Global Insight v7.1

The leading world map & gazetteer

Key Features

  • Current political world map (1:1m & 1:3m scale)
  • Over 820,000 named places
  • Alternative place spellings
  • Accented characters
  • Urban sprawls
  • Time zones with DST
  • Internet / intranet ready
  • Places & borders database as featured in Google Earth

Latest Features

  • Support for Kosovo (disputed border)
  • Increase to over 820,000 named places
  • Updated 1st level administrative regions
  • Support for ISO 3166-2 and FIPS 10-4 Admin1 codes
  • New layers: seas, gulfs, bays & Arctic/Antarctic circles
  • Increased positional accuracy for many places
  • Thousands of minor updates and improvements

Description

Global Insight offers 1:1,000,000 scale digital mapping for the entire world. With coverage divided by feature over a small number of intermatching layers, it is an ideal data set for global reference mapping. The product provides up-to-date political entities, coastlines, international borders, some first level administrative borders, time zones and over 820,000 named places with urban sprawls. Names are in local and alternative forms (English conventional name, foreign language forms, second national language or long/short form). All place names use accented characters where required using a standard ANSI character set, also known as the Unicode Latin 1 code page. Other characters, such as those from Eastern Europe, Cyrillic and areas of the Far East are correctly transliterated to their romanised form.

Global Insight products are the new standard for world reference mapping and are ideal upgrades for outdated data sets derived from the Digital Chart of the World (DCW) & VMap0.

The product is an excellent choice for users performing global geocoding by place name. The alternative names layer allows an advanced geocoder to pick up many places with alternative spellings. Whether your data contains Geneva / Genève, Helsinki / Helsingfors or Köln / Cologne, Global Insight will match the name to provide superior geocoding hit rates.

Global Insight-based Searches

A search utility using Global Insight

The extensive place name gazetteer allows rapid location of almost any city, town or village in the entire world. Place data records include country name and 1st level administrative region (where available) which assists when identifying an ambiguous name. Population estimates can also be used to rank search results.

Layers

Product Layer Comparison

Global Insight consists of the following intermatching data layers:

  • Current political map, 1:1m scale [regions]
  • Current political map, 1:3m scale [regions]
  • Country reference [points]
  • Time zones [regions]
  • Coastlines [polylines]
  • International borders [polylines]
  • 1st level administrative borders [polylines]
  • 2nd level administrative borders [polylines]
  • 2nd level administrative regions [regions]
  • Places, >820,0000 [points]
  • Alternative names [points]
  • Urban sprawls [regions]

A number of useful backgrounds, grids and lines are also supplied in addition to flag images (GIF format) at two resolutions.

Applications

There are an unlimited number of uses for Global Insight. Potential applications include:

  • General reference mapping
  • Global deocoding by place name
  • International strategic planning
  • Transportation planning & tracking
  • Telecommunications
  • Mining, oil & gas exploration
  • Ground truth for satellite imagery

Global Insight is ready to deploy on the Internet or corporate intranet.

Data Formats

Global Insight is available in the following data formats:

  • ESRI Shapefile
  • MapInfo TAB
  • MapInfo MIF/MID

The primary and alternative places databases can also be supplied in the following formats which allow easy loading on to enterprise database platforms.

  • Tab delimited file (TXT)
  • dBase (DBF)
  • Access database (MDB)

Other major formats can be supported by special arrangement.

Media

Global Insight is supplied on CD-ROM.

Pricing


Price List

All products & services from Europa Technologies include free lifetime technical support. Note that all data is licensed, not sold, and is subject to our standard End-User Licence Agreement (EULA).

Single & Multi-User Licences

Global Insight (single end-user license) - GBP: £1195 / USD: $2395 / EUR: €1995

Multi-user licence costs are based on a multiplier of the single user cost.

Users Multiplier GBP USD EUR
1 x1.0 £1,195 $2,395 €1,995
2 x1.5 £1,793 $3,593 €2,993
5 x2.0 £2,390 $4,790 €3,990
10 x2.5 £2,988 $5,988 €4,988
15 x3.0 £3,585 $7,185 €5,985
25 x3.5 £4,183 $8,383 €6,983
50 x4.0 £4,780 $9,580 €7,980
100 x5.0 £5,975 $11,975 €9,975
250 x6.0 £7,170 $14,370 €11,970
500 x8.0 £9,560 $19,160 €15,960
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Annual Maintenance

For single and multi-user licences, maintenance includes all updates for one year; add 50% to costs above.

Web & Server Licences

Global Insight may be deployed in an Internet / intranet web environment or used in a central server based capacity for an annual fee of three times single user price. If the use of the product includes service resale (ASP models, etc.), the annual fee is five times the single user price. Prices include all updates for each licenced year. For intranet or server based applications where the number of users is limited, the multi-user licence pricing above (one-off payment, perpetual licence) may be used. All web/server licences are per application, per year. There are no restrictions to the number of servers, users or hits.

Type Multiplier GBP USD EUR
Standard x3.0 £3,585 $7,185 €5,985
Resale x5.0 £5,975 $11,975 €9,975

Integration Licences

Attractive licensing terms are available to organisations who wish to integrate Global Insight into their own software products. Such applications are subject to a commercial agreement. Please contact the sales team to discuss your requirements.

Data Samples

Please contact our sales team to request a data sample. We regret that custom samples are not possible.

Further Information

Global Insight FAQ

For further information, please contact our sales team who will be happy to help you.

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Founder & Executive Director of Europa Technologies, Warren Vick, has been awarded a Ruban d'Honneur in the European Business Awards 2009 and is a finalist for International Entrepreneur of the Year.

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