Bentley Geospatial Management

Manage Virtually Any Kind of Information

Capitalizing on the power of ProjectWise, ProjectWise Geospatial Management will manage virtually any type of information in a spatial environment.  Drawings, maps, models, images, vendor specific GIS formats, and business documents in their original intended form—relate them all spatially in ProjectWise. This includes geospatially aware information such as that created by GIS and geo-referenced imagery, as well as information stored in PDF, spreadsheets, text documents, and others. 

Store information created by Bentley or ESRI GIS applications, DGNs, DWGs, and imagery along with virtually any type of information used in your organizational workflows. Everything is readily available for you through ProjectWise Geospatial Management.

All the Power of ProjectWise

ProjectWise provides many powerful new tools such as a project framework and those for standards management. Other innovations include support of distributed DGNs, SharePoint integration, and project templates.

Workflow and Change Management

With ProjectWise Geospatial Management and ProjectWise, organizations can manage lifecycles from creation through approval. States, user roles, and valid workflows can be defined with ordered milestones through which a document or file makes its way to completion. 

ProjectWise manages file operations for MicroStation, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and many domain-specific desktop applications. This includes preserving reference attachments and managing related application-specific files—the key to interoperability among applications and the content they create.

ProjectWise also logs all actions and changes made to documents and can store and manage multiple versions of a document. It enables design comparisons between versions of digital plots, records document and folder activity in an audit trail, and ensures users always have access to the latest version of a project document.

Geospatial Views in ProjectWise

Users of ProjectWise Geospatial Management view and navigate features, files, documents, and folders on a map. They have access to all ProjectWise menus from the geospatial view. They can create their own dynamic symbology based on properties and create a corresponding legend. The representation of files or documents can be depicted geometrically or as a symbol. The map view can be customized to reflect any combination of color and translucency of the content displayed.

Intuitive Spatial Navigation

Users have intuitive access to a wealth of spatially indexed content with ProjectWise Geospatial Management. Once spatial locations are registered, files, documents or sets can be located through the map-based interface. 

Any combination of spatial and nonspatial criteria can constrain a query, and can be used in combination with spatial navigation tools that enable the user to quickly locate a region of interest. The result can be displayed as a simple list of documents, or graphically on a map. Geospatial views can be used to display documents with symbology associated to document properties such as author, time, and workflow state.

Spatially Indexing Files and Documents

Location is automatically deduced for files or documents with inherent coordinate systems—DGN, GeoTIFF, SHP, and so forth. Documents that are nonspatial can inherit the location of the folder into which they are inserted. Alternatively, an administrator can use a map-based interface to define location for a document or folder of documents, as well as import MicroStation-based cartographic indexes.

Non-spatial information can also be quickly geocoded by attribute. The document will acquire the spatial location of a boundary when an associated attribute is set for the document.

Spatially Indexing Features

Spatially indexing features or components is an exciting capability in ProjectWise Geospatial Management. It enables users to display, search and review the properties of features in XML DGNs from the geospatial interface.  

XML DGNs are self-contained DGNs in which feature properties and other metadata is stored via the XML feature modeling (XFM) capabilities found in Bentley’s GIS applications. 

In ProjectWise Geospatial Management, these DGNs are recognized from a spatial referencing perspective at both the file and the feature level.  Individual features can be found, depicted visually on the background map and their properties reviewed without opening the associated DGN. The indexed features can also be accessed from the ProjectWise list view.

ESRI ArcMap and MapInfo Integration

Working with information created by ESRI GIS applications is easy with ProjectWise Geospatial Management. ProjectWise Geospatial Management provides for ArcMAP iDesktop integration and file format support of MXD, MXT, SHP, BIL, and BIP. They are automatically spatially referenced upon adding them to the ProjectWise store. The relationship between the ArcMap project file and its content is managed and handy ProjectWise tools are added into ArcMap.

ProjectWise iDesktop for MapInfo adds ProjectWise functionality supporting MapInfo data. MapInfo file formats can now be stored in ProjectWise and sets can be created using the related TAB (table document) and WOR (workspace document) files.

Background Maps and Integrated Coordinate System Support

The background map engine included in ProjectWise Geospatial is Bentley Geo Web Publisher, which supports many different file formats and offers superior performance and scalability. The supported file formats include: DGN, ESRI Shapefile, Oracle Spatial, Web Mapping Service (OGC WMS), and ODBC Spatial.

ProjectWise Geospatial Management employs a universal coordinate system that alleviates the need to transform content to the same coordinate system.  Each file or document is indexed to this universal index, while the original coordinate system is preserved. This implementation lets you search documents across the boundary of different geographic, coordinate, or engineering coordinate systems.