Contents. Welcome to the Nimbus Maps Essentials User Guide

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1 USER GUIDE

2 Contents Welcome The Holy Trinity - Search, Click & Browse User Interface Searching Filters The Map Views What s a polygon? Google Street View The Information Panel Map Overlays - Planning, Environmentals, Measure & Exporting Experian Corporate Structure Account Management - Documents & Favourites Welcome to the Nimbus Maps Essentials User Guide Included in this pack, you will find invaluable advice and hints and tips on how to get the most from your Nimbus Maps Essentials software. However, should there be anything that you are unable to find, if you have questions or you feel that some additional live training with one of the team via our online Screenleap screen-to-screen system - from the comfort of your desk - please don t hesitate to contact us today on: Go to and click on Learning to find training videos, FAQs and other help and advice on using Nimbus Maps Essentials. The Holy Trinity There are three basic operations to Nimbus Maps that are the basis for all functionality: Search - just like Google. Click - on anything. Browse - the masses of aggregated data from over 500 sources. Nimbus Property Technology A few of our 500+ data sources.

3 Nimbus Maps Elite Features* Search Here Nimbus Maps Essentials User Interface If an exact location is not know, get close and click to find Title boundaries in the area. Open/Close Click to open/close the Information Panel. Home Button Click to reset the screen. Please note that the features highlighted in pink are disabled in Nimbus Maps Essentials and only available those who subscribe to our Nimbus Maps Elite software. Map Icon Key A key to all the elements on the Map View. Basket All you purchases will be found in your Basket. Account Tools All your Account Management information can be found here, including Documents and Favourites. Building Search Search using a house number and postcode. Buy Land Registry Documents Search Options Intelligent Search functionality with the choice of search options. You can search by: Drawing Tools Clicking this allows you to draw your own polygons to measure a site area. Scroll Mode Switchied on at zoom levels 10m and greater, as you move around the map, polygons and pins auto-populate on screen. Click to add to your Basket. 1. Location 2. Title Number 3. Company* 4. Boundary* Map Data Overlay Tools* Filters* These four options allow you to view overlays on the map or to toggle Planning on or off. Filter your search criteria, including adding Planning and Availability. Information Panel Once a Title boundary, pin or postcode dot is clicked, all the information relating to the site is shown in this panel. Blue clickable links also give you more information. For more detail, see page 9. Google 3D Map Google 3D View If you see this symbol, click to change the map view to 3D. Training Click on the icon or one of the YouTube 2-minute Tip videos, FAQ documents or PDF downloads. Searched... After you have hit Search, this is what your map screen will look like, showing all your clickable freehold Title boundaries and leasehold pins. Maroon Plus Symbols* These circular symbols indicate additonal information is available but can only be accessed as an Elite subscriber Log Out Click this to log out of your session. If you shut down the browser without logging out, you will be locked out for 15 minutes. Map Zoom Zoom In and Out. Map Key Map View Options Once you have clicked Search these are the Icons that will appear on your screen over the map Pins Freehold polygons (site boundaries) Leaseholds These buttons allow you to change the type of map displayed in Nimbus (The Information Panel needs to be closed to access map views). Freeholds Unregistered Land Unregistered Land with Planning Map Key... continued Google Street View Postcode Dots* With Planning With Availability With Planning & Availability Centre of Search Traffic Data * Dots with numbers are clustered data sets. Nimbus Property Technology Click and drag this icon to a dark blue road to see a splitscreen view (below). Live Chat/Help Articles Clicking this button opens our help centre where you can ask questions of our expert team and read help Articles, search using keywords. continued...

4 Searching The Map Views We have set-up Nimbus Maps to search intelligently, much like Google Maps. But you have six options to help filter this process: 1. Location: this enable you to search by the centre of a town or city, post code, a place name, street name, point of interest or a Motorway and junction number. 2. Building Search: More detailed by house number and postcode. 3. Title Number: if you have the Land Registry Title number, you can instantly see the pre-mapped site. 4. Company Name: Type in the company name to find all the sites registered to that or subsidiary names. 5. Company Number: Find a Companies House number directly from Nimbus Maps. 6. Reference: Find alias names for company property. On opening the software you will be greeted with a Google Maps Satellite view. However, there are additional map views found in the bottom-left corner (circled) to help you carry out and visualise your site search, measuring and ownership data. Standard Google Maps Satellite view. OS Mastermap view. This option is disabled in Nimbus Maps Essentials. OS Map view. Google 3D Map view. Filters The Filer option is disabled in Nimbus Maps Essentials. However, in Elite Cclicking on this option brings up a new dialogue box with a whole host of search Filter options, including Planning, Availability and Unregistered Land, Property Size and various Sales filters, including Filtered Presets (see graphic). In addition, you have a series of sliders that enable you to really fine-tune your site search process. What is a site polygon? Taken from the latest digitised Land Registry Titles, these site outlines are interactive links which unlock information from the multiple data sources we have layered into Nimbus Maps. Simply click to start browsing. What are the coloured dots? These dots indicate if there is Planning or Availability within a postcode. Click to be taken to new pages. Numbered dots indicate clustered information/sites. Above: The icon key showing you the various clickable elements within Nimbus Maps. This is what the Filters dialogue box looks like in Nimbus Maps Elite. The image above shows you the centre of Birmingham with a selection of red polygons, green Leasehold pins, yellow and orange Unregistered Land pins and data dots with clustered data within. All of these overlays are clickable and have a mass of data aggregated into the Information Panel. continued...

5 The Map Views... Continued The Information Panel Split screen Google Street View By dragging the Street View icon (called Pegman!) from the bottom right-hand corner (circled) of the screen on to one of the roads that appear, the fully functional split-screen mode is automatically enabled. It is to this panel that all of the aggregated data, Title documents and clickable links are viewed and interacted with. Click on the coloured green icon or the dark blue text to access an unparalleled amount of property information. Please note that the items highlighted in pink are disabled in Nimbus Maps Essentials. Expand All Click this button to open all the dropdown menus. Title Number The Land Registry Title number and connected to the Post Office UPRN. Click this to highlight just this site in the map window. Click the arrow to close Street View. Owner Sourced from Land Registry and filtered through Companies House; corporate and overseas ownership. Site Area - total only The area of the site measured in acres and hectares. This will also measure any other land associated with the same Title. Building Footprints Area including outbuildings and all permanent structures. Building Heights The height of a building in meters. Rateable Value The property s rateable value per square foot. Price Paid & EPC Register A record of the sale price of the site with a direct link to the.gov EPC site. The Nimbus Maps split screen with Google Street View; you can scroll around and change map section in this view. Traffic Flow Pin The blue pin icon (circled) with the small car inside gives locations that show traffic flow data from Highways England. Click on the pin and the Information Panel will open showing the data for that area. Clicking on More Information adds vehicle types and the years the data was collected. The More Information option is disabled in Nimbus Maps Essentials. Availability Is there a site for sale in the polygon or pin. Planning History Dating back to 1972, a complete history of a site s Planning with clickable links to the LA s Planning portal. Planning Policy - link to Local Plan A direct link to the local authority s Planning portal. The Nimbus Maps Information Panel. Share this Title Click to create a link you can send to colleagues and clients. Add Favourite Add Titles to your Favourites Page, found in the Accounts. The Nimbus Maps Traffic Flow data in the Information Panel and the additional dialogue box - data is average daily flow. Request a Topographical Survey Via our Bespoke team, we can create highly detailed survey reports that take a fraction of the time traditional site surveys take. Listed Building Graded and listed buildings throughout the country. Flooding & Environmental - see over page Population Demographic information of the area showing the population and household numbers from the centre of the site, with a radius of 100m-1km. Downloads - see over page This icon is clickable and opens up more data in the Information Panel. Nimbus Maps Elite functionality only continued...

6 The Information Panel... Continued Map Overlays - Nimbus Maps Elite only Flooding/Flood Risk If there is relevant flooding/flood risk associated with the site - indicated by the green plus icon in the Information Panel - you can view basic data in the IP by clicking on the icon. For a deeper dive, click on the dark blue copy to be taken to the Environment Agency s.gov web maps for that site. There are four overlays in the menu on the far right of the map screen: Planning, Overlays, Measure and Exports. The Planning overlay enables you to quickly display the Planning dataset for the search range you have set (the default is 250m in the Filter panel) and then select how far back you want to explore. The default is set to Two measuring tools to help check distances and possible constraints. Overlays - Nimbus Maps Elite Information Panel flooding summary. EA Flood Risk. EA Flood Map. Environmental Three key due diligence environmental reports are included in the Information Panel. Downloads There are three Documents available, two are sourced directly from Land Registry. The third, Nimbus Report, is a software-generated report based on data surrounding the site you have selected. The Nimbus Report is included in your subscription. Land Registry Title plan Land Registry Register & Lease Nimbus Report* (Elite only) After you have performed a Search, clicking on the Export icon brings up the instant Export options, the available options highlighted green. Simply click the your preference and the Excel output is downloaded to your computer. The Overlays add six key environmaental constraints to the map view: AONB, Green Belt, Woodland Pasture, SSSI, National Parks and Councils. You can only have one overlay active at a time; the overlays work on all map views. continued...

7 Experian Corporate Structure - Nimbus Maps Elite only Account Management Gain a complete perspective of a business s overall risk and structure from within the software. Under the Company Search, type in the name of the business you are researching. Click on the company and be taken to a company structure dialogue box. You can then export all or part of this data as CSV files, downloaded to your computer. Found by clicking on the triple lines in the top-right corner (circled). In this section you can quickly and simply find all of your key account information, plus this is where any documents such as Titles and Registers you have downloaded from Land Registry through the Nimbus Maps software, any Favourites you have saved and any invoices generated through your activity. Click on the Burger Menu top right and then Manage Account. All of your Titles, Registers and Leases will appear here ready for downloading. Below is a Map view search shown as pins/ boundaries of a Company Search in Elite. Above: This is what the Company Search looks like in Nimbus Maps Elite. If you have saved Favourites via the Information Panel button, they will appear here along with any notes you made on each. Simply click on the line and you will be taken to that Title in the Map view. Here vyou can see all your Documents ready for download.

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