web mapping

Web mapping tools can extract data from multiple distributed information sources and serve the maps, over the web. A central repository of data is no longer essential and a diverse range of information types can be integrated, e.g. maps, documents, metadata, databases, GIS layers from other agencies' datasets etc.

The major benefits of this functionality to your organisation are flexibility, scalability and real time access to external data when required - often in a range of predetermined templates. One of the greatest benefits is ease of data access. Users do not require GIS skills, merely an idea of the information they need to combine or progress to solve their enquiry.