Bentley Geo Web Publisher

Capitalize on Your Investment in Information

Bentley Geo Web Publisher integrates a wide variety of information sources including corporate databases and enterprise systems. With Bentley Geo Web Publisher, you can bring together many types of information for integrated display, analysis, and reporting. These include DGN, DWG, SHP, MapInfo TAB, Bentley Map features, any information in Oracle Spatial and other spatial data stores, multiple relational databases, 30+ industry-standard raster formats, raster mosaics, multimedia, and hyperlinks to other sites or information. Bentley Geo Web Publisher actually lets you improve information quality by sharing it with many stakeholders who provide feedback.

Publish Native Oracle Spatial Information

Bentley Geo Web Publisher provides support for publishing spatial information from Oracle 10g or 11g. It supports Oracle Spatial geometry types including lines, polygons, point cells, and point text. Caching options allows administrators to cache whole layers with pre-publishing tools or fine tune client caching behavior. Administration of publishing from Oracle Spatial is made easy through the Bentley Geo Web Publisher Administrator GUI, which recognizes spatial tables and presents them to the administrator in the GUI for publishing configuration.

Support of OGC Standards

Bentley Geo Web Publisher supports OGC’s (Open Geospatial Consortium) WMS (Web Map Service) specification. Bentley Geo Web Publisher supports the WMS 1.1.1 Server, meaning that Bentley Geo Web Publisher can publish information to any WMS compliant client. Bentley Geo Web Publisher can also serve as a WMS client. This means Bentley Geo Web Publisher can integrate information from any WMS compliant server. WMS makes it possible for Bentley Geo Web Publisher users to take advantage of the wealth of information publicly available through WMS servers and ensures interoperability with other vendor solutions. Bentley Geo Web Publisher is also a WFS server and client.

High Performance, Quality Publishing

Bentley Geo Web Publisher was designed to optimize performance when publishing vector or raster information. Web-optimized vector publishing is achieved through pre-publishing to a web-optimized format (iDPR). The iDPR desktop manages prepublishing updates behind the scenes so that fresh information is available as needed for end users. The iDPR converter is integrated with the Geospatial Server and ProjectWise so that organizations that choose to deploy these can take advantage of the versioning capabilities to notify iDPR desktop when updates have been made. Raster performance is achieved via a high performance Image Server that supports tiling, overview, and streaming functionality.

Bentley Geo Web Publisher ensures high fidelity publishing of DGN and DWG data. A faithful representation of the information through the publisher is produced in which the original presentation quality is preserved. Bentley Geo Web Publisher provides a Map Author that allows administrators and power users to define maps, which are a collection of layers for which properties such as display order can be defined. Layers can be prepublished or dynamic.

Spatial Analysis

Bentley Geo Web Publisher supports spatial analysis operations. Buffer zone or polygon overlay queries can be performed to select features for review or reporting. This functionality supports a variety of applications including general proximity analysis, customer notification reports, and call before you dig analysis for utilities and communications providers, as well as market studies and other applications.

Thematic Mapping

Bentley Geo Web Publisher offers an impressive set of capabilities for thematic mapping and thematic resymbolization based on feature properties. The themes may be defined by equal range, equal count, unique values criteria or using pie charts. Parameters are pre-configured in the Site Author so that advanced thematic composition can be run by casual users. Options are also provided to allow end users to define presentation parameters to achieve their desired result. A thematic legend is automatically generated based on the definitions to aid the end user in interpretation of the resulting displays.

Advanced Query and Reporting

Bentley Geo Web Publisher’s query builder offers capabilities to build queries through an easy-to-use GUI. It also provides for implementing queries through customization if required. The query builder allows queries to be defined that utilize multiple sources (tables, views, joins, queries) and supports complex, chained questions that may come from one or more databases. The report definition GUI provides for layout, sorting, formatting definition, and definition of display parameters. Users can generate advanced print output in PDF with specific scale and border properties.

Low Cost of Ownership

Implement project, departmental, corporate sites, or public websites with an overall low cost of ownership. Bentley Geo Web Publisher provides for a considerable degree of flexibility in deployment. End users can choose from the light WMS pure raster client or use the more full-featured Map Viewer client provided. The Map Viewer is downloadable via your browser connection and a standard Windows install procedure is also available to facilitate easier intranet deployment. Client tools are provided for Administration, Map Authoring, and Site Authoring, which can be done remotely if desired.

Speedy Return on Investment

Speed return on investment through quick initial implementations while providing for more complex, phased implementations to occur over time. Bentley Geo Web Publisher facilitates extremely fast website creation for quick startup and continues to support enhancement of the site through phased implementations. It was designed with GIS users in mind, using familiar GIS paradigms. The Site Author allows you to define layers, queries, reports and thematic presentations. The Administrator tool allows for defining database connections, Web server options, and other parameters. Websites created by the Site Author can also be customized using advanced Web development tools. Bentley Geo Web Publisher is ideal for small organizations getting started with Web implementations and is also scalable to support the requirements of very large organizations.