In KB "Panorama" the "Complex of hydrological tasks" versions 6 for the GIS "Panorama" version 13 is developed. In the new version of the program, the task "Building a zone of flood by marks of a water level" of the "Flooding” panel is improved. The task forms a matrix of qualities (MTQ), containing values of depths of a flood zone. To automate the process of constructing flood zones, a new mode of creating a set of depths matrixes by TXT-files from the selected directory has been developed. The mode allows you to speed up the process of constructing flood zones in the case of a large number of source data files.

The "Complex of hydrological tasks" is intended for modelling the water filling of pools, and also for construction of flood zones and zones of drainage in the form of matrixes of depths. The complex includes 30 functional tasks providing creation and loading from external formats of matrixes of a relief of a bottom of considered pool, execution of calculations by bottom's matrixes, construction of zones of flooding and drainage in the form of matrixes of depths. The complex contains tools for constructing isolines by matrixes of surfaces, creating polygons by homogeneous matrixes zones, creations of objects by the crossing, constructions of zones around objects. Results of work of the complex can be saved in a text format, as well as in EMF and MS Word formats. The vector map objects formed by the tasks of the complex can be exported to SXF, TXF formats. The complex is implemented as part of the GIS "Panorama", that allows to use for modelling and calculations the data from various external sources: geoportals, web-services, remote sensing data, maps and matrixes of heights under the control of the GIS Server, thematic databases.

The new version of the program and documentation are available on the website in the Download section.

Specialists of KB "Panorama" completed the preparation of training and presentation materials about the professional GIS "Panorama" version 13. The presentation "Geoinformation system" Panorama" demonstrated new technical solutions in the field of creation, editing and preparation of digital data. An automatic clustering algorithm has been implemented to display tightly located point signs, a new task called "Matrix of depths building" was developed, intended for creating matrixes of depths by a set of sea maps of IHO S52 standard with the s57navy.rsc classifier.

There is demonstrated the task of "Import of a spatial database", which is designed to generate a digital vector map based on spatial information stored in a database. In the training and presentation materials, the procedures for loading three-dimensional terrain models from the Collada (DAE) format into the database of three-dimensional DB3D tiles are reflected.

GIS "Panorama" - the universal geoinformation system having the tools for creating and editing of digital maps and plans of cities, remote sensing data processing, performance of various measurements and calculations, overlay operations, construction of 3D models, processing of raster data, means for preparation of graphic documents in electronic and printed form, and also tools for work with databases.

You can familiarize yourself with the presentation about the possibilities of the GIS "Panorama" version 13 on the "Presentation" page.

In KB "Panorama" the "Workstation of urban-planner" version 13.0.4 is developed. The new version of the program has expanded the capabilities of accounting and storage of objects of a single immovable complex. A single immovable complex is a combination of buildings, structures, and other things united by a single purpose, inextricably linked physically or technologically, including linear objects (railways, power lines, pipelines), or located on one land plot.

The register of objects of a single immovable complex provides storage of the accounting and technical characteristics of the complex and all cadastral objects included into its composition. Due to the spatial and logical connections, there is ensured an integration with the registers of land, buildings and structures. The composition of the stored data includes various cadastral documentation, schemes, plans, drawings, images, accounting and technical characteristics and information about the copyright holders. The location of a single immovable complex on the map is provided.

In the "Workstation of urban planner", along with various real estate objects, information on land plots and their owners is stored. Maintaining urban development regulations for the use of territories allows us to establish rules for the use of land plots and capital construction objects.

Automation of the formation of spatial and logical relationships between the considered real estate and land plots simplifies the use of the software package. The "What the subject owns" mode allows you to get complete information about the property of the copyright holder.

To create a cadastral plan of the territory, a loading of information from the XML files of the Federal Register is used. The synchronization mode allows you to configure the relationship between the semantics of cadastral map objects and the information stored in the database.

A special place in the program is occupied by the section with documents, which allows you to store various attributive information about documents. Documents can be grouped by type, purpose, regional affiliation and other user data. A document record may contain various attributes that the user himself creates and assigns to a group of documents. Files that can be viewed and edited in a specialized program are attached to the document record. One document can be used for several land plots and objects of real estate. Flexible customization of stored information in a database allows to use the "Workstation of the urban-planner" not only for the urban development purposes, but also for accounting for lands and objects of real estate.

The new version of the program and updated documentation are available on the website in the Download section.

On the geoportal "Bank of spatial data", the maps of regions of the Siberian Federal District, which were formed according to OpenStreetMap data, were updated.

The composition of the maps includes Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk Oblasts, Altai Republic, Tuva Republic, Republic of Khakassia, Altai Krai and Krasnoyarsk Krai. The source data was obtained from the Geofabrik website. For work with the maps it is possible to use the program of GIS Panorama Mini or other software products of KB "Panorama".

The maps were led to the modernised classifier of large-scale plans of scale 1: 5 000 (map5000m.rsc). Publishing of updates in bank of spatial data is made by using the program of Databank of digital maps and remote sensing data. Publishing contents of bank of spatial data on the geoportal and data access for downloading are implemented by means of GIS WebServer SE.

Free maps on the basis of OpenStreetMap data are available for download on the page "Digital maps and images".

Specialists of KB "Panorama" prepared the video lesson "Import/export data from the Mapinfo-files". The material is intended for English-speaking users independently studying possibilities of the GIS "Panorama". From the video lesson, users will learn how to import/export MapInfo data in the GIS "Panorama".

The first part of the lesson discusses the the mode's work "Import of vector maps from MIF/MID format". The converter allows you to import data into a user map created automatically by the program or by the user manually. During converting, the import of the attributive information about objects and its saving in semantics of objects is carried out. In this case, the source data can be both in geodetic coordinates, and in rectangular.

The final part of the video lesson demonstrates how to work with dialog "Save Map to MIF/MID format". In addition to the basic information about the current file of the work region ("Name", "Source map" and "Output folder"), the following groups of control elements are examined in detail: "Input Data", "Statistic", "Data processing status", "Options". They provide the user with various data about the current handling procedure. To export vector maps, you can use the default options or change them as you wish.

Previously the video lessons of this series were published: "Object creation tools", "Operations above points", "Classifier edition", "Building of a 3D object", "Subobject creation. Work with objects samples", "Raster data transforming", "Map creation. Building a mathematical basis" and others.

You can get acquainted with training materials in English in the section "Video lessons".