Spatial information is created and maintained at different places by different parties. each for its own purpose and possibly in its own formats.
When you start sharing information amongst departments or with customers and suppliers you will encounter issues like:
- Not everyone will need all data available. So you need to select applicable data from the feature sources at hand,
- The format in which the data is created and maintained will mostly not suite the needs of the other users,
- You may need to supply data from multiple sources in a handy, compact way,
With Spatial Workshop you can exchange information in an intelligent way. Imagine that
- You open a map in ESRI Shape format and select from this data source the information you are interested in,
- You open a Smallworld and Oracle database as well,
- You combine the data from these sources in to new information that you present on a map,
- You analyse and filter this information to the needs of your customer / partner,
- And than you export the newly created information to Excel, Google Earth or other data formats, that your partners need.
It is just that what you can do with Spatial Workshop.
