Organising the catalogue

Ordnance Survey Ireland has massives amount of data in their systems and one of the key points of the project was to organise this data and create a product out of it. Multiple exercises and workshops were organised with the staff members to get as much information as possible for each product. After this, we looked at how Magento importer works and the structure of the CSV file it uses. We came to the decision to build a custom module that maps Ordnance Survey Ireland’s data to the right fields and helps the staff in the process of adding and updating the catalogue frequently by making it easy to read.

Customising the product

Most of the Consumer and Professional products have to be customisable so the user can select the format, scale, centre coordinates, area, etc. for the type of map they want. A set of tools were built around the map viewer on the product page using ESRI’s framework and services. One of the key challenges we faced was the integration of all of this with Magento as the ESRI’s framework uses the Dojo toolkit. Monsoon Consulting worked on the creation of the Map Viewer module and the integration of it with Magento’s backend.

Product generation

After an order with a customised product is placed, it goes to Ordnance Survey Ireland’s servers to generate a map using the user’s inputted details. After the generation is complete, a link comes back to Magento and the order is updated so the client can download it. For this, we developed an integration between Magento (iBridge) and SOA (middleware).

Magento Cloud

Ordnance Survey Ireland was one of the first projects to be developed on the new Magento Cloud platform. This led us to change our way of developing, testing and deploying code to the multiple environments set up. This platform allows OSI to deal with all of the online sales with the performance shoppers expect.