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Map Suite Services Edition

Map Suite Services Edition (formerly known as Map Suite Engine) is a complete GIS development framework for creating Web services, Windows services and console applications. Native to the Microsoft .NET Framework, Map Suite Services Edition offers a next-generation GIS software development experience.

Product Guides

This guide helps you get you up to speed with integrating the Map Suite Services Edition map control into your GIS software.

This guide explains how to use styles in Map Suite to beautifully represent your GIS mapping data. The guide includes an overview of styles, a detailed explanation of the various styles that ship with Map Suite, as well as a step by step guide of creating your own custom styles.

This guide explains how to use our custom serialization class to render your Map Suite objects to XML, or other format etc. This allows your GIS application to easily save things such as Layers, Styles, or even whole maps to XML to be recalled at a later time. The guide includes an overview of serialization system, and detailed explanation of the various classes, as well as information on creating your own serializer.

This guide walks you through installing the map control on your system and creating a simple GIS application.

This guide walks you through deploying your GIS software using the map control into a production environment.

This guide introduces the dependencies Map Suite Services Edition needs with their features, versions and source websites.

This guide walks the various GIS data format that are supported in the map control. It also list any caveats related to the use of that format in your mapping application.

This guide walks you through various ways you can increase performance in your .Net GIS application.

This guide walks you through using SQLite as a storage format.

API Documentation

  • ThinkGeo.MapSuite.Core

    The Core API documentation covers the ThinkGeo.MapSuite.Core namespace which resides in the MapSuiteCore.dll assembly. It contains all of the core GIS classes that are shared between the different Map Suite edition map controls and servers. It includes such classes as Style, FeatureSource, Layer, Projection etc. This is where the bulk of the classes are for most of the Map Suite products.

Code Samples

All Samples
All samples about Map Suite Services Edition.

Project Templates
These projects show various study cases based on Service Edition.

Background Maps
These samples show how to incorporate 3rd part background map(Google, Bing, etc) with your application.

Labeling
These samples show various ways to use labeling in your application.

Layers & FeatureSources
These samples show custom layers and feature sources from which you can get inspired to integrate your own data.

Miscellaneous
These samples show other miscellaneous features for the product.

Printing
These samples demonstrate robust printing and page layout features.

Projection
These samples feature various usages of projection.

Spatial Functions
These samples show various spatial functions such as union, buffer, merging data etc.

Styles
These samples show various kinds of styles such as styles that scale or adjust based on time of day.

Vehicle Tracking
These samples show various features related to vehicle and asset tracking.

Zooming Panning Moving
These samples show various ways to move the map.

NOTE: We have provided hundreds of .Net code samples in C# & VB.NET to help you get going quickly. We have categorized them to allow you to quickly find what you are looking for. Each code sample includes an overview, complete code online to review and the ability to download the sample to run it yourself.

Videos

Extending Map Suite Video Series

Step through the Services Edition sample applications and see how they're put together. We'll demonstrate how to use each app, then take you through every part of the source code and show you how it works.

Tip: You'll want to select “Fullscreen” to properly read the source code.

Screenshots

The Services Edition screenshots gallery section showcases a wide range of screenshots covering various GIS features of the Services Edition map control.

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Integrate charts and graphs on your map Uses ZedGraph classes

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Plots points on your map Point density represents numeric data

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Connect points using the Great Circle model Show accurate distances

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Render features based on a regular expression Puts you in control

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Render features specifically based on a theme Colorize map features

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Render features based on a range of data values Useful for points & labels

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Draw your maps in any orientation you wish Real-time rotation

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Draw an image at a point Additional options include vector symbols

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Project your spatial data Nearly every known projection is available

Change Logs

  • API Change Log

    This change log details the API changes made to the product for each major release cycle.

  • Features & Bug Fixes Change Log

    This change log details the new features and bug fixes applied to the product for each major release cycle.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • All Questions

    All the frequently asked questions about Map Suite Services Edition.

  • General Questions

    These frequently asked questions cover high level GIS and mapping topics that are not categorized in other areas.

  • Background Maps (Google, Bing, etc.)

    These frequently asked questions cover showing how to incorporate 3rd part background map with your application.

  • Labeling

    These frequently asked questions cover various aspects of labeling features.

  • Layers & FeatureSources

    These frequently asked questions cover custom layers and feature sources from which you can get inspired to integrate your own data.

  • Miscellaneous

    These frequently asked questions cover various of other technical features of the products that are not included in other categories.

  • Projection

    These frequently asked questions cover various aspects of projection such as how to re-project your data.

  • Spatial Functions

    These frequently asked questions cover various spatial functions such as union, buffer, merging data etc.

  • Styles

    These frequently asked questions cover displaying your GIS data using various styles. Some examples of styles would include using class breaks, clustering points, heat maps, etc.

  • Vehicle Tracking

    These frequently asked questions cover various features related to vehicle and asset tracking.

  • Zooming Panning Moving

    These frequently asked questions cover various ways to move the map.

Help & Support Guides

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