Based extensively on customer demand, iSMART 5.1 provides exciting new features including advanced metadata management, further Oracle integration, and increased use of Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX and the enhancement of the iSMART GeoPortal and development environment to match emerging web mapping interface standards from companies such as Google and Microsoft.
A key updated feature in iSMART 5.1 is the treatment of Metadata: iSMART 5.1 can easily Configure, Enter, View and Search metadata; this capability enables iSMART users to easily find useful spatial data sets and add them into maps for viewing, editing, and analysing across an organisation or the internet. This is also an essential capability for Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and complies with industry metadata standards such as ISO 19115 and ISO 15836 (“Dublin Core”)

iSMART 5.1 provides even deeper support for Oracle functionality, including integration with Oracle 10g Mapviewer. This facility enables use of this Oracle application server component for visualising spatial data. It allows data rendered by Mapviewer to be combined with other data managed by iSMART such as from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services, live / tracking data feeds, image stores, and custom data sources, for display, analysis and editing, and provides iSMART’s “out of the box” powerful end user tools for data management, visualisation (GeoPortal), and Editing to Oracle Mapviewer. It also increases the range of data types that may be viewed using iSMART tools and custom applications (including 10g GeoRaster GRID, and Network Data).
iSMART 5.1 has an increased range of styling options and provides easy to use web based style definition for multiple users. In addition iSMART 5.1 introduces completely new and improved labelling functionality including label collision avoidance algorithms, text along lines, word-wrap and more.
Considerable performance improvements have also been incorporated into 5.1. Significant improvements have been made to existing functionality such as Improved User Interface and new web map viewing layout.
Eamon Walsh, CTO, eSpatial, “We’re pleased to release this latest version of our flagship product, iSMART 5.1, and users will immediately see the benefits of new features and improved functionality such as improved plug-in architecture for custom data sources and updated rendering, styling and labeling”.
Built entirely on an Enterprise Java (J2EE) Application Server-compliant infrastructure, iSMART 5.1 is a natural extension to Oracle Spatial, delivering enterprise-class quality of service such as security, reliability and availability. All geospatial functions are implemented in a standard application server, with support for use from standard Web browsers and integration with other applications via XML Web services and Open Geospatial Consortium standards. Capabilities to visualise, query, manipulate and modify spatial data are targeted at users who are not GIS specialists.
"This latest release of iSMART further establishes eSpatial as a market leader in GeoSpatial software and solutions," said Orla Power, Marketing Manager at eSpatial, "We're excited to be offering iSMART 5.1’s enhanced capabilities and functionality to existing and future customers and given our open-standards approach, an iSMART-based solution can work standalone or alongside traditional applications positioning iSMART as a pioneering technology in the delivery of real-world spatial intelligence to the general business user”.
eSpatial continues to work with world leading technology and data partners to provide best of breed iSMART based solutions. These include Oracle, NAVTEQ (US), Laser-Scan (UK), Ordnance Survey (GB), Snowflake (UK) and PCI Geomatics (Canada).

About eSpatial
eSpatial, founded in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in the USA, is a world leader in enterprise strength spatial information management technology. Its advanced spatial environment, iSMART, in conjunction with Oracle Spatial, provides a platform for highly scalable and secure spatially enabled applications in a standard enterprise IT environment with unprecedented ease of use, manageability and support for OGC Web Services. Its standards based Rapid Application Development environment and GeoPortal allows organizations to quickly and easily build new applications (or extend existing ones) to include spatial functionality. These applications provide spatial intelligence to anyone, anywhere, on any device, connected or disconnected. eSpatial's technology is used in every area of IT including Public Sector, Defense, Telecommunications and Utility organizations.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Orla Power, Marketing and PR, eSpatial Solutions Ltd., Swords Business Park, Co. Dublin, Ireland. t: +353.1.870.8800, f: +353.1.870.8899, email: info@espatial.com www.espatial.com

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