Panorama: Imagery Creator

2020

As a part of a line of software products based on Elbrus for Astra Linux OS

On July 20, 2020 Astra Linux Group also Panorama design office announced creation of a line of software products for application among OS Astra Linux Special Edition release Leningrad on the platform "Elbrus" with micro processor "Elbrus-8C". The uniform ecosystem includes GIS Operator for law enforcement agencies, server applications GIS WebServer SE and Imagery Creator, cartographic service GIS WebService SE, GIS Server, service for creation and updating of pyramids of Imagery Service tiles and also Databank of digital maps and DZZ. In more detail here.

Compatibility of Imagery Creator 10.1 with Astra Linux Special Edition releases Smolensk and Leningrad for Elbrus

CB Panorama released Imagery Creator 10.1 — the software solution for fast display of volume cards in web applications. This version of a product is compatible with OS Astra Linux Special Edition – releases Smolensk for architecture h86-64 and Leningrad for processors "Elbrus". On July 9, 2020 reported about it Astra Linux Group.

In Upgraded version of a product it is possible to create fragments of the set areas of cards, the speed of work with space data is increased, different options their converting are available.

Imagery Creator is the software solution of CB Panorama which accelerates display of the cards containing more than 1,000,000 objects for July, 2020 in web applications including when a large number of users at the same time addresses them. Imagery Creator allows to create tiles (fragments of cards) in the JPEG, PNG, PNG8, Mbtiles, BIR and GeoPackage formats according to the international standard OGC WMTS 07-057r7 of version 1.0.0 and also according to the TMS and OGC 12-128r15 GeoPackage standard of version 1.2.1. The data created in Imagery Creator are used in a universal geographic information system for creation of geoportals of different function of GIS WebServer Special Edition and also in web service for the publication of space data GIS WebService Special Edition.

In the provided version of Imagery Creator thanks to formation of index tables the speed of creation and access to space databases of SQLite increased in the BIR, GeoPackage and Mbtiles formats. Considerably processes of viewing and work with data in GIS "Panorama" 13 accelerated. There was an opportunity to create tiles not for the whole cards but only for the selected areas as their cutting on an object group with coordinates which the user sets in the XML file in the GML format is implemented. Such file can be created in the GIS "Panorama" using function of export to the GML format. In updating converting of data from a set of tiles in BIR, GeoPackage, Mbtiles and among themselves is available, for example, information provided in the BIR format can be transformed to Mbtiles, GeoPackage or a set of tiles.

Results of test events which were held by experts of CB Panorama showed that the functionality of creation of tiles from layers of the digital maps with a capacity more than 1 gigabyte placed in the server application of "GIS Server" works quickly and reliably.

Release of the update software, compatible to Astra Linux OS, is an indicator of effectiveness of strategy of technology cooperation of the domestic IT companies. CB Panorama already has the whole line of solutions with versions for our OS. In addition to Imagery Creator and the GIS "Panorama", enter a software package for preparation of documents of air navigation information, GIS Operator, "X64 Server" and "Designer for Qt Designer X64", "Databank of Digital Maps and DZZ" it and many other things. This set of applications allows to create full-fledged infrastructures for work with geographic information systems: jobs, server part, integration of users into the domain and development tools of cartographic information. Besides, it is possible to create specialized projects under specific industries of customers: aircraft, agriculture, cadastral registration, etc — Roman Mylitsyn, the chief innovation officer of Astra Linux Group comments.