Hey Ontario, the new Economic Dev Mapping Site is Wanting
That’s the point of James Murray’s article in the Thunder Bay paper taking aim at a Bing Maps based tool aimed at helping those looking to open businesses in the province find possible locations. The app is called SelectOntario and the provincial website states: “Ontario is now the first province in Canada to implement a state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS) tool for the purposes of investment attraction.”
I don’t think he “against” Bing Maps per say, but rather the ease of use and number of clicks to an answer. The site, so far as I can tell, is built on Rolta’s OnPoint (originally from Orion, which Rolta acquired in recent years). I was unable to run the app on my Mac in Safari.
The best news about this article: user expectations for online mapping/GIS are high, as they should be.
