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Configure Location Searching

AddressBase Premium CSV Importer
AddressBase Premium GML Importer
- AddressBase Premium Importer Installation & Configuration
Configure Location Lookups
NLPG (National Land & Property Gazetteer) Importer
- National Land & Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
- NLPG Importer Installation & Configuration

Developer Reference

Glossary and Acronyms

Help Index

How-To Articles

Add a Favicon to iShare GIS
Add a language toggle link
Add a simple URL
Add a Vertical Scroll bar to iShare GIS Profiles
Add UPRN based information
Allow links on my MyHouse or MyNearest pages to open in new browser tab
Allow the use of ADS Base Maps served by HTTPS
Alter the Mini Map displayed in My House
Analyse Logs using MS Log Parser
Apply & Store Styling for an OS MasterMap Topography Layer
Backup iShare Installation & Configuration
Change Annotation Layer Ownership
Change NHS Choices links to HTTPS
Change the "Distance" and "away" language/text for MyHouse and MyNearest
Change the ADS Blank BaseMap colour
Change the default "Search for a Location" text
Change the iShare Maps tab text
Change Workflow or My Alerts Notification Sender Email
Clean up data from Remote services
Configure a My House Polygon in Polygon Search
Configure a trusted endpoint in ADFS v2.0+
Configure iShare GIS for multi-domain authentication
Configure iShare GIS Security using AD FS
Configure iShare to use Aerial Photography from APGB
Configure MapServer Cartography
Configure My Alerts with multiple Workspaces
Configuring a WMTS Basemap
- Example WMTS Basemaps
- Using MapProxy in iShare
Convert a PostgreSQL column from text to numeric
Convert Classic Layers to Standard Layers
Convert Rasters for Map Serving
- Convert Rasters for Map Serving (GDAL < 3.1)
Correct Environment Agency WFS mapping flipped on x, y axis
Create a Dynamic Tilecache
Create a Find Nearest Point Layer
Create a Google StreetView layer
Creating a My Ward page
Customise Feature Highlighting in iShare GIS
Deal with incorrect ADS Road Names and Labelling
Debug My House
Display a popup information box on iShare GIS
Display Distance in Kilometres and Miles
Download ESRI FeatureServer to GeoJSON
Enable AD FS v2 for iShare GIS
Enable GeoJSON output format in MapServer to be used in an OpenLayers client
Export data from Access to Postgres using Data Share
Export Non-spatial CSV files
Export your Annotation Layers
Extract email addresses from the My Alerts database
Extract Non-System Functions from the iShare Database
Find IIS Log files
Find the Projection of a Shape file
Find which schemas/tables are taking up excessive disk space
Fix issue with SDW running slow or unable to open tables
Fix missing Layers if using an alternative name for your geometry column
Generate Advanced Reports using LogParser
Hide "Show on map" links on my MyHouse or MyNearest pages
Highlight a Feature in a Layer
How and When to use Views
Implement SSO for iShare GIS with Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID)
- Handle Annotations with SSO
Import Data from an MS SQL Server database
Import Features from an ESRI REST service via iShare Workflow
Import Layers with different Projections
Import MapInfo styles into PostgreSQL
Integrate iShare GIS with ADFS
Join attribute data in QGIS
Link to a File from iShare GIS Information Browser
Link to iShare from your home page
Link to Legacy NHS Choices Layers
Load data into PostgreSQL from QGIS
Load large CSV dataset into PostgreSQL
Load MapInfo Seamless tables in QGIS
Load Polygon & Multi Polygon data using Workflow
Lock the Zoom level on a Lite map
Mosaic thousands of raster images
Open all iShare links in a new window
Overcome issues with importing Column Names which are Reserved words
Reduce Shapefile Geometries Precision to a level PostgreSQL supports
Remove MapServer / PostgreSQL & iShare temporary files with Studio Workflow
Remove SLD files over a certain size
Replace "&" with "and" in your data
Report iShare issues to Support
- Install & Configure OBS Studio
Request ADFS Groups to administer Roles in iSiC
Retrieve the Coordinates of a Feature in WGS84 via both LocalInfo and a Virtual Layer in My House
Return a list of Windows Scheduled Tasks
Roll Back My Alerts
Run a Powershell Script using Studio Workflow
Run iShare under HTTPS
Run the DeleteFiles Powershell Script
Set My Maps Panels as Open by Default
Share folders on an iShare Windows Server
Spatialise a CSV file with Easting & Northing attributes
Specify map Zoom when a user performs a Find Address in iShare GIS
Speed up moving Data via iShare Studio Tasks
Test My Alerts Notifications
Upgrade iShare GIS
Upgrade iShare Maps
Upgrade PostGIS 1.5.x to PostGIS 1.5.5
Use a CSV as a Data Share Data source in v6.0
Use HTML in Attributes

iShare Accessibility

iShare Clarity with GeoNetwork

Batch Editing in GeoNetwork 4.x
Common Customer FAQs on INSPIRE & Enterprise Metadata
Create a UK Gemini 2.3 compliant Metadata Record in GeoNetwork
- Common validation errors
Getting Started with Metadata with Astun Technology
- Getting started with GeoNetwork
- INSPIRE metadata workflow
Metadata Crawler
Metadata Publication: Enterprise or INSPIRE+Enterprise
Resource Logos in GeoNetwork 4.x

iShare Desktop with QGIS

View GeoNetwork metadata records in QGIS

iShare GIS

iShare Videos

Recent updates

Release Notes

Support Notifications

MapServer Cross-site Scripting Security Risk
Meltdown & Spectre Security Vulnerabilities

System Administration

Application Logging
Backing up your Database
Clearing the iShare Cache and Reloading the Config
Creating your MapServer .MAP file
FTP Replicator
iShare Health Check - Essential Maintenance Tasks
iShare Security
Performance Tuning
pgAdmin Useful Tools
Storing Data in PostGIS
The Tilecache

System Connections

Authenticated WFS service via iShare Studio
BridgeStation
Brightly Confirm
Civica Contact 360 (formerly Asidua CCP)
CMIS Integration
- Configure My House Councillor Ward Layer
- Create Job to Refresh the CMIS data
- Style My House Councillor Content
- Update .MAP file for Councillor Ward Layer
Connect ArcGIS 10.2 to iShare SDW
- Restrictions for PostgreSQL databases being used with ArcGIS
Connect MapInfo to iShare SDW
Connect Microsoft Access to PostgreSQL
Elgin (roadworks.org)
- Configure My Nearest Roadworks Layer
- Create Job to Refresh Elgin data
- Customise Download Script
- Update .MAP file for Elgin Roadworks
Food Standards Agency - UK Food Hygiene Rating API
Fulcrum Integration
GIAS / EduBase
- Configure EduBase Classic Layers
- Configure EduBase Layers
- Create EduBase WFS Workflow Connection
- Create Job to Refresh the EduBase data
- Update .MAP file for EduBase Classic Layers
Idox - Uniform Publishing Master Spatial Data from PostGIS to Oracle
iShare In The Cloud Connectivity
Modern.gov [RSS]
- Configure Councillors & MPs Layers
- Create Job to Refresh Modern.gov data
- Create Modern.gov RSS Data Share Connections
- Download Modern.gov using curl
- Update .MAP file for Councillor & MP Layers
- Welsh Authorities
NHS Choices
- Configure NHS Choices Classic Layers
- Configure NHS Choices Layers
- Create Job to Refresh the NHS data
- Create WFS Workflow Connection
- Update .MAP file for NHS Choices Classic Layers
OS Open Names
Police Downloader
- Configure Police Layers
- Create Job to Refresh Police data
- Create WFS Workflow Connection to Police data
- Update .MAP file for Police layers
Symology Insight
- Logger Insight MapServer Configuration
- Logger Insight Studio Setup
- Merging the Asset Data
Various Other Systems
Veolia's Waste Collection Web Service

Training Modules

Introduction to GIS
PostGIS Essentials
QGIS Advanced
QGIS Essentials
SQL for Postgres/PostGIS

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