Social Change Online achieves dynamic integration of multiple distributed on-line data sources using the WebMapping Services model. These services cooperate to create images that visually communicate regional, national or international relationships over the web. Our approach allows access to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of digital maps and satellite images that until now have been locked away from the Internet. If you are a data provider, it allows you to tap into new and larger markets. If you are a data user, the amount of data available to you mushrooms.
Government agencies can easily adopt a whole of government approach to service delivery.
Emergency management can be dealt with much more efficiently. Primary health care can easily draw on an exponentially increasing number of data sources, yet still be user tailored. Environmental decision makers, be they government, non-government organisations or the public will, for the first time, have access to the sort of integrated information they need to make quality decisions. It means wider participation by all, and hence emerging markets. Our core component, the MapBroker , is the melting pot into which geographic data layers from operationally separate databases feed.