Bentley Geospatial Management

Unique Federated Information Management Approach

• Index rather than convert
• Keep the richness and meaning of your information in your favorite formats (no conversion)
• Find information via spatial or non-spatial criteria
  View/Edit using your favorite viewing and editing tools, Applications can be launched directly from the map interface
• Manage, index, edit, and printing/plotting
  • Structured Information with schemas such as spatial databases, XFM DGNs, Shapefiles
  • DGN, DWG
  • Unstructured information such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF
• Microstation Integration
  • Compound documents  (links between documents)
  • Access to resources (symbols, fonts)
  • Workspace (working environment, application settings)
  • Title block (Border) Integration

Manage Virtually Any Kind of Information

• Graphical files
  • Geospatial Extension, Bentley Map
  • DGN files, DWG files
  • ESRI
• Complex files
  • References in MicroStation
  • MXD and SHP in ArcMap
• Non graphical documents
  • PDF
  • MS Office
  • Others
• Relational Databases

Security and Access Rights

• Documents and Files
• Folders
• Single sign on

Finding Information

• Search, query, and navigate all content—documents, components, and metadata—in database-like fashion.  
• Searched using rich queries combining spatial (geographical location) and non-spatial (author, date, workflow, etc.) criteria.
• Spatial queries can be constrained by a rectangular or polygonal target area
• Search distributed file servers and databases, not merely at the file and document level, but at the level of their content
• Produce project-wide reports and statistics, or create ad hoc queries.
• Index and navigates the features in XFM DGN files
• Query and review properties on features without opening the DGN
• Adds spatial criterion in the search tool
• Queries can be constrained from within MicroStation sessions utilizing the fence commands as the region of interest to further enhance search results

Geospatial Metadata

• Add geospatial indexing to documents and folders
• Extract geospatial metadata during import with batch tools
• Allows spatial representation to be drawn on a map
  • Polygon
  • Line
  • Point Symbol
• Automatic extent calculation for folders and projects

Background Maps

• Map-creation assistant provides for easy interface configuration
• Create scale-based map navigation on a per-project or folder basis
• Background maps can be dynamically published from DGN
• Utilizes existing DGN file spatial location if it exists

Spatial Indexing for All Documents and Files

• Any document type, including PDF, Microsoft Office files, and others can be spatially indexed at the document or file level in Bentley Geospatial Management.
• Location is automatically deduced for files with inherent coordinate systems—(for example: DGN, GeoTiff images, SHP)
• Other documents can inherit the location of the folder in which they are inserted
• Administrators can use a map-based interface to define location for a document or folder of documents, as well as import MicroStation-based cartographic indexes

Navigation

• ProjectWise List View
• Spatial Navigation from background map
• View and navigate documents and folders on a map
• Multiple documents occupying the same location are easily managed via the map interface.
• Select and access all ProjectWise menus from the spatial view
• Create your own dynamic symbology based on document properties
• Spatial navigation interface supports transparency, layering, legends, and icon/bitmap representation
• Create your own dynamic symbology based on document or file properties
• Customize the map view to reflect any combination of color and translucency for document display.
• Spatial navigation interface supports transparency, layering, legends, and icon/bitmap representation

Workspaces

• Manage workspaces alongside the project data
• Provide same management capabilities that are provided to the rest of the project
  • Access control
  • Audit Trail
  • Distributed storage and Caching

Integrated Coordinate System Support

• Content is indexed to a universal coordinate system while preserving their original system
• Enables searching across boundaries of different coordinate systems
• Create customized coordinate systems from standard coordinate systems
• Document/File footprints are reprojected on the fly
• Includes a comprehensive library of over 4,000 coordinate systems

ESRI ArcMap Integration

• ESRI ArcMap iDesktop integration
• ESRI file format support for MXD, MXT, SHP, BIL, and BIP
• Automatic spatial reference upon adding them to the ProjectWise store
• Manages the relationship between the ArcMap project file and its content
• Adds ProjectWise tools into ArcMap

All the Power of ProjectWise V8 XM Edition

• Project Templates  
• Distributed DGNs
• A project framework offering capabilities to find and reuse content across projects
• Standards management tools that increase the quality and consistency of work on all projects
• Audit Trail
• Messaging
• Workflow Management
• Manage content lifecycles from creation through approval
• Define workflows, including ordered groups of milestones
• Web functionality allows users on extended teams to review and redline project documents.
• Faster file access with local file caching.
• Change Management
• Digital Security
• Collaboration
• Load balancing and clustering for scaling the solution to a portfolio of projects and optimizing performance to increase productivity across a distributed enterprise
• And much more

Development Tools

• Spatial Navigator is integrated within the primary ProjectWise clients (Explorer and Explorer Lite) and also provides an open-technology platform that enables you to create custom clients.
• HTML browser client supports Internet access, controls are provided for hand-held devices, and a Windows-based application supports intranet use.