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What’s new in JMap 3.1
JMap 3.1 was released April 2007. This latest release of the product, the 5th JMap major release contains substantial feature enhancements, in particular:
In particular, with JMap 3.1 layers inside a project can now be configured in a tree-like structure. This new feature allows administrators to organize layers more naturally, grouping together layers that are logically related. The structure depth can have as many levels as necessary. Other improvements have been made in the labeling functions, the creation of a style templates, etc.
Other functionalities include:
Labelling
Labelling has been greatly improved and now supports multi-line and multi-attribute labels. The labelling configuration is now similar to the mouse-over configuration, using the special %n syntax providing a lot of flexibility. Also, labels can now be displayed at constant scale, producing label text size that varies with the zoom level, just like text annotations.
New parameters for labels:
- Label position: You can specify the position of the label (on the line, on top, etc.)
- Parse numeric labels : With this option you can retrieve the numerical value of a label field. Useful, when you want to extract the highway number in a field that would contain for instance ‘HWY 66’ in order to put the 66 within a symbol.
- Background symbol: If will be possible to use symbols or images in the background of the label.
- Proportional symbol: The labels will change size depending on the zoom level is this option is used
- Rotate Symbol: When the rotation is use, the symbol will follow the general rotation of the map
Mouse-Over
Different function codes can be used within the mouse-over to add various information that can be practical to the user or administrator. (for instance %t gives today’s date, %u gives the user name, etc. Please note that you can also add HTML codes.
Styles and Style templates
The administrator can now create predefined style templates to use when adding or modifying layers in order to facilitate the process and standardize the styles, colors, etc.
A style can now be applied to the polygon contour.
View parameters
The administrator can change the selection color for the whole project.
Improved client application deployment
During application deployment, administrators now have more options to control the behavior of the deployed application. Those new options include the language of the application, the presence of the advanced login and connection window and the initial visibility of the deployed extension toolbars.
Printing
You now have the choice of printing in the ‘raster image’ format or in the vectorial format.
WHAT'S NEW IN JMAP 3.0
JMap 3.0 was released in November 2006. This latest release of
the product contains substantial feature enhancements, in
particular:
JMap contexts are map environments that can be saved, recalled, shared, etc. JMap contexts contain all user defined configurations including: displayed region, zoom level, layer properties, thematics, selections, annotations, etc.
New JMap spatial queries allows users to select map elements based on spatial criteria like proximity, intersection, contained within, etc.
JMap edition extension gives users new possibilities like calculating the intersection, the union, the difference, between map elements or creating buffers, or adding points, line, polygons, etc.
Users can defin new types of thematics including pie charts and histograms. Each layer can now have multiple defined thematics that can be displayed at the same time or turned off independently.
A new tool allowing users to get geometry information (e.g. area, perimeter, length, centroid, etc.) about map objects.
Improved mouse-over tool drills down to gather information about any map elements, on many layers at the same time. Mouse-over information can be made persistent by pinning it to the map.
JMap can now integrate data files in these formats: Microstation DGN V8, Autodesk DWG and DXF 2005, ESRI Personal Geodatabase.
JMap can now query ESRI ArcSDE directly to publish and query spatial data.
JMap uses a new technology to publish raster data that offers better performances while being less resource intensive for client applications. JMap can also seamlessly integrate with WMS compatible servers. Furthermore, JMap itself is now WMS compatible so it can process WMS requests coming from other applications.
Spatial data sources updates can now be scheduled to be executed automatically at predefined dates and times.
New tool that allows administrators to display graphs of JMap usage statistics for general access and peaks or by specific users.
JMap applications can display a north arrow on the map, adjusting automatically with the map rotation.
JMap now supports more geographic projections to seamlessly integrate various sources of data.
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