As a company specialized in GIS, we have extensive experience in the development of viewers that display and manage large amounts of information, so we could bring all our experience to this project.
Even so, the ambition and innovative nature of the project was a great challenge. We were not looking for just another viewer. We were looking to go a step further and create a differential viewer that would provide value to the end user (both for the citizens of Bilbao and for visitors).
To offer an intuitive, agile and user-friendly product to such a wide target audience, it was necessary to have a very careful information architecture and a design especially focused on the user. This, together with performance, were key factors in the product’s success.
The Geobilbao project was a challenge for the city. Our eagerness to innovate came together naturally with Geograma, which clearly contributed to the success of the project. A first step towards something bigger.
MANU ROIBAL
Strategy and Planning Director
The solution developed to cover the objectives for the different audiences was based on the following maxim: Ease of use. Despite having to handle a large amount of information, ease of use above all.
The viewer, initially a web tool, shows layers of information that can be of information both for users who visit Bilbao sporadically and for the inhabitants themselves. This information is represented by layers, allowing the user to show or hide groups of information.
In addition to displaying different types of information (ranging from the street map, or bike rental points, to acoustic maps of the city), the viewer has different tools, among others:
Both Geograma and Cimubisa, as well as the Bilbao City Council itself, consider that the success of a viewer of these characteristics lies in providing users with information that is not accessible from other types of tools in a simple way.
Offering a complete radiography of the city including from means of transport, commercial premises to environmental information or maps with acoustic or radioelectric levels in a single web application can be considered a success in itself.