Blog & news

Meet the team: Tom Chadwin

Meet Tom Chadwin: full-stack developer, quick-witted king of our internal chat, published author and a connoisseur of Lego castles.

The role of GIS in forward-thinking local authorities: featuring Walsall Council

Tracy from Walsall Council examines the importance of GIS, UPRNs and Spatial Data Warehouses.

Price increase statement

We know how difficult it is for GIS teams to balance their budgets. For this reason, our team has worked tirelessly since our last notable price increase to maintain a delicate balance between managing costs and delivering the innovation, reliability and customer service excellence you expect from Astun. We’ve long tasked our team to ‘do…
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Our 2024 ESG results: discover our new EcoVadis rating!

In 2022, we took the unusual step for an SME of having our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assessed. We chose to be assessed by EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings.  We recently undertook a second EcoVadis assessment.  What is our 2024 EcoVadis result? We’re delighted to announce that…
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News from GeoPlace and the Astun meet-up

We recently descended on Manchester for GeoPlace, one of our favourite public sector events, and our annual team meet-up. For those not in the know, the GeoPlace Conference is an extremely well-organised event for the public sector. The conference is supplemented by other events, such as the pre-event quiz and the GeoPlace Awards. Having sponsored…
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Security alert: polyfill.io and CVE-2024-36401

Do you have an ol-ishare web map? Find out the steps we’ve taken to protect your organisation and discover what you need to do.