NRW.INVEST launches an interactive commercial site portal with partners
Extension of GERMANSITE with Google Earth service
Düsseldorf, 17.09.2007:Together with four NRW regional portals NRW.INVEST has launched an interactive commercial site portal for North Rhine-Westphalia. At www.germansite.cominterested investors can choose their ideal location from a range of currently approx. 1,000 commercial sites. With the new database NRW.INVEST wants to further optimize the international marketing of NRW as a business location.
A commercial site database of the same name has existed since 1997. The Bielefeld-based geo-information system house GeoDok has now overhauled the entire database and developed a new web application for NRW.INVEST on the basis of a geographic information system (GIS). Thanks to the introduction of the WebGIS components users can now also search and display all the commercial sites interactively on a map. The geo-information system allows the user to choose from different schematic and topographic maps and aerial views. Great importance was also attached to the close linking of map information and commercial key data. Exposés containing all the relevant information are provided by the web application both online and as PDF files. By means of various tools such as the distance measurer and the zoom function the user receives customized information about the active object and its surroundings.
The visual highlight is the link-up between GERMANSITE and Google Earth. In good time to coincide with Expo Real it will be possible to home in on the portal's commercial sites and display them in outline.
The regional partners of NRW.INVEST export their commercial sites to GERMANSITE. This means that existing data can be used several times. The information is presented in both the regional portals and at GERMANSITE. It was therefore possible to integrate the OWL commercial site atlas of the Ost-Westfalen-Lippe Chamber of Industry and Commerce, GISTRA (Gewerbeflächen-Informations-System der Technologieregion Aachen = commercial site information system of the technology region Aachen), ruhrsite from the metropoleruhr Economic Development Agency, and the Structure Atlas for Region Cologne/Bonn of the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce, into the database of the state of NRW.
Municipalities which are not affiliated with a regional portal have the possibility to enter factual and geometric data by browser using GERMANSITE's extranet application. During the commercial real estate trade fair Expo Real NRW.INVEST is presenting the GERMANSITE project at the joint booth of metropoleruhr (Hall B1, Booth 330/430) from 8 to 10 October 2007.
About GERMANSITE: NRW.INVEST GmbH has operated the GERMANSITE commercial site portal, which has developed into an important instrument for the international marketing of vacant commercial sites, since 1997. At present, approx. 7,500 users make use of the Internet offer every month. The objective of the commercial site portal is to arouse the interest of German and foreign investors in NRW as a business location with a selection of almost 1,000 vacant commercial sites in the state.
Further Info: Annette Peis, Press and PR Telefon: +49 (0) 211-130 00 162 E-Mail: Peis@nrwinvest.com
NRW.INVEST GmbH Economic Development Agency of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia Völklinger Str. 4 40219 Düsseldorf
