Maps and geographic information for better decision-making

Metria collects, processes, quality-assures and provides geographic information from a wide range of sources. We help you access the right geodata in the right format and make the information useful in your organisation.

What is geodata?

Geodata is information linked to a geographic location. This can include information about property boundaries, buildings, roads, forests, water, utility networks, natural assets or changes in land conditions.

A considerable amount of work goes into producing and maintaining this data, including data collection, quality checks, processing, analysis and regular updates. Information from multiple sources is often combined to provide an accurate and useful representation of real-world conditions, making it possible to identify geographic relationships and compare locations.

The quality, currency and accuracy of the underlying data are essential for reliable decision-making.

Want to learn more? Read about what geodata is, how it is used and what to consider when using geodata to support decisions.

Want to learn more? Read more about what geodata is and how it is used.

How geodata is used in practice

Every day, decisions both large and small rely on geographic information. For example, you may need to find out:

What is located at a particular site, within a specific area or along a route – and who owns the property?
What is a building worth, and how does it affect your property portfolio?
How will a decision affect different stakeholders?
What natural assets are present, and how might a decision affect the climate or biodiversity?
What advantages does one location offer over another – and are there risks affecting the property and those concerned?

Metria's role is to make complex geographic information easy to use. Whether you work in urban development, environmental management, forestry, energy or property development, we help you access the right information in the right place at the right time.

Metria helps businesses and organisations combine geodata from different sources and make the information useful in their operations. Through quality-assured data, geospatial analysis and services that can be integrated into existing systems, you gain a more reliable basis for planning, monitoring and decision-making.

In the energy sector, geodata can be used to analyse land conditions, compare potential power line routes and plan electricity network expansion. Read more about how Metria supports the energy sector with geodata and analysis.

Further reading: How geodata is used in electricity network planning

Collecting, updating, quality-assuring and managing geodata requires both specialist expertise and technical infrastructure. Metria handles large volumes of geographic information every day and delivers it as data, maps and integrated services.

Metria offers:

Quality-assured data: Metria regularly obtains geodata directly from its sources and quality-assures the information before storing it. This reduces the risk of inaccurate data and supports reliable delivery.
Flexible data formats: Metria delivers data in formats suited to your needs, making it easier to integrate geodata into your own applications and systems.
Property information: Accurate and up-to-date property information is a central part of our services. Read more about our property information services.
Responsive and accessible support: We offer short response times and easily accessible support.
Cost-effective management: Managing and administering geodata in-house is costly and time-consuming. With Metria Maps, you can avoid these costs and ensure you always have access to the latest data, which is often business-critical.
Reliable services: Metria provides professional, high-performance and reliable data services hosted in Metria's own environment in Sweden.

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Effective handling Via our data center, large amounts of information are continuously delivered to our customers, both as physical deliveries and in the form of services that are integrated into system solutions. In the data center, we have built and further developed storage structures, processes, data management routines and code aimed at creating a quality-assured and efficient management of geodata. Everything to maintain a high level of quality in delivery to our customers. We also work actively to follow standards in the area.

High availability and quality A large part of an organization's competitiveness lies in access to the right information, with the right quality, at the right time. To ensure continuous delivery, Metria has developed a stable infrastructure with a high ability to handle disruptions and deliver services that can grow with the users' needs. With well-documented and standardized delivery processes, operations are ensured and the risk of errors is minimized. The process can also include processing, combinations of different data sources and processing. With our own premises in Sweden, we guarantee physical security for both development and operation. All employees are based in Sweden and, if necessary, we offer security-classified employees and premises. In the operating environment, there are multiple layers of protection in the form of secure firewalls for networks and application layers. We ensure continuity through redundant data centers and backup management. In the data center, we also handle customers' information in a secure manner.

Experts in geodata We are specialists in, among other things, geodata, GIS and remote analysis as well as IT development. With our combined expertise, we can offer complete solutions for your geodata management with the goal of ensuring maximum benefit and effect of geoinformation in the business. The solutions are always based on an analysis of your needs, which is normally a combination of open geodata, commercially available geodata, our self-produced analysis layers and your business data.

ISO-certified in information security Metria works systematically to maintain good quality, information security and sustainability. We are certified according to ISO 9001; quality, ISO 27001; information security and ISO 14001; environment.

Open data

Metria has extensive experience and deep knowledge of both geospatial data and earth observation and the environment and offers a variety of solutions and services in the area. We have also expanded our know-how in terms of companies and business ownership and can now offer an even broader portfolio and unique analyses. We help you with quality assurance, analysis and packaging of data into useful solutions to make it easier for you to reach your goals.

We would like to have a dialogue with you about what open data means to you and what we can do together to maximize the opportunities for you and your business.

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Maps and geographic information for better decision-making

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