The product is the culmination of several months’ development to modernise the look and feel, introduce a range of new features and improve the ability to exchange information with external marine data sources. The technology is built entirely on open-source software (GeoServer, PostGIS, OpenLayers, Angular 7, .NET Core 2.2) and is substantially more responsive and interactive than the previous setup.
Users now have more control: the filtering of map layers became much simpler and configurable; the opacity of individual layers is now adjustable, and the display of layers can be reordered; querying layers has been streamlined; and a gazetteer allows zooming to pre-defined regions.