TatukGIS Releases Major Upgrade of Royalty-Free GIS Developer Kernel

February 1, 2012

TatukGIS announced the release the latest major upgrade (version 10) of its royalty-free GIS Developer Kernel (DK) component for Embarcadero Delphi/C++Builder, Microsoft .NET Framework for WinForms/WPF, and Microsoft ActiveX/OCX.

According to the announcement, Version 10 introduces new features:

Integrated 3D map display features, including presentation of DTM (digital terrain models), 3D vector rendering, automatic draping of image and 2D vector layers over DTM models, flood simulation, light & shadow control, camera/scene control…
Full 64 bit support for VCL, ActiveX and .NET.
Rewritten .NET code with support for .NET 4.0, MONO (DK.NET edition)
Advanced line styles
Opening Web Map Tile services (such as MapQuest/OpenStreetMap tiles) as a map layer
Contour line generation from a DTM
Support for Lidar data in XYZ format
Spatial support for IBM DB2 & Informix databases (DK Enterprise edition)

And enhancements:

Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 support (DK-VCL edition)
WPF controls wrappers for .NET (DK.NET edition)
Upgraded routing functionality and performance, including support for road centerline elevation data
Improved SVG support for symbols
Redesigned VPF support
Redesigned S57 support
Extended spatial database support: Oracle and Microsoft SQL (Enterprise edition)
Many minor improvements

According to TatukGIS, the TatukGIS Developer Kernel is a comprehensive GIS SDK used by a wide range of organizations in over 50 countries to custom develop stand-alone, embedded, client-server, and web server applications. The Developer Kernel product is known for performance, reasonable pricing, compliance with open standards, and native support for most GIS industry data types.

DK-VCL 10, DK.NET 10, and DK-ActiveX 10 trial versions, with source code samples, are available for download from the TatukGIS web site.