interactive GIS mapper
Townsquare’s integrated GIS (geographic information system) visualization make expensive, complicated, and hard-to-get data and GIS tools accessible and affordable for all.
Web GIS: Circuit Rider Productions
Townsquare mapping helps you reach your objectives for investing in spatial data in the first place—putting high quality visual information in the hands of policy analysts, planners, and decision-makers. Beyond visual access to your spatial data, everyone can leverage the power of GIS through specially designed user-friendly tools that enable data analysis, understanding, and exploration by folks that don’t always have the expensive GIS tools or training necessary to run the software and manage this complex data.
With Townsquare’s mapping visualization capability now anyone can…
- Create customized maps containing the specific data and geographic information you want to communicate.
- Easily retrieve your customized maps every time you visit the site.
- Add links directly to your custom map from web pages that you control.
- Quickly annotate GIS maps with notes, reports, multimedia, news and events, web pages, location specific project information or even other maps.
- Tell several targeted, issue specific visual map stories.
- Conveniently print and share your maps and underlying data.
> Through greater access to useful GIS information and tools, you maximize your return on investment in GIS data, enable more informed decision and policy-making, and increase your stakeholders understanding of complex issues and alternatives.
The software platform that supports Townsquare's core mapping technology includes the open source projects Mapserver, Ka-map, and the spatial database extension to PostgreSQL called PostGIS.