Providing powerful, cost-effective Web GIS infrastructure for Local Authorities

Overview

We have brought together a set of products and services from our Web GIS team to create what we call 'The Getmapping Integrated Solution (GMIS)'.

We identified, through partnership with academic research, that a combination of our geospatial products could really help Local Authorities and businesses in the way they manage and distribute their geographic data.

So we set out to combine a set of our products with the following aims;

• Give more users within an organisation access to more mapping information and tools,
  
• Make managing GIS data easier, both internally and to external parties,
  
• Generate opportunities to make large cost savings with better products, without losing services or personnel.

Of course, all our product or service modules can be bought seperately but there are many benefits in grouping modules together.

More information can be found on our dedicated website: http://gis.getmapping.com

Parish Online (Group Purchase)

Local Authorities can purchase Parish Online for all their parishes as part of the Integrated Solution. This means that all their Parishes have access to mapping, saving the GIS department lots of time and costs in distributing paper maps to Clerks and Councillors.

Datasets can be provided by the Local Authority to share additional information with their parishes, and Getmapping also share national datasets, such as Natural England environmental layers.

Individual Parishes can sign up for a free 30 day evaluation or order it straight away. Local Authorities can also purchase Parish Online for all their parishes as part of the Integrated Solution.

For more information, visit the Parish Online product page.

 
District Online

District Online is a powerful web-based GIS application. It can act as your organisations' primary web-GIS, replacing any existing locally-hosted or hosted application.

It is hosted on from the Getmapping Data Centre and can be accessed through any web browser. It is maintained and continually updated by our team of geospatial web programmers. The application does not require any software installations by the customer as both District Online and its Admin Panel are accessed through the web.

Key Features of the District Online Web GIS module;

• National coverage of layers such as Ordnance Survey MasterMap, Aerial Photography and Natural England data is loaded as standard in all District Online account. This means your users have access to more base mapping, and the GIS team do not need to negotiate the storage and integration of these large datasets.
  
• Full NLPG search capability. District Online has a powerful NLPG search tool which lets users get to the location on the map quickly. The NLPG data is integrated as standard and is updated by Getmapping. Other search tools include OS Map References, Easting Northing, Latitude Longitude, and National Place Name, Street Name and Postcode area search. The NLPG results can also be exported to CSV file.
  
• Printing to PDF and PNG formats. Users can create digital documents at their chosen location and scale with their custom title and description. The tool automatically generates the important scale and copyright information.
  
• Annotate the map using point, line, polygon and radius drawing tools. Annotations are saved on each users' account.
  
• Measure lines and polygon areas using the measurement tool. The tool displays the measurement information as you digitise.
  
• The Data Extraction tool lets users use annotation polygons to export tabular information to CSV. This can be used to export lists of addresses or clusters of objects in GIS layers, e.g. exporting all the Listed Buildings for a chosen geographic area.

We are adding more features to the application all the time based on feedback from our customers and other research projects we are conducting.

Here are some of the key benefits of the District Online Web GIS module;

• An unrestricted site licence, so all employees in all departments can have access to a web-GIS account. This increases data visibility and sharing within the organisation and gives you greater value for your GIS budget.
  
• Employees can directly access District Online from anywhere in the World without connecting through VPN. This gives greater functionality when working off-site, whether it be at home or in the field on a mobile Internet connection.
  
• The number of professional GIS licences can be reduced by switching the 'casual GIS users' over to District Online. This can have large cost-saving implications.
  
• Remove the captial cost, maintenance, upgrade costs and support of your in-house servers that hold your Intranet web-GIS. District Online is stored securely in the cloud which means it is managed and completely scalable by us, without you incurring any additional costs.