This year we got a visit from Santa with a bag full of public statistical data: all the data freely available from the population census.
We selected a subset of the data to update the France découverte database. Our showcase application contains other new items which we bring to you this New Year in hopes that your year will also be colorful!

We are preparing surprises of a more spectacular kind with a new version of Géoclip Server.

emc³ continues to grow: to fill the space available to us in our new offices and to deal with an increasing workload, our team now has four employees.
Thibault became acquainted with Géoclip in his last year of school at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He did his internship with us during which he built a new European statistical atlas among other things. Our collaboration was very positive and we are happy to continue it!

The Kansas Health Institute has published its annual report "Kansas County Health Ranking 2009" based on a production of Géoclip Server built with the support of our North-American partner Géo-Stat.

This application is a break from traditional methods in France:  the map indicators are ranks rather than quantities or rates. This lets them rank counties according to various criteria. Results tables display detailed profiles of each county.

Ten years ago exactly, Eric began his information systems consulting activity. Since that time emc³ has come a long way and Géoclip is being used world-wide!
Eric's office no longer occupies one room of the house: we have now moved in to our new professional offices built custom for our needs. You can visit us on site if you have the opportunity, we welcome visitors.

We also salute our friends at GéoRezo who are also turning ten in 2009 and who were kind enough to invite Eric to blog on Info'bulle (thank you Bruno!)

If you have explored our site, tried the many examples featured on-line (here or there) and have further questions, please contact us and we'll be happy to assist you.

We can give you a custom presentation as a webinar. All you need is internet access, there is no need to travel.

We presented Géoclip Server at the SIG-la-Lettre (SIG Newsletter) Conference on Thursday, May 14th, in Marne-la-Vallée.

Géo-Stat is showing great promise in the American market. Its first project, Q-dart, is now up and running at Rand Health, the health branch of Rand Corporation. It is an innovating tool that aims to outline disparities in access to health care in California, as it correlates to social-economic criteria. Dashboards (see opposite) let you compare a selected zone to a reference profile.

A second project is starting for KHI, Kansas Health Institute. More on that later.

On the other side of the pond, in Spain, Gekko just received an award for one of its productions.
In the local lingo: « una web pionera que permite consultar a golpe de ratón la evolución de las principales causas de muerte en los municipios andaluces desde 1981 desarrollada por la Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública ha obtenido el XVII Premio Hipatia, que otorga anualmente la Sociedad Española de Salud Pública. »

In our lingo: the Andalusia Public Health School has received, for the interactive Atlas of mortality in Andalusia, the 17th prize Hipatia, awarded by the Spanish Society for Public Health.
We discussed this atlas here. For more information, click here or here.

The Gallery heading offers a wide collection of atlases mostly built from Géoclip Server, and in a few cases from Géoclip Solo.
Two entries are entirely new:
 An Atlas of the Greater London, based on the maps of Ordnance Survey (including background) and on the indicators of the Office For National Statistics.
 An Atlas of Spain (our new "Spanish Dancer" ) produced in partnership with Gekko.
We are always looking for publicly available statistical and geographical data upon which to build new atlases.

Following WMS, WFS, WPS, etc. a new standard will most likely introduce a major new step: The 0.12 GLS specification is published on the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) site with a call for comments.
It is known as the Request for Comments phase (RFC) and precedes final adoption. This Request for Comments phase ends on March 1, 2009.
GLS is, among other things, a data exchange

To kick off the New Year in style, Géoclip Server now offers you the option to add WMS layers too.
The button in the toolbar opens a dedicated window which allows you to explore a selection of WMS servers or to enter a web address directly.
Options are available for adjusting the map, notably by means of a transparent cursor. Users can also obtain further additional information from the WMS servers using a CTRL + click sequence.
This feature can be enabled in any Géoclip Server application, such as in our Discover France demonstration.

We wish you an excellent 2009

The Finistère council has just been awarded the Territoria 2008 prize in the "communication" category for the production of its atlas: “Finistère puts its atlas on-line to analyse and share information.”

There are five new items on the Achievements page! Strictly speaking, some of these are not new, but are actually some of the oldest projects which have been updated in order to integrate the latest improvements.
Géoclip Serveur is constantly evolving. The most recent advances related to administration tools, and these were implemented in order to offer application administrators even greater autonomy to develop them. This allows such applications to be both enduring and upgradable.

We are proud to inform you of the publication of the Atlas estadístico de las Áreas Urbanas by the Spanish ministry of housing.
This atlas, packed with statistics on the population, housing and urbanisation, is based on the Géoclip Server solution.
As well as the cartography function, it also has a substantial "gráficos" section.
It was created in total autonomy by the technical team responsible for the project.

Géoclip continues its development abroad. The map opposite is that of Andalucia, where an interactive atlas, Atlas Interactivo de Mortalidad, has just been published by the Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. This atlas offers a wide range of annual data series, from 1981 to 2005, on municipal geographic level (municipio). It was created with the help of our partner, Gekko.

Everyone will have translated the code opposite: it is part of a statistical table, in the Gdas XML format.
At Géo-événement 2008, the conference on webmapping provided an ideal opportunity to present the current and pending improvements in this field. Much has been said about web services: WMS, WFS and other WPS. The one we have chosen to present could have been called WGDS (with GD for geodata), but in fact is known as Gdas. It facilitates the exchange of geolocalised statistical data since it enables the separation of geometric data and additional data. An experiment is underway with Géoclip for the Montreal health agency, supported by GeoConnexions.
For more information, download the presentation slideshow: Gdas, a new and promising web service for geolocalised statistical data (898 kb)

For the past couple of years, Géoclip Solo, the tool for creating autonomous “géoclips”, has been appreciated by increasing numbers of users for its simplicity of use. It is now a well-tried product. So, in order to make it accessible to a wider public, we have decided to enter into the spirit of the January sales and lower its price!