The desire
The Federal Police is always looking for ways to best visualize and analyze accidents, crimes or other events. This is often done on the basis of statistical analysis. But sometimes surprising patterns can also be mapped through spatial visualizations. That’s when the expertise of Geo Solutions is called in.
Geo Solutions in action
Basic maps and authentic sources in-house
First, Geo Solutions helps create the base maps used as background for various spatial applications within the Federal Police. To create these maps, we must first carefully clean and process the data from the authentic sources into usable data. Authentic sources ensure that recent as well as highly reliable information is always used. These data are then processed into a base map with all the necessary information for the various police units. Because of the diverse structures of different data sources, this process is constantly being improved. An additional advantage of in-house base maps is that they can always be accessed securely via the in-house network.
Proprietary geocoders
Working with data from the authentic sources also creates the need to develop proprietary geocoders. In doing so, together with the police, we ensure that not only addresses can be geocoded, but also other geographical locations such as hectometer poles, intersections, quays, buoys, railroads. An important application for this is geocoding accident data.
New Police Maps
Finally, we are in charge of the development of the new Police Maps. This is a completely new version of the internal map application. Different departments of the police can apply for their own geolocation here (e.g., railroad geolocation), which displays only the data relevant to them. In addition to the basic maps and geocoders mentioned earlier, this application includes extensive drawing and measuring functionalities, buffering and filtering geographic layers or sharing sessions.
The value
Creating, visualizing and analyzing geodata such as accidents, crimes or other events gave the Federal Police a better view on this valuable information. Otherwise unnoticed patterns and unexpected insights also emerged during this assignment.
This results in better and faster internal services for the Federal Police thanks to spatial visualizations of their valuable location data.
