DBCAD DEV: Developer Tools That Satisfy All GIS, Mapping, GPS, and CAD Needs.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

NICEVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2001

ABACO SRL is pleased to announce the latest DbCAD dev version, the sophisticated raster/vector/database technology completely developed in Italy and exported to more than 60 countries of the world. In addition to DbCAD dev standard capabilities that allow building Internet and Intranet applications, is now available DbCAD dev Internet Server, an innovative solution based on ISAPI server and JAVA client for the development and the large distribution of GIS, Mapping and GPS applications and the new related DbCAD dev drivers.

DBCAD DEV OCX/ACTIVEX is a fast and easy technology, in the form of standard OCX and ActiveX components, that allows:

- Pan, Zoom, and overview through multiple raster and vector files with overlay
and transparency effects;

- Support of AutoCAD DWG (r14 or lower), DXF, DGN, ESRI Shapefile, TIFF, BMP,
JPEG and through the extended driver's it's support GeoTIFF, ECW, MrSID and
more others...

- Support of Raster and Vector custom installable driver;

- Double precision coordinate system calibration;

- Partial loading of Drawing/Images;

- Vector entity creation, editing, selection and external database links;

- Vector database engine based on standard database format;

- Filled polygons with various hatch styles and transparency effects;

- Spatial analysis and query;

- Support of real-time vector entity animation (GPS);

- Support of TTFonts;

- Support for print to a given scale and also print preview;

DBCAD DEV INTERNET SERVER

is the new ABACO product generation for the cartography publication on WEB. It is based on a Client/Server architecture for the development and the large distribution of applications and/or data GIS, through a flexible and scalable system for Intranets and/or Internet solutions. It is an innovative and easy DLL function library, based on ISAPI server, that offers services to a Java applet, referable and customizing, through HTML/DHTML, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript and Java. It puts all the GIS functionalities at searches disposal and alphanumeric/cartographic data consultation. Shapefiles, DWG, ECW, GEOTIFF, included the link to SQL Server tables, are some of the supported formats, that allow to use the most common cartographic tools for the GIS data management, making DbCAD dev Internet Server the ideal tool for the data query and the cartographic publication.

DBCAD DEV DRIVERS AND UTILITIES

For specific needs we have also added new and powerful capabilities as drivers for support SDE, SDO, native SHP, MrSID, ECW, and others.