Any Application, Anytime, Anywhere

Spatial Server is designed to enable organizations to integrate location into literally hundreds of applications that can be deployed to nearly any device. Applications can be deployed via the Web, through Voice User Interfaced, to network connected thin clients, to PDAs and literally dozens of additional interfaces.

Geocoding

• Spatial Server provides capabilities to help identify and define locations. These services include functionality for geocoding address information or defining a location based on a point of interest, landmark, street intersection, postal boundary or custom zone. Additionally, Spatial Server can retrieve dynamic location information from mobile networks and location-aware devices.

Location Intelligence

• A host of location intelligence capabilities are supplied to help perform a number of valuable location analyses. Functionality includes: the ability to utilze spatial and non-spatial databases for target information within a proximity of a given location; the ability to determine if a provided location is inside, outside or near a specified zone or area; and the ability to query a database using location plus specific attributes such as a business or policy type; measuring distances between points; and more.

Map Presentation

• Spatial Server provides functionality to present data on a map giving a critical view of location-based information. Map data can be dynamically accessed and raster images processed on the fly or can be pre-generated as map tiles for superior performance and user interactivity.

Routing and Directions

• Spatial Server allows directions to be calculated between points. Routes can be based on shortest time or shortest distance criteria and can be generated both textually and visually on a map. Spatial Server also performs matrix routing, and supports iso-distance and iso-chrone areas. A matrix route request calculates the travel time and distances between an array of start and end locations. An iso-chrone represents an area that can be travelled in a given amount of time (drive time) from a starting location. An iso-distance represents the area that can be travelled along a road network, given a distance (drive distance), from a starting location.

Geoprocessing

• Spatial Server comes with a process flow designer that allows users to ‘tie’ together spatial functionality. Take a direct marketing process as and example. Tie together a geocode, drivetime generation, analyze a point in polygon operation to determine what customers are appropriate for an in-store promotion. This process can then be re-used many times over either in batch or exposed as a Web service.