Enterprise Integration Tools

Overview

PlanGraphics has a long history of introducing new technologies into the GIS arena. For example, PlanGraphics was the first organization to specify the use of GPS (in 1985) for the control of city and county photogrammetric base maps, and was a leader in early efforts to use GIS as an index to electronic document management systems for land records and infrastructure engineering documents.

PlanGraphics maintains relationships with many providers of "best of breed" technologies, and continuously reevaluates those technologies and associations.

Two of the more unique approaches to spatial data integration with which we are currently working are Xmarc's enterprise spatial integration tool kit, which makes multi-platform spatial data more accessible; and Skyline Software Systems' Terra tools for creating interactive 3-D visualizations that draw from diverse information sources.

The enterprise spatial integration tool kit (Xmarc technology)

PlanGraphics now has exclusive North American rights to Xmarc's spatial integration tools. As PlanGraphics' president, John Antenucci, said in a recent press release, "We anticipate using the technology as an integration tool set for a wide range of e-government and e-commerce solutions that are multi-platform and need to access very large and distributed data sets." (See also a recent GIS Monitor article.) PlanGraphics will make the integration tool kit available to its clients as appropriate, and will also support existing Xmarc contracts and work in progress in North America.

Read more about the enterprise spatial integration tool set.
Discover Xmarc success stories.

Terra visualization tools

The Terra software tools, developed by PlanGraphics' business partner Skyline Software Systems, enable users to see and understand geospatial data in three dimensions. They fuse aerial photography, satellite data, digital terrain data, and other 2-D and 3-D information sources to create, manipulate, edit, and deliver highly realistic, detailed 3-D scenes over the Internet.

Read more about Skyline's 3-D visualization tools.
Experience a 3-D visualization of New York City.