Background

The Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat) is a national Public Health Observatory established to provide wide-ranging, authoritative data, evidence and practice related to children’s, young people’s and maternal health.

This specialist observatory is part of the Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory (YHPHO)

David Wells, Deputy Director and Local Network Lead, ChiMat says that the basic concept behind the observatory was to make intelligence more readily available to commissioners for child and maternal health services.

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Video Transcript

Welcome to this week’s video tutorial.

Today I would like to show you, how you can activate tooltips and labels for your contextual layers.

In this example report that you can see on the screen, I have two contextual layers included, one for Towns and one for Local Authorities.

I would like to have a tooltip for the towns where I can see the town name when I hover with my mouse pointer over one of these points in the map.

To do this, I need to open the config.xml file of this report in the InstantAtlas Designer.  I click on the map to open the map properties. I drag this divider a bit to the left to see all property names fully.

Towards to bottom of the list I find the property ‘List of Layers Displaying Tips’. This property requires me o type in the ID of the contextual layer for which I would like to enable the tooltip.

The ID of the layers can be found in another file called map.swf.xml. If you open this fine in a text editor I can see an entry for my base layers, my contextual layers and my background mapping layer. Each of the layers has an ID which I can simply copy out of this file. The ID for the Town layer is ‘contextualLayer2’.

I paste this ID into the configuration property and click ‘OK’. If I now save my changes and refresh the report in my browser, I can see the tooltips appear when I hover over the town points.

Activating static labels for my map layers is as easy as enabling tooltips. I go back into the Designer and enter the ID of the layer or layers into the property ‘List of Layers Displaying Labels’. This time I will activate labels for both contextual layers. So I add two rows and enter the IDs of both layers. They are ‘contextualLayer1’ and ‘contextualLayer2’. I save my changes again and refresh the browser.

The labels appear, however it looks a bit messy in the map. To work around this I can define zoom ranges in which the labels of each layer appear using the property ‘List Of Display ranges for labelled Layers’. This property requires ranges of percentage values of the starting map width. So for example I would like my Local Authorities to only show labels between the zoom to full extent and zoomed to 50% of the original map width. Then I would like the labels of my Town layers to appear.

So the values I need to put into this property are ‘100-50’ and ’50-0’.

I click ‘OK’, save my changes again and refresh the report. Initially I see only the labels of the Local Authorities. When I zoom in, however, these labels disappear and the Towns names show instead.

The content of the tooltips and labels is the value of the Feature Name Field that I chose when I added the layer into the InstantAtlas Publisher. However, this is only the case if the report was published with version 6.5 or later. Prior to 6.5 the tooltip and labels picked up the Feature Code Field of the contextual layer. So if you do not see the desired values in the tooltips or labels, you should make sure that firstly the values you wish to see are included in an attribute field in the digital map file used to create this contextual layer and secondly that you have chosen this field as the Feature Name Field in the InstantAtlas Publisher when adding the layer.

I hope this little video gives you an idea how tooltips and labelling of contextual layers work with InstantAtlas dynamic report. If you have any questions regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact support@geowise.co.uk.

Have a look at InstantAtlas support blog posts

1. CLIENT EXAMPLES

• 1.1 Client Spotlight:  Australian Early Development Index [AEDI],  Australia. World’s first mapping project covering an entire country with early childhood development data at suburb level
• 1.2 Client Spotlight: Bristol Council City Profiling Reports
• 1.3 Client Spotlight: Cornwall Council New Index of Deprivation & Child Well-Being Reports

1. CLIENT EXAMPLES

1.1 AEDI | A Snapshot of Early Childhood Development in Australia

A Snapshot of Early Childhood Development in Australia is the first National Report by the AEDI National Support Centre, which presents a clear picture of the health and development of Australia’s young children.

With the application of InstantAtlas the AEDI provides information about how communities have supported the development of their children before school. Between May and July 2009, the AEDI was completed for 261,203 Australian children in their first year of full-time school from every state and territory.

Megan Harper of AEDI National Support Centre says, “This AEDI project is essentially the world’s first in terms of mapping early childhood development data at suburb level across an entire country. There have been many attempts at state-wide or region-wide mapping of early childhood development indicators, however nothing across an entire country.  It’s an incredible milestone as we actually captured over 98% of ALL of Australia’s 5 year old children in our survey. Therefore the most successful completion rates of any voluntary survey across the Australia.”

The Australian Deputy Prime Minister (Julia Gillard) unveils the project in Melbourne, as she has a special interest in early childhood development.

The AEDI is a population measure of young children’s development based on a teacher-completed checklist (the AEDI Checklist). The five developmental domains measured are:

1.2 Bristol Council | City Profiles

The Bristol City Council Corporate GIS Support team are using InstantAtlas Server to deliver a Local Information System; http://profiles.bristol.gov.uk/ , which provides a resource for the council and Bristol Partnership to share intelligence, through maps, atlases, statistical reports and dynamic reports about life in Bristol and its neighbourhoods.

Bristol data profiles aims to improve efficiency and effectiveness by;

●     Reducing duplication

●     Shifting the focus from collecting data to analysing it

●     Reducing requests for ad-hoc data

●     Creating a shared understanding of what intelligence is available leading to improved partnership working

●     Developing better needs assessments

●     Broadening the range of data users

●     Providing information to inform the steps of the policy design and delivery process

●     Creating a catalyst for a more analytical and focused culture for regeneration activities

A number of exciting new developments are taking place with a number of new profiles and dynamic reports being added.  Current profiles include, Quality of Life, Population, Crime, Census, Education and Health.

Some examples of their work area as follows;

http://profiles.bristol.gov.uk/

http://maps.bristol.gov.uk/instantatlas/population2008/atlas.html

http://ias.bristol.gov.uk/dataviews/report/fullpage?viewId=142&reportId=142

http://ias.bristol.gov.uk/dataviews/report/fullpage?viewId=264&reportId=246

1.3 Cornwall Council | Index of Deprivation & Child Well-Being Reports

New InstantAtlas reports have been created by the Cornwall Community Intelligence team to provide insight and key facts about the City. They include research which draws on a range of statistics to provide information about the people of Cornwall and their social, environmental and economic circumstances.

“Cornwall Council Community Intelligence Team are using Instant Atlas to allow users on their website to explore the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 and the Local Index of Child Wellbeing 2009.  The maps also allow users to access the print-friendly area profiles for neighbourhoods (lower layer super output areas).” says Abi Messenger, Community Intelligence Team.

To see the new reports please select below

Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 | Local Index of Child Wellbeing 2009

A festive message from all at Geowise

The holiday season is now well upon us and the year is nearly ended.  As this is the last InstantAtlas e-bulletin of the 2009 we thought we would give you a little light hearted background information on our country Scotland.

Geowise is located in Edinburgh and this year the country has been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the poet Robert Burns. It may be the case that you may have never heard of Robert Burns but if you have stood at New Year, linked arms with friends and family and sang “Auld Langs Syne…” then you have been touched by the Bard without knowing it.

We have included below a scene for you of the City of Edinburgh at Christmas which is the home of InstantAtlas, why not click the wheel to see if its snowing today. We have also included a Robert Burns Poem “The Winter” to leave you tounge-tied.

The Winter

When biting Boreas, fell and doure,
Sharp shivers thro’ the leafless bow’r;
When Phœbus gies a short-liv’d glow’r,
Far south the lift, Dim-dark’ning thro’ the flaky show’r,
Or whirling drift:

Ae night the storm the steeples rocked,
Poor Labour sweet in sleep was locked,While burns, wi’ snawy wreeths upchoked,
Wild-eddying swirl,
Or thro’ the mining outlet bocked,
Down headlong hurl.

List’ning, the doors an’ winnocks rattle,
I thought me on the ourie cattle,
Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle
O’ winter war,
And thro’ the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle,Beneath a scar.
Ilk happing bird, wee, helpless thing!

That, in the merry months o’spring,
Delighted me to hear thee sing,
What comes o’ thee?
Whare wilt thou cow’r thy chittering wing
An’ close thy e’e?

Ev’n you on murd’ring errands toil’d,
Lone from your savage homes exil’d,
The blood-stain’d roost, and sheep-cote spoil’d
My heart forgets,
While pityless the tempest wild
Sore on you beats.

2009 is the 250th anniversary of  the birth of  Robert Burns

Link to Robert Burns – Wikipedia

Homecoming Scotland 2009 – Link

New Blogs available

Geowise are always looking at ways to let you get the most out of Instantatlas product news and information.  So today we are announcing two new blog sites for our international users. You can now view InstantAtlas news in German and Spanish at the following links  – German Blog & Spanish Blog