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Map Suite Web Edition

Map Suite Web Edition is a .NET native GIS control that allows software developers to create interactive online mapping applications with ease. Packed with powerful AJAX interactivity, a simple API that makes coding easy, and royalty-free distribution, Map Suite Web Edition enables you to bring your Internet GIS application to market in record time.

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Videos & Screenshots

Purchase Online

Product Guides

Quick Start Guide

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

Style Guide

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.

Serialization Guide

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.

Installation Guide

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

Deployment Guide

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

Dependencies Guide

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

Data Format Guide

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.

Performance Guide

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

Azure Deployment Guide

This guide walks you through deploying your project using the map control into a windows azure cloud service and register the map control.

SQLite Guide

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

Videos & Screenshots

Topic Attachment Description
Screenshot Gallery N/A The Web Edition screenshots gallery section showcases a wide range of screenshots covering various GIS features of the Web Edition map control.
Introduction to the Web Edition Video

Presentation

Q&A

Screenshot 		Clint Batman, President & CEO of ThinkGeo, conducted this webinar that introduces Map Suite Web Edition and demonstrates some of its exciting new GIS features. In case you missed it, here's your chance to get an inside look at the power of Web Edition map control.
Integrating Custom Data Formats Video

Presentation

Q&A

Sample

Screenshot 		This webinar hosted by ThinkGeo is an in-depth technical discussion about integrating custom GIS data formats in Map Suite. In addition to a downloadable video recording of the webinar, a complete sample project with source code is also available.
Creating Custom Styles Video
[http://download.thinkgeo.com/Webinars/MapSuiteCreatingCustomStyles.ppt Presentation]

Q&A

Sample

Screenshot 		This informative, in-depth webinar explores the limitless possibilities for creating your own custom styles with Map Suite. Take a look at the video presentation and download the sample project with source code in both C# and VB.NET.
Exploring Layers Video

Presentation

Q&A

Sample 		In this webinar video, ThinkGeo CTO David Rehagen demonstrates some of the many ways you can extend the Layer and RasterLayer classes, giving you near-infinite possibilities for beefing up your Map Suite GIS projects. Download the sample project below to explore the source code.
FDO, OGR and GDAL Extension Video

Presentation

Sample

Screenshot 		In a previous webinar we tackled integrating your own custom GIS data with Map Suite, focusing on feature-centric sources such as FeatureSource and FeatureLayer. In this video, we'll explore how you can leverage existing open-source GIS libraries such as FDO, OGR, and GDAL to support even more data formats. You'll be amazed how easy it is to take advantage of these native C++ libraries in your GIS software.
Printing System Introduction Video

Sample Code:

*WPF

*WinForms

Screenshot 		In this video we will explore Map Suite's new printing system. Map Suite offers WYSIWYG map design that takes your desktop, WPF or web-based .NET mapping applications to the next level. Maps are printed using vector graphics so you can be sure the output will look great on anything from a PDF to a large plotter. It also includes low-level report building classes that make it easy to generate reports in the Web or Services environment. Check out the video and see how easy it is to integrate map printing into your GIS applications.
Increasing Polygon Performance Video

Utility Source

Performance Guide

Screenshot 		In this video we will explore how to greatly increase your rendering performance by gridding your high point-count polygons. This technique is especially useful when you use a high point-count polygon such as a country or regional area as the ground color for your maps. In many cases we see tile render times decrease from 500ms to under 5ms with this data optimization. Included along with the video is a utility to help you grid your polygons.
Map Suite DynamoDB Extension Technology Preview Video

Sample

Screenshot 		This video will introduce you to the Map Suite DynamoDB Extension limited technology preview. This exciting new extension leverages Amazon's DynamoDB, a NoSQL cloud database technology, to store and serve GIS spatial data via the cloud. The extension's ability to use a few API calls to create a spatial table, import data and then access it without a traditional spatial database or hardware is a huge step forward.
Tile Cache Generator Video

Sample

Screenshot 		This video will show you how to use the Tile Cache Generator utility to generate tile caches based on your own layers. Pre-generating tiles base on your data allows you to display the data faster than rending it from vector graphics files. It also allows you to protect your vector data by providing just the raster tiles for display purposes only. In the past pre-generating tiles required customers to build the process from scratch which was time consuming and often times inefficient. With the Tile Cache Generator we have packaged many of our best practices along with the source to allow you to tweak it to your specific situation.
Topology Validation Video

Sample


Screenshot 		This video will give you a demonstration of Map Suite's topology validation functionality (available in version 6.0.113.0 and higher), as well as the Topology Validator sample application. The Topology Validator makes it simple to visualize and test topology rules. You simply select the case you want to test, use our drawing tools to create the shapes necessary, and then hit the play button to run the test. The error cases are highlighted on the screen and saved to the test, and their Well-Known Text (WKT) is copied to your clipboard. At any time, you can view or edit the WKT which makes up the case. We save our test cases as XML files that contain not only the test case features but also the errors. This makes it a snap for you to share your cases with us or other colleagues.

Code Samples

In addition to the samples below, we have dozens of interactive Web Edition sample applications available here.

All Samples
All samples about Map Suite Web Edition.

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

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

InteractiveOverlays
These samples show various aspects of how to extend or create InteractiveOverlays.

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 sample features 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • All Questions

    All the frequently asked questions about Map Suite Web Edition.

  • General Questions

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

  • Background Maps

    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.

Change Logs

  • Release Change Log

    This change log details the 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.

API Documentation

Namespace Description
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.
ThinkGeo.MapSuite.WebEdition The Web Edition API documentation covers the ThinkGeo.MapSuite.WebEdition namespace which resides in the WebEditon.dll assembly. It contains all of the Web Edition specific classes such as the map control itself, Overlays, and supported map classes.

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