Geospatial Internet Solutions: WebGIS 2.0

WebGIS 2.0 - What does that mean?

Wikipedia: "Web 2.0 is a buzzword used to describe a number of interactive and collaborative elements of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. Here, the user not only consumes content, he or she provides content as a producer." Applied to WebGIS solutions, 2.0 means that users can enter and edit data themselves. This is standard practice at TYDAC: with MAP+, we have been replacing expensive desktop solutions for several years.

What makes a WebGIS a good WebGIS?

In a survey on the requirements for a WebGIS, the following criteria were mentioned particularly frequently:

• Ease of use
  
• Speed and responsiveness
• Aesthetics, recognition, integration
• Suitability for mobile devices
• Versatility, modularity and configurability

Interestingly, this hit parade of requirements applies equally to citizens and external customers as it does to employees and internal users.

MAP+: An overall concept

MAP+ fulfills these five points perfectly, with an unbeatable price-performance ratio. Our new brochure describes this in detail:

• High benefit / Low cost: For the equivalent of five coffees per day, you can run a WebGIS solution: MAP+ costs from CHF 6,000 per year, including hosting, data updates and support. 24×7. So for about CHF 16.50 per day (OK, in Zurich it's only two cappuccinos ...). And that for desktop, tablet and smartphone.
• Maps in highest quality: For us, the appealing presentation of geodata is the highest good of a WebGIS. We also prepare data ourselves, which we make available to our customers, including OSM++, maps from OpenStreetMap data, enriched with open data, not limited to Switzerland. Or our selection of more than 100'000 POIs. Have a look at www.mapplus.ch take a look.
• Search - Find - Query: The value of geodata lies in the information behind it. In addition, the combination of information from different data layers offers added value: like profiles from elevation models, like intersection of properties with the zoning map or like linking with photos, videos and more.
• Measure - Edit - Capture: Exact measurement, orthogonal dimensioning: Have you ever seen this in a WebGIS? MAP+ offers a variety of acquisition and import tools for this purpose: Acquisition and editing of objects based on WMS with snap functionality (points, lines, areas), import and automatic localization of photos, import of GPX and DXF, etc. For example, the "photo import function" allows data to be captured by any employee - all it takes is a smartphone! Thanks to a "mass import function", even hundreds of photos can be imported in one step.
• Integration, distributed systems: No matter which data and sources, almost everything can be integrated directly or via automated processes. We specialize in integrating open geodata from the cantons and the federal government and making it available to our customers, including periodic updates. For example, we have prepared the openly available data of the canton of Bern. You can get an insight under be.mapplus.ch. The now comprehensive range of open data can easily be supplemented with your own data, such as wastewater, water, gas, electricity, etc.

The second half of the brochure completes the description of our offer: Tailor-made (application development), data and services (FME, WebGIS design), geodata hubs, offers for application service providers and last but not least our Trainings and seminars.

On the cover pages and in the center you will find a large selection of references and links to applications to browse. Enjoy reading and surfing.

Link online brochure (if you want one or more paper versions, please order by mail to info@tydac.ch)