My Nearest

The My Nearest service is part of iShare Maps and provides information related to services, events or entities near to the entered address location further enhanced by a small embedded map. The service, which is in effect a point to point/s spatial search (or polygon based if you have BLPU polygons), provides results based from many spatial overlays such as:

• Nearest planning applications
• Nearest GP surgeries
• Parks and open spaces nearby
• Nearest recycling sites

The iShare administrator, via iShare Studio, would be able to:

• Choose which overlays are brought into the service
• Choose which fields from the spatial overlay are called in. These could be plain value fields or links to PDFs, web pages, images or emails.
• Set friendly names
• Set the information box title
• Set the position (order) of information boxes on the page
• Include a link to see a route from the entered address to the specified destination. This could utilise the vendor’s own route planning component or provide a link to Google Maps’ route planner showing the same route
• Collapse or expand information boxes

The following images show an implementation of the My Nearest component.

Original collapsed view with Layer Groups displayed.

Here the Leisure and Culture Layer Group has been expanded to show the individual Layer information.