They must be able to extract and combine data on thematic maps to perform studies and support decisions in domains such as neighbourhood improvement, river basin management, environment protection. They are responsible for providing information to the citizen. They are also involved in administrative procedures that span several departments or several administrations. Those procedures could run very fast on the World Wide Web. The first screen gives him the choice of databases.
Databases are accessible in Belgium, Italy, England, Greece and Portugal.
The user can switch between databases at any time and move information between them. He sees each database as pages in a document that is opened simultaneously on all the databases. Within each database, the user can browse through the available maps by zooming and clicking. He also has access to textual information, such as the opening hours of the stores, the program of the movie theaters, the departments of each administration or how to run an administrative procedure when necessary. The more original part of the project however is that he also has access to all the information that was used to derive the thematic maps.