Geospatial Software Components for Custom Applications
VantagePoint Map Component Library is a powerful and feature-rich suite of software components that provide core, reusable functionality for GIS application development. Our comprehensive spatial components are packaged into six complimentary libraries and are extendable by third party developers using Microsoft COM and .Net programming models.
If your GIS application needs are highly specialized, or you want to write your own custom user interface from the ground up, VantagePoint Map Component Library is a great choice for you. Developers can integrate VantagePoint functionality behind the scenes in their own applications by reusing our components to perform operations like data access, coordinate transformation, spatial analysis, image manipulation, format conversion and more. Designed specifically for high-performance and efficiency, our thread-safe components will give you fast and complete access to extremely large vector, raster and elevation datasets stored in spatial database systems, OGC web services, and a wide variety of file formats.
The Map Component Library is comprised of the following...
VantagePoint Spatial
VantagePoint Spatial provides unparalleled flexibility for coordinate conversions giving developers access to a wide variety of coordinate system file formats, projections and spatial reference systems. Based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Feature Set Spatial Projection model you can be guaranteed that our spatial conversion components are the ideal tools for handling all aspects of spatial coordinate systems and their related parameters. Our components support over forty base projections and hundreds of datums. Developers can use VantagePoint Spatial to convert coordinates back and forth between different projections, create custom projections and read and write many different industry projection file formats.
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For a complete list of supported coordinate systems, see:
VantagePoint Geometric
VantagePoint Geometric is a complete set of components based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Feature Geometry object model. The Geometry library is a robust and full featured geometry library that allows users to create and manipulate points, lines, polygons and other common types of geometries. Geometries can be analyzed and operated on with the built-in geometric algorithms like intersect, contains, within, crosses, clip, union, buffer and more.
VantagePoint Imaging
VantagePoint Imaging is a powerful library that can be used to create, edit and manipulate geospatial and non-geospatial imagery. Developers can access pixels header information and metadata as well as generate pyramids, histograms and other imagery statistics. VantagePoint Imaging can also perform complex tasks like mosaics, clipping and re-projection of imagery, vectors and elevation data.
VantagePoint Graphics
VantagePoint Graphics is a set of components that allow developers to easily translate geometric point, line, polygon and raster data into optimized graphic features that can be rendered by any of the Microsoft Graphic libraries such as GDI, GDI Plus and DirectX. The VantagePoint Graphic classes contain intelligent methods that allow the easy transition of VantagePoint Geometry objects into VantagePoint Graphic objects and vice-versa, saving developers precious CPU cycles and memory when rendering data to the screen or printer. Click to see sophisticated output from advanced graphics library.
VantagePoint Storage
VantagePoint Storage allows developers to read and write geospatial data from over sixty different geospatial data formats and all of the popular spatial database systems. Our storage library uses a set of well known interfaces to query attributes, geometries, projections and other metadata from vector, raster and elevation data from a single, easy to use API. Developers can use the library to extract information for their user interfaces or use the storage capabilities to transform file formats from file to file, file to server, server to file or server to server.
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For a complete list of supported file formats, see:
VantagePoint Map Model
VantagePoint Mapping is a set of software components that allow developers to quickly and easily manage large mixed collections of geospatial data. Our mapping components provide our users with an organized and complete hierarchy of objects that allow the storage and persistence of how all layer data fits together to create an overall map. The mapping components are built to work with the other libraries giving the developer a data structure from which they can organize all other aspects of the VantagePoint GIX programming model. Maps can contain metadata about map titles, layers, legends, scales, background colors and other visual or logical layout characteristics.
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Using Component GIX™
Component GIX™ is for Windows® Application Developers.
Requires:
- Win 2000, Server 2003 or XP;
- Microsoft® Visual Studio®
(or your favorite IDE for Windows®).
For more information about Microsoft® Windows® and Visual Studio®, please visit www.microsoft.com.
Documentation
Comprehensive documentation is provided with each library. These docs are packaged with the installation program. They are also available at this website.
Customer Support
Technical Support for Component GIX™ is provided by email to registered users.
Developers interested in personal support may purchase a Developer Support Subscription.
For more information about support subscriptions, please contact a sales representative.
Control Component Library 1.0
VantagePoint Control Component Library is a bundle of Microsoft COM ActiveX controls that makes integrating maps and imagery into your user interface a snap. Our easy to controls will plug into any COM or .Net compliant interface and allow you to tightly integrate advanced geospatial functionality into virtually any type of desktop application.
Component GIX™ Pro Bundle
The Component GIX™ Pro Bundle contains both the Map Component and Control Component Libraries. Licensing for the Component GIX™ Pro Bundle is offered at a reduced price.