Following a successful trial over the 2011/12 fire season, Victoria’s emergency services have signed up to use Spatial Vision’s new authoritative mapping product, Mapscape. This news comes shortly after the news that Mapscape won a Gold award for the best digital mapping product at the International Map Trade Association (IMTA) awards.
Held in July in Brisbane at the 2012 International Geospatial Forum, the IMTA awards were open to all IMTA Asia Pacific members and were judged in six categories, including the competitive digital mapping products category.
The products were judged on the design, usability, quality of service to their respective market segments and distinguishing characteristics.
DSE Fire, CFA, SES and MFB have licensed Mapscape for use in corporate web mapping systems (in particular, the State’s principal fire management application “eMap”) and GIS, and on mobile devices.
Mapscape Emergency Victoria comprises eleven sets of seamless, multi-scale, high quality raster maps optimised for emergency service use. The digital mapping product is available in a variety of data formats for both corporate and mobile deployments, and offers a cartographic style familiar to users of Spatial Vision’s successful Vicmap Books.
Mapscape Emergency Victoria builds on the vision behind the Vicmap Book series namely to ensure emergency service organisations (ESOs) are able to access up-to-date, consistent, and authoritative maps at detailed scales across all rural areas of the State.
The digital nature of this Mapscape product, and its rapid, automated production, addresses two issues arising from hardcopy publication; data currency and limited map scales. Mapscape updates are being published twice a year, five times more frequently than the Vicmap Books. Importantly, Mapscape’s cartography has been fully optimised for presentation across all eleven scales, from state-wide to property views (ie scales of 1:4,500).
Mapscape 2012 is an iPad app specifically targeted at Victorian ESOs. Installed together with the Mapscape Emergency Victoria data pack (licensed and supplied separately), Mapscape 2012 offers this same, high quality, seamless mapping, state-wide down to the property level.
For more information on Mapscape visit www.mapscape.com.au.
