Map, Chart, and Data Production

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Aeronautical, Nautical, and Topographic Mapping

As producers of geospatial data and high-quality cartographic products move from linear, disconnected production lines to a concurrent, database-driven environment, the need to implement robust GIS-based solutions has grown tremendously. ESRI has a long history of providing software solutions and professional services support to customers responsible for high-volume data and cartographic production.

Whatever your domain—aeronautical, nautical, or topographic—we have expert staff with specialized experience who can provide support in a wide variety of disciplines including 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, 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 developed by ESRI Professional Services 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 Portal Toolkit—A technology and services solution that provides tools and templates to implement local, regional, national, and global spatial data infrastructure portals.

Learn More

Learn more about

• ESRI Mapping Center
• GIS for Map, Chart, and Data Production

Literature

• ESRI Cartography: Capabilities and Trends