Specialists of KB "Panorama" have prepared and placed the map of the Jewish Autonomous Region on the geoportal "Bank of spatial data". The map was formed using OpenStreetMap data. To work with the map, you can use the GIS Panorama Mini program or other software products of KB "Panorama".

The map was led to the modernised classifier of large-scale plans of scale 1: 5 000 (map5000m) and was saved into a packed project (MPTZ). The MPTZ format project includes a digital map of the region's territory (country, subject of the federation, administrative region) and a digital classifier. 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".

Employees of the Novosibirsk technical school of geodesy and cartography (NTGiK) prepared the article "Use of Professional GIS "Panorama" software for training of specialists in the field of geospatial technologies". The authors of the article were V.I. Obidenko (vice-rector for secondary vocational education - director of the technical school) and M.A. Tatarenkova (teacher at an educational institution).

The published material examines the positive experience of the technical school of geodesy and cartography in training of mid-level specialists for the country's geospatial industry. It is shown that it is advisable for students to study geoinformation technologies on the basis of a single professional software that has the necessary tools and, preferably, of domestic origin. In NTGiK the GIS "Panorama" was chosen as such professional software. Software developer the KB "Panorama" takes a socially responsible position in the training of young specialists and provides its GIS for secondary vocational education institutions at a reduced price or free of charge. So, for the 75th anniversary of the technical school of geodesy and cartography, KB "Panorama" gave the technical school the licenses for 20 training places of the GIS "Panorama". This approach ensured in the period 2019-2023 a high-quality training at the technical school for about two hundred specialist cartographers who are professionally proficient in the GIS Panorama. At the same time, about a thousand graduates who studied in other specialties (aerial photogeodesy, applied geodesy, land management, information systems) have gained good experience of working with this software and are ready to use its capabilities in their professional activities.

GIS "Panorama" - universal domestic geoinformation system. The program is designed for accumulation, storage, the automated processing and display of data, calculation results and forecasts with geospatial reference. GIS "Panorama" contains tools of displaying and processing vector, raster and matrix maps. The application provides users with tools for solving specialized tasks of modeling the movement of special objects against the background of 3D model, forecasting of consequences of emergencies at hazardous objects, monitoring of aircraft movement, conducting of geodetic and topographic work, processing the data from GPS/GLONASS navigation devices, printing the displayed spatial data to various output devices and many others. The GIS is included into the Unified register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases (registry entry No.4227 dated March 29, 2018).

You can get acquainted with materials on the use of GIS "Panorama" in the educational process of training specialists in the field of geospatial technologies in the Articles section.

In KB "Panorama" the GIS Constructor for Qt Designer SE version 15.0.0 has been developed. In the new version the tools of processing and displaying data have been improved, mechanisms for opening and exchanging spatial data with the GIS Server have been refined. Support for drawing objects from a text file has been implemented, and the list of available MAPAPI interface methods has been expanded. The task of connecting geoportals has been improved, the list of supported geoportals has been expanded.

The program has improved algorithms for processing and displaying data. The number of supported sheets for multi-sheet maps has been increased by 4 times. The accuracy of transparency calculations for vector objects and a polygon object - colored glass - has been increased. The algorithms for interaction with the GIS Server have been improved, for example, the interaction mechanism when editing maps containing a small number of objects.

The task of connecting geoportals has been improved. The new version has increased the speed of loading and displaying tiles. The GIS core automatically evaluates the computer parameters: the number of cores, the size of the RAM, the bandwidth of the data transmission channel. Taking into account the performance of the system, a pool of independent threads is formed to load, process and display the received data. Multi-threaded data loading reduces delays when moving the screen, scaling the map, and performing spatial queries to the geoportal. For example, for a network with a bandwidth of 100 Mbps on a 4-core processor with a clock frequency of 3.5 GHz, the speed of displaying tiles from the KB Panorama geoportal increased 6 times, and the time to receive them decreased from 500ms to 70ms.

Access to geoportal archive data has been added. Examples of such geoportals are the Sentinel Hub geoportal or the VEGA service. The task allows you to connect to images or data on the geoportal by specifying the date, the request period, or the percentage of maximum cloudiness of satellite images. To quickly change the image from the geoportal, a new dialog has been added that allows you to set the parameters for accessing archived data (date, period, cloudiness); to set an offset or reference to a point if the geoportal has a lower accuracy than the map or data with which the geoportal is combined; to set transparency color - to view several layers at the same time; to set the color of the filter to change the color scheme of the geoportal.

Data from geoportals can be saved into a pyramid of MBTILES tiles or into a raster for a territory selected by the user. In order to increase the speed of data access for the WMS protocol, caching of data in the form of tiles has been added. The data is saved in the form of a pyramid of tiles 1024х1024 in a folder of location of the geoportal cache. This change will allow the user to accumulate data locally and, in the absence of the Internet, use the already accumulated data cache. In order to update previously saved data, it is possible to set the lifetime of the geoportal cache in seconds.

When connecting geoportals that are not included in the general list (wmslist_ru.xml file), connection data is saved in the general list in the "User connections" section. This will allow you to quickly connect the previously used geoportal. The list of "User connections" allows you to add data to it, and remove data from it. The mechanism for replacing the user settings file wmslist_ru.xml with a new one from the installation has been improved. A copying of previously connected user portals has been added when replacing the settings file. In the new version the possibility of connection of dynamically expanded list of available geoportals has been added. When such a geoportal is selected, a GetCapabilities request is sent to the service, and based on it, the list is automatically expanded with relevant data in the form of a tree of available layers. Support for a proxy server with domain authorization has been added.

The list of available MAPAPI methods has been expanded. There are implemented the methods for constructing the intersection of multipolygons in the form of a multipolygon and creating a map's objects using coordinates from a text file.

GIS Constructor is a set of geoinformation components for use in the visual programming environment of Qt Designer, which allows you to develop your own GIS applications. The visualization of the contents of digital maps is made in conventional symbols adopted for topographic, geographical and various special maps. Geoinformation system has ample opportunities for performing calculations, for providing display of spatial data on various graphic devices in standard and user systems of conventional symbols. The main functions can be executed in multithreaded mode. It supports automatic optimization of used memory for processing large amounts of data (tens of gigabytes) on limited resources (hundreds of megabytes).

The toolkit is adapted for work on a wide range of operating systems (Astra Linux SE, ALT Linux, Elbrus, Ubuntu, CentOS, QNX) and architectures (Intel, Elbrus, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM). The toolkit includes components of visual designing the GIS applications and library of a multiplatform multithreaded GIS core. GIS Constructor provides a cross-platform MAPAPI interface that allows a programmer to implement development in an operating system convenient for it. The developer can release GIS applications for a set of operating systems by simple assembly with minimal changes to the program source code.

The new version of the program is available for download in the Download section.

Specialists of KB "Panorama" have prepared and placed the map of the Republic of Buryatia on the geoportal "Bank of spatial data". The map was formed using OpenStreetMap data. To work with the map, you can use the GIS Panorama Mini program or other software products of KB "Panorama".

The map was led to the modernised classifier of large-scale plans of scale 1: 5 000 (map5000m) and was saved into a packed project (MPTZ). The MPTZ format project includes a digital map of the region's territory (country, subject of the federation, administrative region) and a digital classifier. 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".

In KB "Panorama" the Complex of preparing documents of aeronautical information version 8.2.3 under the control of the GIS "Panorama" has been developed. In the program the mode of export/import from a database of the complex of the information about the elements of the airspace structure into a file in the AIXM 5.1 format has been updated. Export is performed in accordance with the model of providing aeronautical information AIXM (Aeronautical Information eXtended Metadata). When forming an XML file, the upper and lower limits of the vertical extent of airspace, units of measurement and reference levels are indicated. Values of the XML-elements indicating the vertical coordinate system are formed from the list: "SFC" (distance measured from a surface of the ground), "MSL" (distance measured from the mean sea level), "W84" (distance from spheroid WGS84) or "STD" (distance measured using an altimeter set to standard atmosphere).

In the "Output of prohibited, danger and restriction zones" and "Output of ATS regions" dialogs, the signature formation modes for the upper and lower limits of the heights of airspace elements have been expanded, taking into account repeating values and the range from ground to "unlimited" (GND/UNL). The option "Call signs in english" has been added, which allows you to fill in the "Call sign" semantics in Russian or English when creating an object.

Aeronautical classifiers (dfc.rscz, dfc_en.rscz) have been improved in accordance with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization, as set out in ICAO Doc 8697 ("Manual on Aeronautical Charts").

The description of the vector sign has been expanded and the "Classifier editor" task in the GIS "Panorama" has been updated. There is added the ability to assign to several signatures the attribute of specifying of the sign size of vector objects of the layer "Type space ATS and a restricted zones" according to the length of the signature, as well as assigning the attribute of prohibition/permission of stretching to elements. This mode allows to expand some of the elements of a vector sign (for example, automatically stretch the sign frame around long signatures), and shift the remaining elements (design elements: circles, squares, rhombuses). The shifted elements can be located both inside and outside the sign frame.

The complex of preparing documents of aeronautical information is a set of tools for maintaining an aeronautical data base, a modeling and analyzing the aeronautical situation, generating aeronautical maps and exchanging data with other information systems through export and import in the ARINC 424-19 exchange format and export in the AIXM 5.1 format. The task "Flight procedures design" is used to design the routes of departure, approach and landing and to analyze the safety of flights on them. The task "Assessment of compliance for aerodromes with the requirements FAR" is intended for the analysis of the aerodrome and the aerodrome environs for the suitability for operation and aircraft flights in accordance with the Federal Aviation Regulations.

The new version of the program, examples of aeronautical information documents, operational documentation, video lessons and presentations are available for download on the Download page.