News
Here is a summary of the latest business and product news.
Carmenta Engine 4.7 released
Product News // Friday, October 17, 2008
Carmenta is pleased to announce a new version of its map engine for Windows – Carmenta Engine.
With Carmenta Engine version 4.7, a new C++ API is introduced. The call overhead with this new API are generally half that of the COM API, and a ¼ that of the .Net API. Decreasing this overhead will improve the performance in applications that are handling a large number of objects on top of the map.
Apart from being the most efficient API, the new C++ API also has one other great advantage: administrator rights are not needed to deploy applications. As a consequence, you do not need installation programs. All the end-user has to do is to click the exe-file and run. This method is often referred to as xcopy installation and is especially useful for deploying applications for a mass market, or for systems with restrained access rights.
Carmenta Engine’s visual map configuration tool now has functionality to help map developers make and manage map configurations that should be compatible with older versions of Carmenta Engine.
Other news is that reference system information is automatically read and set up for formats such as GeoTIFF, ESRI Shape, MapInfo Tab and about 30 others. This will save a great deal of time when developing functionality that adds new data layers to applications at runtime or when making map configurations.
With the new OGC Web Coverage Service support it is possible to have a layer that gets raster data over the web from an OGC WCS compliant web service. Another great new feature is the support for reading Google Earth KML.
Read the full What’s new in Carmenta Engine 4.7 here (PDF).
Carmenta nominated for the Mobile Innovation of the Year Award
Business News // Monday, October 13, 2008
Carmenta has been nominated for the Innovation of the Year Award at the Mobilgalan – the Swedish Annual Telecoms Award – for its mobile phone map engine Carmenta Mobile.
The awards ceremony will be held at Kista, Stockholm, Sweden on the 6th November 2008.
Read the full press release here (PDF)
SCA Forest Products chooses Carmenta’s map server technology for their new interactive web service
Business News // Tuesday, August 26, 2008
SCA Forest Products is planning on presenting SCA’s environmental work and the company’s organization on their website, with the help of a user-friendly map function. The new services set high demands on performance, functionality and accessibility. Which is why Carmenta is the chosen supplier.
Read the full press release here (PDF)
Carmenta Engine 4.6.1 released
Product News // Thursday, May 29, 2008
The first service release of Carmenta Engine 4.6 has been released. This version mainly contains minor improvements and bugfixes, and it is the first version that uses the new product name Carmenta Engine. Contact Carmenta support to get more information about this release and how to upgrade.
Carmenta Engine Lite 1.1 released
Product News // Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Carmenta is pleased to announce the availability of Carmenta Engine Lite version 1.1. The new version contains a number of new features such as the ability to rotate map views which contain raster maps and support for DirectX graphics on the Windows Mobile platform. The DirectX support enables hardware accelerated drawing of graphics, if it is available on the device. Other notable improvements include a much enhanced index file format that makes initialization of datasets containing thousands of files a lot quicker.
Carmenta Engine Lite 1.1 is the first version that uses the new product name. The product was formerly known as SpatialAce Light Edition.