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| Create Custom Mobile GIS Application - SuperGIS Mobile Engine |
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GIS techniques have been applied to numerous fields nowadays, and mobile GIS can facilitate outdoor survey units to effectively collect, edit the data, and even query, measure, position. However, have you ever needed a few functions but spent a great amount of money purchasing a set of full-function mobile GIS software? Or have you ever developed a mobile GIS application, which cannot be deployed to mobile devices on a large scale with reasonable cost?
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| Why SuperGIS Mobile Engine? |
| SuperGIS Mobile Engine, a Software Development Kit (SDK) based-on .NET Compact Framework. It allows developers to customize highly flexible and intuitive mobile GIS applications which can be deployed to mobile devices supporting .NET CF. Therefore, surveyors’ productivity can be greatly increased. Additionally, developers can use SuperGIS Mobile Engine to build up GIS tools and seamlessly embed them to the existing mobile applications without purchasing powerful but unpractical mobile GIS software.
SuperGIS Mobile Engine can not only develop the mobile GIS applications meeting your needs but also facilitate units to deploy the applications on a large scale and decrease the development cost. |
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| Flexible Development Modes |
| The flexible development modes in SuperGIS Mobile Engine can satisfy developers with different developing abilities. For the beginner developers who have little geographic knowledge but have basic coding ability, they can use the built-in controls to develop a lightweight mobile GIS application with basic GIS functions. For those developers who have professional geographic knowledge and developing experiences, they not only can directly use the controls provided by SuperGIS Mobile Engine, but also set the objects further to customize the powerful mobile GIS applications.
Take Yeh-Liu Guide System for example. Yeh-Liu Guide System is the mobile guide system used in Yeh-Liu Geopark. Since most of the tourists have little GIS related background, the interfaces should be particularly friendly and intuitive. Therefore, there is no toolbar on the interface. SuperGIS Mobile Engine contains more than one hundred toolbar buttons which allow developers to quickly build up toolbars with several functions. Moreover, because of the flexible development modes, developers can use codes to directly call the tool buttons they need, instead of using toolbars. The Fixed Zoom-In button in Yeh-Liu Guide System is the tool button called by codes. Developers do not have to develop the button by themselves but put an icon presenting a zoom in function on the interface. Then, developers use codes to call the OnCommand method of FixZoomInButton object. Therefore, the icon becomes the Fixed Zoom-In button.
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The developer is allowed to use codes to call the OnCommand method of FixedZoomInButton object to quickly build up a tool button with fixed zoom in function. |
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| Variable Assemblies |
| SuperGIS Mobile Engine consists of dozens of assemblies, such as GPS assembly, feature sketching assembly, condition query assembly, map assembly, coordinate system assembly, etc. These assemblies can be used to develop unique applications as necessary. For example, Farmland Irrigation Survey System is the survey system composed of GPS assembly, map assembly, condition query assembly and symbol assembly. By using the assemblies, surveyors can query, position, and measure farmland irrigation facilities, such as drainage canals, and irrigation channels, and build up the data. Furthermore, in the process of developing, SuperGIS Mobile Engine helps developers to develop the intuitive and productive applications, containing GPS and multiple basic GIS tools. As a result, field-workers can efficiently collect the latest and most correct data to make the best policy. |
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| Deployment Environment Supporting .NET CF |
SuperGIS Mobile Engine utilizes .NET CF as the development core, and the mobile GIS applications developed by SuperGIS Mobile Engine can be implemented in numerous operating systems. Besides, in terms of hardware supporting, the developed mobile GIS applications can be deployed to the mobile devices supporting .NET CF, such as Smartphone, pocket PC, tablet PC and so on to avoid the incompatibilities between software and hardware.
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The mobile GIS applications developed by SuperGIS Mobile Engine can be implemented in numerous operating systems. |
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| Out-Of-the-box SuperGIS Mobile Application |
SuperGIS Mobile Engine contains an out-of-the-box mobile GIS application—SuperGIS Mobile Application.
The built-in mobile GIS application can be completely deployed to the mobile devices supporting .NET CF for users to do field survey. Also, users can use SuperGIS Mobile Application as the base to develop value-added functions to create a powerful application. Thus, the time and efforts for developing can be reduced, and the efficiency of developing can be improved. With SuperGIS Mobile Application, users are allowed to:
- View mobile maps and explore all of spatial data accurately.
- Collect and edit the new or existing GIS data in real time.
- Utilize GPS to handle the current position.
- Query and manage multiple records of GIS data to make plans for surveys.
- Set the coordinate system to overlay layers with different coordinate systems.
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