How WebMap Composer works

It's all about interoperable web mapping - the sharing of data across organizations, platforms and formats in order to create new solutions to old problems. WebMap Composer is a technology which cuts through the complexity of on-line data, allowing precision queries and user-tailored solutions.

What is Web mapping?

• It's about leveraging the value of your data assets and extending your user base by attracting clients to a pool of shared data.
• It's about getting a more holistic view of sectors -from roads to health, from emergencies to environment.

How does it work?

• Web mapping creates maps and other geo-information on the web. And does it in such detail, that organisation of services, decision support, coping with emergencies, and a whole array of other activities, are made faster and more efficient.
• Web mapping dynamically integrates multiple distributed on-line data sources into one or several map images that visually communicate regional, national or international interactions over the web.
• Web mapping is backed by a globally agreed set of open standards promulgated by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) that will see the rapid rise of a whole new industry: the geographic data industry. Standards will enable products to be interoperable, massively increasing participation, and hence business.