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 or a combination of both
• View/edit using your favorite viewing and editing tools; applications can be launched directly from the map interface
• Manage, index, edit, and print/plot
  • Structured Information with schemas such as spatial databases, XFM DGNs, Shapefiles, MapInfo files 
  • DGN, DWG
  • Unstructured files such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and more
• Multiple application integration
  • MicroStation and all applications based on MicroStation
  • AutoCAD
  • ArcMap (ESRI)
  • MapInfo
  • Microsoft Office
  • More

Manage Virtually Any Kind of Information

• Graphical files
  • Bentley Map
  • DGN files, DWG files
  • ESRI
  • MapInfo
• 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
• Search 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 navigate the features in XFM DGN files
• Query and review the properties of 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

• Assigning spatial locations:
  • A spatial location can be:
    • Manually defined
    • Inherited from the parent folder
    • Scanned from the file (auto extract and batch)
    • Imported from an external file
    • Calculated (for a folder and files)
    • Inferred from an attribute value
  • It can be a gradual process as with any other metadata

Background Maps

• The background map can be used as a referenced map that shows the region of interest
• Background maps are powered by Bentley Geo Web Publisher
• Maps can be composed of multiple layers generated from multiple data sources:
  • DGN
  • DWG
  • SHP
  • MIF/MID
  • TAB
  • Oracle Spatial
  • WMS
  • Raster

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 ProjectWise 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
• Workspaces can be managed in the same way as projects
  • 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

MapInfo Integration

• MapInfo iDesktop integration
• MapInfo file format support
• Automatic spatial reference upon adding them to the ProjectWise store
• Manages the relationship between the MapInfo project file and its content
• Adds ProjectWise tools into the MapInfo application

All the Power of ProjectWise

• 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 client and also provides an open-technology platform that enables you to create custom clients