Keyhole 2 available for viewing.Keyhole Corporation, the 3D Interact digital earth pioneer, announced the preview release of Keyhole 2 Pro, a major new enhancement of Keyhole's flagship professional client software. Keyhole 2 Pro offers advanced location data visualization See information visualization. of industry standard file formats, enhanced collaboration and expanded enterprise integration, among other improvements. "Keyhole 2 Pro is the definitive platform for location intelligence," said John Hanke John Hanke is the founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2004 and whose flagship product was renamed to Google Earth. Hanke is currently the director of Google Earth & Google Maps. , company CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Unlike any other solution, Keyhole 2 Pro gives business and government users the unique ability to integrate their own data, share their work and visualize the results utilizing Keyhole's powerful Internet-hosted massive earth database consisting of earth imagery, 3D terrain and geospatial data. All users can now easily integrate their data in standard mapping file formats into the Keyhole environment, manipulate it and share their output among co-workers. Keyhole 2 Pro brings the potential for dramatic productivity gains to users in all location-dependent fields." Keyhole 2 Pro enhancements include: Advanced desktop data visualization of GIS, CAD, and imagery file formats. Users can now visualize their own data on top of Keyhole's Internet-hosted base map by simply dragging and dropping files. Data Import, an add-on module with support for more than 15 GIS industry standard file formats, ranging from .shp and .tab to .dgn. New Overlay capabilities support additional file formats, ranging from JPG See JPEG. jpg - JPEG and BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . to GeoTIFF. Enhanced collaboration in Keyhole 2 Pro gives location-dependent organizations the ability to collaborate without sending physical photographs, maps or other cumbersome collections of data on paper or CD. Real estate professionals will now be able to research, analyze, present and collaborate with a single powerful tool. By sharing Placemarks and KML KML Keyhole Markup Language KML Killing My Lobster (comedy troupe, San Francisco, California) KML Killing Myself Laughing KML Knowledge Markup Language KML Keyed Modeling Language files for display on the Keyhole base map, real estate professionals can dramatically accelerate the review and approval process for all transactions. Architecture, engineering and construction firms can now easily import designs, diagrams and schematics directly into Keyhole 2 Pro for visualization in a 3D earth view. With support for MicroStation .dgn and major GIS file formats A GIS file format is a standard of encoding geographical information into a file. They are created mainly by government mapping agencies (such as the USGS) or by GIS software developers. Metadata often includes:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion