MDS Foundation Map
The MDS Foundation Map leverages on the online geo-enabled applications and services that MDS has been providing since 1998, while removing the need for GIS professionals to re-create a mapping background. This allows organisations to share geographic information and understand a variety of business information through a high quality and spatially accurate background map.
GIS professionals using software from vendors such as ESRI, MapInfo and others no longer need to focus on cartographic principles, techniques and continual data maintenance. The MDS Foundation Map provides a professional standard display of current data sourced from PSMA in Australia and LINZ in New Zealand, allowing GIS professionals to focus on analysing key information in a spatial context.
The geo-enabled applications that MDS has been developing, such as “find the nearest/locate us” or “trip planner” services, deliver filtered information and route results over this background map. MDS is now providing access to these tiles for the benefit of the GIS professional user community and geo-aware web developers.
The MDS Foundation Map is a suite of raster tiles covering Australia and New Zealand and brings you the following benefits;
- The most current online road data available in Australia and New Zealand
- Accessed as a map service from any web environment from an MDS hosted server/service
- Consistent multi-scaled background map for all of Australia and New Zealand
- Supports multiple zoom levels
- Web Standard Tile structure, format and projection
- Designed for internal and external public web use
- Authoritative PSMA dataset for Australia and LINZ dataset for New Zealand
- The most up to date data available with a minimum of 4 updates per year
- The assurance of the MDS' Service Level Agreement
To access the MDS Foundation Map or request an evaluation, please email MDS Client Services or call (02) 8436-2800.
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