You can fully configure Spatial Workshop to your needs in different ways:
- The user interface and appearance can be changed,
- Via the authorization menu you can setup menu configurations for specific users,
- Configurations of Business Objects, styles, themes, maps, etc. can be stored in project files,
- Filters can be applied on the data sources, so that only the data of interest is available in Spatial Workshop,
- Pre set queries and analysis can be defined, so that the users can quickly
Spatial Workshop offers an easy to use interface to connect to feature sources, create Business Objects and maps. You can quickly create marvelous maps of your existing data. You can than interactively query and analyze the data or use preconfigured queries.
Most users will not need to configure Spatial Workshop, because the Spatial Eye projects have been prepared for them. They only need to open the Spatial Workshop project file.
Spatial Eye partners are constantly working in projects where Spatial Workshop is tuned towards the needs of specific users or to align it with existing IT-systems. Based on the experience a growing range of Spatial Workshop project configurations will come available. Please contact us for the latest available configurations.
The data format that Google uses to exchange geospatial data, KML, is gradually becoming an industry standard.
Spatial Workshop supports Google KML as a feature source and allows you to export Business Object information to Google KML as well.
So using Spatial Workshop and Google Earth / Google Maps together offers you some interesting opportunities:
- You can quickly and transparently gather information from the different data sources that you have, remodel it and make it available on the Internet via Google Earth,
- You can collect earth data from Google Earth / Google maps, combine it with your own spatial information and make it available within your organization via Spatial Workshop,
- You can use Google KML as a data format to exchange information with your customers, suppliers and partners.
Spatial Workshop can be used as a field system. Spatial Workshop users have implemented online and offline solutions with Spatial Workshop. In case of offline use in the field the Spatial Workshop users are able to exploit the strength of the replication mechanisms of their corporate IT-systems and/or GIS.
Within Spatial Workshop you can link on-line / server based data and local information making it a flexible tool to access centrally stored data as well as data and files on a field system. Spatial Workshop supports GPS.
Spatial Workshop supplies you with a report configuration environment. You can create compelling and advanced reports, containing all the information of the Business Objects that you have available in Spatial Workshop.
You can choose object attributes, execute functions, like summaries and add the related graphics attributes of the objects into the reports.
Spatial Workshop also allows you to report on Multi Map configurations, so that you can make a transparent report of related information. I.e. you can make reports containing a geographic overview and detailed plans, buildings containing floor plans, points of interest, locations and related pictures, stations and internal worlds, etc. etc.
Yes. You make thematic maps on basis of the Spatial Business Objects within a Spatial Workshop project. These objects may contain attributes and geometries from different sources.
So when you create thematic maps you can use data from any of the supported sources, like spreadsheets, Smallworld, ESRI and Oracle mapdata, MS Access, etc.
The Spatial Workshop Activator offers you the possibility to activate a set of function within Spatial Workshop, like jumping to a specific location, viewing maps, zoom in on specific regions, browse for objects, etc.