UBD Image

UBD® Image maps reflect the appearance of the UBD® directories, Australia’s number 1 street directory.

Maps display road names, contextual themes (e.g. rivers and lakes, schools, parks and railway stations) and points of interest (e.g. parking, police stations, traffic lights and public toilets). In addition, the page and grid information is supplied as separate polygon layers and street and suburb names are supplied as point files, to enable searches.

UBD® Image can be used in conjunction with the remaining suite of Whereis® StreetNet products and Whereis® aerial imagery.

Product Features

  • Clear, easy-to-read maps, reflecting the familiar appearance of the UBD® street directories
  • National capital cities and more than 600 rural towns
  • Detailed inner-city maps, where available, at a scale of 1:5,000 and/or 1:10,000
  • Geo-referenced with a high positional and attribute accuracy
  • Page and grid layers included as searchable polygon layers
  • Street and suburb indexes included as searchable point layers
  • Compatible with industry standard mapping and GIS software
  • Digital (raster) format that complements Whereis® StreetNet products
  • TIFF format that can be readily compressed or converted to other bit map formats
  • Streets and suburbs included as a searchable point layer, along with grid information relating directly to the UBD® street directories
  • Yearly updates for most metropolitan areas
  • Flexible pricing based on application, number of users and extent of coverage

Benefits

  • UBD® Image replicates the look of the UBD® street directories, yet allows for greater flexibility due to its digital format.
  • Provides a direct link to the UBD® directories. For example, UBD® Image can provide a link between a centre of operations and a field team.

Technical details

  • UBD® Image is provided in 8-bit TIFF using packbits compression, divided into tiles of up to 40MB.
  • TIFF can be readily compressed or converted to other bitmap formats including BMP, GIF and JPEG using common graphics utilities. The image files tend to be very large, so ample memory and disk space are recommended.
  • Mapping or GIS software is required to view or manipulate the map images. For most areas, data is rasterised at approximately 254dpi, resulting in a pixel size of exactly 2 meters.
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