eMapSite provides users with the only facility to browse, access, view, print, download or link to digital mapping online. The integral search engine and comprehensive global gazetteer allows users to enter any place name or UK postcode to identify all the maps such as town plans and street maps, aerial photography and satellite pictures that cover the area of interest.

‘eMapSite offers users fast, simple, cost-effective access to diverse mapping data from around the world’ explained James Cutler, eMapSite Chief Executive. ‘The site is an invaluable tool for a range of industries including utilities and telecomms, leisure and recreation, travel and tourism, the public sector, property and real estate, professional GIS users, the media, consultancies, portals/search engines and large organisations with national or global assets’.

eMapSite contains information provided by a growing list of leading map publishers including Ordnance Survey, getmapping.com, Bartholomew Mapping Solutions, Lovell Johns, Philips, A-Z Geographers Company, Cities Revealed, RADARSAT, Overview Mapping, the AA, Landmark Information, Geotechnologies and Earth Images.

‘Using the Image Web Server technology eMapSite is the only online provider to empower the user; it is the customer and end-user that determines the data they wish to use (by type, provider, area of interest and scale) dynamically’ added Justin Saunders, eMapSite Technical Director.

'Users can retrieve map and map-type data from eMapSite into their own applications including all leading GIS, CAD, image processing software and the ubiquitous office software. Professional users can then superimpose their own proprietary or confidential information to create customised maps for their individual needs while online businesses can seamlessly integrate the data into their own services’.

With a b2b focus eMapSite is set to help resolve a number of issues for existing map users be they professional users or online business. As James Cutler says ‘eMapSite serves customised maps according to market preference, merging different information from our providers, adding value and creating new information for selected vertical markets’.

eMapSite offers a range of FREE map information from around the world FREE. Customers wishing to access more detailed maps and information pay a subscription fee or use conventional purchasing processes. Full e-commerce for the business-to-consumer market is under development.

eMapSite was established in 1999 by James Cutler and Justin Saunders of GISL Limited. The Chairman of eMapSite is Michael Slater of The MASDAR Group, an international management consultancy; together they have provided £500,000 seed finance.

‘We are pleased to be part of this exciting venture’ commented Mr Slater. ‘MASDAR has over 25 years experience in international natural resources consultancy and we immediately recognise the significance of this digital mapping service to industry worldwide”.

For more information contact James Cutler – eMapSite – 0118 973 6883