 What’s SuperMap Desktop GIS?
SuperMap Desktop GIS products are a set of Desktop GIS software developed with SuperMap’s core technology. They have friendly interfaces and easy-to-use functionalities for data browsing, editing, querying, topology processing, 3D modeling and spatial analyzing, etc.
The SuperMap Deskpro GIS has three editions: SuperMap Viewer(royalty free), SuperMap Express and SuperMap Deskpro with full set of functions.
SuperMap Viewer - a royalty free spatial data Browser, mainly used for browsing map data supported by SuperMap GIS products.
SuperMap Express - a stardard edition of Desktop GIS. It has all the functionalities except for 3D visualization and analysis, grid analysis, network analysis and layout.
SuperMap Deskpro – an enterprise edition of Desktop GIS products, providing full set of functions, such as spatial data viewing, authoring, managing, analyzing, mapping, and 3D processing.
Figure 1 Three Editions of SuperMap Desktop GIS
Roadmap of Desktop GIS Products
Since the first SuperMap Desktop GIS was published in 2001, SuperMap had improved and released many versions of Desktop GIS products. The roadmap of our desktop products is illustrated below:
Figure 2 Roadmap of SuperMap Desktop Products
Technical Features
Open Architecture
SuperMap Desktop GIS products adopt an open architecture and support seamless access to the data stored in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, King base, etc. through SuperMap's SDX+ visual data engine.
Figure 3 Data access architecture of SuperMap desktop products
The concept of plug-in abstraction layer is introduced in the desktop architecture. It makes the implementation of each concrete functional module segregated from the integrated desktop application environment, thereby lays a solid foundation for rapid software upgrading in the future.
Figure 4 Plug-in architecture of SuperMap desktop products
The desktop products with plug-in structure are able to implement the specific industry requirements rapidly by adding specific data model or business model plug-ins.
Figure 5 Application architecture of SuperMap desktop products
User Oriented UI Design
SuperMap Desktop GIS products have similar UI style and layouts to Microsoft Office. They provide users an optimal desktop settings and visual effects.
◆ Multi-view interface binding: the system intelligently chooses the relevant menus and toolbars when switching between different view windows. This improves working efficiency and makes operations more convenient.
◆ Convient shortcuts: the shortcut for each type of spatial objects and operations can be easily used by both of professional and non-professional users to process the complicated spatial data smoothly.
◆ Customizable software layouts: this can satisfy particular users' needs. The latest SuperMap Desktop GIS products have included many styles for various choices.
Flexible and Convenient Operations
The operation style is similar to Windows standard style so that it makes easy for users to grasp operation skills rapidly. A full consideration is given to different requirements for different level users, the operation wizard is suitable for beginners; the shortcut keys and menus etc. for intermediate users. The advanced users can define their own shortcut keys.
Additionally, SuperMap Desktop GIS products give the professional users the capability to configure the advanced parameter settings and build the rich batch operating functions for improving automation processing and reducing the operation difficulty.
Integration with SuperMap SDX+
SuperMap Desktop GIS products are integrated with the latest spatial database eXtension –SuperMap SDX/SDX+. This SDX+ can directly access the spatial data and attribute data that are stored in a large-scale database. With SDX+, the products can concurrently access the data, allocate permissions, manage transaction, and provide the other advanced functions. Futhermore, the distributed and heterogeneous databases are fully supported by the desktop products and also the multiple databases can be accessed simultaneously. These databases can have different logical structures and be run on different operating systems.
Powerful Map Editing Functionalities
Considering to the particularity of GIS data editing, SuperMap Desktop GIS products take the advantage of the flexible editing features of CAD to provide users the easy-to-use and high accuracy and efficiency. Moreover, the smart snapping technique (for details, please see the section Supreme Map Editing Functions of Chapter 1) makes editing easier and more accurate.
The products have attribute painter and style painter functions. The first function can rapidly copy the specified attribute values from the selected geometric objects to other objects; The second one is to copy styles from the selected geometric objects to other objects in CAD dataset.
Figure 6 Attribute Painter and Style Painter
Additionally, the semi-automatic tracking function, provided by SuperMap Desktop GIS can increase efficiency and precision of the raster vectorization. Integration with Massive Data Management Technique
SuperMap's massive image data management technique can load GB image data in a few minutes. You will see that the performance of displaying GB data is as good as the viewing of the small volumn of data when browsing data on the map, such as zooming in/out, and panning.
Figure 7 Massive image data view
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What's SuperMap Desktop GIS?