Global 360, release 2012.1

The comprehensive world gazetteer

Key Features

  • Over 900,000 named locations
  • Foreign names ('exonyms')
  • Multiple feature classes
  • Direct support for Geo URI standard
  • Internet / intranet ready

Latest Features

  • Support for Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Danish languages
  • Enlarged populated places gazetteer
  • New online delivery option

Description

Global 360 is a comprehensive database of named locations. It is aimed at organisations who need to search, reference and geocode locations world-wide.

With over 900,000 entries from countries down to localised places of interest, Global 360 is perfect for spatially enabling web applications such as store/dealer/service locators, office messaging, asset tracking, social networking and geographic ‘check-in’ services.

Global 360 is ideal for any business organisation that requires a consistent global location resource for web-based search, geo-coding and reverse geo-coding. It includes support for localisation and forms a valuable component of any enterprise-wide Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

Country and major city names are available in local and foreign language forms ('exonyms'). Languages supported include English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, standard Arabic and simplified Chinese. Support for Russian and Hebrew is in development.

As well as a latitude and longitude (WGS-84) coordinate, Global 360 uniquely features a 'range indicator' for each location, giving a geographic extent.

Global 360 is the first of its kind to adopt the Geo URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) Internet standard for geographic locations. Geo URIs support the vCard file format specification, used for electronic business cards, and the GeoSMS standard for the tagging of locations in SMS text messages. The Geo URI scheme was defined in June 2010 by the Internet Engineering Task Force, an international open standards organisation that develops and promotes internet protocols.

Layers

Product Layer Comparison

The Global 360 gazetteer consists of the following features:

  • Places
  • Countries
  • Administrative Divisions
  • Islands
  • Airports
  • Ports
  • National Parks
  • Points of Interest (e.g. tourist locations)
  • Lakes

Applications

There are an unlimited number of uses for Global 360. Potential applications include:

  • Enterprise-wide global Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
  • Web site search functions
  • Store/dealer/service location finders
  • Where's the nearest...?
  • Global geocoding by place name
  • Reverse geocoding by latitude/longitude (e.g. asset tracking)
  • GeoSMS tagging
  • Social Networking, including geographic 'check-in' services

Global 360 is ready to deploy on the Internet or corporate intranet.

Data Formats

Global 360 is available in the following data formats:

  • ESRI Shapefile
  • MapInfo TAB *
  • Tab delimited file (TXT, UTF-8 encoding)
  • Access database

* Note that some data formats are unable to support Unicode. Other major formats can be supported by special arrangement.

Media

Global 360 is supplied on CD-ROM or can be delivered electronically via the Internet.

Pricing

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

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

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 x4.0 £4,780 $9,580 €7,980
50 x5.0 £5,975 $11,975 €9,975
100 x6.0 £7,170 $14,370 €11,970
250 x8.0 £9,560 $19,160 €15,960
500 x10.0 £11,950 $23,950 €19,950
Site / Corporate POA POA POA POA

Annual Maintenance

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

Web & Server Licences

Global 360 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 licensed 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 360 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

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

Duncan Hill, Business Development Manager
Telephone: +44 (0)1932 64 55 60 (direct)
e-mail:

Warren Vick, Director
Telephone: +44 (0)1932 64 55 55, option 1
e-mail:

To place an order, please visit the Order Information page.

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