TatukGIS released Beta 1 of version 6.0 of the Developer Kernel (DK) to licensed users on July 30. Any licensed DK user can now download the DK 6.0 Beta 1 from the TatukGIS web site. Beta 1 introduced the following features to the DK:
- - Support of Delphi 6.0
- Improved screen caching
- Improved geocoding
- Layer transparency factor (see Transparency sample on the TatukGIS web site)
- Support of TrueType and CGM based symbols (which can be used to illustrate a point, make a line, or fill a polygon; see the cemeteries in the Sopot City Map sample on the TatukGIS web site)
The plan for DK 6.0 is as follows:
- DK 6.0 Beta 2 August 13:
- Spatial RTree indexing
- Improved routing
- Support of TAB format
- Improved Handling of MIF format
- DK 6.0 Beta 3 August 20:
- ActiveX control
- Support of DXF format
- Support of DGN format
- Support of TIGER format
- OGIS functionality
- Improved support for Interbase, MSJET, MSSQL, ORACLE, MYSQL, POSTGRESS
- DK 6.0 release (with public trial version and samples) September 3
(The next DK posting will be when the DK is released and available for purchase.)
The following table details the vector formats supported by recent and pending DK versions.
| |
DK Version 5
|
DK Version 6
|
DK Version 6.1
Fall 2001
|
| read |
write |
read |
write |
read |
write |
| ESRI E00 |
x |
|
x |
|
x |
|
| MapInfo MIF |
x |
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
| ESRI SHP |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
| MapInfo TAB |
|
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
| TIGER 2000 |
|
|
x |
|
x |
|
| DXF (Autocad MAP) |
|
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
| Microstation DGN |
|
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
| OGIS SQL |
|
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
| OGIS COM |
|
|
x |
x |
x |
x |
| DWG (Autocad MAP) |
|
|
|
|
x |
x |
| VTF |
|
|
|
|
? |
? |