MapCloud Services has announced geoCette, an innovative web-based software platform for creating customized mapping applications on the Internet. Based upon GML (Geography Mark-up Language), geoCetteallows the integration of multiple proprietary GIS data formats into a single interactive Web Map and maintains dynamic links to this proprietary GIS data. geoCetteallows dynamic access to native data without workstation conversion.
geoCette’s innovative vector-based client technology supports the utmost in map performance, interactivity and cartographic quality. Users can zoom, pan and interact with the map data without the data being re-painted to the screen. In addition, the data scales quickly and consistently with the users interaction, unlike competitive raster- based systems.
geoCettesupports custom themeing on the data and will allow the user to customize map views and “print-on-demand”. geoCettesupports both SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and Flash-based client technologies.
geoCetteis ideally suited to wireless applications, since its vector files are significantly compressed prior to being delivered to the client. This combined with its vast data integration capability position geoCetteas a premier LBS (Location Based Services) platform. Macromedia, the creator of Flash, has made joint announcements with a significant number of wireless device manufacturers, indicating that the Flash player will be shipping as a standard component of their respective wireless hardware platforms. geoCette, with it’s Flash based client software, will support access by virtually all users of these wireless devices.
geoCetteis developed in a modular approach, and based upon Microsoft’s .NET platform allowing for rapid custom application development. MapCloud will lead the migration toward Web Services, by offering each of geoCette’s software modules separately as Web Services that can integrate into other GIS applications.
