Notes
Outline
Delving into Real Estate with
A New Online GIS Technology
Charlie Gunningham, aussiehome.com.
&
Dr. P. S. Williams, Amristar.
1. Delving into Real Estate
“putting your home on the map!”
Charlie Gunningham
Director, aussiehome.com
Background
Management Lecturer.
Arrived in Perth - 1997.
“Papers and glue”!
MBA – Nick, real estate.
Idea + Opportunity + Funds = get out there!
“The Three L’s”
“Oh, that’s why so cheap!”
You’re not buying a house.
Map Building
“A global centre!”
Datasets/Centroids.
Interactive map.
Chose market
leading technology.
Discovering i-delve
We had the market leader, but …
… a better one was around the corner!
How’s It Going?
Trial - Dec 2001-Feb 2002.
3 X use.
Intuitive.
Faster.
Flexible.
…positive feedback.
Where’s It Going?
Best out there…
…“Needs improvement.”
Need more data/layers.
Map the whole of WA.
Expand interstate and Asia.
See www.aussiehome.com.
2. A New Online GIS Technology
Dr. P. S. Williams
Director, Amristar
Background
IT Engineering PhD (UWA).
Expert in image processing.
Co-founded Amristar in 1999.
Recognising a Need
Evaluated existing GIS technologies.
Four major design goals:
Speed.
Persistent interactivity.
Usable over low bandwidth connections (1-5k/s).
Able to handle very large datasets.
Demo: aussiehome.com
A live demonstration of the aussiehome.com map was given. The map is available online at www.aussiehome.com.
Features of i-delve
Realtime pan and zoom.
Persistently interactive.
Multiple data layers.
Multi-resolution.
One-click database retrieval.
Customisation for aussiehome.com
Core technology was deployed.
Dataset preparation.
Integrated with their existing systems.
Web interface for on-the-fly management and publication of properties.
Demo: Belmont
A live demonstration of i-delve was given. The demonstration is available online at http://www.i-delve.net/belmont_raster.phtml.
More Features of i-delve
Customisable UI.
Raster and vector data.
Greeking.
Alpha blending.
Dynamic data.
Conclusion
aussiehome.com had a need for an online map.
i-delve provided a unique online mapping technology.
Come and see more demos at booth 12.
See www.i-delve.net for more information.