Map, Chart, and Data Production

Aeronautical, Nautical, and Topographic Mapping

Esri provides professional services and software solutions for customers responsible for high-volume geospatial data and cartographic production, with a focus on migrating from linear, disconnected production lines to a concurrent, database-driven environment.

Whatever your domain-specific mapping and charting needs—aeronautical, nautical, or topographic—we can support you with implementation of Esri solutions for

• Data management
• Source capture and compilation
• Production, data processing, and editing
• Cartographic finishing, representation, and symbolization
• Workflow and job management
• Publishing and dissemination

In addition to providing implementation support, Esri Professional Services has a long track record of outsourced production support for

• Map/Chart production
• Data loading (extraction, transformation, and loading [ETL])
• Source capture and compilation
• Cartographic design
• Server caching
• Quality control and quality assurance

Domain-expert teams combine project managers, GIS specialists, application developers, and cartographers who collaborate as a single business unit. These teams specialize in aeronautical, hydrographic, and topographic production technology.

Implementing Industry-Leading Technology

Esri Professional Services implements solutions that are designed to let you focus on data management and access while simplifying and expediting product generation. Our goal is to help you

• Implement work processes that are simple, flexible, and measurable.
• Increase accuracy and product quality with more automation.
• Eliminate data redundancy between functional business units.
• Ease collaboration between analysts from different business units.
• Expose the enterprise data holdings within organizations as well as among partners and external customers.
• Reduce life cycle costs through the use of standards-based COTS products.
• Plan for the orderly retirement of legacy systems.

Technology Solutions

Esri offers standards-based COTS GIS solutions to streamline map, chart, and data production:

• Production Line Tool Set (PLTS) for ArcGIS—A collection of turnkey software applications developed to extend ArcGIS for high-volume database production, maintenance, quality control, cartographic product generation, and workflow management.
• Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX)—An enterprise workflow management application that simplifies many aspects of GIS and non-GIS job management and tracking. It is available for both ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server.
• GIS Data ReViewer—An extension to ArcGIS Desktop that provides a set of quality control (QC) tools to streamline spatial data quality and management tasks.
• Geoportal extension—An extension to ArcGIS Server that gives organizations with diverse and changing geospatial resources located throughout their enterprise a means to provide quick access to these resources regardless of resource location or type.

Learn More

Contact us for GIS services for map, chart, and data production, or request a call from a Professional Services representative. If you are outside the United States, contact the Esri office that serves you.

• Esri Mapping Center
• Esri Resource Center
• GIS for Map, Chart, and Data Production

Literature

White Papers

• Esri Cartography: Capabilities and Trends [PDF]
• Product Library in Esri Aeronautical Solution: Enabling Seamless Product, Data, and Document Management [PDF]
• Product on Demand—Automating Cartographic Production [PDF]
• Cartographic Design Process: Artistic Interpretation With the Geodatabase [PDF]
• ESRI Aeronautical Solution: Managing Aeronautical Data with Feature Builder [PDF]
• Creating and Maintaining a Geoportal—Management Considerations: Digital Magazine | PDF
• ArcGIS for INSPIRE [PDF]