Why use a Geoportal?
Why does my organization need a Geoportal?
Section titled “Why does my organization need a Geoportal?”Robotics:
- Robotics organizations have many different teams working with highly complex problems. By creating a central location for geospatial data, developers no longer need to waste time building tooling to manage their data. Robotics developers can focus on building solutions to problems, not managing data.
- “Is the new dataset released?”. “Can someone find this data for me?”. If you are seeing these questions at all in Slack, you need a Geoportal. Why waste developer time managing data handoffs when people can find the data themselves?
- Data Access and Authentication can get complex quickly. Don’t burn out your developers by asking them to manage these things.
Why use a service?
Section titled “Why use a service?”- Infrastructure Costs: Building and maintaining your own Geoportal is expensive. Developers spend cycles on work that is not relevant to the problem they’re solving.
- Easy Silo-Breaking: Teams can be opinionated. By using a service, you can easily break down silos and allow teams to share data without a single meeting.
- Visualization: Developers shouldn’t have to spend time to see their data. Our Geoportal has build-in visualization tools for many geospatial data formats.