Geographic Information System (GIS) for Your Workplace

It is necessary to record, manage, analyse and present space-oriented data in many departments, public authorities and lines of business. Our GIS visor supports

• building authorities, planning commissions and offices of the interior
• environmental agencies
• engineering consultants and surveyor’s offices
• suppliers and waste disposers

and all other industry sectors where working with data is vital in a geographical context.

Using our visor 6 puts an efficient tool into your hands that offers well-founded planning support and versatile fields of application.

The Most Important Features of visor at a Glance

• hybrid use of raster and vector formats
• display of raster maps free of sheet lines
• integration of Internet-based map services (Web Map Service - WMS)
• creating of an unlimited number of layers
• integration of geometrical objects, e.g. circles and polygons, icons and texts
• database connection including an option to control the display of objects with queries
• connection to geographic functions from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
• use of map material taken from the OpenStreetmap (OSM) project

Creating Your Individual visor Application

visor can be embedded into many development environments. If you dispose of programming skills, you can easily integrate visor as an ActiveX control into your own programs and access it by using an interface. Adapt visor to your needs, decide which functions will be available and how data will be displayed and processed.

Supporting Your Work With visor

We offer

• basic training for users
• ActiveX training for developers
• training on cartographic tools

As a supplement to visor, there is a series of add-ons which help you processing vector data (VDB) via the command line or converting the visor-specific GIS format into other formats such as SHP, DXF or EDBS (uniform database interface). In addition, further add-ons and tools are at your disposal

• database module
• GPS module
• DDE tester
• buffering and intersecting
• register programs
• a toolbox which can generate raster maps in the visor format from scanned or unrastered cartographic material

visor runs on all current Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows NT4.0 (SP3 or higher), Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7).