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SupergeoQ Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced the newest SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a now supports Indonesian and Turkish user interfaces.

Delivering plentiful GIS tools, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a provides users with a professional GIS platform to efficient accomplish diverse GIS tasks such as spatial data analysis, display, editing, management, query, etc.

Not only featuring the improved attribute table, map query, and map navigation functions, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a offers SuperGIS Toolkits to perform hundreds of GIS analysis functions. Through employing Process Designer, users can easily define the functions and workflows of geoprocessing according to their requirements to process single or the mass of data directly.

The latest SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a supports Indonesian and Turkish user interface for Indonesian-speaking and Turkish-speaking users to carry out GIS tasks more effectively. The desktop GIS software now provides multilingual user interface, such as Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic and Italian for a user-friendly manipulation environment.

More new product features about SupeGIS Desktop 3.1, please visit http://www.supergeotek.com/productpage_SG3.aspx?Type=Key%20Features

The free trial is available at http://www.supergeotek.com/download_6_desktop.aspx

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About Supergeo

Supergeo Technologies Inc. is a leading global provider of GIS software and solutions. Since the establishment, Supergeo has been dedicated to providing state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and comprehensive services for customers around the world. It is our vision to help users utilize geospatial technologies to create a better world.

Supergeo software and applications have been spread over the world to be the backbone of the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Supergeo is the professional GIS vendor, providing GIS-related users with complete GIS solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

Supergeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, releases SuperGIS Server 3.1a Value Edition and Standard Edition globally.

Designed to create, manage, integrate and publish various types of GIS services, SuperGIS Server 3.1a integrates all types of spatial data, images, and GIS functions with desktop, mobile, and web applications over the Internet, assisting enterprises in building ideal workflow and improving productivity in making decisions.

The newest SuperGIS Server 3.1a features geoprocessing service publishing functions and enhances the efficiency of map cache tools. Not only performing all the functionality offered by value edition, the Standard Edition additionally provides developers with Mobile SDK to customize mobile applications which can access SuperGIS Server services and meet enterprise requirements.

SuperGIS Server 3.1a Standard edition supports to work with diverse analysts, allowing enterprises to publish more comprehensive analysis functions to reduce cost of data duplication and storage.

In addition, a variety of sample descriptions and sample codes of diverse themes are available on SGDN website to help developers customize map webs easily. Therefore, developers can effortlessly create their own mapping applications and increase GIS capabilities to existing applications.

The GeoTrellis team is very excited to announce the availability of GeoTrellis 0.8 (codename “Atlantis”), which is a major new release that is a huge step forward towards our goal of a general purpose, high performance geoprocessing library and runtime designed to perform and scale for the web.

As you delve into GeoTrellis 0.8 in more depth, here are some new features you may want to explore:

• A new suite of raster operations in the focal category of map algebra: http://geotrellis.github.com/operations/raster/focal.html
• Simplified raster rendering with a built-in suite of color ramps for data cartography: http://geotrellis.github.com/overviews/rendering.html
• Zonal summary (by feature) operations, including a caching mechanism for tiled rasters for improved performance: http://geotrellis.github.com/operations/raster/zonal.html
• New vector feature framework for operations on points, lines, polygons with a suite of vector operations, as well as re-engineered rasterization operations: http://geotrellis.github.com/overviews/vector.html and http://geotrellis.github.com/operations/feature.html

For more information, see the Azavea Labs blog here: http://www.azavea.com/blogs/labs/2013/03/geotrellis-0-8-has-arrived/

Supergeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that SuperGIS Server 3.1a Standard edition will support Mobile SDK to help developers easily customize mobile applications to connect with SuperGIS Server services.

Designed for creating, managing, integrating and publishing various types of GIS services, SuperGIS Server 3.1a can integrate all types of spatial data, images, and GIS functions into desktop, mobile, and web applications over the Internet, assisting enterprises in building ideal workflow and improving productivity in making decisions efficiently.

The newest SuperGIS Server 3.1a offers Value and Standard editions to your requirements in diverse projects. The Value edition supports to publish map services, feature services and basic geoprocessing services. Except for serving all functions offered by Value edition, the Standard edition can publish advanced geoprocessing services and provide Mobile SDK.

To meet the requirements of accessing SuperGIS Server services on mobile devices, developers can apply SuperGIS Server Mobile SDK to customize applications on diverse platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows Mobile, allowing users to manipulate functions including map viewing, measurement, etc.

More new product features about SuperGIS Server 3.1, please visit http://www.supergeotek.com/LandingPage_SGS3.aspx

The free trial is available at http://www.supergeotek.com/download_6.aspx

Another benefit of my participation to FOSS4G-NA 2012 was learning about GeoTrellis, an open source geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.

From the website: "GeoTrellis accelerates geoprocessing tasks by harnessing the power of multiple cores, processors, and servers through distributed geoprocessing. By breaking large or complex tasks into smaller units of work and optimizing their execution, the framework can concurrently leverage massive computational power to produce results 10-100 times faster than traditional geoprocessing software. [...] Faster is not just faster, it’s different. For example, a truly responsive user experience makes it possible to create public participation planning tools or educational games that incorporate sophisticated geospatial models."

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.

From the open source and open data front:

• BrainOff shares a few examples of capabilities offered only by OpenStreetMap because of its open nature
• V1 mentions ReadyMap, using OpenLayers to render 3D models directly in the browser
• Here's a way to enhance raster contrast with gdal_lightner, with may makes its way as a QGIS Plugin
• Sean made me aware of pygp, a python geoprocessing package
• Here's a short but interesting article named  The GeoWeb, Citizen Science and Open Data
• Harvard's WorldMap reached version 1.0 and they're looking for participants, we mentioned WorldMap in the past

In the everything-else category:

• MapQuest Releases Native Mobile Mapping APIs for Android and Apple iOS, and yes, you can use OpenStreetMap data with it

• And there's now live traffic cameras in MapQuest too

• SS shares a nicely done 2-minutes video of the OGC on the value of geospatial and standards

• DM shares more information on Pitney Bowes's Geosk geodata platform, we mentioned Geosk last december. From the article: "Geosk is a platform for finding and using geospatial data. It combines a data as a service (DaaS) offering with a data management product. At its heart, Geosk is a completely scalable data management system that allows our customers to share their data with any user they choose, including their customers. Around this data management system we wrap an e-commerce engine to help our customers buy and sell premium geospatial data."

• Slashdot discussed Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System, which involves license plate reading, a topic covered a few times already
• DM offers an article on socio-demographic structures in Germany
• SS informs us a 3D model of Bangkok is now publicly available
• SS also informs us of Ericsson's Geo Location Messaging API, I wonder how it relates to GeoSMS
• In two entries, V1 explore to potential synergies between music interfaces and controllers and geospatial

In the maps category:

• O'Reilly shares a map of Mexico's drug war
• WunderMap now has historical weather maps for you
• Here's a map of the U.S. showing terrain by using only the roads
• SS shares an entry named Energy Use Data for all of New York City Released in Map Form

The INTERGEO conference and trade fair is the world’s largest event for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. From September 27th through 29th, suppliers, practitioners and researchers from all over the world gather in Nuremberg to present and discuss current technological trends and practical developments.

At con terra’s partner booth (hall 7A booth: C39), 52°North presents state of the art Sensor Web technology supporting seamless integration of live sensor data into Spatial Data Infrastructures via OGC Sensor Observation Services. A suite of open source tools is available for easy and efficient visualization and analysis of time series information. Applications in water management, environmental monitoring and meteorology impressively vouch for the benefit of this innovative technology and point the way for other fields of application.

What is a process app? 52°North’s new WPS “Appstore” provides many advantages for users and providers of processes (e.g. hydrological models, EO algorithms or geostatistical functions). Come and see how you can choose a process appropriate for your needs from the Appstore, integrate it in your private WPS execution environment, and include the results in applications, such as ArcMap and Model Builder. Instead of bringing data to the algorithms, the algorithms now come to the data!

In addition, discover how to transform your existing IT infrastructure into a hybrid cloud and use commercial, public clouds, such as Amazon, as a back bone for peak demands to ensure availability and performance for your geoinformation services and applications, e.g. in the INSPIRE context. Or let us demonstrate how to implement the OSM2NetworkDataset process to create traffic networks from free OpenStreetMap geodata according to individual requirements. The results can then be used in network analysis.

Don’t miss our presentation at the INTERGEO Forum:

• Wednesday, September 28 th, 9:30 – 10:00: INSPIRE Quality of Service – master the demands with the “Cloud” {Anforderungen meistern mit Hilfe der ‚Cloud’}. Bastian Schäffer

52°North is an international Research and Development Network of partners from research, industry and public administration - an excellent address to emphasize the value of new technologies in the form of innovative solutions in practice.

Contact: Ann Hitchcock, 52°North, [email protected]

Good news, JTS 1.12 has been released. It matters since a lot of other open source software uses it. GEOS, which recently went to 3.3.0, is a C++ port of the JTS. We also mentioned a month ago the new JSTS project, the JavaScript port.

From it's main website, JTS is: "The JTS Topology Suite is an API for modelling and manipulating 2-dimensional linear geometry. It provides numerous geometric predicates and functions. JTS conforms to the Simple Features Specification for SQL published by the Open GIS Consortium."

What's new for 1.12:

• "Single-Sided Buffers
• MinimumClearance function
• nearestNeighbours methods for STRtree
• Vector2D class for vector operations
• DD (DoubleDouble) enhanced precision arithmetic
• improved robustness for Delaunay and Voronoi computation
• enhanced geometry digitization in the TestBuilder, along with a dynamic grid"

With GEOS 3.2 released in 2009, it's nice to have GEOS 3.3.0 now released. This link also provide details on the JTS features missing in GEOS. Here's the full change list for GEOS 3.3.0. In short, in addition to the usual bug fixes, "this release introduces a fair amount of new C-API interfaces and a brand new PHP binding."

A reminder of what GEOS is: "GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the  Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the  OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions. GEOS is available under the terms of  GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)."

It was just last week that we announced the JSTS project, the JavaScript port of the JTS.