Product News
Carmenta Engine 5.3 Released
Friday, December 7, 2012
Carmenta today announced that Carmenta Engine 5.3 is now shipping
Carmenta Engine 5.3 contains over 100 improvements in total. Here are a few new features that we would especially like to highlight.
For a full list of new features and improvements, refer to the release notes that are included in the installation packages.
Tightly Integrated OGC Map Server Support
With the improved support for retrieving maps from OGC compliant map servers like Carmenta Server, it is now easier than ever to streamline your map management
- Auto-Configuring WMS Connections. Extremely simple to configure map server connections. All you have to do is to set the URL to the map service – everything else is automatically set up. Another new feature is that remote layers behave just like local layers, for instance, they show up in layer controls where they can be individually enabled and disabled.
- WMTS Support. Support for the new WMTS tile based map service OGC standard.
- Improved Background Loading Progress Indication. Support for showing loading progress indicators of data loading in the background.
Advanced Map Typography
- Fast and Easy Label Deconfliction. A major problem in map making is being able to place labels well, usually with the difficult goal of placing as many labels as possible without overlap. The new improved LabelOrganizingLayer is now much easier to start using, produces better results, is faster and has several useful new features such as remove duplicate labels and symbols.
- Support for rendering Arabic and other right-to-left languages.
Productivity Improvements for Map Designers
- Improved Carmenta Studio Usability. Carmenta Studio will now automatically show all possible attributes, names and types of feature that may pass through a layer. The attributes are easily accessible in several drop-down menus, for example when configuring visualization. And when configuring tables such as a color tables, the tables can be automatically populated with actual values.
- New Documentation Designed Specifically For Map Designers.
- New predefined Symbols, Line Styles and Patterns.
- Layered Line Styles. Multilayered and multicoloured line styles can now easily be combined and used as a single line style using the new LayeredLineStyle component.
Map Performance Improvements
Just as with every release, we have worked hard to ensure that version 5.3 is the fastest Carmenta Engine release yet. This time the team has focused on the following areas:
- New, Fully Automatic Cache Management. Rather than specifying cache priorities individually using the cache size property on each DataSet, it will now automatically ensure that the DataSets that are most frequently accessed get to use more of the cache.
- Improved DirectX Rendering Performance. Thanks to several low-level changes, the DirectX-based rendering module is significantly faster in Carmenta Engine 5.3.
- New VPF data reader. The new reader is several times faster than the old reader and it can now read more inconsistant VPF distributions. Another new feature is full support for the VPF-based aeronautical obstacle format, VVOD.
- Automatic Point Reduction to Improve Rendering Frame Rate. The TileLayer component can now automatically perform a scale-dependent reduction of the number of points in line and polygon geometries. This makes it much easier to work with, and speeds up the rendering of vector data outside its native scale range.
If you are interested in upgrading, would like to try out the latest version or have any other questions, please contact Carmenta support at support@carmenta.com
For comprehensive information about this new release, please read the What’s New In Carmenta Engine 5.3 document.
Carmenta Server 4.2 official release in December 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The main areas of focus in the coming release are:
• Powerful new tools for download services based on open standards
• Extended catalog and metadata tools for keeping track of geodata
• Increased reliability with integrated monitoring tools
• Many new features to support INSPIRE
Further details will be issued on the release dates.
Carmenta Engine 5.3 official release in December 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The main areas of focus in the coming release are:
• Cost effective map management
• Better looking maps using advanced map typography
• Smart productivity improvements for map designers
• Map performance improvements
Further details will be issued on the release dates.
Carmenta Server 4.1.1 released
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Carmenta is pleased to announce a service release of the 4.1 version of Carmenta Server; the complete solution for web based mapping applications.
If you are interested in upgrading, would like to try out the new version or have any other questions, please contact Carmenta support at to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Carmenta Engine 5.2.2 released
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Carmenta is pleased to announce a service release (version 5.2.2) of Carmenta Engine, the map engine for Windows and Linux.
This version contains mainly minor improvements and bug fixes.
If you are interested in upgrading, would like to try out the new version or have any other questions, please contact Carmenta support at to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Carmenta Server 4.1 released
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Carmenta is pleased to announce the first minor release of Carmenta Server 4; the fast, reliable and standards-based web map server from Carmenta.
Carmenta Server 4.1 focuses on making it easy to work with metadata and on general usability improvements.
For more information about this minor release, please read the What´s new in Carmenta Server 4.1 document.
If you are interested in upgrading, would like to try out the new version or have any other questions, please contact Carmenta support at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).