Technical Information

HunchLab is a web-based server application hosted within your agency's environment. Through integration, HunchLab imports incident records from CAD, RMS, and other incident databases. The application can leverage your agency's existing investment in GIS systems for basemaps, geocoding, and contextual data layers.  If your agency does not have existing GIS systems, we can assist in their selection and deployment.

User Requirements

Staff access HunchLab through the web-browser that is likely already installed on their computer systems. As an advanced web-application, HunchLab benefits from modern, more efficient, web-browsers. We support the following major web-browsers:

• Chrome 13 or newer (recommended) 
• Firefox 3.6 or newer (recommended)
• Safari 5.0.3 or newer 
• Internet Explorer 7 or newer

Server Requirements

The HunchLab server application is a Microsoft .NET application that is served by the Internet Information Services of Windows Server. The application uses either Microsoft SQL Server or PostGIS as a datastore. Implementations can be hosted either on a single server or spread across multiple application and database servers to increase fault tolerance and scale performance to accommodate more users.

Application servers require:

• Windows Server 2003 or newer with IIS installed
• .NET framework 2.0 or newer

Database servers require either:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or newer
• PostgreSQL with PostGIS 1.5 or newer

GIS Requirements

HunchLab can often leverage your in-house GIS infrastructures to provide basemaps, contextual data sets, and geocoding services. We can also integrate major commercial basemap and geocoding webservices such as ArcGIS.com if your agency does not have a server-based GIS environment.

Supported Options By Requirement

Basemaps provide the map upon which HunchLab displays data.  HunchLab supports:

• In-house Servers
  • ArcGIS for Server Workgroup Standard or above
  • Other WMS-compliant services
• Cloud Services
  • ArcGIS.com
  • Bing Maps
  • Google Maps
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Cloudmade

Geocoding Services provide the service that HunchLab uses to convert an address into a geographic point.   HunchLab supports:

• In-house Servers
  • ArcGIS for Server Geocoding Services
  • Custom geocoding webservices
• Cloud Services
  • ArcGIS.com
  • Bing Maps
  • Google Maps

Contextual Data Sets provide situational data layers for display such as the location of schools; this is an optional requirement.  HunchLab supports:

• In-house Servers
  • ArcGIS for Server Workgroup Standard or above
  • Other WMS-compliant services