CartoVista 3 - News / Nouvelles

Technology & Architecture

Software engineering: Built with the latest Adobe Flash Technologies
Development framework: Leverages best practices in software engineering with the Adobe Flash development environment (Flash Builder 4, Flex 4.1, Spark)

Performance & Optimization

Faster loading: CartoVista 3 maps are loading up to 3 times faster than version 2
Advanced thematic experience: Many optimizations in terms of speed and graphics rendering

User Interface (UI) & Design

The user interface has been entirely redesigned in the context of web 2.0, with:

Dockable windows with minimized and micro (icon) states
New application top bar and contextual menus
New floating tool bar
Enhanced dialogs with large buttons and user-friendly icons / graphics
Animations and transitions

Sophisticated Map Content

CartoVista 3 simplifies the creation of your mapping deployments by using already available contextual maps. This allows to spend more time on the integration and styles of your thematic / interactive layers.

Tiles as new layer type
- Support of existing tile providers such as Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, etc.
- Custom map tiles
- World Mercator and other (any) projections are supported

New tile engine provides:
- Unlimited map details
- Multiple map backgrounds
- Seamless map navigation
- High quality labeling / perfect text placement

Extendable Components with Multiple Configuration Options

Top Bar
Toolbar
Legend
Scale bar
Info Tool Window
Overview Window
Selection Window
Layer Control
Search Window
Histogram/Graph Window
Thematic Styles

New Components / Tools

Data Tables
- Capacity to add unlimited number of data tables
- Integrated statistics (Sum, Average, Min, Max, etc.)
- Chart display inside the data table rows
- Linked with active thematic analysis / map features
Interactive Charts
- Capacity to create unlimited highly interactive charts
- Charts / graphics interact with the related map features
Contextual menus to:
- View as a chart
- View as a data table
- Change the thematic definition
- Change the thematic styles
Zoom Bar
Overview Window
Info Tool Window

Enhanced Thematic Mapping

Support for multiple thematic analysis from different map layers all at once
Redesigned high quality thematic analysis:
- Style themes: By color, size, shape
- Overlay themes: By symbol, pie chart, bar chart

Advanced Interactivity

Optimization for client-side speed and quality
Labeling
DataTips
Enhanced Selections
Search from multiple interactive layers
More interactive objects in map layers (5,000+)
Display/Integration of feature attributes
Support for multiple coordinate systems

Data Publisher Enhancements

Multiple data publisher dialogs can now be opened at the same time
A new wizard has been added to assist in adding indicators
Data publishers associated with a map window are now closely linked, even knowing what thematic layers are available

Simple Setup of Map Layer Interactivity

Unique identifiers for interactive layers are easy to setup
Attributes from the map file can now be included in the map and configured easily
Attributes in a map can be used to provide data for the new info tool, or to provide information for the data tip which appears on mouse over of an interactive feature
Multiple columns can be configured as search column