eMapSite to offer seamless internet street mapping from Ordnance Survey

Issue date: Tuesday 27 March 2001

eMapSite, the innovative online data provider, announce that they will be offering the new Ordnance Survey Internet Street Mapping for Great Britain as a seamless data set on their website to make it faster and easier for customers to purchase the new map.

eMapSite, an Ordnance Survey licensed partner, will allow customers to view and browse the complete map and then select and buy their specific area of interest online. This means that customers will be able obtain a map centred on a chosen location, rather than having to purchase pre-defined datasets or tiles, with the price for the selected area displayed dynamically online.

Delivery will also be simplified. eMapSite allows customers to access the data from eMapSite's servers via a URL (web address) link. They can then load the data directly into their GIS and other image processing or office applications, such as MS Word. In its standard format, the new 1:10,000 scale street level map of Britain would have to be delivered on 23 CDs, but eMapSite will be able to deliver this as a single file over the Internet.

eMapSite will also be offering the map to web site owners as part of their hosted web solutions. Web sites will be able to include either all or any part of the new product as an interactive map on their web sites.

The new Internet Street Mapping, recently announced by the Ordnance Survey, will be over 15,000Mb in its standard format, but eMapSite will process the data using the enhanced compression wavelet (ECW) technology from Earth Resource Mapping that allows large images to be compressed with no discernable loss of quality and served up in real-time over the Internet.

An example of the new Internet Street Mapping can be viewed now on www.emapsite.com by clicking on the Explore-a-Map button on the home page.

For further information, please contact:

Justin Saunders
Email: justin.saunders@emapsite.com
Office Tel: 0118 973 6883

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About eMapSite
eMapSite was established in 2000 to provide an online resource for the acquisition and management of digital geographic data, such as mapping, aerial photography and other remotely-sensed data, from leading international data providers. eMapSite's customers include commercial map users, such as utilities, telcos, the public sector and professional Geographic Information System (GIS) users, who need easy, affordable access to digital geographic data to assist them in their assets and facilities management, planning, logistics and other activities; and website owners who wish to add informative and compelling mapping content to their websites. eMapSite is a UK registered company based in Hampshire, England.