GIS microsite of Regio

Now information about our products, services, demos, references etc also available through GIS microsite at www.regio.ee/gis.

...and demos directly:

Maporama for MC FlashTile

Now Maporama maps available for MapCat customers, click for the demo:

Google Earth gets next major update

The Google Earth Blog has produced video highlighting some of the newly added features like streetview, day/night lighting effects, faster loading 3d buildings and more in Google Earth 4.3.

Dual maps

Our demo of Google Bridge combined Regio's and Google's maps. Dual maps lets you display side-by-side for a single location and combines the features of Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps within one embeddable control.

Google Bridge

For LBS demos we often need clobal content, more and more often "for tomorrow" and sometimes for very exotic and unexpected regions. It's not possible to integrate Navteq, Leaddog or TeleAtlas data into our GIS Engine with such short notice thus we created Google Maps support into MapCat. Google Bridge covers basic GIS functionalities (navigation, search, routing) and enables to use MapCat search, routing and light digitizing components in combination with GM (show adresses, POI's, routing results, geofences on top of the maps etc).

See also:
- Routing demo
- WMS demo
- GC Admin demo

Google Bridge is also useful for our webmap customers in Baltics who're willingly ready to pay for internetmap applications but not monthly fees for the maps (and for whom maps quality is not critical issue :-)

3D in Google Maps

The guys behind the Digital Urban blog obviously don't think that Google Maps are pretty enough because they have created an undeniably beautiful 3d map of the London Underground.



The map was created using CASA's free Image Cutter software, which helps create maps from any image.

This tube map doesn't include any real-time tracking of trains or fancy search facilities, in fact it isn't actually much use in helping you find underground train stations. In this instance it is a case of being just a pretty face.

Via googlemapsmania

Map portals in Latvia

There're three main local players in Latvian internet-mapping market:

Jana Seta: best quality and coverage of maps and addresses, operating mainly raster images not GIS databases, limited software functionalities.
See demo here

BOD and Datorkarte: good map scales but not the best coverage, quality and updatedness, many additional layers, limited software functionalities.
See demos here

Envirotech (H-Nit daughter-company): local ESRI reseller, available ArcGIS server functionalites, not active in public internet market, state owned data:
See demo here

MapCat homepage

Our MapCat homepage is finally ready (yeah, almost - use FF please :-). Here you can find lots of demos, product descriptions, reference projects and information about us:


Demo site is funded by Enterprise Estonia within Finnish export plan of Regio. Finnish version will be available soon.

MapCat integration

There's sometimes not enough "space" within web-page for a map-component and using pop-up windows is not allowed either. One nice option for map integration in those cases is as follows:

"...we have lot's of employees working remotely in Regio. For example our team members work from Narva and Tallinn as well as from our our main office at Tartu, Riia 24..."

GISSER prototype III

We started to create prototype III for GISSER project (EAS funded technology project for animated maps). For short instructions how to use demo click here...