SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 achieves breakthrough in both data management and productivity (Ⅰ)
Currently, various industries are facing multiple challenges such as the surge in data volume, diversification of data types, and escalation of data security requirements. In order to effectively cope with these challenges, SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 has been comprehensively upgraded based on the original functions, including upgrading data management capabilities, improving data production professionalism, introducing new high-precision spatialization technologies, etc., to provide GIS professionals with more professional and reliable tools.
More efficient and safer, the data management capabilities are upgraded
Efficient and secure data management capabilities are crucial to the development of various industries. SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 has achieved significant breakthroughs in data management, supporting access to more types of data, improving database management and data organization efficiency, and bringing users a new data management experience.
(1) Multi- source data access broadens the boundaries of data management
SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 supports directly opening commonly used external vector data and image data, and further enhances the ability to directly open third-party vector data on this basis; it also supports directly opening .gdb, .mdb, .json, .geojson, .gpkg, .vct, *.000 vector format files; and supports using directly-opened vector files as source data for analysis tools, and outputting analysis results into common data formats.
In addition, SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 also integrates cloud storage service capabilities, seamlessly connecting to mainstream cloud storage platforms such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, MinIO, SeaweedFS, and AWS S3. Users can conveniently access massive data in cloud storage space in SuperMap iDesktopX 2024, or generates tiles and stores them in the cloud and shares them with other users.
(2) Advanced database management to build a safe and efficient data management model
In order to promote the safe and efficient operation of GIS projects, SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 adds database user management and database transaction management capabilities, taking database management capabilities to a new level.
Database user management can create multiple users/roles, among which super users can manage the permissions of users/roles to use data, effectively preventing unauthorized access and data leakage, and avoiding data conflicts and misoperations when different members use data, which will greatly improve team collaboration efficiency. In addition, SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 also adds a database transaction management function, which can avoid data corruption or inconsistency caused by failures (such as sudden power outages, operating system crashes, etc.) when importing external data into the GIS database, thereby ensuring data integrity.
(3) Added new data set grouping to improve data organization and management efficiency
When there is a large amount of data in the data source, it is often inconvenient to retrieve and classify the target data, and the integrity of the original grouping structure cannot be maintained during the data migration process. Based on this, SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 has a new data set grouping function. For example, multiple data sets can be grouped and managed by category. Accurate search can be achieved during use, which greatly saves time and cost. At the same time, it also supports retaining the grouping structure when importing/exporting data, which significantly improves the efficiency of data organization and management.
Efficient high-quality data production
In addition to efficient and secure data management capabilities, the production of high-quality data is particularly important. SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 has made a number of upgrades in data editing and processing analysis, further enhancing the professionalism of data production capabilities.
(1) Data editing is easier to use, improving production efficiency
SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 adds a new parallel copy function, which allows users to copy new line objects parallel to existing lines according to the preset distance and direction. In application scenarios where parallel line features need to be created, such as roads, railways or pipeline networks, it can greatly improve drawing efficiency. At the same time, the object drawing function is optimized to support adsorption of existing surface boundaries or line objects during drawing to avoid topological errors during drawing.
(2) Processing and analysis are more professional and industry applicability is improved
In order to empower industry production with more professional capabilities, SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 has also made many optimizations in data processing and analysis: a new pipeline attribute conversion data function has been added, which supports one-click mapping of pipeline data, greatly improving the data processing efficiency in urban planning, underground facility management and other fields; a new Cressman interpolation analysis has been added, and the analysis results are smoother and more continuous than the ordinary Kriging interpolation results, which conforms to the actual situation and can better meet the application needs of the meteorological industry.
Besides, SuperMap iDesktopX 2024 has also further optimized the raster calculation function, supporting raster band calculation, and can quickly select the band information under the image for analysis and calculation, improving the applicability of the remote sensing industry.