Download GIS Map Suite Windows Phone Edition - Free Trial

Download GIS Map Suite Windows Phone Edition - Free Trial. ThinkGeo today introduced Map Suite Windows Phone Edition, the newest entry in their family of GIS controls for .NET software developers. Built upon the powerful and successful Map Suite GIS engine, Windows Phone Edition is designed to bring interactive maps to Windows Phone 7 devices through the use of a simple Visual Studio .NET control.

Map Suite Windows Phone Edition gives .NET developers the ability to deliver a completely custom GIS solution to Windows Phone 7 handsets. It also integrates with the device's GPS and boasts full support for touch events, including pinch zooming and tapping to draw and edit shapes. WP7 apps built with Map Suite Windows Phone Edition can utilize custom map data (including consumption of WMS services), perform spatial queries, track vehicles, draw thematic maps and much more, going far beyond what's possible with the simple map services built into Windows Phone 7.

Additionally, since Map Suite Windows Phone Edition is built upon the established Map Suite core framework, developers who are already working on applications for the desktop or web using other Map Suite editions can now easily port their projects to Windows Phone 7 handsets, broadening their potential market to include the fast-growing world of mobile computing.

Map Suite Windows Phone Edition is currently available as a public beta with special introductory pricing and can be purchased online from ThinkGeo's web store. Free 60-day evaluations are also available for download from ThinkGeo's web site.

ThinkGeo is an industry leader in GIS mapping components and customizable GPS tracking solutions. The company offers a wide variety of high-quality geospatial products for software development, asset tracking and much more. They have clients from a wide base of industries ranging from agriculture to aerospace. For more information about ThinkGeo products or professional services, visit www.thinkgeo.com.

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ThinkGeo Map Suite 4.0 Release

ThinkGeo has released version 4.0 of Map Suite, its full line of GIS software components for .NET developers. This is a major update bringing support for some of the latest technologies from Microsoft, support for Google Static Maps API version 2, and many more of the most often-requested features from ThinkGeo's customer base.

The 4.0 update includes new builds of all of Map Suite's major editions, including Desktop, Web, Silverlight, Services and Geocoder Editions, as well as the Routing Extension that generates turn-by-turn directions. It's also the beginning of a new six-month release cycle for Map Suite, which ThinkGeo says will bring its users more rapid improvements, a faster turnaround time on bug fixes and quicker addition of user-requested features.

Other additions in version 4.0 of Map Suite include the new GraticuleLineLayer, support for a 100% managed projection library, improved drawing performance in Desktop Edition, new animated panning and measurement tools in Web Edition, a new IPMatchingPlugin for Geocoder, new sample applications across the board and plenty of bug fixes in every product edition.

Also introduced today is Map Suite WPF Desktop Edition, a brand new GIS software control for .NET that is specifically focused on development using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology. The new WPF Desktop Edition allows for better rendering speed, panning and zooming transition effects, and supports multi-threaded drawing for increased performance versus the standard Map Suite Desktop Edition GIS control.

For more information about Map Suite, or to download a free 60-day evaluation of any Map Suite 4.0 product, visit ThinkGeo's website. New users and existing users alike can discuss and get help with their Map Suite applications at ThinkGeo's official Discussion Forums.

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Download Cygnus Track GPS Tracking Software Free Trial

ThinkGeo has released version 5.0 of Cygnus Track, the next major revision of its professional GPS tracking software platform. Cygnus Track 5.0 focuses on enhancing performance, improving the user experience and making it easier to track assets of all types.

Cygnus Track 5.0 introduces a new cloud-based hosting system that promises to vastly improve performance throughout the system. User interface upgrades deliver a larger map with more robust controls; greater customization of alerts for speeding, emergency situations and other events, and greatly enhanced controls for map icons and symbology that allow users to customize their tracking system to fit their exact needs.

GPS tracking is now more accessible with Cygnus Track, thanks to the introduction of Cygnus Track Starter Edition, an affordable GPS tracking option that provides all of the software's core features and tracking capabilities. Additionally, a free 30-day trial of Starter Edition is provided to all through ThinkGeo's website. New accounts are set up immediately and can be used right away, greatly simplifying the process of getting a tracking operation up and running.

Cygnus Track's Hosted, Enterprise and Integrator Editions have also been upgraded to provide even greater customization and control. Businesses of any size, including operations that span the globe, can take advantage of Cygnus Track's unprecedented flexibility to create the exact tracking solution they need. ThinkGeo also offers professional development services to help customers design their own custom tracking system.

ThinkGeo has also introduced a new avenue of free, online support at the Cygnus Track Support Forum, where users can post both pre-sales and support-related questions with no registration required. The Support Forum is available online at http://gpstracking.thinkgeo.com/ctforums.

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Map Suite Routing, released

ThinkGeo has released an initial public beta of Map Suite Routing, a new extension for their Map Suite 3.0 family of GIS software developer components for .NET. Map Suite Routing makes it easy for developers to add routing features to their Map Suite applications, including turn-by-turn directions, waypoint support and area avoidance. Now, developers can deliver a whole new level of features and functionality to their customers through their Map Suite GIS projects.

Map Suite Routing can quickly and easily plot routes based on a number of factors, such as shortest distance vs. fastest travel time, and can utilise a variety of algorithms including Dijkstra, A* and Bidirectional. It supports adding stops or waypoints along the route, can avoid areas by routing around shapes, and can generate turn-by-turn directions for driving or even pedestrian travel. It can also calculate service areas based on an average speed and a maximum travel time.

Additionally, Map Suite Routing builds upon the extensibility and customisation offered in Map Suite's core products by giving developers the ability to implement their own routing algorithms and data sources as needed. Map Suite developers can also generate routes based on custom conditions, limited only by the detail available in their data source.

Map Suite Routing comes with a complete set of sample applications, each with full source code, that enable developers to start routing with ease. In addition, the bundled Routing Explorer tool makes it easy to visualize routes with no work up front. Sample applications include "Get Fastest Path," "Avoiding Areas," "Turn-By-Turn Directions," plus many more. An illustrated QuickStart Guide is also provided.

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Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 available

ThinkGeo announced the availability of a Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 Release Candidate. The Release Candidate software incorporates a combination of bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features as requested by ThinkGeo's active user base, providing a major enhancement to the company's GIS development software for the Windows desktop.

Among the changes in the Desktop Edition 3.0 Release Candidate are the new Events system, continuous panning for WPF, a customisable mouseMode for the map, freehand drawing mode for shapes, tons of new APIs and properties, and much more.

ThinkGeo has also released updated versions of the other members of its Map Suite 3.0 family of GIS software products. Map Suite Silverlight Edition Beta 2 is now available, incorporating a number of promised enhancements and fixing bugs identified in Beta 1, the most significant of which is a higher-performance replacement for the Microsoft Deep Zoom control. Also refreshed were Map Suite Web and Services Editions, each featuring a host of additions, bug fixes, and API improvements.

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Map Suite Silverlight Edition 3.0 released

ThinkGeo has announced the release of Map Suite Silverlight Edition 3.0 Beta 1, the newest entry in the Map Suite family of GIS developer controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Silverlight Edition is claimed to be a full-featured GIS control designed to bring powerful spatial features to Microsoft Silverlight-based applications, where developers can take advantage of user interfaces and animation effects to give their applications visual appeal.

Microsoft Silverlight technology helps developers impress their customers with user interface designs, animation effects, mouse wheel scrolling, dynamic refreshes, track zooming and more.

Unlike scaled-down GIS software for Silverlight, Map Suite Silverlight Edition is a full-featured GIS control with the same power and flexibility of ThinkGeo's other Map Suite products. Developers can use it to add maps with advanced functionality like spatial queries, interactive shape drawing and editing, point animation, distance calculations, rich tooltips and markers, and projections.

ThinkGeo plans to release additional new beta versions of Map Suite Silverlight Edition 3.0 in the coming weeks, all of which will add even more features and capabilities.

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Download Map Suite Web Edition 3.1 - trial version

ThinkGeo has released the final versions of its Map Suite Web Edition 3.1, Map Suite Services Edition 3.1 and Map Suite World Map Kit extension products. Formerly in beta testing, these three GIS software products are claimed to make mapping applications developed on Microsoft's .NET platform easier, faster and more powerful.

The final edition of Map Suite Web Edition 3.1 empowers developers of Web-based .NET mapping applications with faster and simpler coding, broad support for data and image formats, and a host of powerful rendering styles, spatial querying and geometric manipulation features. Services Edition 3.1 lets developers create their own Windows services, Web services and console applications in .NET. Last but not least, the World Map Kit can be added to either Web Edition or Services Edition as a high-performance extension, and offers a complete set of map data covering the entire world.

Each product's final release includes numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements that were identified not only by Map Suite's development team, but also through feedback from the large community of Map Suite users.

A free download of the 60-day evaluation of Web Edition 3.1 or Services Edition 3.1 can be done from ThinkGeo's website. Customers who purchased the beta version of Web Edition, Services Edition or the World Map Kit are entitled to a free upgrade to the final release. Licensees of Web Edition and Services Edition can download the final release from the ThinkGeo Customer Portal.

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ThinkGeo Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 Beta 1, released

ThinkGeo is excited to announce the release of Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 Beta 1, the next generation of its professional .NET native GIS control for desktop application development. Desktop Edition 3.0 has been re-engineered from the ground-up to help .NET developers create more efficient, more powerful and more attractive applications for the Windows desktop, making it the perfect platform for designing today's sophisticated GIS software applications.

By popular request, Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 beta now includes controls for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) as well as Windows Forms, letting you develop the rich user interfaces today's audiences demand. Combined with a full range of editable map features, customizable data sources and robust user controls, Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 delivers a high-fidelity user experience that will engage your audience even as it provides them with all the spatial data they need.

Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 also offers a completely revamped API that's built for faster and simpler coding, better coherence and more extensibility. It supports a wide variety of .NET development platforms, including .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5, and was designed for use with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2008. All this means that developers can use Desktop Edition 3.0 to accomplish their goals with greater ease than the competition, or with previous versions of Map Suite.

Other major new GIS features in Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 include drag-and-drop panning, spatial querying, advanced graphing and charting, and much more. There's also support for a wide variety of new spatial data formats like Oracle Spatial, PostgreSQL PostGIS, and Microsoft SQL 2008. You can even integrate your own custom OpenGIS(r) compliant data source.

GIS developers can start using this initial beta of Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 right away thanks to a wide variety of bundled sample applications provided with full source code in C#. The samples demonstrate how to implement all of Desktop Edition's core features, advanced capabilities and new enhancements. An easy-to-follow QuickStart Guide is also available.

ThinkGeo plans to release additional new beta versions of Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 in the coming weeks, all of which will add even more GIS features and capabilities.

Pleas visit ThinkGeo for more.

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Map Suite World Map Kit Beta, released

ThinkGeo is excited to announce the release of the Map Suite World Map Kit Beta, a global data and rendering plugin for its Map Suite 3.0 family of GIS software components. Designed as an extension exclusively for the Map Suite 3.0 Web, Desktop, Services or Silverlight Editions, the World Map Kit delivers a complete set of map data covering the entire world, plus professionally-designed rendering logic that produces attractive maps right out of the box.

The World Map Kit Beta ships with 18GB of optimized map data that provides full street-level coverage of the United States and Canada, and major road level detail elsewhere. At the core of the Kit is a special rendering class that includes a customized look and feel, iconography, preset zoom levels and more, all of which allows Map Suite developers to produce professionally-designed maps with no additional work. For developers who want to further customize their map's appearance, source code is provided so that the design can be tailored to suit. Bundled sample applications in C# and VB.NET demonstrate how easy it is to integrate the World Map Kit into a Map Suite project.

ThinkGeo has created the World Map Kit to replace its three legacy dataset plugins: Render USA, Render Canada and Render World. Customers who have a current Software Assurance Plan covering any of those three products can request a free upgrade DVD to the World Map Kit Beta. New customers who purchase the World Map Kit will receive a complimentary one-year Software Assurance Plan, which entitles them to one year of free map data updates direct from ThinkGeo.

ThinkGeo plans to release additional new products in the Map Suite 3.0 line over the coming weeks. For more information on the Map Suite World Map Kit Beta, including details on how to receive a free 60-day evaluation and the latest news on other releases in the Map Suite 3.0 product family, visit ThinkGeo's website at http://gis.thinkgeo.com.

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