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Europa Technologies Limited

viaEuropa services for JBA UK Flood Map data

viaEuropa is a hosted map and search service designed for JBA UK Flood Maps. Providing Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), viaEuropa supports broad deployment to multiple platforms. The service supports OGC standards (including WMTS, WMS, WFS) as well as all popular GIS software and web mapping APIs.

Features

  • Tile services (WMTS, XYZ, vector tiles)
  • Web Feature Services (WFS)
  • Web Map Services (WMS)
  • API search services, linking flood scores to OS AddressBase
  • JBA UK Flood digital map data
  • Location intelligence via API queries

Benefits

  • Integrate mapping across multiple applications without local hosting.
  • Query data to get the location information you need.
  • Snap to existing map features when digitising new data.
  • Search by address, postcode, street or locality.
  • Provide accessible mapping to users with colour vision deficiencies.
  • Ideal for organisastions already licensing JBA UK Flood Map data.
  • Save effort of maintaining local JBA UK Flood Map holdings.
  • High performance with no throttling

Pricing

£295 a unit a month

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at dhill@europa.uk.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

4 3 4 2 4 9 2 5 2 7 2 8 2 3 9

Contact

Europa Technologies Limited Duncan Hill
Telephone: 1932645560
Email: dhill@europa.uk.com

Service scope

Service constraints
None.
System requirements
  • Compatible with all modern (currently maintained) web browsers
  • Compatible with software supporting OGC standards
  • Compatible with commercial and open source mapping APIs

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Support tickets can be raised by phone, email or online form. Support tickets are answered as quickly as possible and no later than 12 noon on the next working day. Technical Support is provided by our own English-speaking staff from the UK and available from 09:00 to 17:30 UK time, Monday to Friday excluding public holidays in England.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Standard support is provided between the hours of 09:00 and 17:30 (UK time), Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays in England. Standard support is included at no charge.
Premium support with out-of-hours contacts is also available.
All clients have a named account manager that they can contact directly should they need to.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Users are provided with appropriate instructions and samples to enable them to quickly get started. This includes template applications for common web mapping APIs and files that can be used in popular desktop GIS applications. Training is not usually required.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
No user data is stored.
End-of-contract process
At the end of the contract the user account will be terminated.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Using the web interface
Demo/template applications provided for OpenLayers v2-v5, Leaflet, Google Maps, Bing Maps and Esri ArcGIS Server API.
Web interface accessibility standard
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Web interface accessibility testing
ViaEuropa base maps have been designed and tested for users with colour-vision deficiencies.
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Endpoints for mapping services (including WMTS, WFS, WMS) and location intelligence (e.g. address search) services. REST interface for tile services. Access via an API key.
API automation tools
Other
Other API automation tools
N/A
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
PDF
Command line interface
Yes
Command line interface compatibility
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
Using the command line interface
Some services available on the command line using cURL.

Scaling

Scaling available
Yes
Scaling type
Manual
Independence of resources
High level of redundant capacity plus ability to scale where necessary.
Usage notifications
Yes
Usage reporting
Email

Analytics

Infrastructure or application metrics
Yes
Metrics types
HTTP request and response status
Reporting types
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
No
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Penetration testing approach
In-house
Protecting data at rest
Physical access control, complying with another standard
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Backup and recovery

Backup and recovery
No

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
The target service level is 99.9% availability. Service credits are offered when the Service is unavailable for periods of 45 minutes or more in any calendar month. You will have one day’s worth of your monthly service fee credited to your account if the total outage period in a month is 45 minutes or more and an additional day for each additional 30 minutes of downtime up to 50% of your monthly hosting fee. Further details included in the service agreement.
Approach to resilience
Multiple redundant servers and datacentres.
Outage reporting
Email alerts.
SMS alerts.

Identity and authentication

User authentication
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
  • Other
Other user authentication
API key.
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Username and password credentials required.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
Username or password
Devices users manage the service through
Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users receive audit information on a regular basis
How long user audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users receive audit information on a regular basis
How long supplier audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
No
Security governance approach
In accordance with published policy, reviewed annually.
Information security policies and processes
Information security policies include the following: Data Protection Policy, Information Classification Policy, Information Security Policy, Information Systems Policy. These policies are included as part of the company handbook and are explained to all staff when they start. Staff are notified when policies have been updated and further training provided where appropriate. All policies are reviewed annually at board-level.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Documented change management and approval process. Security impact assessments with customer consultation and sign-off.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Regular checks on Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database for operating system and system software security weaknesses. All approved software patches applied in a timely manner. Detection and mitigation of attacks including DDoS.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Automatic detection and mitigation of attacks including DDoS. Banded capacity alerts. System administrator intervention where necessary.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Online ticket system integrated with technical support.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Separation between users

Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
No

Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient datacentres
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity

Fighting climate change

Europa Technologies understands the importance of fighting climate change and effective management of the environment. Our endeavours in the journey to fight climate change are driven with awareness and commitment in a number of key areas: Greenhouse gases – our journey to net-zero encompasses achievable activities within and outside the confines of our office, with employees, customers and suppliers. Our net-zero target is set for 2030 and we are working towards PAS 2060 certification. We have conducted an internal audit of international travel and we have re-set benchmarks and justifications to travel at a much higher level. Waste – we pride ourselves on a strong recycling initiative, with clearly labelled recycling bins in the office. All staff are provided with a reusable coffee cup to prevent the use of disposable cups. Our business is almost exclusively paperless, and has been for several years. All products and services are delivered to our customers electronically and we have a paperless administrative system. Water – we understand the importance of conserving water and preventing its waste. As a small business working within the technology sector, our use of water is limited only to drinking water for our staff. Environment – we have established an environmental programme named ‘Environmental Legacy’ which includes initiatives directly linked to sales performance and special occasions. Our ‘Environmental Legacy’ is a tree-planting programme in the UK and overseas. So far it has seen the planting of nearly 6,000 trees. This is measured and reported on every page of our website (https://www.europa.uk.com). Energy reduction – one of our key environmental goals is to reduce the amount of energy we consume. To this end, staff are empowered to work remotely where practical, thereby reducing unnecessary energy consumption and gas emissions whilst travelling to work.

Tackling economic inequality

Europa Technologies understands the importance of tackling economic inequality, specifically by increasing supply chain resilience and capacity. As an SME, the business competes against larger organisations in the following ways: • Innovation – by embracing new technologies and investing in our own R&D (research and development), we have demonstrated that we can innovate better than our competitors. • Agility – by being agile we can accelerate the timescale it would usually take to bring new products and services to market. • Price – by being a lean organisation with lower overheads we can offer products and services at very competitive price points, thereby offering improved value to our clients. Should contracts be awarded to Europa Technologies then 100% of the supply chain will be from the SME community. This will remain the case throughout the contract term. Should contracts be awarded to Europa Technologies, this will further support scalable and future-proofed innovation to deliver lower cost and higher quality products. It is anticipated that this will ultimately result in more valuable services being available to public sector organisations at a price point that was not previously achievable. Europa Technologies will manage and deliver the services using existing, internal resources. Over time, contracts awarded to Europa Technologies may result in the creation of one or more new roles, but this is not necessary nor anticipated at the outset.

Equal opportunity

Europa Technologies prides itself on its inclusive approach. All employees, customers and suppliers are valued for their diversity and recognised for the attributes they bring to the working environment. We have always been an equal opportunities employer and our approach to narrowing the disability employment gap is detailed within our equality policy. By valuing diversity we recognise that we all have complex identities made up of many strands. Within this sits the valuable contribution made by the 17.5% of the UK adult population (i.e. UK adults with a disability) to society as a whole. Europa Technologies is ambitious in embracing the challenge to narrow the disability gap. To be clear, disability covers a multitude of elements and is not only confined to the less than 10% of disabled people who use a wheelchair (DWP). Although we are a small company, Europa Technologies has positively recruited from the widest possible pool of working talent. Whilst our workforce is too small to be wholly representative of society, we recognise that an egalitarian approach to recruitment encourages fairness and inclusivity in the workplace as well as improving employee morale and commitment. We embrace and celebrate our differences in a positive environment, and are committed to engage with the needs of our diverse staff, suppliers and customers to enable us to achieve our individual and corporate aims. We are beginning our journey to become Disability Confident https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/ We develop, promote and deliver employment and training opportunities without discrimination. We celebrate difference as we are mindful of the fact that it challenges conventions and encourages creativity and innovation. For example our product range includes digital maps designed to be accessible to users with colour vision deficiencies (CVD).

Pricing

Price
£295 a unit a month
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
A free trial can be requested for a period of up to 1 month.
Link to free trial
https://www.europa.uk.com/request-viaeuropa-trial/

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at dhill@europa.uk.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.