The iShareMaps Location Server product suite is unique to the UK local government market place.  It provides local authorities with a means of publishing information from any back office database, whether spatial or non spatial, to members of the public via a local authority website.

Some of the unique advantages include:

1. In the SOCITM Better Connected 2008 survey, six Local Authority mapping websites were mentioned for best practice - two of these use iShareMaps Location Server.
2. Accessibility benefits have been mentioned in various publications most recently in British Standards Institute book - “Web Accessibility – Making PAS 78 Work”
3. AGI Awards 2007 – ‘My Protected Trees’ implementation at Surrey Heath was highly commended
4. Corporate GIS agnostic for example currently installed within in MapInfo / ESRI (inc CAPS) / CadCorp GIS  environments
5. Data Share workflow module is unique in providing a fully automated means of building mapping and property datasets from disparate databases.  The use here isn’t restricted to use in iShareMaps but can reduce internal administrative costs for your existing Corporate GIS implementation
6. My Alerts is unique in providing local authorities with a personalized means of allowing citizens to subscribe to an alerts service which informs them when information changes near to their property.