eSpatial Software Product Release iSMART 5.5

10 December 2008, 11:05pm

10 Dec 2008, Dublin, Ireland, eSpatial, a leading provider of Web GIS & Location Services today announced the availability of its latest corporate Web GIS software product iSMART® 5.5, the most advanced Web GIS platform available in the market today. Already adopted by customers for projects in the US and UK, the latest iSMART software suite offers online GIS solutions eliminating dependency on traditional desktop client software.

iSMART 5.5 is primarily based on customer requirements for pure Web 2.0 Spatial Editing and other Corporate GIS capabilities, and driven by eSpatial’s on-going company strategy for development in these areas in order to continue to offer the world’s best Web GIS.

eSpatial is at the forefront of web editing innovation and offers editing technologies far beyond capabilities of any competitor in the marketplace. iSMART 5.5 offers enhanced functionality in pure web editing of spatial data including Auto-pan, Edit Clash-detection, Digitize using co-ordinates / distance & angle. This, along with improvements to the iSMART JavaScript and Ajax API enables organizations to embed GIS capabilities in mainstream business applications.

iSMART 5.5 includes other major enhancements such as a revised styling user interface and the ability to set user defined map display and print styles. It also includes Thematic enhancements such as thematics from ad-hoc SQL, Print enhancements including clipped printing and print preview, and Auditing. Support for 64-bit Java runtime and Apache Tomcat web application server has also been included.

Philip O’Doherty, eSpatial CEO, “eSpatial is transforming the market for GIS. This, our latest iSMART release combines easy-to-use yet powerful GIS functionality with universal access and faster integration, to enable more users in more businesses and government organizations to realize the benefits of geospatial analysis, visualization and maps, faster. We believe this release is the best Web GIS available today. The web editing functionality in iSMART takes this technology to the next level and integrates powerful and robust editing and management capabilities into standard online business applications. Significant cost savings are possible in terms of reduced client licenses and reduced development, deployment, and maintenance costs with improved productivity and information sharing across the organization”.

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