SuperPad is a set of professional mobile GIS software, providing field surveyors to collect, map, measure, and locate GPS position with PDA mobile devices or other handheld devices. SuperPad is the main product of Mobile GIS Software in SuperGIS series products. SuperGeo technologies will release SuperPad 3 Beta in early May.
Compared with SuperPad 2, SuperGIS Mobile Engine 3.0 is the core of the SuperPad 3. Therefore, SuperPad 3 can not only be implemented in all handheld devices supporting .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 or higher but also can prevent the incompatibility between software and hardware. Moreover, the files in SuperPad 3 and the settings and the symbols in SuperGIS Desktop or other GIS software are exchangeable in order to increase the speed of mapping and the use of project. In addition, the user interface, manipulation, and performance of SuperPad 3 are greatly improved, facilitating users to work more effectively.
The features of SuperPad 3 are listed below.
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| Brand-new Core Component |
| The core component of SuperPad 3 is SuperGIS Mobile Engine. SuperGIS Mobile Engine is the software development tool structured on .NET Compact Framework; thus, SuperPad 3 can be implemented on mobile devices which support .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 or higher to extend the performance platform. |
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| Whole New User Interface |
SuperPad 3 provides whole new user interface. To provide more friendly interface, the new toolbars use a minimum amount of screen space, and there is sufficient space on the screen for layer display.
GPS status bar is added at the bottom of the window in SuperPad 3. Users can adjust the color and transparency of the status bar so that users can manage the coordinates clearly without reducing the space for map display.
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| Smart Editing Toolbar |
| SuperPad 3 provides smart Editing Bar which can be the assistant for editing features. Several assistant tools are provided in Editing Toolbar, such as fixed extent, undo, redo, and etc. With these tools, users can conveniently handle the features and save the changes after confirming; therefore, the efficiency of editing can be improved significantly. |
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| Highly Flexible Open Component Structure |
| The highly flexible software structure of SuperPad 3 enables users to develop extensions, such as self-define layer format, thematic map display, symbol styles, customize attribute page, etc. As a result, SuperPad can be applied to more different areas, and the efficiency and the extension of filed survey can be improved as well. |
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| Interoperability with SuperGIS Server and SuperGIS Image Server |
| SuperPad 3 official version will support the interoperability with SuperGIS Server and SuperGIS Image Server. Due to the internet booming, the speed of layers and images updating becomes increasingly essential. Users can display and query layers on the Internet by connecting to SuperGIS Server; also, users can connect to SuperGIS Image Server to download a great volume of images for displaying background. Consequently, field surveyors can download the data via the Internet or upload the latest investigation results to the server to save the time and improve performance efficiency. |
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| Improving the Use of Spatial Reference |
| SuperPad 3 offers complete spatial reference objects to support more than 100 commonly-used coordinate systems in the world. Therefore, layers with different coordinate systems can be adjusted and overlaid together in SuperPad 3, and the use of the layers can be increased. |
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| Multiple Customized Extensions |
SuperPad 3 offers various built-in customized extensions, such as Sketch, Bird View, Routing, etc. the original code sample will be appended in the product, enabling developers to develop various extensions quickly. The development environment can be Visual studio or text editors, such as Notepad. What you need to do is utilize VB.NET or C#, and the customize extension can be built up to meet developers’ need.
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| 2.5D extension can provide 2.5D visual effect |
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