For instance, SPACE Risk enables the user to calculate the environmental risk of an insurance policy holder or a credit applicant in real time. The results are shown in a detailed report, including aerial photographs and maps (on request), including your company logo. SPACE Risk creates a valuable base of information for policy and credit experts and optimises commercial processes to the highest quality standards.

SPACE Risk contains a European-wide continuously-growing spatial database including:

• street and city maps (Navteq)
• infrastructure and land use data
• points of interest (e.g. hospitals, petrol stations, airports from Navteq)
• address geocoding
• protection areas (e.g. Natura 2000)
• socio demographic data
• industry data
• etc.

To use SPACE, the user only needs the Internet. The user-friendly and easy-to-use state of the art application using Web 2.0 technology shortens the learning curve. SPACE Risk also enables users without any technical knowledge to execute complex analysis. Moreover, SPACE Risk contains a dynamic user administration which affords the registration of executed analysis. So the user is able to notice spatial changes in the locations which have previously been analyzed.

SPACE Risk contains the following features:

• user-friendly and easy to use application
• european-wide address geocoding
• secure https ciphering
• vicinity analysis (objects within a defined perimeter)
• shortest-distance analysis (distance between objects)
• interactive map screen
• customizing
• generating analysis-reports (pdf), including maps and aerial photographs in real time

Technical requirements

SPACE Risk is a web-based information system. The following technical requirements are necessary:

• Stable internet connection, minimum ISDN, ideal DSL
• Supported browsers: I.E 5.5, IE 6, IE 7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2
• Browser settings: activated JavaScript, shown Java Applets
• Adobe Reader
• Resolution: minimum 1024x768