A new service from an old colleague and friend from Europa Technologies – enter via Europa (http://www.viaeuropa.uk.com/). viaEuropa is a new online service from Europa Technologies for the delivery of high quality digital maps direct to your app. The service uses Europa Technologies’ years of expertise in map tile rendering to deliver high quality map tiles directly to your web mapping application or desktop GIS. The hosted service is an example of Data as a Service (DaaS) and uses cloud computing to provide a scalable level of performance as the number of users grows. The service is availabel in several flavors including: the viaEuropa hosted service; viaEuropa Open – free access to maps created from OS OpenData; and viaEuropa Plus, available to any organisation and includes licensing for commercial use. From the developers… “viaEuropa is compatible with virtually any source of digital map data including OS OpenData”
The viaEuropa hosted service uses a web tile service to deliver pre-rendered map tiles to your application. APIs and applications supported at launch include:
* MapInfo Professional 10.5+
* MapInfo ProViewer 10.5+
* ESRI ArcGIS Desktop
* ESRI Web Mapping APIs
* Google Maps API (Premier)* Bing Maps API
* OpenLayers
* Oracle MapViewer
* OS OpenSpace®
See details in the official announcement
