About our firm

Geomap Limited is an established firm of surveyors. We specialise in engineering, topographic and property surveys. We trade as Irish Engineering Surveys and are known to many of our clients as ‘IES’. Although our office is based in Dublin, we conduct surveys right across the country. We are committed members of the Irish Institution of Surveyors and we subscribe fully to its Code of Professional Conduct.

Our firm was established in 1974. We have progressed steadily from the days of traditional ‘land surveying’ when our fieldwork was carried out using measuring tapes and optical instruments. In those days maps were plotted and inked by hand. The society in which we now live is not just in midst of the Information Age, it has reached a point where spatially-related information is recognised as being of prime importance. That’s why governments and organisations around the globe are establishing spatial data strategies and spatial data infrastructures.

Geomap Limited is part of the movement that carried traditional land surveying into the new age of Geomatics. We now do our work using computers, LASER surveying equipment and satellite-based positioning systems. Our maps—and more often now, our computer models—are generated using sophisticated terrain modelling and computer-aided mapping software. This technology, coupled with several decades’ experience as professional surveyors, enables us to provide our clients with products and services that are both accurate and entirely appropriate to their project specification.

Geomatics - ‘Geomatics’ is a relatively new term. The word has its roots in Geodesy (Earth-related measurement) and Mathematics. It is the name given to the science of gathering, processing, validating, managing, visualising and presenting spatially-related data. These data may relate to the natural earth, to man-made features, or to both. The information gathered will typically include both precise positional information and attribute (i.e. descriptive) data. Geomaticians, therefore, specialise in establishing what lies where in our world.

The term Geomatics is now used to encompass disciplines such as land surveying, mine surveying, engineering surveying, photogrammetry, satellite positioning, cartography and hydrography.