WMS or Web Map Service is an interface standard that provides map images from one or more distributed geospatial servers, over HTTP. Atlas supports WMS, and uses it to overlay certain data layers such as weather information, both in the mobile and desktop apps. Now, with the Cliffhanger WMS plugin, we added WMS support to GE Smallworld GIS. [...]
Are you aware of threats against your infrastructure and computer systems? The Department of Homeland Security emphasizes this on their website and states that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Did you know that Cliffhanger Solutions product can help your organization identify threats and raise alerts in case of detected intrusions? The dashboard above shows intrusion [...]
Arizona is known for its beautiful sunsets (and sunrises), so it is worth it setting the timer and enjoy a brief moment outside. Did you know you can do this in Atlas? Simply turn on the Sunrise/Sunset layer, and you're done. The times are calculated based on your actual location (lat/long). This tool is particularly [...]
Our goal, as engineers, is to come up with ideas on how to do things better, more efficient, while saving cost at the same time. Several of our clients use GPS for fleet management. A GPS device is installed in (maintenance) trucks, and data is collected and visualized on some dashboard applications. In the same vehicles, they also use tablets running our mapping software.
Fleet tracking using GPS
This eliminates the use of a dedicated GPS device and all the associated back-end software, servers, etc. And if you still want to use existing dashboards, simply use our platforms API to derive the data. One of the data sources is, you guessed it, is GPS. After some thinking we thought this was kind of silly: so we have a GPS device, sending data to a central location, which is then being ‘downloaded’ back into the trucks? But tablets and smartphones (both Android and iOS) have GPS build in. And the App is already sending data back and forth. So it doesn’t take a genius to realize that we can easily have the App to share its current location, to be shared an processed between users.