Products Overview of SuperMap GIS

What's SuperMap GIS?

SuperMap GIS is a large GIS package developed by SuperMap Software Co., Ltd., which covers a wide range of products, including Desktop GIS, Component GIS, Service GIS, Mobile GIS, Spatial Database Engine, Navigation Application Development Platform as well as related spatial data generation, processing and management tools.

Through continuous technological innovation and marketing promotion, SuperMap has been able to provide a complete GIS platform that can be applied in various industries. More and more GIS application developers have successfully developed their solutions based on SuperMap GIS products.

Design Concept of SuperMap GIS Products

In the course of GIS software development and evolution, the ideology has undergone a transition from cartography focused to information focused and the methodology from module based GIS to component based GIS. Up to now, GIS has been applied to various application systems, and has become more an information tool than a cartography tool.

Today, spatial information has become important information in personal life, enterprise management and government management, and more and more information systems have to deal with all kinds of spatial information. It is of key essence to spatially enable those systems. Thus, SuperMap advocates and adopts some important concepts in the designing process of SuperMap GIS products.

Open and Co-operation strategy

GIS is supposed to be a distributed system in nature. It is an information infrastructure which needs multilateral collaborations in construction. SuperMap GIS is oriented to GIS platform software and the GIS development tools under various environments. It is committed to fully supporting GIS application development and exploring the market with the business partners. Therefore, the Open and Co-operation strategy is not only a concept of SuperMap, but also is implemented in our products. SuperMap GIS offers open and scalable software architectures on the base of service-oriented idea, enabling developers and users not only to set up their own application systems to meet their own needs but also to develop professional software products with independent copyrights based on SuperMap GIS to obtain a wider valued-added space.

Universal GIS Core

The rapid progress of IT has constantly influenced the development of GIS technology. In order to accommodate the changes of future technology and meet the fast-growing requirements of applications, SuperMap comes up with a new concept - Universal GIS, which is a new idea for GIS fundamental platform development.

The fundamental of Universal GIS is to separate all GIS functionalities and algorithms from the information technology they are based on through designing a sophisticated software architecture to make the two parts independent and disengaged from each other. Therefore, the pith of Universal GIS is to establish a universal GIS core (UGC) that implements the core functionalities of GIS, which is relatively unnecessary to c