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How do I share data to Parish Online?
South Kesteven District Council, located in the East Midlands, comprises a diverse mix of urban and rural communities, including numerous parishes. Effective collaboration with these parishes is essential for local governance, planning, and public ...
How do we keep XMAP running smoothly?
How We Keep Your Services Running Smoothly By Tom Huntley. October 2024 At Geoxphere, we use the power of cloud computing to deliver secure, reliable, and user-friendly geospatial tools to customers across the UK. Much of this work is hidden behind ...
Oblique Imagery
Overview Traditional aerial photography is taken with the camera pointing straight down towards the ground (nadir imagery as we call it). Aerial photography can also be taken pointing at an angles between 0 degrees (straight down) and 90 degrees (to ...
Database Best Practices
This short article is designed to help you better understand how to get the most out of your data in both XMAP and QGIS by applying simple but effective 'best practice' principles to your PostGIS database. The golden rules: Schema names, table names ...
URL Parameters for Opening XMAP
Overview This feature allows layers to be sent as a parameter in a URL to tell XMAP to load a particular layer. NOTE: this is an experimental feature so it a) may not work, and b) isn't fully-featured yet. URL Format Root:https://xmap.cloud/maps? ...
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Hub Overview
Hub is a fully hosted web application that gives residents access to property specific information, access to download Open-Data and the ability to find interactive maps quickly. Fully responsive and accessibility compliant, Hub is built on the ...
Before you begin
Prerequisites: Postgres/PostGIS: For customers to use Hub they are required to have a PostGIS (PG) instance, running at a minimum of version 16. If a customer is hosting the PG instance themselves then Geoxphere will require additional admin rights ...
Creating Hub Maps links
Populating the Source table: To published a new link on the Hub Maps page you need to update the gx_hub.open_maps source table. There are various ways to do this either through Dbeaver, PG-Admin or QGIS. Please contact your Account Manager to discuss ...
Creating Hub Open Data feeds
Populating the Source table: To published a new Open-Data set to the Hub Open-Data pages you need to update the gx_hub.open_data source table. There are various ways to do this either through Dbeaver, PG-Admin or QGIS. Please contact your Account ...
Overview of Views
Summary: This article covers the concept of Hub Views and how they relate to the source table of data. If you are not familiar with Postgres views, then we would recommend having a read of this article, but as part of the Hub implementation we will ...