The British Geological Survey (BGS) ushers in a new era of geologic mapping services with the launch of its OpenGeoscience Web site, built on ESRI’s ArcGIS technology. The Web site is the world’s first Web map service built on vector data serving attributed geologic data for an entire country. Built on ArcGIS Server, OpenGeoscience enables resolution of geologic details to about 50 meters on the ground, which is essentially street level, a world first in terms of releasing countrywide attributed information at this scale. Read More
