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Simon returned to Auckland last week from Hong Kong, where he had been running his own spatial information systems consulting business, specialising in Smart Grid electricity distribution and Next Generation fibre optic network management solutions.

Prior to this Simon lead the Asia Pacific business development at geospatial software company Integraph, where his achievements included expanding the company’s presence China and India.

The appointment comes shortly after Nextspace celebrated its fifth birthday and the opening of its new premises in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter, an area earmarked as a future ‘innovation precinct’ for high-growth technology companies.

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About Nextspace & Visual City
Nextspace provides powerful 3D tools that allow cities to visualise their assets and operations as if they were viewing them in the real world. Visual City is the technology platform that captures data from multiple sources and displays the information as a living 3D model. From this, cities can more easily interpret proposed development and policy changes; and offer more robust consultation. For more information, please visit www.nextspace.co.nz

For more information, please contact:
Gavin Lennox, CEO, Nextspace +64 9 571 4113
or gavin.lennox@nextspace.co.nz

Photos below from Computerworld 22 March 2012
Photo credit: Sim Ahmed – Computerworld

 
Selection of other media articles:
Unlimited 21 March 2012
National Business Review 21 March 2012
Idealog 21 March 2012
NZ Herald 22 March 2012

Nextspace press release:
3D city visualisation firm shifts into Auckland innovation hub
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March 21, 2012 – 3D city software provider Nextspace is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a move to Auckland’s proposed Wynyard Quarter Innovation Precinct, and is the first technology company to set up shop in the area.

Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, will officially open Nextspace’s new offices in front of a crowd of 150-plus guests today at 5pm.

Nextspace CEO Gavin Lennox say he’s excited to be the first technology company to move into the area: “Our business is all about cities and Auckland City is one of our key customers. It makes sense that we move into the heart of the city, to an area that’s been earmarked as a technology innovation hub.”

Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) General Manager Clyde Rogers says Nextspace is exactly the type of company the city is hoping to attract to Wynyard Quarter: “Our focus is adding value to the high-tech sector, producing high demand exports that build on Auckland’s reputation as an attractive place to innovate and do business. Nextspace is leaping ahead of the pack in the 3D technology industry and is an ideal first tenant for Wynyard Quarter.”

The past five years have seen Nextspace grow from a government-funded organisation founded to catalyse the local 3D applications industry, to a self-sustaining private company with twelve employees. Late last year the company attracted investment capital to further develop and export its “Visual City” technology. About the same time, the plan to transform Wynyard Quarter into an innovation precinct for high-tech industries was unveiled by Auckland Mayor Len Brown and the Minister of Science and Innovation.

Auckland City is using Nextspace’s Visual City to communicate the Auckland Plan, and to simulate scenes and activities as if they were viewing them in the real world. An Australian water company is using the same technology to “visualise the underground” when installing sewerage systems, and Auckland University geologists are using it to advance their understanding of earthquakes and volcanoes.

“The way we interpret and communicate information will increasingly involve advanced 3D geospatial technologies,” says Mr Lennox. “Just as everyone is familiar with Google Earth and its ‘streetviews’, new applications for 3D visualisation will continue to become mainstream, providing cities and other agencies new ways of presenting information and engaging in public debate.”

Sir Gluckman says that Wynyard Quarter is a brilliant place to make a statement about Auckland as a knowledge city and grow world-class innovation companies: “Wynyard Quarter is an enormously positive idea. It is uniquely placed to create an environment of innovation and attract companies like Nextspace.”

Nextspace’s new offices are located on the upper floor of 117 Pakenham St West.

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Communication – reduces ambiguity for people of all ages as it utilises our innate spatial senses and triggers more complete comprehension.

Validation, Calibration, Completeness are benefits of mirroring the real world we live in with the virtual world of Visual City. This complements systems such as GIS that function within the realm of cartographic conventions and symbols.

Visual navigation - not all the data we need is spatial, often we need access to this aspatial data to give meaning to spatial objects. Tobler’s famous principle, often termed the First Law of Geography: “All things are related, but nearby things are more related than distant things.” By mining into ERP and other enterprise systems through 3D visualisation ambiguity is reduced and information can be reported back in more illustrative ways.

Learning – semantic mapping of knowledge onto 3D objects facilitates the capture and documentation of best practices and the intuitive exchange of knowledge.

Sentient Infrastructure –self awareness of objects with a city will become increasingly available with advances in RFID and ‘intelligent’ agents. The operating system for informing and navigating this sentience is offered through Visual City.

Simulation – good data informs good simulation informs good decisions. By Visual city serving data to and managing outputs of simulations in scenarios there is opportunity to advance the quality of models. This also enables Cities and Utilities to be enrichened by work that may outsource to third party consultants. This reverses the traditional practices often lead to cities bleeding data and enables the cost benefits and enrichment of city models through better interfacing with third party services.

Raw data increasingly sourced in 3D. Cities are now increasingly being ‘mowed’ frequently with data such as LiDAR and sensor webs. We are leaving behind the era when digital 3D models had to be had to be tediously hand crafted to match their real world equivalent. We now face a deluge of multiple data types, multiple formats, and in multiple dimensions. Architects and engineers are now designing with 3D CAD tools, and cities could greatly benefit from offering a forum to ingest these datasets in their rich natural states. Cities need to leave the paper paradigm and filing clerk metaphors and embrace the emerging new world.

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“With the likes of the Auckland Council and Melbourne’s South East Water on the books, Nextspace is scratching the surface of a $2 billion market potential.”

Click here for the full article Idealog #37: ’Nextspace brings super data to the supercity’

Full story at ‘TED 2012 dishes out prize to an idea, not a person’

 The funding round is led by the Auckland-based ICE Angels.  While the exact investment amount is not disclosed, The ICEHouse’s Director of Startups Ken Erskine says it is one of the bigger funding rounds the group has made this year.

For the full press release please follow the link below:

Nextspace press release 31-October-2011

The release has received coverage on the following sites:

 http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/amp-nextspace-s-3d-visual-city-video-4494877

nz.video.yahoo.com/finance/watch/27114914/ 

nz.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/27114913

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/31/nextspace_get_virgin_funding/

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10762736

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/nextspace-gets-investment-boost

http://idealog.co.nz/blog/2011/10/nextspaces-3d-visual-city-technology-gets-angelic-

http://business.scoop.co.nz/2011/10/31/nextspace-secures-investment-from-ice-angels-led-consortium/

http://www.btob.co.nz/article/nextspace-secures-investment-ice-angels-led-consortium

http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?&id=79224

http://kiwi247.com/business/3d-software-firm-wins-cash-injection/

http://topics.treehugger.com/article/072s2eZ5Tah2k

Release also reposted on: 

www.findata.co.nz

news.nzcity.co.nz

www.indiatimes.co.nz