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SpatialNews.com Press Release
Setting sights on Mozambique
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Clare Hadley of Ordnance Survey is pictured checking out technical survey equipment being donated by the British national mapping agency to support local and national surveying teams in Mozambique.
The kit is enough to equip five complete survey teams in the African nation, where Ordnance Survey staff have previously worked helping Mozambique's land registration programme under a project supported by the UK Department for International Development.
The gift includes ten Leica TC605 'total stations' (as pictured), each capable of measuring angles and distances to great accuracy, along with essential tripods and prism reflectors.
"The kit was bought by Ordnance Survey in the 1990s and was in constant daily use all over Britain until very recently," says Clare, who is international affairs manager at Ordnance Survey. "But we have now invested in a new generation of equipment linked to the global positioning system which is enhancing our surveying capabilities and generating real economies. As a result, this kit has become surplus to our requirements.
"A former member of our staff, Paul Collins - who until recently was involved with volunteer development work in the Mozambique city of Angoche - alerted us to the work going on with local communities that could make excellent use of superseded but functional surveying equipment. The Mozambique national mapping organisation, DINAGECA, offered to pay to have the kit transported and we are now arranging to ship it out."
Paul comments: "The equipment may have been superseded in Britain, but it will be absolutely invaluable in accurate surveying for vital projects in Mozambique. Towns and cities like Angoche are expanding fast, potentially bringing real benefits to local people - but the necessary equipment to define land areas and help lay out roads, building plots and sanitation are in desperately short supply. This donation by Ordnance Survey will be very welcome indeed."
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