Television production company,
Wildfire Television has selected Landmark Information Group to source and supply a range of data
terrain images for a series commissioned by Channel 4.
‘WalkingThrough History’ is the third series of six history documentaries that are
presented by Sir Tony Robinson. The programmes
start broadcasting on Saturday 25th
October at 20:00hrs on Channel 4 and will focus on locations across the UK, including the
Cairngorms, Sherwood Forest, Pembrokeshire, the Yorkshire Moors, and the Channel
Islands.
Landmark has
worked closely with the production team to produce a series of images showing
stylised terrain data overlaid with reference features including key road
networks and coastlines. This has been
produced using a combination of Ordnance Survey open data and OS Terrain® 50
datasets.
Marisa
Verazzo, Production Manager of Walking Through History for Wildfire Television said:
“We are pleased to be working with the team at Landmark Information Group to
provide us with a host of contoured terrain maps for Walking Through
History. The maps really put the areas
that we will be focusing on in the series into context, and by working with
Landmark we have been able to access exactly what we need.”
Matt Wills,
Senior GIS Analyst at Landmark Information Group said: “We are pleased to be
able to deliver a host of hill-shaded and coloured OS Terrain 50 maps to
Wildfire Television for use in the new Channel 4 documentary. It just goes to show another great way that
our extensive range of datasets and maps are being put to use in the commercial
world – so, as well as supporting the environmental, land and property
industries, our data and mapping tools are also here to support media,
marketing and other similar industries in piecing together the history of a
given location.”
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