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Orbit GIS Launches Powerful Free And Low-cost Desktop And Server GIS Products v3.1
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August 2, 2004 – Orbit GIS Technologies and Eurotronics today annouce the availability of new GIS solutions for desktop and server, enabling more users than ever to work with professional yet easy to use digital mapping software.
The Orbit GIS Family offers 3 grades of GIS desktop solutions, from a free Orbit Explorer up to a low-cost easy-to-use professional no-nonsense Orbit GIS Interactive product. The products include all essential and more GIS tools such as easy local and server resource browsing, vector and image formats support, workspace and preferences management, fast zooming and panning, overview and magnify window, dynamic geofusion of local and remote resources, data modelling, table and database joining, find and querying, extended object inspection, buffering, import/export, annotations and redlining, measuring, metric constructions, extended object and attribute editing tools, attribute rules and formula’s definition, powerful legend creation and WYSIWYG printing.
The Enterprise Orbit Server (EOS) family offers 3 grades of GIS server software, from a free EOS Lite server up to a powerfull yet easy manageable EOS Interactive server. The server systems provide restricted user access and permissions per resource per user and remote administration tools.
Orbit’s free Orbit Explorer viewer and free EOS Lite GIS server solutions open access to a wide variety of data formats for small enterprises and educational purposes. Orbit Explorer can be packaged with your data for redistribution free of cost.
Orbit GIS solutions are based on the pure java Orbit engine, which can be used by developers to build java and internet applications and extensions to Orbit GIS.
Orbit GIS and EOS work with most popular vector and image data formats, and supports the Safe Software FME engine for access of many more formats (add-on).
These Orbit solutions are aimed for any professional GIS user as well as public and government organisations. Special licensing is available for student and academic use.
Availability and pricing
All Orbit products are downloadable from the www.orbitgis.com website with evaluation period included. Prices range from free versions to 4000 Euro.
About Eurotronics
Eurotronics is founded in 1972 as R&D unit supporting the business of map making and photogrammetry. Since then, this family business has continuously developed and marketed specialized and tailor made GIS solutions for utilities, local governments and the photogrammetry business. The Orbit technology is Eurotronics 4th generation GIS technology enabling numerous custommade solutions. Today, the Orbit GIS product family is launched as generic, comprehensive yet powerful GIS tool to meet the requirements of many organizations.
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