iSMART

iSMART® provides full, enterprise-grade GIS functionality that is used by experts every day.

Key features include:

• Web-based interface: Users access all functionality via a web browser, no downloads or installation required.
• Role-based access control for data sets, maps, print templates and application functions.
• Standards-based security: Users and roles can be configured in LDAP/Active Directory.
• Viewing: Including pan, zoom, attribute information, measurement. Layer visibility and precedence can be set by administrators and customised by users. Users can save and view Map Bookmarks.
• Geographic business intelligence & analysis: Including search, query builder, graphs and charts, parameterised reports, exports to Excel, and regional "drill-down".
• Labelling: Capabilities include label positioning and rotation, font, scalable labels, halo, box, anchor point, offset, duplicate text suppression (with user toggle), partial object labelling, clash detection, user session changes to label style, SQL query based labels (including multiple database columns), and option in Layer Control to display labels only for particular layers.
• Editing: Full editing capabilities for the complete range of geometry features; a wide range of spatial editing functions like attribute entry, draw, move, offset, delete, union/merge, vertex editing, coordinate / distance and angle entry, copy and paste, merge, split, rotate & graphic grouping. Includes session management, undo & redo, locking, and the ability to keep edits private until approved by a designated supervisor.
• Dynamic snapping: Including several snap options and auto-trace , for spatial data consistency and quality while crea ting/editing geometries.
• Data rules engine: Allowing administrators to define powerful rules to maintain data quality. Rules are checked when saving data and users can review and correct rule exceptions.
• Printing: High q uality (vector) m ap output to PDFs with customisable print layouts . PDFs can be sent to printers for printing to scale.
• Map styling: Administrators can define display and print map styles (including lines, fills, text and symbols & scale-dependency), and for users to define personal styles. Layers may be styled by attribute.
• Thematics: Users can define and display thematic queries, including by range, discrete values, database joins, and spatial & SQL functions.
• Temporal: Time-based mark-up and analysis of spatial data.
• Metadata: View and search metadata to quickly find useful spatial data sets. Administrators may define metadata profiles corresponding to metadata standards such as ISO 19115 and ISO 15836 ("Dublin Core"), FGDC, GEMINI/ eGMS, and custom profiles.
• Web-based administration: User-friendly web-based setup of spatial data from Oracle and geospatial web services, including definition of maps, styling, metadata and end-user permissions.
• Auditing: Recording of all changes, including data and configuration.
• Network Data Modelling: Managing and editing of network data, and routing/tracing f or Oracle Network Data Model, or custom network data schemas.

• Database server

  Oracle 19c (also runs on 12c ). May use Oracle Spatial option (full spatial functionality), or Locator (some limitations on advanced functionality).

• Application server

  Fully supported Java application servers: Apache Tomcat 9 (with Java 1.8 or Java 11), Oracle WebLogic 14 (with Java 11 ) and WebLogic 12 (with Java 1.8).

• Supported operating systems

  Linux Red Hat 9 (64 bit) and derivatives. Windows Server 2019 (64 bit). Linux and Windows desktop are supported for development.

Hardware requirements

Hardware requirements depend on expected user numbers, data sizes, usage patterns etc. iSMART is typically deployed with separate application and database servers. Multiple application servers may be used for scalability and fail-over. Separate front-end web server(s) may also be deployed (for proxying and/or load-balancing).

A typical application server would have a 4 core 64-bit CPU (or equivalent 8 vCPU), 7-12 GB RAM, 200 GB Disk. A typical database server would also have RAID disk array, > 500GB capacity.

Leading government, public utility and commercial organisations all over the world have chosen iSMART®. They include:

Northern Powergrid, UK

Northern Powergrid has adopted iSMART as the 'office GIS' application within their suite of asset management systems. It is used to record and maintain data on their electricity network serving 8 million people across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

Verizon, United States

Verizon's Enterprise Geospatial Application (VEGA) is an award-winning web application for telecommunications network planning.

Download the Verizon case study [PDF, 187KB]

EPCOR Utilities Inc., Canada

Increasing efficiences with a mobile web mapping solution.

Download the EPCOR case study [PDF, 213KB]

Croydon Council, UK

Delivering location information internally within the council, as well as to the public via a web-based portal.

Download the Croydon Council case study [PDF, 171KB]

Hull City Council, UK

Improving internal efficiencies and customer services with web-based applications.

Download the Hull City Council case study [PDF, 697KB]

Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine (DAFM), Ireland

Streamlining grant application and payment processing. Currently DAFM uses iSMART as the GIS component for the Land Parcel Information System (LPIS) digitising and viewer applications. LPIS integrates with various scheme specific systems. Previous iterations of the DAFM spatial data management systems (‘Spatial’ and ‘GIS’) were based on earlier versions of iSMART.

Download the DAFM case study [PDF, 189KB]

Forestry Service, Ireland

Providing forestry grant applications with an online facility to submit Forestry Plantation Approval applications.

Download the Forestry Service case study [PDF, 487KB]

Dublin Bus, Ireland

Creating and updating bus stop information.

Download the Dublin Bus case study [PDF, 442KB]