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Eixos

Eixos

EIXOS or eixos.cat (Eastern Calatan:, "axis") is a Catalan for-profit, cartographicalurban economy project. It accounts as the core service of Planol.info, an online mapping company founded in 2011 in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) by David Nogué i Espinilla. The business is registered as the limited company Nolpla Nolpa SL, with headquarters in Barcelona and Arcata, California.

The service runs as a consulting observatory. It was a pioneer in providing solutions for online geomarketing and business mapping by crossing own databases with open, public repositories under Creative Commons licenses. During its launching year, Planol.info was awarded with a grant from Fundació puntCat to incubate EIXOS. In 2012, it received one of the Galileo Awards from the European Space Agency (ESA) and also one of the (Premis Laus) by (FAD) as the second-best web product design.