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Case study · Forestry and rural

The woodland, on a map that fits in your pocket.

Two stories from people who work the land in Galicia: a forestry firm that manages its woodland from a single platform, and a community-owned woodland with its own app.

Story 1

A Galician forestry engineering firm

The challenge

Plots, jobs, field photos and suppliers, each in a different place and none of it connected. At the office nobody could see at a glance what was happening out in the woods, and out in the woods there was no easy way to note it down.

What we did

  • A web platform to manage the woodland on maps, with GIS layers (the digital plans of plots, tracks and areas that the technical team work with).
  • It imports the usual map formats: Shapefile, KML and GeoJSON.
  • A field map on the phone: photos taken on the spot, with their exact location.
  • The area of every plot, worked out automatically.
  • The official pest layer on top of the map, to see which areas are affected.
  • Supplier and user management, each person with their own permissions.
  • GDPR compliance (the data protection law) and backups that are tested by actually restoring them.
  • A review with the client every week, and an automatic inspection every day that goes through the platform looking for faults.

Mock-up with sample data.

The result

One single placeMaps, plots, photos, suppliers and users together, at the office and out in the woods.
Every weekA review with the client: whatever they ask for gets noted, done and checked.
Every dayAn automatic inspection goes through the platform and raises the alarm if anything breaks.
Story 2

A community-owned woodland

The challenge

A woodland community (in Galicia, some woodland belongs jointly to the neighbours of an area, who manage it together) needed to keep track of the livestock grazing on it, and also to explain to young people what it is and why it matters.

What we did

  • An app for the community, designed to be used without any fuss.
  • A livestock register that reads the official farm register and recognises each animal’s species on its own.
  • A documentary video for local schools that explains community woodland to children.

Mock-up with sample data.

The result

Every animal in its placeThe register works out the species from the official records, with no sorting by hand.
The woodland, in the classroomA documentary so local schools can get to know the woodland that belongs to everyone.

Sound familiar?

If you work in forestry, farming or the countryside and paperwork is eating up your time, tell me about it. We’ll look at it together, with no rush and no jargon.

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