AltaMap Server

The Complete Internet Mapping Solution

AltaMap Server is an easy to use, powerful and cost-effective way to deliver mapping applications over the Internet an deliver them to large numbers of users, as services. Dynamically generating maps such as: streets and highways, parcel maps, trade areas, delivery routes, even aerial photography. Whether you have a local government, real estate web site or provide asset tracking or location based services, AltaMap server can give you the functionality you need to deliver GIS functionality though a web browser.

AltaMap Server is unique in that it has been designed from the ground up as an Internet mapping product. AltaMap Server has performance enhancing features such as a multithread support, automatic resource pooling and fast in process communications with your HTTP server. This native Internet architecture demonstrates linear scalability and makes AltaMap Server the best way to implement and scale your web map applications.

AltaMap Server comes with a comprehensive on-line help system and context-sensitive documentation complete with ASP samples.

Professional & Enterprise Edition

• Automatic relates from map data to ODBC data sources
• Spatial and attribute indexing
• Automated extent management
• Intelligent scale bar display
• User-definable layer attributes
• Translucency support
• Priority based smart labeling
• Scale dependent layer and theme - Each layer and theme has a minimum and maximum display threshold. It is displayed only if current map scale falls within the threshold.
• Display scale-dependent details (drill down display).
• Save and retrieve map projects.
• Powerful query and selection model.
• Multiple spatial and attribute filters per query.
• Shares same object model as AltaMap Desktop for cost effective project migration.
• Cross layer smart labeling
• Execute on Server, no plug-in or components to download.
• Vector data sources: Shape, TAB, MIF, Oracle relational data model (optional)
• Raster data sources: BMP, JPEG, GIF, BIL, LAN, TIFF, MrSID
• Export to PNG, JPEG, and GIF (optional) formats.
• Microsoft Active Server Pages component library.
• Serve maps from Windows 2000/ME/XP/2003.
• True Linear Scalability, high performance multithreaded architecture.
• Comprehensive spatial filters such as inside, touch, cross, within distance and more.
• Thematic Mapping Objects support include:
  • pie/bar/column charts
  • interval colors
  • value colors
  • text/symbol labeling
  • highway/interstate shields
• Extensive HTML based online help system
• sample source code

Enterprise Edition

• Full support for Oracle Spatial Relational database.
• Add map viewing capabilities to database application. Using high level programming objects, the application can query any spatial data layer stored within Oracle Spatial and display the results on a map.
• Oracle spatial index support - AltaMap takes full advantage of spatial and attribute indexing systems offered by Oracle.
• Object-based query - The AltaMap query filters alleviate the need to write complex SQL statements in order to query Oracle spatial.
• Pass through SQL query - Executes any Oracle SQL query (both spatial and attribute) and returns a dynamically bound RecordSet object.
• Support for read/write to SC database - AltaMap supports both read and write of spatial and attribute data from and to Oracle 8i Spatial database.
• Create and delete SC layers - AltaMap supports both layer creation and deletion in Oracle8i Spatial database. Several administrative functions are available directly from AltaMap.

New In 4.5

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Object Diagram

AltaMap Extensions

GeoMicro provides a wide range optional extensions for AltaMap Server that expand the core GIS functions into a fully featured Location Based Service Platform for mapping, and navigation. Extensions include:

AltaMap Geocoder:

Locating addresses on maps.

AltaMap Routing

Create turn by turn routes for navigation and text based driving directions

AltaMap Streets, Navteq Edition

Cartographic map display - since an image is worth a thousand words, have a look at the live demo.

AltaMap Traffic

Not Fleet or Mobile workforce management system is complete without Real Time Traffic.

System Requirements

System Resource	Required	Recommended
	2000/XP/2003	2000/XP/2003
Processor	Pentium III 800 MHZ or higher	Pentium IV 2.0 GHZ or higher
RAM	256 MB	512 MB
Available Hard Disk	30 MB
CD ROM Drive	for installation only
ASP Servers	Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS) 4.0 or higher.
Oracle Server	Oracle8i with Spatial Cartridge 8.0.4 or higher (Enterprise Edition Only)

Help & Support

GeoMicro's products include detailed user documentation and comprehensive tutorials that will have you developing and testing code within hours. Optional maintenance available which provides ongoing tech support and software upgrades.