Ever-changing face of Manchester
James Ducker
SURVEYORS are being run off their feet trying to "re-map" the ever-changing face of Manchester.
The city centre has undergone such a dramatic transformation since the IRA bomb in 1996 that it is now barely recognisable from eight years ago.
That has resulted in a radical overhaul of mapping in Manchester by Ordnance Survey teams.
Eamonn Prowse, regional manager for Ordnance Survey in the north west, oversees a team of seven Oldham-based surveyors responsible for mapping across Greater Manchester.
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The team's remit is to have every new building plotted and logged on their national database with- in six months of completion. In the last year alone, 16,000 new apartments and houses have been mapped.
Mr Prowse said: "Manchester is a very busy area and together with Leeds and Liverpool accounts for about a quarter of all the work we do nationally."
Warwick Green, 40, from Bolton, is part of the Greater Manchester surveying team. He is currently mapping the new Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters, in Deansgate, and the recently finished City Magistrates' Court at Spinningfields.
Using the latest hi-tech measuring equipment, including theodolite workstations, hand-held pen computers and the Global Positioning System (GPS), he can input new co-ordinates and mapping details of buildings and roads straight into the Ordnance Survey national database.
Mr Green said: "Manchester has provided some of the most interesting and challenging work in recent years."
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