Global Insight Plus
Mapping your place in the digital world
Global Insight Plus
Mapping your place in the digital world
Global Insight Plus extends the base map and extensive places gazetteer of Global Insight with additional layers to form a comprehensive topographic map of the world. It is an ideal core asset to support global location intelligence applications within your organisation.
Global Insight Plus
Global Insight Plus builds on the foundation of an up-to-date political map and the extensive 2+ million place name gazetteer provided by Global Insight. Additional map layers are included to provide a rich feature coverage of the world. The product includes roads, railways / railroads, airports, ports and drainage features (rivers and lakes).
Global Insight Plus forms a new standard for world reference mapping and is an ideal upgrade for outdated or unmaintained data sets.
Rich attribute data
The map layers in Global Insight Plus feature rich attribute data to help improve cartography, perform better searches and enable analytical functions. For example, the extensive places gazetteer grades all locations from capital down to small village or settlement. Many cities and towns include an estimated population. The airports layer includes name, type, IATA code and ICAO code. Similarly, the ports layer includes name and UN/LOCODE.
The combination of worldwide coverage and rich attribute data make Global Insight Plus a formidable supplement to your data assets.
An enterprise-ready data asset
Global Insight Plus is ready to deploy on corporate servers, both dedicated and cloud-based. It can form the backbone to a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) and deliver access to the geographic information required to power location intelligence applications in your organisation.
If your operations are international or worldwide, use Global Insight Plus as a core data asset to support operational awareness, empower analysis, bolster decision making, allocate resources, meet standards and justify policy-making.
New in Global Insight Plus 2023.4
Version 2023.4 was released in December 2023 and includes:
- Major updates in Israel, Gaza Strip and West Bank
- Over 2100 additional place names
- New operational airports
- Updated time zones with DST for 2023/2024
- Expo: Update to earthquake events layer
- General maintenance and improvements
Rich map layers
Global Insight Plus consists of the following intermatching map data layers. Additionally, the product contains Expo – a curated set of guest content from trusted partners and carefully selected third parties.
Standard Content
- Political Land Masses
- Coastlines
- Political Reference
- International Borders
- 1st Level Administrative Reference
- 1st Level Administrative Borders
- 2nd Level Administrative Borders
- Places (1.6m+ with 2m+ names)
- Points of Interest (POI)
- Urban Sprawls
- Time Zones with DST
- National Parks
- Deserts
- Sea Bathymetry
- Ocean Features
- Roads
- Railways / Railroads
- Drainage (Rivers & Lakes)
- Airports (inc. IATA & ICAO codes)
- Ports (inc. UN/LOCODE)
- Simple Grids
- Military Grid (MGRS)
- Superfund Grids
- Uber H3 Grids
- UTM Zones
- MARPOL 73/78, PSSA
- Antarctica claims
- Chinese nine-dash line
- Flag Images
Expo Content
- Shaded Relief
- Exclusive Economic Zones
- Earthquakes
- Tectonic Plates
- Flight Routes (unmaintained)
- NASA Blue Marble
- NASA Black Marble
- Monthly Cloud Cover (2022)
- Earth Gravitational Model (EGM2008) grid/raster
- Climate Change – Global Temperatures
- Köppen−Geiger Climate Classification
- UNESCO World Heritage List
Looking for a global data product with elevation, contour and mountain layers? Check out Global Discovery
A myriad of applications
There are an unlimited number of uses for Global Insight Plus. Potential applications include:
- General reference mapping
- Global geocoding by place name
- International strategic planning
- Travel planning & transportation tracking
- Telecommunications
- Mining, oil & gas exploration
- Place name overlay for satellite imagery
Data formats & delivery
Global Insight Plus is available in many popular GIS formats, including:
- Esri Shapefile
- Esri File GeoDatabase
- MapInfo TAB (Extended)
All data products are delivered using our secure data delivery platform, Europa Data Vault.
Flexible licensing
Global Insight Plus can be licensed for a single user, multiple users, server or corporate use. The product is provided subject to our standard End User Licence Agreement (EULA) for global data products. Additionally, attractive licensing terms are available to organisations who wish to integrate Global Insight Plus into their own software products and services.
Please contact us to discuss your specific requirements and request pricing information.
Related products
Global Map Data
Global map data is a cornerstone in the history of Europa Technologies. Our market-leading data products are the choice of SMEs, prestigious Fortune Global 500 companies, governments and missions of the United Nations. As a result of a long-standing integration with Google Earth and Google Maps, our global data products have been seen by over one billion people, approximately one in seven of the world’s entire population.
Free data life support
All data products supplied by Europa Technologies include free, world-class, lifetime support.
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