What's New in VirtualGeo 6.0
VirtualGeo 6.0 is released and include many new features and improvements:
- Massive Vector database streaming without preprocessing
- Complex symbology integration made easy, with APP6b built-in for military applications
- Import, visualisation and analysis of large point clouds
- Web Assembly support for high-performance 3D visualisation in a Web application
- Major performance improvements on dynamic labels
VirtualGeo 6.0 offers also many other enhancements : see here for more details.
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Massive vector database streaming
VirtualGeo now integrates new innovative spatialization methods to provide unprecedented vector streaming performance. Consequently, VirtualGeo is now able to display millions of vectors in real-time without any pre-processing.
These improvements apply to network data sources (such as PostGIS, WFS, or VirtualGeo Server), local sources (Shapefiles) or dynamically created vectors.
Complex symbology support with APP6
VirtualGeo now integrates the APP6 symbology standard. Both punctual symbols and the more complex tactical symbols provide interactive manipulators to create and edit the symbols directly on the 2D or 3D map.
VirtualGeo also offers new styling capabilities in order to build any complex symbology through pattern repetition, scaling and positioning with full SVG support.
Major performance improvements on labels
Through advanced innovative GPU algorithms, VirtualGeo is now 300% faster to display complex labels on dynamic entities. Most notably, decluttering, which select the text to display, has been optimised to reduce its costs to a small fraction of the rendering time.
Visualisation of large cloud points
VirtualGeo now offers many new features to integrate point clouds in the solution:
- Direct import and visualisation of point clouds
- Point cloud styling (point size, color, color map, etc.)
- Local publication to optimise the point cloud visualisation
- Server publication to stream large point clouds on the Web
Web Assembly support for VirtualGeo Web
VirtualGeo Web, currently based on Asm.js, now provides full Web Assembly (Wasm) support for advanced new browsers.
Web Assembly is the new standard enabling the creation of high performance web application through a new portable, size- and load-time-efficient format. It opens a new level of performance on the web for 3D cartographic visualisation.
In details
VirtualGeo SDK
- Vector optimisation
- Better performance for all vector raster
- Streaming large vector databases
- Label display
- Decluttering optimisation
- New GPU technique to display thousands of texts
- Raster re-projection
- Up to 15x faster
- Styling rules
- Scale dependent styling rules
- Different attribute filtering for each scale
- New interactive shape manipulators
- Annulus and Annulus sector, Obround, Triangle
- New style for complex symbology
- VrComplexCurveStyle
- VrPatternStyle
- Point cloud management
- New style: VrPointCloudStyle
- Direct import of LAS/LAZ files
- Local/server publication for optimisation
- New Sky rendering
- Atmospheric effects
- New defence format
- Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program (MGCP)
- Raster Product Format (RPF)
- Arc Standard Raster Product (ASRP), UTM/UPS Standard Raster Product (USRP) and associated catalogues (THF)
- Huge module refactors (C++)
- Shrinking libraries count from 44 to 11
- Faster linking
VirtualGeo Web
- Web Assembly support
- Implementation (WebAssembly or Asm.js) chosen at run-time
- Close to native performance
- Data loading
- Much better performance on Firefox
- Improved mobile performance
- Performance improvement
- Raster with reprojection
- Picking
- API upgrade
- Complex style API enriched
- New callbacks when drawing / editing
VirtualGeo Studio
- Vector and style
- Better management for huge local files
- More parameters for Surface / Curve Style
- Geonames support
- Import directly Geonames files
- VMAP
- New GUI to select VMAP layers
- Publish VMAP to VirtualGeo server
- New Sky GUI
- Apply atmospheric scattering
- Server synchronisation
- Synchronise VirtualGeo Server data from the Studio
VirtualGeo Server
- Performance
- Better cache configuration for tiles
- Performance improvement on vector streaming
- SSO authentication available
- OAuth2 standard
- LDAP and ActiveDirectory support
- Docker support
- Easier deployment
- Autocorrection
- Data import
- OpenStreetMap management (PBF)
- Direct import from the server
- Synchronisation between servers
We are very proud to announce that VirtualGeo 3 has been selected to be the 3D browser of the next generation French GeoPortail, which will comply with the INSPIRE directive. This project will be carried out by a consortium of companies including Diginext and led by Atos Wordline with the ambition to release the new GeoPortail V3 mid-2012. Géoportail is the geographic portal of the French government whose aim is to publicise georeferenced data about the whole French territory. This service, developed by two public agencies (the IGN and the BRGM), was officially inaugurated on June 23, 2006. With millions of connections, this massively successful service originated for two main purposes:
- to comply with the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for spatial information in Europe) European directive and ADELE French program aiming at the development of on-line administrative information
- to provide a national alternative to other online projects such as Google Maps and Google Earth
About IGN
The Institut Géographique National is the French national provider of reference geographic information, heir to the French Armed Forces Geographic Department (Service Géographique des Armées – SGA) founded in 1887. Its role is to describe, from a geometric and physical perspective, the surface and land use of the national territory, to make all appropriate representations thereof and to distribute this information. Initially a map designer, today, IGN produces increasingly exhaustive digital databases, that can be used for many applications. It thereby contributes to development planning, sustainable development and environmental protection, national defence, civil security and risk prevention, as well as to the promotion and standardisation of national and international applications of geographic information.