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eMapSite's mapping application kiosks go live!
Issue
date: 5 November 2001
eMapSite
is pleased to announce that three prestige kiosk installations
are all now live in London and the South. Visitors to the recent
GIS 2001 at Earls Court will have seen our range of innovative
mapping solutions for interactive touch-screen information kiosks.
eMapSite, operators of the leading online distribution
portal for digital mapping, is now delighted to announce the
whereabouts of these kiosks.
Camden
Lock Information Centre opened for business last weekend. As
you extract yourself from the market this Sunday in search of
a cup of coffee, dive into the Grade II listed building next
to the lock and sample a latte, a light lunch and a look at
the latest in map centric public information points. Four touch
screen interfaces afford access to over 5,000 locations within
the Borough of Camden enabling you to find a museum to visit,
a specialist retail outlet, an ATM or even somewhere else to
eat, all through the easy to use map and airphoto interface
showing your favourite haunts as you've never seen them before.
And the kiosk tells you how to get between all these places
by bus too!
Lyndhurst,
England: the Ordnance Survey recently completed installation
of their mapping kiosk at the New Forest Tourist Information
Centre. eMapSite developed a custom map application to
allow viewing, browsing and printing of user-centred custom
maps on A4 and A3 size paper. This ground-breaking move initiated
by Ordnance Survey enables map users to print out tailor-made
mini versions of Britain's most popular maps in a matter of
minutes using the interactive touch screen kiosk. If you are
passing pop-in to print off a full colour map of your area of
interest at 1:50,000 scale or 1:25,000 scale. The coin-operated
kiosk is believed to be the first in Britain to print high quality
maps from map data served directly from the web. Users can search
by postcode or place name before printing out exactly the area
they want. This installation is starting a three-month trial
that, if successful, could open the door to similar touch screen
services across the country.
Southampton,
England: the Ordnance Survey has taken delivery of a variant
of the printing kiosk for use in their Business Centre and in
external marketing activities. Any time you visit their headquarters
or they visit your region (or exhibition) keep an eye out.
Kiosks
are at the forefront of the revolution in providing free-standing,
always-on interaction to target audiences. To date all eMapSite
kiosks target the broad tourist/visitor group; in synthesising
data from Ordnance Survey, getmapping, Bartholomew Mapping Solutions
and e-street, eMapSite mapping applications deliver information
relevant to the chosen audience.
These
mapping solutions can be supplied as a complete turnkey solution
or as part of a networked or web-based solution, and can be
configured to suit a myriad of needs, ranging from tourism through
to public services.
The
benefits of kiosks are:
- Easy
and extended public access to information requiring no computer
skills
- Higher
standards of customer service (for reduced inputs)
- Flexibility
to easily broaden range of services
- Cost
benefits of self-service
- One
location for comprehensive local information
- Potential
data capture medium
- Centralised
remote data management keeps them all up-to-date while Internet
connectivity allows for software updates etc.
- Potential
revenue medium through sponsorship and advertising including
branding
- Scaleable
and extensible, reliable and flexible
- Robust,
secure, proven hardware platform
- Variety
of interaction (touchscreen, keyboard, console, screen keyboard)
- Using
mapping for easy information retrieval
Kiosk
solutions, by their very nature, vary according to their content,
location and application. Each is individual according to its
use; for example, integration with third party information in
Camden, comprehensive template based map printing interface
for Ordnance Survey and so on. eMapSite harnesses a range
of tools, mapping and third party data (from the client or elsewhere)
to create customised solutions according to user need.
In
the quest for e-government at all levels kiosks or "citizen
links" have become one of the mechanisms with which to
communicate with disparate and distributed stakeholders and
interest groups; as is evidenced by the recent surge of interest
in eMapSite's services, mapping greatly assists this
process.
For
further information please contact:
Justin Saunders
Email: justin.saunders@emapsite.com
Office Tel: 0118 973 6883
Note
for Editors
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.
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