What's SuperMap GIS?

SuperMap GIS, a large GIS package developed by SuperMap Software Co., Ltd., covers a wide range of products, including Desktop GIS, Component GIS, Service GIS, Mobile GIS, Spatial Database eXtension, Navigation Application Development Platform as well as related spatial data generating, processing and managing tools. With our continuous technological innovation and GIS marketing promotion, SuperMap GIS has been applied in many different fields widely.

Design Concept of SuperMap GIS Products

In the course of GIS software development and evolution, the ideology had been undergone a transition from cartography only to cartography and information; the methodology had been evolved from modulized GIS to component based GIS. Now, GIS has been applied to various application systems and become an information tool rather than a cartography tool. The spatial information has become more important in personal life, enterprise management and government management. Thus, SuperMap advocates and adopts some important concepts in the design of SuperMap GIS products.

　　◆ Open and Co-operation strategy

Generally, GIS is a distributed information system. SuperMap GIS is oriented to GIS platform software and the GIS development tools for various environments. It is committed to fully supporting GIS application development and exploring the market with the business partners. SuperMap company implemented this Open and Co-operation strategy in our products. SuperMap GIS offers open and scalable software architecture - a service-oriented architecture. This provides capability for developers and users to set up their own systems with SuperMap GIS products to meet their needs or to develop professional software products with the independent licensedSuperMap GIS components to implement their solution easily.

Figure 1 Open GIS concept of SuperMap

　　◆ Universal GIS Core (UGC)

The rapid progress of IT has constantly influenced the development of GIS technology. In order to accommodate the changes of future technology and meet the fast-growing GIS requirements, SuperMap comes up with a new concept - Universal GIS Core for GIS fundamental platform development.

The idea of UGC is to separate all GIS functionalities and algorithms from the information technology so that the two parts are independent and disengaged from each other. Namely, the UGC implements the GIS core functionalities, which is relatively not affected by rapidly changed technology. This will be able to speed up the developing of the new model required for the changed technology by just implementing or adjusting peripheral function modules and user interfaces. This model can be named as “Core/Shell” model. The architecture of UGC software is shown below.

Figure 2 Architecture of Universal GIS

With UGC, the various GIS software products can be implemented, such as Component GIS, Service GIS, Desktop GIS etc. Particularly, the Component GIS and Service GIS can be encapsulated for either .net framework or Java platform.

The UGC has been deployed to SuperMap GIS 2008 product family. SuperMap iServer Java, has already been applied in lots of GIS projects. The GIS products based on the UGC has provided the best services for GIS users.

SuperMap GIS 2008 Product Family

SuperMap GIS 2008 contains a series of products, including Desktop GIS, Component GIS Development Platform, Spatial Database eXtension, Service GIS Development Platform, Mobile GIS Development Platform, Navigation Application Development Platform, and Data Processing Tools.

　　◆ Desktop GIS: has three editions, SuperMap Viewer (loyalty free), SuperMap Express, and SuperMap Deskpro.

　　◆ Component GIS Development Platform: provides SuperMap Objects for COM, SuperMap Objects for .NET 2.0, and SuperMap Objects for Java 2.0.

　　◆ Spatial Database eXtension: The enterprise Spatial Database Technology called SuperMap SDX+, it is not a product, but a technology that is internally supported in other products. It supports most of the commercial RDBMS, providing efficient and reliable access to spatial data.

　　◆ Service GIS Development Platform: is developed with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology, it includes SuperMap IS .NET, SuperMap iServer .NET 2.0 and SuperMap iServer Java 2.0.

　　◆ Mobile GIS Development Platform: is named as eSuperMap. It can be customized for Mobile GIS applications that are run on variant mobile devices.

　　◆ Navigation Application Development Platform: is the SuperNavigation Engine that is open to customize professional navigation applications for different mobile devices.

　　◆ Data Processing Tools: includes D-Producer for data production, D-Builder for database building, D-Checker for data quality control, D-Manager for spatial database management, FieldMapper for field work data acquisition and SuperMap Floor for estate survey.

Figure 3 SuperMap GIS 2008 Product Family

SuperMap International

With SuperMap 2000 Japanese version being released in 2000, SuperMap Japan co, Ltd. has opened Japanese GIS market successfully, they have established good partnership with thousands of Japanese governments, institutes, enterprises etc., such as NTT, Japan Railway, Tokyo Electric Power, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, NEC, Toshiba, Panasonic, Sumitomo Corporation, University of Tsukuba, University of Tokyo, and Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies.

Figure 4 SuperMap Deskpro 2003 Japanese Version

Besides Japanese GIS market, SuperMap GIS actively gets involved in the market of Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Sweden, South Africa, etc.

In 2006, SuperMap International Limited was founded in Hong Kong acting as a pivot of SuperMap global expanding strategy. SuperMap is committed to our pursuit to provide the best GIS services and products in the world.