Orbit GIS 4.2 released for Mac OSX

Orbit Geospatial Technologies presents Orbit GIS 4.2 for Mac OSX systems, on G4, G5 and Intel Dual Core machines. The Orbit GIS Desktop solution now comes with over 100 new and improved functionalities.Download you copy now from www.orbitgis.com.

Orbit GIS 4.2 offers improvements on many issues, ranging from new editing functions, on-the-fly projection support, resource optimization, to dramatically improved graphics and symbols tools. A range of improvements have been made to the user interface, with focus on user friendliness to open up GIS technology to non-experienced users.

The Mac version of Orbit GIS, Orbit Explorer Plus and the free Orbit Explorer are available from the www.orbitgis.com website as from today.

The Orbit GIS desktop products have equal capabilities as their Windows and Linux peers. Orbit GIS for Mac is nicely integrated in the so popular desktop and look and feel of the Mac OSX system.

“Once again, we continue to realize our goals in providing every platform equal and quality GIS processing and viewing tools”, says Peter Bonne, Product & Sales Mgr of Orbit GT. “The Mac platform is a muchvalued platform for our solutions and we’re proud to have full functionality available across platforms. We’re very pleased the Orbit GIS can be offered with an integrated Mac OSX look-and-feel. Orbit GIS 4.x users can upgrade at no cost.”

Use Orbit GIS 4.2 to edit online resources mapped on the web using Orbit FlashMap. Use the unique ‘Publish to the Web’ feature to configure Orbit FlashMap in a few minutes only.

Orbit GIS natively supports a wide range of vector and raster data, up to terabytes of imagery with Orbit’s platform independent OMI format for optimal performance, that can replace the Windows-based formats SID and ECW. Multiple resources can be bundled using the transparant OCR format. A free conversion utility comes with Orbit GIS.

Orbit GIS is aimed for novice and experienced GIS users, and can offer quality low cost solutions for both small offices and large enterprises. Combined with the Enterprise Orbit Server or the web mapping solution Orbit FlashMap, Orbit GIS is a perfectly integrated tool designed in portable technology Java.

Orbit Geospatial Technologies is bound to deliver highly integrated spatial software, from low to high end applications. The Orbit technology comes with a wide range of API’s to access the central toolkit and build extensions on any level of the system: user interface, desktop, internet, server, database.

View live examples and get your evaluation copy from www.orbitgis.com.