A MapChain has three distinctive components that we explain here.
1. Extract data
The “data” infrastructure allows us to extract all the necessary data from any environment in a continuous and secured manner. When extracting data from your environment we either request data from your API or extract the necessary information from your data landscape. Alternatively we setup an endpoint of our own for you to push data to or if you are running on cloud services, we simply integrate with that.
It is safe to say, that given our long history in traffic engineering, we have components for almost everything and probably seen it all.
2. Analytics
Once the infrastructure is in place, we can start with extracting information from the raw data: the analytics.
First we begin with a visualisation of the data on the map in a “present” view. At this point, the map already says more than “your thousand original data fields”. We take care not to overload the user and make the information zoom dependant. To add a more informative spatial context to your data, we can use existing structured data from public databases and api’s or less structured via unsupervised browser searches.
Then we determine the “interactions” needed on the map for the end users, making the data become truly actionable and valuable for your business.
When desired, we can also provide a “past” and/or “future” view of the data using the same infrastructure and the same analytics. For that purpose we have standardised modules on our platform that handle efficient indexing, storage and retrieval of the right data and have proprietary machine learning algorithms that specialise in predicting spatial and temporal data.
3. WebApp
Finally we configure the user specific workflows in MapChain and implement the possibilities for collaboration that match your business case. Once the workflows are created, you can self administer all your users, user rights, invitation links and so on.
Our IT stack is comprised out of three separate packages that correlate highly to the above three steps.