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Leica's TITAN Virtual Globe Now in Beta

posted by Satri on Wednesday May 30, @07:42AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the virtual-globes-is-not-a-big-virtual-arena dept.
Virtual Globe
Remember the 'leak' about Leica upcoming TITAN virtual globe, this press release announces the beta version. The intro: "Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the Beta release of Leica TITAN and launch of the Leica TITAN Network. Empowered by a 3D virtual globe, this dynamic online solution allows users and communities to share geospatial and location-based content in a single, secure environment. "Users and organizations need a central, safe environment to discover, share, visualize, and retrieve geospatial data, web services, and location-based information," said Mladen Stojic, Director of Enterprise and Visualization Products, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging. "With a high performance 3D virtual globe, Leica TITAN provides this vibrant solution, with enhanced features, allowing interactive communication, collaboration, and sharing of information.""

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o Geospatial Instant Messenger – primary communication protocol used to share, chat, discover, access and retrieve geospatial data & web services into a variety of client applications.
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• New icons & functionality
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• Search for available data across the entire Leica TITAN Network
• Set Preferences for both the Geospatial Instant Messenger and the Viewer
• See User Profile and Stats referent to the GeoHub you are currently subscribed to
• Switch between viewing modes
• Share KML and KMZ files via the Geospatial Instant Messenger
• Save MyWorld and set permissions on datasets
• Add and remove users from your buddy list (MyNetwork)
• Subscribe and connect to different GeoHubs available in the Leica TITAN Network
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