It's Finals Time...

It's happened! As of today we're officially into the finals for the 2014 Sydney Design Awards. Needless to say, we're looking forward to finding out whether we've been judged good enough to go one better and take the prize. For now though, we're enjoying the right to flash our "Finalist" graphics around.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Sydney Design Awards

As many of you will know, we've recently launched the nsquared digitable55.
We are excited to be working with a number of customers already but the bigger news for today is that the digitable55 has been officially shortlisted for the 2014 Sydney Design Awards!

You can view the entry (and vote) for the nsquared digitable55 here .

How it all works.

Once our entry was accepted it was open for rating along with the other entries. They will be rated
by the design100 judging panel, respected industry members and the marketplace. Once all ratings are in, the scores will be averaged across the three respective ratings to ensure that the Awards showcase the best entry as determined by all three panels.
Rating closes on 17 August, 2014 and we understand that the top five rated entries in each category will be named finalists. We're hoping to be on the podium with other winners at the Awards Presentation on 20 August 2014. Time will tell...

nsquared maps sends routes to your phone.

Did you know that you can email routes from nsquared map to any device that has email and web access?
nsquared maps is an off the shelf product that is designed to add value to a range of different environments as diverse as Real Estate, Food and Beverage outlets, shopping centres, emergency management centres and tourist information venues. One of the best ways to add value is to include a 'take-away', and having the ability to share map routing information is extremely valuable and useful.

Real Estate sales? Easily add each of your properties to the map with unique graphic identifiers so that your clients and prospects can see how easy it is to move between properties, inspections and amenities.
Emergency Management? quickly add assets and location on the map to ensure that your teams have the information they need so that you can send routing information to personnel on the ground.
Food and Beverage Franchise?  Let people know where you are and where else they can find you. Add the location details to the map and enable your customers to explore their options and record them.
Tourist Information Centres? Quickly add and update information on local attractions and amenities for visitors to your area. Routing information will be as up to date as possible.

In all of these scenarios, being able to create routes between points of interest and take away directions is an important and in some cases life saving benefit. We've cleverly enabled you to do just that as long as your personal device has email and web access. Find out more about nsquared maps here, or watch the video below.

nsquared maps can read GeoRSS feeds

Did you know....... GeoRSS feeds can be displayed in nsquared maps.

GeoRSS feeds are a great way to include location information for web based data. Each location can have associated text and image data, so a GeoRSS feed can provide information on the map about each point.

The admin tool provided with nsquared maps allows you to add the data from any GeoRSS feed to the maps displayed on your digital tables.

Some examples of where we have seen this used are:

• Real estate agents provide all the properties for sale in a GeoRSS feed that can then be plotted on the map.
• Nation wide retailers provide a GeoRSS feed of all of their store locations to display on the map
• Emergency services provide a GeoRSS feed of incidents as they happen, these incidents can be seen as they occur on the map
• Photographers use GeoRSS to add location information to all of the images they store online. The images can then be displayed on the map.
• A manufacturer's support team uses a GeoRSS feed to provide information on all of the support calls that require a site visit. The information about each call can be displayed on the map at the correct location.

With nsquared maps you can easily add the GeoRSS information to the map on your large interactive touch screen with no programming. Simply add the URL of the web feed to the admin tool and configure the way you'd like the data to be displayed.

Find out more about nsquared maps here