Project Title: KGI Webmap System

Client: KGI Wireless

Platform: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft MapPoint .NET Web Services, and Microsoft Access

Summary: KGI Wireless, a cell tower collocation company, provides tower owners, engineers, and site acquisition managers with a quick look at tower collocation opportunities.

In 2001, KGI introduced a static webmap system that helped simplify and streamline tower collocation. It provided site-acquisition professionals, RF engineers, wireless carriers, tower owners, and others with state-by-state geographical views of every tower in the KGI site database. Although it enabled users to see all towers for a given state, locate a site, and display the related Tower Profile, it required a lot of manual processing to update the system's content. For example, whenever a new tower was added to the KGI site database a new state map had to be manually recreated to reflect the change. This process was very time consuming. Furthermore, this system did not give users dynamic interaction capabilities, such as being able to zoom into specific locations within a state map.

In 2004, Integral GIS, Inc. teamed up with KGI Wireless to upgrade its site location system from static maps to dynamic ones with controls for zooming and panning, and structural locator capabilities. This new system, built from Microsoft MapPoint .NET Web services and the .NET Platform, also gives them the flexibility to add and display new towers in a near real-time environment. In addition, it gives users the ability to dynamically interact with maps in a fun and easily operable interface environment.

Result: This webmap system gives KGI Wireless the flexibility to add and display new towers in a near real-time environment. In addition, it gives users the ability to dynamically interact with maps in a fun and easily operable interface environment.