MAPPING ON DEMAND.....

10 July 2008, 12:36pm

Centremapslive.com – the industry solution to mapping on demand

Centremapslive.com presented at GeoDATA 2008 and contributed to a forum that provided thought-provoking presentations on a wide range of industry issues currently facing the users of geographic information. It provided centremapslive.com with the opportunity to work alongside The GeoInformation Group, to showcase the wide range of data that is available through the centremaps website, at an educational seminar programme accompanied by an innovative exhibition for both new and experienced GI professionals. The Centremaps seminar focused on the current and future technologies for the delivery of geospatial data and applications using web services.

From planning applications and building development to crime mapping, incident response, land management or demographic studies - geographic information is being used for all manner of day-to-day business purposes. However, the delivery of mapping and geographic information has changed considerably in recent times – a result of the move to digital forms of mapping coupled with the rapid growth of the web as a delivery network with its increasing reliability and capability.

Recognising the potential of web mapping demand, centremapslive.com, the mapping portal from Laser Surveys, has been designed to bring spatial data from a wide range of resources together into one location. Launched in 2006, centremapslive.com essentially offers a one-stop shop mapping resource whereby users can purchase as little or as much information as required before downloading it into a format of their own choosing.

The breadth of centremapslive.com online offering has been made possible through collaboration with a nationwide consortium of mapping organisations, including Ordnance Survey®, British Geological Survey, The Geoinformation Group, Groundsure, Blom, Cities Revealed, Intermap Technologies, Infoterra, Land & Property Services (formerly known as Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland), Environmental Agency and Getmapping. With their support centremapslive.com makes available mapping data such as property-level, street-level, local/outdoor mapping, road mapping, geological mapping, aerial photography, height information, postcode mapping, and administrative areas. A recent addition is Groundsure’s broad range of environmental reviews and associated data products for both the commercial and residential sectors, including the recently completed national historical mapping archive, which has been scanned to an exceptional level of resolution and detail.

Bringing together a broad range of resources in one location, unprecedented ease of access to centremapslive.com data is facilitated by a simple browser-based user interface. Once the required information has been selected, all users then have to do is simply ‘cut out’ and download the data in the required format and scale.

Data can be downloaded in a variety of formats compatible with Geographical Information System (GIS) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. Mapping outputs can be delivered in a range of industry standard formats including CSV, DWG, DXF, OGC Geography Markup Language (GML), and TIFF – as well as Adobe PDF with unique layering capabilities. Using standard free PDF viewing software users can switch between the different views, making the information even more useful to customers who do not have access to GIS or CAD software.

Specifically aimed at providing resource and solutions for professionals working in the construction and building industry, Centremapslive understands the need for businesses to be perceived as behaving responsibly. Ensuring that a company has all the correct software licences is a requirement of any business’ Corporate Responsibility Statement – and this equally applies to licences for mapping data. So as well as making geographic information more readily available to specialist and non-specialists alike Centremapslive.com also provides an effective account and licence management tool that enables companies to have sight of map holdings both within and across offices.

Centremapslive.com also provides the Ordnance Survey® Plan, Design and Build Licence (PDB) for data exports, a licence specifically designed for the building and construction industry. Making available multi-year licensing, this licence means the client is no longer obliged to re-purchase the data after 12 months and allows the data to be shared amongst all members of the project team, including those from subcontractors,

Archiving rights for 13 years are also included under the new licence terms to help meet the need to refer to the original mapping for legal reasons, whilst monthly e-mails to the main account administrator will provide a regular updated summary of what data is licensed or approaching expiry.

With ease of access to information, delivered in formats that can be used immediately, centremapslive.com provides the tools and services required to geo-enable the business world.

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