What's New in VirtualGeo 6.0
VirtualGeo 6.0 is released and include many new features and improvements:
- Massive Vector database streaming without preprocessing
- Complex symbology integration made easy, with APP6b built-in for military applications
- Import, visualisation and analysis of large point clouds
- Web Assembly support for high-performance 3D visualisation in a Web application
- Major performance improvements on dynamic labels
VirtualGeo 6.0 offers also many other enhancements : see here for more details.
Massive vector database streaming
VirtualGeo now integrates new innovative spatialization methods to provide unprecedented vector streaming performance. Consequently, VirtualGeo is now able to display millions of vectors in real-time without any pre-processing.
These improvements apply to network data sources (such as PostGIS, WFS, or VirtualGeo Server), local sources (Shapefiles) or dynamically created vectors.
Complex symbology support with APP6
VirtualGeo now integrates the APP6 symbology standard. Both punctual symbols and the more complex tactical symbols provide interactive manipulators to create and edit the symbols directly on the 2D or 3D map.
VirtualGeo also offers new styling capabilities in order to build any complex symbology through pattern repetition, scaling and positioning with full SVG support.
Major performance improvements on labels
Through advanced innovative GPU algorithms, VirtualGeo is now 300% faster to display complex labels on dynamic entities. Most notably, decluttering, which select the text to display, has been optimised to reduce its costs to a small fraction of the rendering time.
Visualisation of large cloud points
VirtualGeo now offers many new features to integrate point clouds in the solution:
- Direct import and visualisation of point clouds
- Point cloud styling (point size, color, color map, etc.)
- Local publication to optimise the point cloud visualisation
- Server publication to stream large point clouds on the Web
Web Assembly support for VirtualGeo Web
VirtualGeo Web, currently based on Asm.js, now provides full Web Assembly (Wasm) support for advanced new browsers.
Web Assembly is the new standard enabling the creation of high performance web application through a new portable, size- and load-time-efficient format. It opens a new level of performance on the web for 3D cartographic visualisation.