The map finally catches up with the applications

Hot on the heels of launching its new web-mapping application, Dotted Eyes brings background mapping into the modern era with MapChest.

Over the last 10 years mapping applications have become increasingly effective and user friendly, yet backdrop mapping has remained the same. 

Ordnance Survey’s background stack is renowned for its accuracy and quality but its feature density and variation of styling between zoom layers requires concentration to understand and interpret.  For example, the colour schemes between the different scales can vary significantly and almost every possible feature is shown. Users therefore waste time understanding the background instead of the business information it is supporting, and GIS Managers spend time adapting and altering the maps to support the data.

MapChest 1:250k Raster                                                         OS 1:250k Colour Raster

Dotted Eyes, one of the UK’s leading Data Optimisers, has released MapChest to solve these problems by creating one comprehensive set of data files across all scales, with a single clear uncluttered style. This makes interpreting information across organisations consistent and straightforward, enabling individuals to make decisions significantly faster.

MapChest is available in a wide range of formats and supply feeds that ideally match customer requirements – internal, external, CRM and project based.  Derived from the full range of PSMA supported Ordnance Survey data, formats can include SHP, TAB, Tiff, Tile Cache and WMS. Take one or take all.

Finally the map matches the technology.

Ben Allan, Managing Director of Dotted Eyes, commented:  “We realised that there was a gap in the market for a complete data stack when we developed our RMX4 web mapping application. People are used to the simplicity and consistency of Google when zooming in and out of maps so it can be a real frustration when some local authority and healthcare provider web mapping solutions fail to offer the same. Whilst we loved our new application we realised something wasn’t quite right – it was the data.  We couldn’t find an ideal alternative to the standard OS stack so we developed one from scratch.  Our customers saw it, wanted it and so MapChest was born. ”

For more information, visit www.dottedeyes.com/mapchest

About Dotted Eyes

Dotted Eyes has a long heritage as innovators of data and information solutions for private and public sector organisations. For more than 20 years the company has pioneered location-based intelligence products and services which enable better-informed business decision making at every level of business operations.

Serving some 900 customers UK-wide, through expert consultancy, training and product development in healthcare, local government, not-for-profit and the commercial sector, Dotted Eyes’ mantra is to ‘simplify, automate and integrate’  data and information.  This approach uniquely equips senior and departmental levels of organisations to access, visualise, analyse and share complex data in simple, useable formats to make more cost-effective, locally-relevant decisions.

Dotted Eyes maintains long standing expert partnerships with location data providers such as Ordnance Survey, Safe Software and Pitney Bowes Business Insight and operates certified training courses nationwide.  It serves some 130 UK Primary Care Trusts, every ambulance service in England and Wales and household name not-for-profit organisations like the National Trust, among others.

For more information, visit: www.dottedeyes.com