The Power of Geographic Information
GeoSearch and Attribute Search
A map is a universally understood way to find people, places, and things. It also allows you to easily visualize the relationship between them. Everyone, within an enterprise's operations that make decisions based on the location of customers, the location of employees, or the location of assets, can benefit from mapping.
A couple simple examples include:
- Dispatchers can schedule the nearest driver or service technician.
- How do I get to my next delivery?
- What is the traffic on my route?
- What were my employees hours of work?
- Was vehicle being used off hours?
- Was the driver using excessive speed?
Yet, Mapping has only started to be used as a business intelligence tool. Until recently, mapping platforms from traditional vendors were designed for desktops or workstations. These applications have been isolated in the office of a GIS professional and used for analysis and planning. Attempts to migrate these to an Internet environment have failed because they are too difficult to use, and/or their performance was unacceptable.
Only AltaMap Server has the ability to provide the rich set of Search capabilities, and provide truly linear scalability to support thousands of users within an enterprise.
Many other products claim GeoSeach capabilities, but after exploring, you find out their definition of GeoSearch is limited to a circle, with a limited radius, and a limited number of points can be found.
AltaMap Server provides boundless GeoSearch options that can be based solely on geographic information such as:
- Find the nearest,
- Find the nearest X number,
- Find within or outside an area,
- Select features that intersect, or overlap, or
- Select within a buffer of another feature.
AltaMap Server also allows you to query the database using Attribute data. You can even combine a GeoSearch and Attribute search in the same statement.
Using GeoSearch and Attribute Search, AltaMap Server turns your raw corporate data into visually stunning, interactive maps. Users throughout the enterprise can now dynamically change map views on the fly by searching, zooming, and panning, while uncovering new relationship within the data. Users can intuitively spot trends, relationships, and problems, which can be immediately detected and acted upon.