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Exploitation of regional cartographic data

Exploitation of regional cartographic data| Paradigm 'UrbIS as a Service' (UrbISaaS) is an inventory tool that allows the management (creation, modification, deletion) of mapped objects. The application presents a dynamically generated contextual environment: an appropriate background, a series of functionalities and a set of business object layers. The system ensures the persistence of managed objects in a database.

'UrbIS as a Service' (UrbISaaS) is an inventory tool that allows the management (creation, modification, deletion) of mapped objects. The application presents a dynamically generated contextual environment: an appropriate background, a series of functionalities and a set of business object layers. The system ensures the persistence of managed objects in a database. UrbISaaS consists of a set of web services, which ensures its modularity.  

UrbIS data: cartographic data accessible to all

UrbIS is a set of BCR geographic databases and online services that allow the easy exploitation of this data. UrbIS is accessible to all. It is free to use and covered by an Open Data licence. Two types of solutions are available, depending on the needs and resources: 

  • UrbIS data: a set of cartographic and alphanumeric data specific to the territory of the Brussels Region 
  • UrbIS applications & services: downloadable interactive cartographic applications and cartographic tools without download. 

Cartographic data via UrbISaaS applications and web services 

The benefit of "UrbISaas" is that it makes inventory applications of cartographic data available to Paradigm's partners quickly and at a lower cost. UrbISaaS applications and web services are developed and hosted by Paradigm. This service's activities are common to the solutions deployed and benefit all the user clients of the Brussels-Capital Region. These web services meet the international standards of the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium). 

Thanks to UrbisaaS, administrations can easily manage all the mapped objects in a given environment on one platform.​ Based on an assessment of customers' specific needs in terms of geospatial data, Paradigm offers a very affordable and fully customised GIS Web service that meets their requirements as quickly as possible.