Orbit Geospatial Technologies (Belgium) has released Orbit GIS 4.2 for Windows on 32bit and 64bit machines. The Orbit GIS Desktop solution now comes with over 100 new and improved functionalities.
Orbit GIS 4.2 offers improvements on many issues, ranging from new editing functions, on-the-fly projection support, resource optimisation, to dramatically improved graphics and symbols tools. A range of improvements have been made to the user interface, with focus on user friendliness to open up GIS technology to non-experienced users. Today, Orbit GIS 4.2 is also available for 64bit Windows platforms, with identical capabilities.
Orbit GIS natively supports a wide range of vector and raster data, up to terabytes of imagery including SID and ECW files and Orbit’s platform independent OMI format for optimal performance. Multiple resources can be bundled using the transparant OCR format. A free conversion utility comes with Orbit GIS.
Orbit GIS is aimed for novice and experienced GIS users, and can offer quality low cost solutions for both small offices and large enterprises. Combined with the Enterprise Orbit Server or the web mapping solution Orbit FlashMap, Orbit GIS is a perfectly integrated tool designed in portable technology Java.The Orbit technology comes with a wide range of API’s to access the central toolkit and build extensions on any level of the system: user interface, desktop, internet, server, database.
