Spatial Workshop features

List of features of Spatial Workshop 2010, with short descriptions:

Navigation and interaction

  • An extensive set of navigation functions
  • Store favorite views / bookmarks
  • Single and multiple selections
  • Feature attribute display
  • Visualization of spatial relations
  • Multi-map navigation through smart tags (view geographic, schematic and internal maps)
  • Foreground, background and analysis themes visibility
  • Transparent labeling while hovering
  • Streamed and interruptible map display

Data modelling & Cartography

  • Support for multiple map types
    (geographic, GIS mapping, schematic, multi world...)
  • Relations between map types
  • Themes and styles dependent on context
  • Automatic labeling
  • Scale dependent presentations and visibility
  • Attribute dependent presentation
  • Map projections (support for EPSG map projections and coordinate systems)
  • Raster and vector data
  • Business Object Modeling
  • Integration of multiple data sources
  • Selection of direct fields from data sources
  • Creation of derived geospatial and non-geospatial information using expressions
  • Creation of joins between data in multiple sources
  • Links between geographic elements and documents
  • Direct database access
  • Database access mode for file repositories
  • Raster, vector and services
  • Dynamic model change
  • Resilient against source disconnection       

User Interface and authorization

  • Windows (Vista) look and feel
  • Ribbon based menu structure (MS Office 2007/2010 look and feel)
  • Context dependent ribbon display
  • Authorization of ribbons and functions
  • Restrict functionality for day to day users
  • Full functionality for configures
  • Movable, hideable and dockable menus and windows

Search and Find

  • Display of attribute data of selected objects
  • Aggregated information for multiple selected objects
  • Quick find
  • Graphical query builder
  • Database predicates for filtering
  • Predicate based multi operands
  • Map measuring
  • Data grouping
  • Direct access to data sources
  • What-if Analysis of collections
    • Analysing collections and query results
    • Filtering result with parameters
    • Dynamic presentation of the result on the map

Analysis and Thematic Mapping

  • Create different Spatial Analysis projects/scenarios
  • Powerfull analysis blocks/operations:
    • Base: create analysis collection
    • Expression: add addiotional fields using extensive expressions
    • Buffer: create buffers and skeletons
    • Join: join and relate analysis collections
    • Nearest: find nearest geometry
    • Flatten: flatten an analysis collection
    • Intersect: intersect curves with polygons or polygons with polygons
  • Collection statistics and field value distibution
  • Create thematic maps:
    • Create data classifications (qualitative or quantitative)
    • Attribute dependent visualization
    • Draw diagrams (pie charts, bar charts, donuts) data dependent

Configuration

  • Project oriented approach
  • Configurations per project
  • Configuration of objects, themes and map types
  • Configurations and templates in project files
  • Project files stored in XML
  • Exchange of project files with other users
  • Same data can be used in different configurations

Printing and export

  • What you see is what you get
  • PDF format
  • Border information
  • Geographic and attribute export (Excel, Shape, KML, CSV)

Data formats

  • Oracle and Oracle Spatial
  • Smallworld GIS
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft Excel and Access
  • ESRI Arc Shape
  • Microstation DGN
  • Raster files: ECW/JP2, MrSID
  • Office documents
  • OGC WMS
  • Google KML