Geographic Enquiry and Display Interface

Our user-friendly Geographic Enquiry and Display Interface (GEDI) software is a low cost, modular geographic information system (GIS) that can be tailored to meet requirements. Our Web GIS enables the integration, sharing and dissemination of spatial data between organisations or departments, with secure handling of sensitive data.

GEDI helps users answer a range of questions including "How is the data changing over time?", "What is my area like?" and "Where is my nearest ...?". Read more about how the GEDI data structure supports these questions in the GEDI data cube PowerPoint document (about 1mb).

Our GEDI software was designed following an extensive consultation process with users and clients. We continue to work closely with our customers to modify the systems capabilities in order to meet their ongoing needs.

Have a look at the GEDI (www.GEDI.org.uk) demonstration or one of our case studies to see how these tools work and can be combined together to produce effective solutions to your business needs.

Click here for the online GEDI demo

GEDI contains several components that can be combined to suit your particular needs. Have a look at the GEDI data cube PowerPoint document (about 1mb) for an overview of each aspect of the system and its intended purpose. In summary, GEDI includes the following:

• Easy-to-use spatial components for navigating through your data including flexible map legends. These mapping and charting components use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Microsoft's Silverlight plugin will be supported in mid 2008.
• Sophisticated searching, enabled by well structured data with detailed metadata
• All data, statistical, services and the spatial data, is all stored in an industry standard database. GEDI has been tested for use with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL. As such, GEDI does not need any other 3rd party GIS software to render maps or import, export and analyse spatial information.
• Open standards and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) compliant interfaces. Data import and export has been designed to support OGC (Open GeoSpatial Consortium) guidelines and so integration with other GIS products is easy, if required.
• Powerful reporting tools including:
  • Area performance monitoring
  • Time series analysis including map animations
  • Interactive thematic reports and area profiling
  • Creation of user defined areas or neighbourhoods - see the notes on data re-aggregation for the accuracy of this tool.
• Aggregation and Presentation of Data based on specialist themes
• Intuitive data views including maps, tables and charts
• On-line administration tools for uploading, aggregating and editing data that make it easy to update and manage data
• Where’s My Nearest…?
• What’s My Neighbourhood like…?
• Document and Report Archive
• Online Help and Getting Started Guides
• Different types of user login approaches and security models. This can include a whole range from online registration for new users to the use of secure HTTPS protocols for sensitive information.