Search
The emapsite inside
Search module unifies all imaginable search elements:
- Address (full
and partial)
- Postcode (full,
partial, hierarchical)
- Street
- Place - national
gazetteer (village, town, district, county, region)
- Point of interest
- HMLR Title Plan
reference
- Latitude-longitude
(for example for offshore applications or from
GPS
)
- Ordnance Survey
National Grid Coordinates (6 figure Easting, Northing)
- Ordnance Survey
tile based referencing (all levels)
- UTM (for international
and offshore applications i.e. including zone)
- Customer/client
data
- International
gazetteer
- Other
- Telephone code
- Motorway junction
- Road number
- Admin area (,
local authority,
LEA
, NHS, police, fire, parish)
- Political area
(constituency, ward,
- Census geography
(enumeration district, output areas)
-
PSI
data (environmental zones/areas etc)
- Media area (TV,
radio, news)
This has the benefit of enabling the
end user to locate themselves correctly every time irrespective of the location
description they have to hand.
Our clients find that a unified location
finding tool eliminates the need for multiple and sometimes complex interfaces,
reduces implementation effort and increases speed to market owing to its simplicity.
This module is reinforced by the following
services to clean and authenticate user generated location content:
- Geocoding (the
process of assigning geographic identifiers (e.g. geographic coordinates) to (or
in our analogous case retrieving) geographic identifiers for map features and other
data records - this is effectively what Search does. For example, while one output
of a search will be to confirm a location, many of the next services are dependent
on the XY result of the Search associated with that location)
-
Address
matching (a partial address search tool/function/service will produce all the results
and allow further filtering to select the correct one or alternatively a multi-field
form that allows known information to be entered - house number and postcode for
example - and a selectable or refinable results list to be generated)