Sam Drummond’s November 2025 anniversary account places the business’s beginnings ten years earlier under the Traverse name. Its work concentrated on information moving between systems, including councils and electricity distributors. The account names early customers and supporters at Waimakariri District Council, Environment Canterbury and Transpower. The later Seamless business illustrates the growth of specialist integration services beneath the applications people used to view and manage geographic information.
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- Coordinates before computersMaps before computers
- A small-scale database firstDigital topography
- A receiver on the trigGPS in practice
- A globe on the desktopGoogle Maps and Earth
- Finding the usable observationSatellite observations
- A national satellite layerSatellite observations
- LiDAR limitationsLiDAR mapping
- Open elevationLiDAR mapping
- The repetitive jobGIS automation
- A national language for landLand assessment