GIS Mapping and Terrain Analysis

Macro Works has delivered terrain and visibility assessment solutions to over 100 commercial developments, including over 80 alternative energy schemes. These include proposals for 70+ terrestrial wind farms, 3 large-scale offshore wind farms, large hydro schemes & alternative energy power plants.

With competition for wind energy sites becoming more acute, the issue surrounding their visual impact is becoming ever more complex. At Macro Works we have developed specialist tools and processes to better understand these impacts and have designed customized outputs to impart this information in a clear and concise manner.

Macro Works provided the total GIS and mapping requirements to the landscape character and sensitivity studies prepared for counties Cork, Waterford and Roscommon over the years 2002 - 2008. These studies have provided us with a strong working knowledge of County-level and National-level datasets.

Our close working relationship with planning and environmental consultancies on these and other projects since 1999 has provided us with invaluable experience and an understanding of landscape crucial to effective spatial analysis and mapping.

GIS is about the effective management and analysis of mapping datasets and their underlying databases (attribute data). With significant experience of spreadsheet automation and programming, Macro Works has the requisite experience and analytical skills to get the most from such data – in a fraction of the time normally required.

With ArcGIS and its powerful extensions at our disposal, we have the flexibility to deliver solutions to the most demanding of GIS tasks. For those clients using other GIS software and platforms, Macro Works has the required tools to translate between file formats with ease.

Using advanced terrain-modeling software, Macro Works can (cost-effectively) prepare realistic 3D interactive environments that allow users to fly-over or drive-through study areas and view proposed developments. This is regularly used for real-time analysis and design of wind energy sites and provides very effective project overview for public consultation presentations.

Such media is output in high definition and is unfortunately too large to provide quality samples for viewing on the internet. To obtain a sample DVD of our work please contact us and we would be delighted to forward one on to you.