As further evidence of the increasing importance of map data in DeLorme’s product lineup, this month’s Reseller Spotlight focuses on Spatial Energy, a Boulder, Colorado-based company that provides digital imagery and other spatial products and services to energy companies worldwide.
Many of Spatial Energy’s customers utilize the innovative Spatial on Demand™ service through which vast archives of aerial and satellite imagery, topographic maps, digital elevation models, and other datasets can be searched and displayed within a wide array of compatible GIS applications. Spatial on Demand significantly reduces management and operational costs, streamlines workflows to improve efficiency, and creates a global resource for imagery users.
In partnership with Delorme, Spatial on Demand subscribers now have access to DeLorme’s World Base Map data through a Web Mapping Service. Data technicians at DeLorme processed the original vector maps into a series of raster tiles ensuring that the display of the DeLorme data in third-party applications precisely matches the high cartographic standards seen natively in DeLorme software.
DeLorme began developing its World Base Map product in 2007 and since then has embarked on a major production effort to ensure the quality of the maps meets the expectations of its customers. The World Base Map is a complete global dataset that provides coverage for every county in the world. It was built and is maintained using a consistent and uniform process thus setting a new standard in worldwide mapping.
Comparisons of the DeLorme World Base Map to competitor and publicly available data, especially in developing regions, prove the advantages of the DeLorme World Base Map in currency, positional accuracy, and level of detail.
DeLorme World Base Map’s Unique Features
The DeLorme World Base Map offers unique features not found in competing base map offerings including:
- Vector roads and hydrological layers accurately drawn against satellite imagery and SRTM for consistent worldwide coverage
- Authoritative depictions of worldwide country boundaries including disputed boundaries
- Administrative districts, where available
- Topography for the entire world including north of 60° compiled from SRTM and other map sources
The Data Sets include:
- Vector line data-roads, railroads, runway lines, ferries, hydro lines, contours, boundaries
- Point data-populated places, geographic names, airports, exits
- Polygon data-hydro polys, urban areas, landmarks, boundary polygons, land-use land cover
Spatial Energy leads the industry in the acquisition, delivery, and management of spatial data. Global energy companies not only rely on their products and services to find and acquire the best data at the best value but look to Spatial Energy to help manage their data assets and make them available to users wherever they work. DeLorme is pleased to be partnering with Spatial Energy to ensure that the same high-quality topographic maps that DeLorme software users have come to depend on for many years are now available to Spatial on Demand subscribers.
For more information, visit www.spatialondemand.com
