GIS Hosting

Our geographic information system hosting services provide a turn-key, professionally-managed hosting environment for both public and private mapping systems.

Hosting your GIS has several important benefits:

• Secure, always-on access at a top-tier data center
• Fixed monthly costs and reduced initial capital expenditure
• Economical access to full management, configuration and optimization services
• On-call GIS, database and systems experts available 24/7
• Reduced operating and personnel costs
• Pricing based on platform, features and service package
• Full hosting and service packages starting at $250 per month, including full support on-call

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Included Setup Services:

• Installation and configuration of a full GIS server environment, including setup of a GIS server, any required database servers, appropriate connections and configuration
• Data extraction, transformation and loading using desktop GIS tools
• Geocoding of data sets, including flat files, Excel spreadsheets and databases

Included Hosting Services:

• Maintenance of the GIS, including routine updates, optimization and performance monitoring
• Monitoring and management of server and network environment, including managed firewall
• All bandwidth and user access provision is managed
• Shared servers, virtual private servers, dedicated servers, server clusters and elastic server clouds are all available, depending on the requirements of your application
• Access to the GIS via a GIS workstation, custom desktop application, or a web interface for remote viewing, searching, updating and editing
• On-call GIS expertise, including rapid response for data loading, feature set building or other projects
• 24/7 access monitoring and fast engineering response
• Service Level Agreements provide strong business assurance for your service
• Full second level engineering support with on-line ticket management and automated escalation
• Fully managed DNS
• Full profile of our application hosting services can be found here

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Available Platforms:

• ESRI ArcGIS Server / ArcSDE
• MapServer
• GeoServer
• Google Maps
• Google Earth
• Bing Maps
• Manifold.Net
• MapGuide

Supported Databases:

• SQL Server
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• DB2
• MySQL

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Additional Services:

• More functionality: We provide functional design – including ASP.NET, C#, Silverlight, Python, and PHP development
• Data input and management forms: We develop these, and can install the GeoRoom framework for larger projects
• Integrate with a live database: We provide integration and database hosting
• Special access control: We can provide a managed user access control system
• Special search functions: We can develop pre-configured search forms to make searching easy
• Specialized spatial queries: We can develop radial distance calculations, drive-time calculators, or other queries
• Collecting and transforming data: Collection and loading of specialized data is available
• Data clean up: We do data cleanup, validation and review
• Ultra-high availability: We can build high availability clusters and cloud configurations
• Large document sets or databases: Let us know and we will allocate storage space
• Extra support, on-call expertise and after-hours help: Extended support contracts are available
• Extra business assurance: Service Level Agreements are available

Ideal Uses:

• Publication of county assessor land parcel data
• Publication of city, county or state resource maps
• Sharing of market, demographic or research data with the public or private users
• Evaluation of available land parcels for regional development
• Construction, development or exploration project mapping and data
• Asset locations and status for shipping or lease management

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