What's New in VirtualGeo 5.0

The latest release of VirtualGeo brings you many enhancements and technical innovations and is centered around four major capabilities:

• Easy and intuitive server data management : populate a VirtualGeo Server with your geospatial data in a few clicks
• Advanced Web visualization without plugin : VirtualGeo is now on the Web as a pure HTML5 and plugin-less solution
• Interactive tools for large 3D textured mesh : visualize, edit measure, and draw on massive 3D textured city
• New defence extension in Studio : support for a large sets of military formats

VirtualGeo 5.0 offers also many other enhancements : see here for more details.

Advanced Web visualization without plugin

Now you can use VirtualGeo Web using a pure HTML5 solution without the need for any plug-in installation. Using the latest Web technologies (WebGL, Web Worker), data can be accessible via your Web application to explore, analyse, and annotate high-resolution, interactive geospatial 2D & 3D environment.

VirtualGeo provides a high-level API to facilitate the integration of the 2D/3D cartographic view into your Web application, and is packaged with out-of-the-box graphical controls, fully customisable via CSS.

New defence extension in Studio

With the new defence extension you can now drag'n'drop a large set of military formats (DTED0/1/2, ORTHO-0/1/2/3, USRP/ASRP, VMAP, etc.) directly into the Studio to prepare and visualise your geospatial environment.

For VMAP data, Studio provides a new dedicated wizard to select layers to be imported.

Also, VirtualGeo offers much better performance for JPEG2000 format (ORTHO-3 Geobase Defense) : gyga-bytes JEPG2000 images can now be visualised in real-time without any pre-processing.

VirtualGeo Studio

• Manage VirtualGeo Server data
  • Populate a VirtualGeo Server with your local data
  • Support all sources : raster, elevation, features and 3D mesh
  • Import Server layer, edit data and then validate your modifications
  • View and manage Server data : rename and delete layers
• Annotation bar
  • A toolbar to quickly annotate your environment
  • Add point annotations using simple drag'n'drop
  • Quick access to create, edite and delete tool
  • Quick access to line width, arrow, fill and stroke colour during feature creation
• 3D export
  • Export a small area to standard 3D format
  • Compatible with terrain and 3D textured mesh
• Raster and elevation export
  • Merge all your project data into a single raster (or elevation)
  • Recognizes all data formats: 3D models, vectors, network, etc.
• Data source edition
  • Add, remove or replace data sources used by a raster or feature layer
  • Provide improved fine-grained control to your layer content
• New Defence extension
  • Access to many military formats (DTED0/1/2, ORTHO 0/1/2, USRP/ASRP, etc.)
  • Better compatibility with JPEG2000 (ORTHO3)
  • Dedicated Wizard to import VMAP data
• 3D annotation improvement
  • Draw lines and polygons draped on a 3D mesh
  • Arrows and dash now available in 3D annotations library
• Measuring tool improvement
  • Linear measurement available in terrain or 3D mode
  • Intervisibility tool now integrated into the Studio
• Out-of-the-box Linux version
  • RPM package for RHEL compatible distribution
  • DEB package for Debian compatible distribution

VirtualGeo SDK

• Server publication
  • Create your own tool to process and upload local data to a VirtualGeo Server
  • Automate your data transfer on the Server
• Raster improvement
  • Better visualisation performance for all genuine raster format
  • 10-fold improvement in JPEG2000 performance
  • HDR available with automatic scaling (JPEG2000 12-bit mode)
• Secured network request
  • Authentification negotiations available
  • Kherberos available
  • Improved compatibility with HTTPS
• Surface modifications
  • Real-time adjustment on 3D mesh
  • Flatten or remove 3D mesh to replace terrain areas with new buildings
• New primitive
  • 2D : radarc, orbit, polyarc, track, bearing
  • 3D : box, sphere
• New style parameters
  • 3D Arrows
  • 3D Dash line
  • Smooth line
  • Texture animation
  • Draping on 3D mesh
• Overlay improvement
  • Nautical miles and MGRS formatted in standard measurements
  • New Georef graticule
  • New scale bar
• Platform support
  • Visual C++ 2013 is now supported on Windows

VirtualGeo Server

• Layer management
  • Add raster, elevation, vector and 3D mesh layers
  • Obtain all available layers via a single interface
  • Delete layers and their content (files)
  • Update layer content
  • Rename layer
• Vector
  • Can be rasterized and cached on server
  • Apply complex styles
  • Support 3D models for point
  • SLD support
• Authentification and security
  • Centralised via LDAP
  • Manage various workspaces within your server
• OGC-compliant
  • Raster/Elevation : WMS/WMTS
  • Vector : WFS
• Geocoding service
  • JSON based REST service
  • Based on Geodata
  • Includes autocorrection and autocompletion