After GeoMedia 6.1
Posted by jeffhobbs on August 9, 2007
One of the presentations at yesterday’s NCIGUC meeting was by Steve Hoffman of Intergraph. He discussed some of the upcoming features in GeoMedia 6.1. I’ve covered quite a few of them here. I will attempt to cover more over the next few weeks.
Did want to point out that one of the "post-6.1" but before 6.2 enhancements will be tighter integrations with Google Earth, Google Maps, and Microsoft Virtual Earth.
On the Google Earth side, there will be a finalized Export to KML command. I say finalized because there’s a beta version of the command that’s been floating around in different circles for the last six+ months.
There will also be a KML Data Server…very cool if you ask me!
Finally, Intergraph will also be doing a lot more with Microsoft Virtual Earth. In fact, looking at an AVI, it appears that you will be able to load Virtual Earth inside of the legend window inside of GeoMedia. Then, you can interact with Virtual Earth and your map window will move pan and zoom as you pan and zoom in Virtual Earth. Looks very cool.
I’ve placed an AVI of the Virtual Earth/GeoMedia demonstration on YouTube. It can be viewed here.
August 12, 2007 at 4:19 am
please how can i get geomedia web map professional 6.1 trial version.
August 12, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Ahmed - no ideas. Not even sure if it’s in beta yet. You would need to contact Roger Harwell with Intergraph. He’s the product manager for GeoMedia WebMap and GeoMedia WebMap Professional.
His email address is roger.harwell@intergraph.com
February 3, 2008 at 3:43 am
Hello.
it’s cool, but…
How to load Virtual Earth inside of the legend window inside of GeoMedia?
Sergey
March 5, 2008 at 4:09 pm
HI!
How is the support of the SVG generated by Geomedia Webmap. Do we still are going to need the adobe svg viewer?
And how about translucency and patterns support when output type is PNG?
Do you know anything about this?
March 5, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I haven’t done much research on GMWM. I do know that the SVG Viewer will still be needed if you want to view SVG graphics. I’m really hoping they adopt Adobe’s Flash/Flex/Air technology one of these days. Don’t know if they’ve done anything with the development/support of PNG. Great question though.
Jeff
March 11, 2008 at 2:59 am
Hi
We’re also very interested in the png/translucency support as we’re keen to drop SVG - our public websites need SVG to look any good, but a lot of people can’t install the adobe viewer as they don’t have admin rights (especially if they work for another company) or they use Firefox which can’t render webmap svg at all.
So, translucency is the real nugget we are waiting for….
Bruce
March 11, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I do see your point of view. It would be a great question to ask Intergraph. Perhaps through a worksheet. With the eventual deprecation of the SVG Viewer from Adobe, I’m still really hoping Intergraph looks at something like Flex instead. It’s proprietary, but almost everybody got it on their machine already. Not to mention there’s support for Firefox, Safari, IE, etc.
March 14, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Hi!
Bruce, I received info that translucency is supported in WebMap 6.1. Haven’t test it yet.
I have a copy here i’ll test it following days…
March 18, 2008 at 9:27 am
Actually, I heard that the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in is one of the leading contenders to replace the SVG client. If so, that would be great!…the Silverlight “deep zoom” technology is pretty impressive.
March 18, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I’m hearing the same thing as well. I was at the GITA conference last week. Have quite a few things to post. That was actually going to be one of my postings…thanks for ruining my thunder Trevor!
But yes, I’m hearing that with the release of Silverlight 2.0, it’s very likely to be the de facto vector engine for GMWM. I’m guessing/expecting by 6.2 if not before as they need to beat the “retirement” of the SVG plugin. More to come.
March 20, 2008 at 8:30 pm
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March 21, 2008 at 11:41 am
Sorry!