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 V8i
• 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
• Geocoordinate system and reprojection
• Full 3D modeling
• Superior MicroStation printing and publishing
• Workspace management for large projects

Map Manager

• An easy-to-learn interface to 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
  • Labeling and annotation
  • Querying and browsing

XML Feature Modeling

• XML metadata driven GIS
  • Features
  • Properties
  • Domain lists, default values
  • Property based symbology (PBS)
  • Property based annotation (PBA)
  • Relationships
  • Placement and editing rules
  • Operations and methods
  • Other behaviors
  • Message propagation rules
  • User interface
• Extensible
• Enforces user standards
• Easy to implement without programming
• Promote existing CAD elements to intelligent XFM features
• Geometric properties (length, area, perimeter) automatically maintained as properties

3D Smart Editing for Urban Models

• Use MicroStation tools for creating and editing 3D urban models
• Bentley Map provides tools to
  • Store those models as intelligent features
  • Transform from editable 3D solid to intelligent features while maintaining properties
  • Optionally store 3D model in Oracle Spatial
• 3D consistency checking tools

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
• 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 ProjectWise Connector for Oracle 
  • Supports multi-user access via Oracle standard versioning
• Adheres to native Oracle Spatial feature and topology models
• Supports Oracle Single Sign-on allowing users to access Oracle's database using Windows sign-on credentials
• Maintains defined topological relationships
• Maintains DGN links to external files and URLs 
• Provides application specific editing tools for accurate feature placement and editing
• Bulk Oracle Spatial Load tool provided
• Supports the storing of 3D urban models in Oracle Spatial

Topology Model

• Based on the Oracle Spatial topology model
• Topology Modes
  • Session topology, built on-the-fly as needed
  • Persistent topology, topological primitives are created once only
• Primitives (nodes, edges, faces) are stored 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 is maintained and updated 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 tools

Spatial Analysis and Presentation

• Spatial Analysis
  • Create buffers around selected features
  • Create joins between features in an active session regardless of format or projection 
  • Spatial queries
  • Overlay feature classes
  • Analytical results are graphically symbolized and reported through the Data Browser 
  • 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
• Query and browse
  • Construct complex queries with simple interface
  •  Query all supported formats
  •  Save queries for later recall
  •  Browse selected features or all
  • Sort and filter columns
  • Automatically locate selected features
  • Export to a variety of formats
  • Edit single or multiple features at once through the Data Browser

Map Generation and Print Preparation

• Grid and graticule generation
• Marginalia
  • Legends
  • North arrow
  • Scalebar
  • Neatlines, grids and graticules   
  • Logos
• Interactively place borders with multiple viewports
  • Delivered and user customizable border libraries
  • Size scale dependent
  • Graphical placement (move, rotate, scale)
  • Automatically place metadata in border
  • Automatic PDF creation
• Paper-space sheet models
• Plot high fidelity output through MicroStation
• Publish to intelligent PDF
  • 3D PDF
  • Bookmarks
  • Web links

Map Projection and Coordinate Conversion

• Works directly with new MicroStation V8i geocoordination tools, supporting hundreds of global geospatial coordinate systems
• Edit and create custom coordinate systems
• Perform great circle calculations
• Transform ASCII coordinate files

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 (DFS) 
  • Existing features (MicroStation, MicroStation GeoGraphics, other) are recognized and operated on consistently via DFS rules
  • Editing feature properties dynamically

Interoperability

• Direct reference geospatial formats
  • MapInfo (TAB, MID/MIF), SHP, Oracle Spatial, CSV, GML, and ODBC sources
  • Select files to reference as you would any DGN
  • Files are referenced and transformed according to the defined geographic coordinate system
  • Work with the native format - import or reference, edit, print, query, identify, overlay, and more
  • No special licensing required
  • Use Map Manager to set display characteristics
  • For 3D files, assign an elevation based on a constant or property of the feature
  • For point features, XY and Z scales as well as elevation can be defined by properties of the feature
• Import/export via an easy-to-use interface
  • Enables direct editing in Bentley Map V8i 
  • MapInfo (TAB, MID/MIF), SHP, Oracle Spatial, CSV and ODBC sources
  • 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
  • Bulk processing of large import/export jobs
  • Additional formats are supported with Bentley Map's plug-in for Safe Software's FME ETL product

GIS Development Platform

• Subject matter experts can customize Bentley Map V8i facilitated by the Geospatial Administrator
  • Property based symbology (PBS)
  • Property based annotation (PBA)
  • Criteria
  • Methods
  • Operations
  • Dialogs
  • Tool frames and tool boxes
  • Prompts
• Developers can further customize Bentley Map V8i by extending the capabilities of Geospatial Administrator and the Standard Placement Library via:
  • C expressions
  • XSLT
  • VBScript
  • VBA
  • MDL
  • .NET API