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Leica TITAN 2008 Now Available

posted by lxnyce on Monday March 10, @09:37PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the Share-your-world dept.
Data Sharing Marketing Virtual Globe Web Mapping
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the availability of Leica TITAN 2008, a dynamic online data sharing solution. Leica TITAN 2008 includes:

• Leica TITAN Client
o Leica TITAN Viewer – enables global users to interactively visualize and share data.
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.
• Leica TITAN GeoHub
o Organizations create their own secure community with the Leica TITAN Network. The GeoHub enables both internal & external permission-based data access in a secure network.
• Leica TITAN Master Server
o Organizations create an autonomous, private and isolated network, where GeoHub communities and individuals interact outside of the Leica TITAN Network.
• Leica TITAN Web Cache Server (Coming soon!)
o Improves the performance of the GeoHub and can be set up in different geographic locations.
Leica TITAN Client new features include:

• New icons & functionality
• Create and persist lists of public web services
• Access public web services from others
• Set permissions on local data allowing public access to your data
• 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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