We're delighted to announce that Azimap version 5.3 is now available, effective immediately, for all existing customers and for anyone who signs up to try Azimap Professional free for 30 days.
Version 5.3 of Azimap includes significant enhancements focused on usability, user experience and most importantly, workflow. This has been achieved by listening to customer feedback and extending the search capabilities available within Azimap. Additionally, we have introduced new features, including routing, drive time analysis, snapping, buffer proximity reports, and GPX, as well as support for Geodatabases, GeoJSON, and JSON.
Version 5.3 of Azimap includes the most significant enhancements of 2017 to date, supporting our vision of creating the most dynamic, feature-rich, and scalable web GIS for our customers. Enhancements include:
Search Management
The launch of version 5.3 provides enterprise customers with an opportunity to configure their preferred search provider, such as Google, Photon (OSM), HERE, GeoDirectory (IE), AddressBase (GB) and OS Places (GB). Customers can configure their search preferences within the admin centre.
Routing
The introduction of routing is a significant enhancement which is available to all customers.
Using the routing feature, customers can optimise single or multiple stop journeys based on approximate drive time. This is significant as it provides logistics handlers the ability to plan journeys based on the optimal route and stop locations.
Using the routing tool, map administrators can either manually enter the start point and stop locations. Alternatively, they can use the lasso select feature to select multiple points on the map. Upon using the lasso, the destinations will automatically populate the destination fields as you choose their starting point. Administrators can also generate an optimised route for their destinations based on their preferred journey.
Logistics handlers can also sort their journey based on the order in which the driver should take it. In addition, they can add their optimised route to an existing line layer for future reference in a few simple clicks.
Administrators can create and print PDFs of their drive time analysis.
Drive Time Analysis
To complement routing, we have introduced drive time analysis, which is now available to all customers. The primary benefit of drive time analysis is that it enables administrators to determine the distance they can travel in a specified amount of time from a specific location. Drive time analysis can be based on a single journey, a journey with many intervals or a group of multiple stops from selected features.
Snapping
The introduction of snapping enables editors to draw new features that snap to existing ones, allowing for more accurate data capture for planning and reporting purposes.
Snapping is available on both line and polygon features when the editor draws an adjoining polygon or line.
Proximity Reporting
The introduction of the buffer reporting tool enables users to search the proximity of a feature in meters, feet, kilometres or miles. The results are displayed in a table with separate tabs for each layer within the buffer feature zone, including features within the defined buffer area. This enables the map administrator to quickly select and zoom to a feature by selecting it from the list view. The data can then be exported to a tabbed Excel report.
Enhanced Import Process
Azimap now imports data using a separate thread. As such, there is no need to wait for your upload to complete; we will send an email when your data has been imported successfully. You can continue to use the application fully while the import is processing.
Import File Types
Also included in the 5.3 release is support for GPX, GeoJSON/JSON, and Geodatabase imports.
What's Next
The next release will primarily focus on extending Active Directory integration. However, with QGIS integration and the impending remote data capture app currently in development, this clearly cements our vision to become a leader in web GIS.
To help you get started with the latest enhancements, explore our help documentation. If you're new to Azimap, sign up for a free trial to understand the value of your location information.