With Voyager You Can
Voyager’s universal search openly integrates data from anywhere in the organization using a single search solution. With Voyager you can:
- Quickly index GIS data, maps and office formats (PDF, Word, Excel etc.) on your own computer or across enterprise servers
- Search for data and maps using full text and spatial queries as easily as you search the web
- Immediately preview the results of your search through thumbnails and instantly use your selected items in a variety of GIS applications
- Use search results in daily tasks such as adding data to ArcMap, extracting data to share with colleagues or use in the field, editing metadata, converting search results to KML, etc..
Voyager allows you to index and then search all of your GIS resources whether they are on your local file system, network shares or across the Internet. Once content is indexed, voyager streamlines a variety of daily tasks.
For people who are not familiar with specialized GIS software or simply have data in a variety of places, Voyager is the perfect solution for providing information on maps, datasets and GIS services when you want it – right on your desktop. Voyager improves productivity by providing easy access to all of your GIS resources.
Voyager makes publishing a searchable index of available GIS resources within a team, across an organization or over the Internet as easy as a single step. With Voyager you can quickly index and publish the maps and datasets that you wish to share. Voyager serves as a GIS portal.
Voyager creates a rich, searchable index by crawling your datasets, layers, maps and GIS services. It is because of this that Voyager surpasses traditional GIS portals by offering a richer index by including items which traditional portals ignore such as map layers and map documents. Voyagers modern search interface is easy to use and makes searching your organization’s GIS resources as easy as searching the web.
Voyager is a perfect data auditing solution. By crawling and indexing data Voyager is able to provide answers to many questions you may ask:
- How many datasets do I have?
- How many duplicate datasets are there?
- Which datasets are large? Which are small?
- What spatial references am I using?
- Which datasets are most commonly used in my maps?
- Which resources are slow to access? Slow to draw?
All of these questions can be answered within the search window. Searches can be saved and then re-run or shared with other users. Search results can also be viewed as RSS feeds enabling you to be updated as changes occur.
Collectively Search all Content
Voyager provides the ability to search all geo-spatial content in an enterprise through a single solution. Although content sources might reside in different locations such as on a desktop, network file server, corporate database servers or web servers running internally or on the World Wide Web, they appear as a single integrated set of search results.
Voyager’s universal search:
Publish and Promote your Spatial Data Infrastructure
Voyager provides a framework for publishing both metadata and spatial data along with streamlined data distribution tools that allow users to collaborate and utilize data in an efficient and flexible way.
With Voyager creating a portal to promote your Spatial Data Infrastructure is as easy as three steps:
- Install Voyager and index your data. This creates a comprehensive catalog of the information that your organization already has, whether items contain metadata or not.
- Audit your system and clean up your resources. Voyager’s auditing capabilities allow you to clean things up before sharing them with others. For example you can locate items without metadata, and create metadata where necessary, find and eliminate duplicate data, fix broken data links and locate items without a spatial reference.
- Publish your catalog for others to use. Publish the Voyager catalog online by simply sharing its URL. With Voyager you can create saved searches to highlight specific content, default views for different user needs, make RSS feeds available to keep people up to date and utilize other features to help people explore and download your data.
Streamline Processes and Deliver Data
Voyager provides a processing framework that helps streamline tasks. The framework allows users to select items from the index and perform common tasks such as downloading data or converting data to KML as easily as using an online music store to find and download MP3s.