Bentley Map

Comprehensive GIS for Mapping and Infrastructure

• Efficient data compilation and editing
• Design, build, and publish accurate maps
• Enforce business and topological rules
• Administration tool to define rules for intelligent features
• All the power of MicroStation V8 XM Edition
• Platform for building intelligent facility models
• Brings CAD accuracy, ease-of-use, and efficiency to GIS
• Fully compatible with Bentley’s AEC Applications

All the Power of MicroStation

• Smart, quick drawing and editing of GIS features in a MicroStation environment
• Raster management
• Dimensioning
• AccuSnap, AccuDraw
• Display priority, transparency
• Photorealistic visualization and animation
• Full 3D modeling
• Superior MicroStation printing and publishing
• Workspace management for large projects

Map Manager

• An easy-to-learn interface into your spatial data
• Intuitive, easy-to-use, persisted map definition
  • Allows for multiple map definitions
  • Override symbology
  • MicroStation transparency
  • Scale based visibility
• Drag and drop layers to control display order
• Facilitator for:
  • Seamless mapping
  • Integration for all types of spatial data formats
  • Thematic presentation, and more! 

XML Feature Modeling

• XML Metadata Driven GIS
  • Features
  • Properties
  • Domain lists, default values
  • Property based symbology
  • Property based annotation
  • Relationships
  • Placement and editing rules
  • Operations and methods
  • Other behaviors
  • Message propagation rules
  • User interface
• Extensible
• Enforces user standards
• Easy to implement without programming

Geospatial Administrator

• Manages the XFM framework through one interface
• Runs outside MicroStation
• Defines and maintains XFM project files
• Schema contains comprehensive definition of geographic objects (features)
  • Properties
  • Symbology
  • Annotations
  • Operations
  • Methods
• Defines coordinate system and projection information
• User interface definition – dynamically loaded at run-time
• Inclusion of custom made VBA or MDL routines
• User specific definition of features, operations, methods – using workspaces
• Automatically generates MicroStation workspaces and Map metadata files

Your Choice of Data Stores

• A two-tier connection to Oracle Spatial
• A three-tier connection to Oracle Spatial
• A three-tier connection to ArcGIS
• Self-contained “XFM” DGN files
• Any RDBMS/DGN supported by MicroStation

Oracle Spatial Editing

• Fully Oracle Spatial Compliant
  • Two-tier connection
  • Directly query, capture, edit and post Oracle Spatial data
  • Supports multi-user access via feature locking
• Three-tier connection
  • Available via the Oracle Connector
  • Supports multi-user access via Oracle standard versioning
• Adheres to native Oracle Spatial feature and topology models
• Maintains defined topological relationships
• Provides application specific editing tools for accurate feature placement and editing
• Bulk Oracle Spatial Load tool provided

Topology Model

• Based on the Oracle 10g topology model
• Topology Modes
  • Session topology, built on-the-fly as needed
  • Persistent topology, topological primitives are created only once
• Primitives (nodes, edges, faces) are store in the DGN
• Each primitive can be associated with one or more features
• Both modes are supported with or without Oracle
• Shared editing is easier
• Analysis uses high performance topological algorithms
• Features involved in topology and split/merge rules are defined in the Geospatial Administrator

Topology Maintenance

• Place features like any other XFM features
• Topology graph is maintained while editing
• Use shared editing commands to move common primitives, e.g.  moving a lot corner moves all the parcels with it
• Split/Merge polygon command
• Line Cleaning tools
  • Find Dangles, Gaps, Duplicates
  • From “Spaghetti” Line Work
    • Shapefile
    • DGN
    • DWG
    • Oracle Geometry
    • other

Spatial Analysis and Presentation

• Spatial Analysis
  • Create buffers around selected features
  • Spatial Query
  • Overlay feature classes
  • Results symbolization and reporting
  • Maintain overlays in project file or export to supported formats
• Thematic Display
  • Ramp
  • Ranges
  • Unique Value
  • Fully configurable symbology
  • Auto generated Legends
  • Thematic definitions persisted

Map Generation and Print Preparation

• Grid and graticule generation
• Marginalia
  • Legends
  • North arrow
  • Scalebar
  • Neatlines
  • Notifications
  • Logos
• Interactively place multi-page borders
  • Border libraries
  • Size scale dependent
  • Graphical placement (move, rotate, scale)
  • Automatically place metadata in border
• Paper-space sheet models
• Plot high fidelity output through MicroStation
• Publish to intelligent PDF
  • 3D PDF
  • Bookmarks
  • Web links

Map Projection and Coordinate Conversion

• 5500+ projections including user defined.
• Store coordinate systems information with mapping and engineering data for portability
• Perform on-the-fly transformation
  • Oracle Spatial information
  • Referenced information
• Integrate source data in multiple projections
• Bulk transform spatial data between projection systems
• Use Geospatial Administrator to define and look up

Data Cleanup and Integrity Tools

• Solve integrity problems with imported or legacy data
  • Interactively cleanup data to establish spatial and topological integrity 
  • Find and repair dangles, gaps, slivers, overshoots; join and segment lines; reduce points
  • Use handy editing tools to resolve data problems
  • Use warping tools to fit data to existing control
• Easily adopt imported or legacy data through Dynamic Feature Scoring
  • Existing features (MicroStation, GeoGraphics, other) are recognized and operated on consistently via DFS rules
  • Editing or reset of the feature causes PBS and PBA rules to be run
  • Attributes can be easily added by editing

Interoperability

• Direct reference geospatial formats
  • MapInfo (TAB, MID/MIF), Shapefiles, Oracle Spatial
  • Select files to reference as you would any DGN
  • Files are referenced and transformed according to defined projection
  • Work with the native format - identify, overlay, and more
  • No special licensing required
  • Use Map Manager to determine display characteristics!
• Import/Export via an easy-to-use interface designed for large jobs
  • Enables direct editing in Bentley Map
  • MapInfo (TAB, MID/MIF), Shapefiles, Oracle Spatial
  • Customize layer symbology, properties, display order, and selected information
  • Use any Bentley Map functionality on imported features
  • Settings can be saved in import files which can be opened or referenced directly

GIS Development Platform

• Subject Matter Experts can customize Bentley Map facilitated by the Geospatial Administrator
  • Property Based Symbology
  • Property Based Annotation
  • Criteria
  • Methods
  • Operations
  • Dialogs
  • Tool frames and tool boxes
  • Prompts
• Developers can further customize by extending the capabilities of Geospatial Administrator and the Standard Placement Library via:
  • C expressions
  • XSLT
  • VBScript
  • VBA
  • MDL
  • .NET API