View

The emapsite inside View module enables users to visualise mapping and other geographic data in response to their entered location:

• Detailed mapping
• Aerial photography
• Land title plan
• Street mapping
• Regional mapping
• Mapping with choice of visual overlay, including by way of example:
  • Flood risk
  • Ground stability
  • Contours
  • Surface geology
  • Historic land use
  • Landfill sites
  • Statutory boundaries (from a range of geographies including political, environmental, demographic)

Such map images are delivered to the client using the Open GeoSpatial Consortium’s Web Map Service specification (WMS).  emapsite is a firm and established believer in the use of applicable standards and protocols and our use of this globally accepted standard for the provisioning of digital geographic content facilitates inter-operability with other business applications and Geographic Information Systems.

Visualisation is a vital decision support tool and emapsite’s content infrastructure includes physical, economic, socio-demographic, health, educational, energy, telecommunications, transportation, political, governmental, geographic and chemical data types.

Location visualisation has the benefit of providing a graphical overview of the user’s location from one or more perspectives, dependent on the nature of the user’s interest.

In many scenarios the remote site view afforded by detailed mapping, aerial photography and the like, especially when accompanied by the opportunity to view other information in the same context, eliminates the need for exploratory site visits, facilitates access planning and site investigation and informs rapid decision making with respect to investment interest for acquisition, insurance, development and disposal.

For those organisations unable or unwilling to invest in the necessary data infrastructure and without the resources to build and maintain the provisioning services required by their many and diverse users the availability of a standards based toolkit for data retrieval represents a quick, viable and cost-effective alternative.  This is especially the case where the data under consideration is available “by right” under collective purchasing agreements such as the Pan Government Agreement, Mapping Services Agreement or National Schools MapPilot.