panning
    • Measuring distances
    • Drawing points, lines and polygons
  • Custom tools for
    • Routing
    • Street and feature searches
    • Geocoding and reverse geocoding
    • Locating nearest feature

The set of tools is evolving, and will be updated periodically. For more information, or to download the API for testing purposes, please refer to www.mapexchange.co.za

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