Thursday, June 25. 2009

CartoVista No Flash in the Pan

I got a demo the other day from Dany Bouchard, President of DBx GEOMATICS, a  Quebec-based company, about their product CartoVista. If I translated this correctly, the product means, “map view” and that’s exactly what the product does. It is not a desktop GIS but renders data from other sources using Adobe Flash to provide rich data visualization. If you didn’t know better you would think you were looking at a business intelligence software dashboard (charts, graphics, data window, etc.) that has been augmented with a map window. The strength of this product is clearly its ability to do thematic mapping in a much more visually appealing and cartographically pleasing (albeit in a digital sense) manner.

The company is a Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) business partner so it works very easily with .TAB data. However, the product does a very slick job of updating each data window (chart, graph, etc.) as the user selects or zooms to a particular region. Labeling of data is very good and the dynamic analysis tools are extremely useful. Version 2.0 of the product is just now being released and it features customization using Flex and Java Script. The image below provides an example of some of the data windows you can open to display your data but it doesn’t do it justice. You need to see the product in action. You can download and evaluation copy. Try it out.

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Thursday, August 30. 2007

New at Directions Magazine

Posted today at Directions Magazine:

- The National Land and Water Information Service - Canada's New Agri-Environmental Web Portal

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Thursday, August 23. 2007

New at LBS360.NET

Posted at LBS360.NET, Directions Media's publication about location-based services:

The Evolution of Mobile Positioning
AAA Mobile Launched

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New at Directions Magazine

Posted today at Directions Magazine:

- Guy Carpenter's i-aXs Puts Data on the Map for Insurers
- GIS Technology Trends in Scanning and Plotting: What's New and What's Next

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Tuesday, August 21. 2007

New at Directions Magazine

Posted last week (when I was on vacation) at Directions Magazine:

- Product Review: MapInfo Professional Version 9.0
- The View from Here - Homework Part II
- Street-level Routing: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

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Thursday, August 9. 2007

New at Directions Magazine

Posted today at Directions Magazine:

- Wiped Off the Map - Greensburg, Kansas
- Today's Geography: Classroom to Boardroom
- Informix Spatial Data Technology: Update and Positioning

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