Custom Cartographic Services :

Besides offering the most extensive portfolio of off-the-shelf geodata for GIS professionals for Eastern Europe / CIS region, Kantynent is also one of the leading providers of custom cartographic and GIS consulting services. Many of the leading geodata vendors and distributors in Europe and United States have chosen to benefit from our full cycle of professional services. You can find the list of our Partners / Customers in the References section.

Please find below a list of services avaialble from Kantynent. Where applicable, hourly or other related rates are indicated to give you an impression of our price level:

Kantynent Custom Cartographic Service Offer
Num.	Service Name	Description	Rate
Consulting services
1.1.	GIS audit	Assessment of customer's current GIS environment. Optimization of legacy systems.
1.2.	GIS consulting	Full cycle of corporate GIS consulting - assessment of corporate GIS needs, business process modelling, planning of infrastructure, geodata acquisition, development procurement, deployment and support.
1.3.	Software development	Custom GIS tools developement for MapInfo and ArcGIS.	8.5 € / hour
Acquisition of geodata / source materials
2.1.	Geodata acquisition	Acquisition of ready off-the-shelf geodata from our extensive partner network.
2.2.	Source materials acquisition	Acquisition of materials, used as base data for custom geodata development.
Geodata processing / Geodata creation services
3.1.	Raster image processing services	Includes image trimming / mosaicking, color / band processing, orthorectification and more.
3.1.1.	Georeferencing	Single most popular raster image processing service. Also offered as georeferencing of the images that don't have geographic information on them. In this case georeferencing is carried out from infromation available from Kantynent library. Includes reprojecting.	5.5 € / hour
3.2.	Feature extraction / digitizing	Over 6 years of geodata development experience we have developed a very flexible and resourceful infrastructure for low-cost / high volumes of semi-manual and manual labour. That's why the price is unprecedented in the global market. Our expertise with over 100 successfully accomplished projects provides for quality.
3.2.1.	Feature interpretation / recognition from satellite and aerial imagery	Kantynent is very experienced in processing all kinds of aerial and satellite imagery for recognition, identification and digitizing of topographic features. Additional materials from our library are often used for advanced processing and improved recognition.	7.0 € / hour
3.2.2.	Vectorization of topographic maps / city plans / touristic schemes / other maps	Usually involves high volume of manual processing. Kantynent offers one of the most competitive rates in the market on this our flagship service.	4.2 € / hour
3.2.3.	Updating of existing data	Kantynent can bring to life your existing geodata by processing it over the most recently available materials - be it satellite imagery, topographic maps, city plans, administrative and postcode division data, demographic statistics or market data.
3.3.	Topology creating / processing	If your data is "raw" - derived from non-GIS environment, you will need to establish certain relations between it's objects before it can be used in a geographic information system. We do this automatically when digitizing, but we can do it also on imported datasets. Also sometimes more advanced processing is required for digitized data. Kantynent does all that.	6.5 € / hour
3.4.	Creating 3D contours / DEM / DTM	Digital elevation models (DEM) are very useful in telecom, construction, engineering and other sectors. Kantynent is a leading provider of elevation data for Eastern Europe region. We can create these either from satellite imagery or from topographic contour maps.
3.5.	Geographic names attributization / verification / standartization / translation	Kantynent has extensive experience in translating native Russian and other Eastern European maps into English / international transcription. We maintain huge database of toponyms for the region and would be glad to help you standardize / verify your dataset.
3.6.	Classification of features	Attributization of "raw" (scanned, automatically translated / extracted, legacy) data according to the rules of customer-specific data dictionary.
Geocoding, thematic mapping, analysis
4.1.	Geocoding	Connecting customer's table (or other "raw") data with geographic coordinates. The best example is placing your customer database on the map.
4.2.	Thematic and custom cartographic design	To effectively present results of the customer's GIS work we can design many of the map's attributes like font size, color scheme, detail and generalization level, labeling etc.	5.5 € / hour
4.3.	Custom GIS-oriented research	Kantynent can also take outsourcing contracts to perform GIS analysis on our side. In this case, the customer can enjoy significant savings on geodata, because we will only charge hourly rate and all necessary data from our libraries will be provided for free, in-house.	5.0 € / hour
Conversion / Publishing services
5.1.	Conversion between various standard GIS formats	MapInfo, ArcView / ArcGIS, AutoCAD Map, Microstation and many more
5.2.	Conversion of GIS data between various data dictionaries / classificators	This is the most requested migration service. Usually used to switch from a legacy classificator to one of the industry-standard	5.5 € / hour
5.3.	Complex conversion for specific project	This service is absolutely custom. Suggested is that a customer has some kind of existing geographic dataset and wants it in a new, described form. Kantynent will do all the rest of the transition.
5.4.	Publishing	Usually on the web. The data usually requires certain modifications / translation before it can be used in one of the publishing engines. Kantynent has significant experience both in transition procedures and with many of the web-engines themselves.

The above given are standard services. We encourage you to contact us with a description of the project that you have in mind so that we can tailor the above services, optimized to your requirements. We will come up with a detailed project plan, split into phases each with a precise timing schedule and cost estimation. The contact information is given below: