About Us
Hanno Koch founder of ‘Latitude Cartography’ produces management plans, GIS set ups and detailed topographic base maps for e.g. Ecologists, Farmers, Foresters, Land Agents, Land Owners, Marine Biologists, NGO workers and organisations.
Hanno has a strong pragmatic approach, he is technically minded, creative and inquisitive, always happy to help and enable with a clear aim to deliver.
In 1984 Hanno worked in the Dutch Armed Forces as a qualified land surveyor. Working for the city council of Rotterdam he found his way into cartography using traditional reprographic techniques. He then worked for 11 years for the former mapping division of the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM aerocarto). The company operated world wide for National Mapping Agencies and local authorities producing topographic base maps through photogrammetry. The company keenly embraced the then newly emerging computer technology (and so did Hanno). The computers recorded the drawn maps producing crude digital vector maps. Through innovative use of rudimentary tools he and his team enhanced and upgraded a national dataset to a flexible GIS ready polygon set, a world’s first. Furthermore: in this process the large scale data was transformed to a small scale topographic map. This too was a new production workflow. Both novel production techniques were only matched about a decade later by one of the world’s finest National Mapping Agencies. Through these achievements Hanno became head of the new digital cartography department in the firm and was eventually made responsible for all of the division's international mapping projects.
In 1998 Hanno moved to the UK and in 1999 founded Latitude Cartography drawing on his experience in Land Survey, Cartography, Photogrammetry and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Over the years the aforementioned novel production techniques have been refined resulting in a very efficient and cost effective production flow. For estates Hanno has commercially, single-handedly mapped more than 1.5% of the UK in large to medium scales and introduced these maps in a very practical user-friendly GIS environment.
In 2008 Hanno was appointed into the place and quality of cartographer to
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II until 2022 after Her Majesty sadly passed away.
