GIS NEWS:
1Spatial Launches Offering to Manage Big Spatial Data
The
1Spatial Management Suite provides organisations with data quality and
management tools.
1Spatial,
a geospatial company which manages the world’s largest spatial data, has
responded to the big data challenge with an enhanced offering. The new 1Spatial
Management Suite includes; Workflow, Plan, Maintain, Publish and 1Spatial
Cloud, which will deliver solutions to public and private companies that handle
high volumes of business critical spatial data, on-premise and in the
cloud.
Marcus Hanke, Chief Executive at 1Spatial
explains, “The rise and impact of big data in the geospatial sector has created
new challenges. Organisations need to be sure that they are basing their
decisions on accurate and reliable data, but managing constantly changing,
location information has become a huge concern”. He continued, “By moving some
of our services into the cloud, our clients can choose whether to validate and
maintain their data on site or in our secure cloud. Because we manage the
world’s largest spatial big data we can help our clients make smarter use of
their data”.
1Spatial’s
big data validation and maintenance tools were developed in response to the
complexities of working with large amounts of spatial data and improving
outcomes. The company already provides the foundations for data management and
processing solutions around the world. 1Spatial uses a data-centric approach to
provide speedy implementation with broad and easy-to-use access to that
data.
Barry
Doyle, GIS Officer, Roscommon County Council explains, "The 1Spatial Cloud
platform proved a very useful and time saving tool. We believe that the service
can save councils like us many man-months of work. We found the various rule
checks identified issues that wouldn't have otherwise been identified, no
matter how much time was spent manually checking the data. Additionally, the
facility to automatically correct the data, by eliminating geometric and
connectivity issues, while also re-aligning the road segments and road nodes
with the line work, proved very valuable and ensures we have a database that is
now fit-for-purpose."
1Spatial
works with national mapping and charting agencies, utilities companies, defence
and government departments, where maintaining the quality of data which needs
frequently updating is an ongoing issue. Once the data has been captured by
field surveyors or in-house editors, 1Spatial validates it by checking against
hundreds of pre-established rules. Any failures can be manually or
automatically resolved so the quality and integrity of the database is
maintained. This data-centric approach provides speedy implementation with
broad and easy-to-use access to that data.
With 1Spatial’s approach organisations can be confident in the data
quality and therefore able to generate new information or manipulate data for a
client’s particular purpose.
For
example, organisations can use 1Spatial’s processes to find their missing data.
1Spatial is able to automatically compare intelligent source data with existing
assets to predict the location of missing assets. In practice, this has resulted in a rise in
accuracy from 50% to 90%. When utilities engineers arrive to dig up the ground,
they are now more likely to be looking in the right place.
“Because
we focus very much on the data and its delivery we are in many ways technology
neutral,” explained Marcus Hanke, “Clients are not sewn in to a technology path
because our development efforts focus on setting out automated validation and
maintenance processes, enabling our clients to easily work with the data within
their own environments”.
1Spatial
Cloud is revolutionising the quality of spatial data, by offering a flexible,
low cost, easy to use route to validating, correcting, and managing data via
the cloud using a scalable, zero infrastructure environments.
For further information
visit: http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=1132808&printerfriendly=1
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