Simple web maps
Give your website visitors the answers they need
Sharing data has never been easier, thanks to Spotlight, our new free web mapping add-on for iShare.
Spotlight enables your colleagues to generate professional, clear and intuitive maps with no coding required! These are perfect for embedding into individual web pages.
Using Spotlight, your colleagues can create web maps in minutes, share them in seconds and be understood instantly.
See Spotlight in action
We recently hosted a webinar demonstrating how to create a Spotlight map.
Watch the recording now on YouTube
Benefits
Spotlight makes data easier to share and understand

Your data
Give data a wider audience via your website or URL sharing

Your users
Enable web visitors to self-serve information across a range of subjects

Your team
Publish consistently styled maps without increasing your workload

Your organisation
Reduce the number of enquiries and Freedom of Information requests
Worried about compliance and consistency?
No need. Spotlight automatically styles labels and adds copyright statements.
Produce quality maps in minutes
There’s only four steps between novice users and great maps
1
Create
Select a dataset and the background map that’s most appropriate
2
Customise
Perfect your map by adding map controls, titles and changing the zoom
3
Share
Send your web team a snippet of code or share your map via an URL
4
Update
Update your maps whenever your data changes
Spotlight in action: the public sector
Empower your residents to answer common queries like these

When will our bins be collected?

Are there roadworks nearby?

new MP?
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