MetaLog Store^TM:
Geospatial Data E-Commerce Solution

Overview

East View Cartographic provides turnkey
e-commerce systems and hosted services supporting online sales and dissemination of geospatial data products. EVC's MetaLog Store^TM
e-commerce solution is designed to work with all types of geospatial data products including:

• Satellite imagery
• Aerial photography
• Maps of all types (topographic, geological, nautical charts, etc.)
• Vector products
• Books and Atlases
• And virtually any type of geospatial data and associated metadata

MetaLog Store^TM makes it possible for your organization to:

• Promote and sell geospatial data products online worldwide 24/7
• Visualize data asset availability over any worldwide area of interest through dynamically generated base and index maps
• Differentiate your organization from competitors having minimal or no e-commerce capabilities
• Increase web driven lead and inquiry generation
• Improve search engine recognition of products
• And much more

EVC's MetaLog Store^TM combines off-the-shelf functionality with custom capabilities to balance economy and cost savings with the option to build-in unique functionality. Solutions conform to customer organizations’ existing web design and corporate identity elements to ensure consistent branding. Integration of customer organization data is also available. Standard features are listed below.

Standard Features

• Intuitive browser based interface for easy navigation and item identification
• Integrated organization of standard (spatially referenced assets) and non-standard (non-spatially referenced products) such as books and other publications
• Product/asset identification – search and browse
  • Regions/countries: search method locates coverage specific to defined geopolitical boundaries
  • Geoname search: supports identification of areas of interest and products through queries on more than 7 million worldwide feature type categories (administrative regions, hydrographic, area, populated places, streets/roads, hypsographic, spot feature, undersea, vegetation)
  • Coordinate search: robust worldwide functionality identifies coordinate boundaries and/or center point locations
  • Advanced search: locates items by product numbers, product types, publisher, ISBN, and other combinations of search terms
  • Clickable interactive map: displays available assets on global map - expandable to aid users' ability to identify areas and products of interest
  • Basic search: convenient quick search capability from the heading of any page
• Multiple user-defined product category sections help organize data collections and direct users to sections of interest
• Labeled sequential help instructions guide users step-by-step
• Continuous dynamic coordinates display via interactive map
• Sortable/searchable metadata columns facilitate data identification and selection
• Breadcrumbs display supports intuitive site navigation
• Browse image display for representative series/collection images and item specific thumbnail imagery
• Prominently displayed series/collection level description information
• Color-coded availability indicators appear below interactive map to indicate product availability status
• Customizable optional services selection via pull-down menus, clickable boxes, etc.

Full support, maintenance, training, installation, and data integration is available for all system solutions.

Related Solutions:

MetaLog^TM: Geospatial Data Management System