Geocortex News

The ability to fine-tune and improve the performance of ArcGIS Server — now made better.

VICTORIA, BC CANADA - March 15, 2011 - Today, Latitude Geographics announced the general availability of Geocortex Optimizer 1.5, a major new release that introduces several improvements and new features. Geocortex Optimizer helps organizations make informed decisions regarding their Esri ArcGIS Server deployments in order to yield improvements to performance, reliability and remedy bottlenecks.

Of particular interest, Latitude Geographics has introduced support for monitoring ArcGIS Server Image Services. This new feature will enable Geocortex Optimizer to monitor the availability and performance of those services and receive notifications when they are not available.

Another outstanding new feature is improved database migration and archiving functionality. Geocortex Optimizer 1.5 allows you to archive legacy data, reducing the size of your Geocortex Optimizer databases and improving the speed of Optimizer's reports. Other release highlights include:

• Compatibility with the latest version of Geocortex Agent
• Support for the ArcGIS Server Image Service add-in
• Greatly enhanced data migration and archiving functionality
• Support for secured map services
• Offline report generation
• Order of magnitude speed improvements

Latitude Geographics will be presenting a pair of Webinars on April 26 - 27, 2011 where it will provide a general overview of Geocortex Optimizer, as well as demonstrating some of the new features. More information regarding the Webinars can be found here: www.geocortex.com/events-training/webinars/

Latitude Geographics introduces an easy-to-use, highly configurable and functionally rich Silverlight^® viewer for Esri's ArcGIS^® Server platform

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VICTORIA, BC CANADA - February 11, 2011 - Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the general availability of Geocortex^® Essentials 3.3, which includes the new highly-anticipated Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight.

Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight builds upon Latitude Geographics' ten years of experience developing the world's most advanced viewers for Esri server technology. The viewer offers a broad, rich toolset that supports the most common workflows web-GIS users and administrators need, straight out-of-the-box. Administrators can tailor a variety of viewer elements including map services, security, non-spatial data sources, reporting, printing, layer list, workflows, tools, application look and feel, and more.

Geocortex Essentials 3.3 offers powerful tools as well as unrivalled out-of-the-box capabilities that transform how Esri ArcGIS Server applications are designed, built and maintained. Geocortex off-the-shelf software components reduce risk and cost while enabling a more rapid deployment of highly usable, feature-rich applications.

"The Esri REST platform allows us to build elegant viewers that combine the simplicity of consumer mapping with more sophisticated capabilities associated with web-GIS." said Latitude Geographics' CEO Steven Myhill-Jones. "I don't think there's anything else right now that approaches our Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight. We've built a powerful, versatile foundation that allows our customers to get more things done than ever before."

Latitude Geographics will be showcasing the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight through a series of Webinars to take place on March 1st and 2nd 2011. Please visit the Geocortex website for more information: www.geocortex.com/learn

VICTORIA, BC - February 1, 2011 - At the 2010 Esri Business Partner Conference and Developer Summit held in Palm Springs, California, Esri announced the creation of its new Esri Partner Network. The Network would classify ESRI's business partners into three levels (Silver, Gold, and Platinum). Of about two thousand partners, approximately 10% would be Gold Partners and not more than 1% will be Platinum Partners. At the conference, Latitude Geographics was named as one of the inaugural Platinum Partners. On February 1, 2011, the partnership became official as both Esri and Latitude Geographics formalized the relationship through a partnership agreement.

"I'm very proud of this moment and of the people with whom I have the honor of working with" said Steven Myhill-Jones, CEO and President of Latitude Geographics. "This recognition reflects the talent of my colleagues here at Latitude, our partners and resellers around the world, and our long-time and visionary customers. The day-to-day hard work of these folks to build and implement our technology ultimately defines who we are. So to all who helped make this possible... thank you."

The Esri Partner Network is a global partner program for companies developing and delivering GIS solutions based on the Esri software platform. It's designed to meet the needs of many types and sizes of organizations, ranging from regional GIS consulting firms to multinational companies delivering geocentric solutions around the globe. Platinum Partners engage in advanced technical, marketing, and sales support with Esri, as well as global effort with Esri on sales and marketing opportunities.

VICTORIA, BC - August 15, 2010 - Latitude Geographics is on the move. Steady growth over the past ten years has prompted the relocation to a new headquarters space. The new office location is approximately one-hundred yards south of the previous office in Market Square, closer to the beautiful harbor in downtown Victoria.

"This is sad and exciting" commented Steven Myhill-Jones, President and CEO of Latitude Geographics. "We just had nowhere else to expand in our previous location. Market Square has been our home for so long, from the early days of the company, but it's now time to move on."

The new space allows Latitude Geographics to comfortably spread its approximately 55 head office employees across one floor, with multiple meeting rooms and workspaces. The building was recently renovated and is one of several heritage buildings dating back to early "gold-rush" days in Victoria's colorful history.

As posted on ESRI Canada Ltd's website March 23, 2010

TORONTO - March 23, 2010 - ESRI Canada congratulates Canadian business partners Geosoft and Latitude Geographics for receiving the 2010 ESRI International Partner of the Year Awards. The awards recognize outstanding partner achievements in sales, product development and advancing ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology into key markets. The awards were given on March 21 at the 2010 ESRI Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs, California.

"Our partner network adds significant value to the products and services we provide," said Alex Miller, President, ESRI Canada. "Their innovation and industry expertise help us address our customers' specialized needs. We thank this year's winners for their dedication and focus on leveraging ESRI technology to develop applications that help users achieve their business objectives."

Geosoft is a Toronto-based provider of earth mapping and exploration software. The company resells ESRI software and develops vertical-focused applications that use, embed and extend the functionality of ESRI technology. Geoscientists around the world use its applications to efficiently manage, visualize and interpret exploration data. Geosoft software and solutions improve knowledge development and support decision making for successful subsurface exploration within mining, energy and the earth sciences. A longstanding ESRI Business Partner, Geosoft was also the ESRI International Partner of the Year in 2007.

"ESRI's stable platform and comprehensive GIS functionality help us to deliver powerful applications that meet the most complex needs of customers in mining and earth sciences," said Louis Racic, Product Management Director, Geosoft. "Enabling earth explorers to work more efficiently with their data and projects within GIS is an important focus for Geosoft. This award validates our commitment to continually improving exploration workflows within ESRI's ArcGIS."

Latitude Geographics, based in Victoria, develops and provides the Geocortex software suite that enables organizations to create and deliver effective Web-based GIS and mapping applications using ESRI technology. Built on and designed specifically for ArcGIS Server, Geocortex helps customers in numerous industries worldwide maximize their investment in ESRI's server solutions by creating application features and management capabilities that add compelling value to core ESRI technology.

"ESRI has made great strides in advancing GIS to facilitate broader sharing of geographic information over the Internet," said Steven Myhill-Jones, President and CEO, Latitude Geographics. "We are honoured by this recognition and look forward to further strengthening our partnership with ESRI to help more organizations accelerate their development of world-class Web mapping applications."

Victoria, British Columbia - Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Geocortex Essentials 2.2, software which continues to be the market leader for extending ESRI's ArcGIS Server platform. Building on the capabilities of previous releases, Essentials 2.2 includes more tools and features that allow GIS professionals to quickly build and deploy focused, feature-rich ArcGIS Server applications.

"This release includes a number of Web ADF-specific features existing customers have been requesting," explains Latitude Geographics' President, Steven Myhill-Jones, "and we decided to provide these features in advance of a major milestone release for our REST components that is presently nearing completion."

New features shipping with Geocortex Essentials 2.2 include: a Silverlight-based geo-enabled photo and video viewer; an option to export georeferenced images for a given extent; improved performance and flexibility resulting from the users' ability to toggle layer labels on/off from the layer list; buffer tools for Identify and Select, which can now be configured to prompt the user for a buffer distance; and a markup tool that allows users to add labels that display multiple user-specified attributes for a given feature.

For more information about Geocortex Essentials, please visit: www.geocortex.com/essentials

Victoria, British Columbia - Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Geocortex Essentials 2.0, the next-generation version of its popular value-added software for ESRI's ArcGIS Server.

Geocortex Essentials 2.0 introduces the Geocortex Essentials REST API. Using this REST API, developers can create JavaScript API, Flex API and Silverlight API applications that consume core Geocortex Essentials functions such as data linking, template-based printing and custom reporting. Latitude's all-new Geocortex Essentials REST Elements follows ESRI's RESTful development paradigm.

Corresponding with Geocortex Essentials 2.0, Latitude Geographics is also unveiling an ESRI-style Geocortex Resource Center (http://resources.geocortex.com), which contains samples and documentation to support REST Elements and complement ESRI's related resources for developers.

For version 2.0, Geocortex Essentials is divided into two tracks: Web ADF Elements and REST Elements. Web ADF Elements contains all capabilities associated with Geocortex Essentials 1.x technology, as well as some new features.

The general release of Geocortex Essentials 2.0 comes after several months of user beta testing. "Geocortex Essentials 2.0 is a major milestone for the team at Latitude Geographics", explains Steven Myhill-Jones, President and CEO of Latitude Geographics, "while we have a long list of features planned for the months ahead, our underlying framework and initial features that introduce rich support for ESRI's important emerging RESTful approach are complete."

For more information about Geocortex Essentials 2.0, please visit: www.geocortex.com/essentials

About Latitude Geographics

Latitude Geographics Group Ltd., through its Geocortex Internet Mapping division, helps people succeed with web-based geography to enable better decisions about the world around us. Specialists in market-leading ESRI web-GIS technology since 1999, Latitude Geographics creates software that streamlines and accelerates the process of building and maintaining world-class ArcGIS Server applications. For more information about Latitude Geographics please visit www.latitudegeo.com

(Note: This is an ESRI Canada Press Release)

Toronto, Ontario - ESRI Canada has established a distribution agreement with Latitude Geographics and is pleased to offer Geocortex Essentials to our Canadian customers. Latitude Geographics has integrated ESRI technology throughout the development of an intelligent configuration framework that accelerates and simplifies real-world development and deployment of ArcGIS Server applications using Web ADF and ESRI's new developer APIs.

"We expect Geocortex Essentials will further enrich the value proposition for ESRI enterprise customers," said Steven Myhill-Jones, President, Latitude Geographics. "The efficiencies that these customers will gain as a result of implementing our products on top of ArcGIS Server will help accelerate successful deployment of ArcGIS Server applications and GIS capabilities across the enterprise."

Geocortex Essentials provides out-of-the-box features, processes and architecture that extends and complements the process of building and maintaining ArcGIS Server applications. It was engineered entirely from the ground-up for ESRI's ArcGIS Server platform, and is designed to fully assimilate emerging technologies such as developer APIs. This solution for ESRI server technology is designed to stay closely aligned with ESRI's direction and maximize customer's options in the future.

"Geocortex Essentials provides intuitive developer support that extends and augments the ArcGIS Server environment," adds John Kitchen, General Manager, ESRI Canada. "Their product is a welcome addition to our enterprise product line."

ESRI Canada is now offering Latitude's Geocortex Essentials to Canadian customers. For more information about Geocortex Essentials, visit: www.esricanada.com/product/essentials

About ESRI Canada

Founded in 1984, ESRI Canada provides enterprise geographic information systems (GIS) solutions that empower businesses, governments, and educational institutions to make timely, informed and mission critical decisions by leveraging the power of maps. The company distributes the world's leading GIS software from ESRI Inc., Miner and Miner, Azteca, and other technology partners. Headquartered in Toronto, the company serves over 8,000 customers from 16 regional offices across Canada. Information about ESRI Canada can be found at www.esricanada.com

Victoria, British Columbia-Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce it is collaborating with ESIMEX, a web-GIS consulting firm based in Mexico, to help introduce Geocortex solutions for ESRI's ArcGIS Server technology to the Latin American market.

"Our collaboration with ESIMEX goes back a number of years now, and we've found them to be an excellent partner," notes Steven Myhill-Jones, President & CEO of Latitude Geographics, "They've played a critical role in adapting our software and marketing materials for the Latin American market."

In addition to representing Geocortex technology in Mexico, ESIMEX is also helping Latitude Geographics build relationships with end-users, resellers and implementers throughout Latin America.

"We believe that Geocortex technology offers compelling benefits to organizations deploying ArcGIS Server in Latin America", explains Fernando Basurto, Chief Operating Officer of ESIMEX, "and we're committed to working with Latitude to develop a strong customer base and reseller network in the region."

Latitude Geographics and ESIMEX will showcase Geocortex solutions and deliver a presentation together at the ESRI Latin American User Conference in Santiago, Chile (October 1-3, 2008).

About Latitude Geographics

Latitude Geographics Group Ltd., through its Geocortex Internet Mapping division, helps people succeed with web-based geography - to enable better decisions about the world around us. Specialists in market-leading ESRI web-GIS technology since 1999, Latitude Geographics creates software that streamlines and accelerates the process of building and maintaining world-class ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS applications. For more information about Latitude Geographics please visit www.latitudegeo.com

About ESIMEX

Established in 1976, Equipos y Sistemas de Mexico (ESIMEX) has strived to bring new technologies to the Mexican market in both the public and private markets, by way of partnering with selected technology companies, integrating several hardware, software and consulting services during more than 30 years of operations.

More recently, ESIMEX has provided high performance real time monitoring systems to the energy utilities market, Business Process Management systems, as well as GIS solutions that integrate complex back-office corporate applications that help clients visualize data with a better understanding of their geographical information, helping their decision making processes. For more information about ESIMEX please visit www.esimex.com.mx

Victoria, British Columbia-Latitude Geographics has released a new version of its popular Geocortex Essentials software that delivers full support for ESRI's ArcGIS Server 9.3.

Geocortex Essentials 1.4 offers more than just basic ArcGIS Server 9.3 compatibility. In addition to ASP.NET script callbacks, Geocortex Essentials 1.4 introduces full support for MS AJAX partial postbacks incorporated as part of ArcGIS Server 9.3.

For 1.4, the Latitude Geographics development team also conducted a detailed Geocortex Essentials performance review. To coincide with performance improvements in 9.3, these enhancements have boosted general performance and concurrent user capacity.

The general release of Geocortex Essentials 1.4 comes after weeks of user beta testing. "We often get asked about our responsiveness around ESRI's major releases," observes David Stevenson, CTO of Latitude Geographics, "and I think shipping a release-candidate beta offering full support less than two weeks after the 9.3 release speaks for itself."

Core development on a major upcoming Geocortex Essentials release continues, which will integrate important emerging ArcGIS Server developer technologies as well as introduce several new tools.

For more information about Geocortex Essentials, please visit: www.geocortex.com/essentials

Geocortex Essentials 1.3 contains major new features for data linking, printing, reporting, workflow modeling and security management.

Victoria, British Columbia - Latitude Geographics has released Geocortex Essentials 1.3, its market leading software for extending ESRI's ArcGIS Server platform. Version 1.3 includes important new tools to allow GIS professionals to quickly build and deploy focused, feature-rich ArcGIS Server applications that integrate with other information technology systems.

Major new features at 1.3 include: comprehensive data linking (with any ADO.NET data source), flexible reporting and print templates with GIU-driven design options, business workflow integration (driven by Windows Workflow Foundation) and fine-grained authorization/security.

"Along with the major new features, this release of Geocortex Essentials represents a turning point because we've gone beyond replicating capabilities towards feature parity with ArcIMS-generation deployments" says Steven Myhill-Jones, President of Latitude Geographics, "we've included capabilities that simply weren't available with the previous generation technology".

Looking ahead, users can expect a release of Geocortex Essentials compatible with ESRI's ArcGIS Server 9.3 shortly after the release of 9.3 by ESRI. Thereafter, Latitude will start leveraging 9.3's additions (e.g. the JavaScript/REST APIs) and other options for overall technology stack performance enhancements.

For more information about Geocortex Essentials, please visit: www.geocortex.com/essentials/

Latitude Geographics announced today that ESRI Korea will resell the firm's Geocortex software products throughout South Korea. These off-the-shelf products enrich ESRI's core web-GIS solutions by adding capabilities, simplifying customization, and streamlining ongoing enterprise deployment.

ESRI Korea is representing both Latitude Geographics' popular ArcIMS-based solutions as well as Latitude's next-generation ArcGIS Server-based technology, including their flagship Geocortex Essentials product for ESRI's .NET Web ADF.

As Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.'s Authorized Distributor for South Korea, ESRI Korea has promoted ESRI GIS technology throughout the country since 1988. Jay Yoon, CEO of ESRI Korea explains that "Geocortex technology provides our customers and services team a rich foundation on which outstanding web-GIS applications can be built quickly and easily-particularly leveraging ESRI's next-generation ArcGIS Server technology."

ESRI Korea is Latitude Geographics' first reseller in the Asia-Pacific region. "ESRI Korea has an excellent reputation and it's clear they possess the expertise and experience to help their customers make the most of ESRI's web-GIS technology", observes Steven Myhill-Jones, President & CEO of Latitude Geographics.

For more information about ESRI Korea, please visit us at www.esrikr.co.kr and/or contact Mr. Jung-ho Jang at info@esrikr.co.kr or +82-2-2025-6700. For more information about Geocortex solutions, visit www.geocortex.com.

About Latitude Geographics

Latitude Geographics Group Ltd., through its Geocortex Internet Mapping division, is in the business of helping people succeed with web-based geography - to enable better decisions about the world around us. Specialists in market-leading ESRI web-GIS technology since 1999, Latitude Geographics simplifies ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server deployment by providing software and services that eliminate inefficiencies in the process of building and maintaining web-based GIS applications. For more information about Latitude Geographics please visit www.latitudegeo.com

About ESRI Korea

As the official distributor of ESRI in Korea, ESRI Korea has greatly contributed to the advancement of the Korean GIS industry since 1988. 300 staff including GIS & IT professionals help customers to think and plan geographically. ESRI software and the solutions based on its technology are the top of market share in the Korean GIS industry. They are used in central governments and their subsidiaries, government-invested corporations, local governments, private companies and educational institutions. Also, ESRI Korea is working tightly together with an affiliated company, Sundosoft, which has business functions in professional services and R&D. For more information about ESRI Korea & Sundosoft, please visit at www.esrikr.co.kr

Registration is underway for the third annual IMF/Geocortex User Conference, which will take place April 20 to April 22nd, 2008 in Victoria, BC. The event is hosted by Latitude Geographics Group Ltd. to provide an intimate opportunity for the IMF/Geocortex user community to learn, share knowledge, and acquire the information required to make informed decisions about the future.

"We've always received great feedback about this event and our pre/post conference workshops," observes Steven Myhill-Jones, President & CEO of Latitude Geographics, "and I think this year will be even better because a major focus will be on smart, correctly-timed transitions to ESRI's next-generation technology-which is a hot topic."

Latitude Geographics is offering three tracks; a session track for developers relatively new to the technology, an advanced developer track, and a coordinator-centric track for less-technical attendees. Emphasis will be on topics related to Internet Mapping Framework for ArcIMS and Geocortex Essentials for ArcGIS Server, but there will be a number of sessions that relate to other topics. In addition to a wide variety of user presentations, the conference includes sessions about maximizing the possibilities of ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server, effective application design, system planning, and hardware/software implementation. More optional pre/post conference workshops have been added to accommodate demand, and parallel content will be offered for Latitude's growing network of third-party resellers and implementers.

On the weekend prior to the two-day conference, Latitude Geographics will provide opportunities for attendees to get acquainted with Victoria and discover the reasons why the city is so popular with international visitors.

To register or find out more about the IMF/Geocortex User Conference, visit: www.geocortex.com/uc

Latitude Geographics announces the availability of Geocortex Essentials 1.2, software that simplifies the process of building enterprise-level applications built on ESRI's ArcGIS Server and Web ADF technologies. Geocortex Essentials includes a powerful development foundation and ready-to-use tools that simplify the process of creating and managing ArcGIS Server applications.

While most other vendors are taking steps to adapt their ArcIMS-generation products to work with ArcGIS Server, Geocortex Essentials has been engineered from the ground-up using ESRI's next-generation ADF technology-which Latitude Geographics considers critical for ensuring customers are on-track for the future.

Geocortex Essentials provides capabilities that dramatically reduce the time and effort it takes to create quality ArcGIS Server applications. Geocortex Essentials 1.2 provides everything you need to jumpstart success with ArcGIS Server 9.2.

In addition to a variety of key tools and features, Geocortex Essentials 1.2 introduces a web and GUI-based Geocortex Essentials Manager for creating and managing ArcGIS Server applications. Geocortex Essentials Manager means you don't have to be a Visual Studio developer to build complete, feature-rich ArcGIS Server applications. Geocortex Essentials Manager provides total control over development and maintenance of real-world .NET ADF applications by leveraging an innovative configuration architecture, which includes the ability to manage template components across departments within an organization.

According to Steven Myhill-Jones, CEO of Latitude Geographics, Geocortex Essentials is much more than just useful tools and features for ArcGIS Server developers. "Our work over the last eighteen months represents the foundation of our vision for a cohesive, complete product that will continually evolve over time to complement ESRI's ongoing technology direction," explains Myhill-Jones, "and I think this product will especially appeal to people that are mindful of their long-term requirements alongside their short-term needs."

For more information about Geocortex Essentials 1.2, register for an upcoming web seminar, or to arrange a free 60-day evaluation, please visit www.geocortex.com.

Reseller agreement paves the way for Geocortex Internet mapping solutions to be deployed throughout the Middle East.

Victoria, British Columbia-Latitude Geographics announced today that GISTEC, ESRI's Distributor in the United Arab Emirates and a highly successful systems integrator, will resell the firm's popular Geocortex Internet mapping solutions in the Middle East.

GISTEC is representing Latitude Geographics' proven ArcIMS-based solutions as well as the firm's next-generation ArcGIS Server-based technology. Geocortex IMF for ArcIMS is the world's leading solution for ArcIMS-based deployments, and Geocortex Essentials is powerful new software that helps organizations successfully leverage ESRI's ArcGIS Server using ESRI's .NET Web ADF.

As ESRI's Distributor in the United Arab Emirates since 1991, GISTEC has a remarkable track record for advancing the use of GIS across the UAE and elsewhere in the Middle East. "Geocortex technology gives our customers a valuable foundation on which significant ESRI-based web-GIS applications can not only be built quickly and easily but also be maintained and kept up to date by the customers without any programming effort," explains Mohamed Abuziad, Managing Director & CEO of GISTEC.

"We're impressed with GISTEC, and it's clear they possess the expertise and experience to help their customers make the most of ESRI's web-GIS technology", explains Steven Myhill-Jones, President & CEO of Latitude Geographics, "and this partnership represents the first of what we expect to be many international distributors of our Geocortex solutions, given that a core focus of our next-generation software development is on internationalization/localization of our product line for distribution and implementation by channel partners."

Initial implementations of Geocortex solutions by GISTEC are currently underway.

For more information about GISTEC, please contact Mohamed Abuziad, +971-6-575 0055 or visit www.gistec.com. For more information about Geocortex solutions, visit www.geocortex.com.

About GISTEC

GISTEC is a professional GIS services company specializing in the development of intelligent, enterprise wide geospatial solutions for clients in a variety of disciplines and industries. Its services include GIS Consulting, Database Services, Geographic Imaging, Applications Development, Server and Web GIS. GISTEC offers its customers the most modern and comprehensive selection of geospatial solutions worldwide. It integrates GIS with traditional IT applications, corporate databases, existing work-flows, and back-end systems in an organization. For more information about GISTEC please visit www.gistec.com

Geocortex Essentials is an out-of-the box application for ESRI's ArcGIS Server that empowers any organization to quickly develop, deploy and manage web-based GIS applications while eliminating considerable ongoing intervention associated with typical starter templates.

Toronto, Ontario-Latitude Geographics announced today that York Region has selected Geocortex Essentials as the foundation technology for six web-based planning decision-support applications and views to be used as a regional atlas for planning and monitoring sustainable development of the region.

Atlas Plus is a GeoConnections-funded project awarded to the York Region, with participation of 9 additional YorkInfo partners comprising nine local municipalities and two conservation authorities.

"Atlas Plus will result in improved service delivery related to planning inquiries, fully leveraging ‘next-generation' web-mapping technology founded on Latitude Geographics' Geocortex Essentials 1.2 and ESRI's ArcGIS Server 9.2 Enterprise Advanced Edition" says York Region's Nancy Prout, Director of Geomatics.

York Region is expected to grow by 567,000 new residents over the next 25 years and development to accommodate this population increase will be constrained by Ontario Provincial Government legislation targeting growth management including Places to Grow, Oak Ridges Moraine, Greenbelt and the Generic Regulations from Conservation Authorities. "Atlas Plus will enhance our existing GIS infrastructure bringing together data through Web Map Services allowing planners and decision-makers to use and share information for sustainable development and integrated planning in the region" adds Nancy Prout.

Underlying Atlas Plus is Geocortex Essentials which will serve as the framework technology for visualization, geoprocessing, data management, reporting and output capabilities to planners and decision-support makers from across the region.

"We are thrilled to be working alongside York Region on this exciting project." says Steven Myhill-Jones, President of Latitude Geographics. "Geocortex Essentials offers York Region everything they need to meet and exceed their web-GIS targets including unparalleled integration with ESRI's ArcGIS Server and ADF, a functionally rich and easy-to-use interface that is both OGC and CGDI compliant and an administrative layer for multi-department management and enterprise control of the web-based views and applications."

"Geocortex Essentials is more than just a template for viewing maps on the web" adds Rob Lenarcic, Latitude Geographics Business Development Manager. "Geocortex Essentials provides a hierarchical framework that will allow York Region administrators to create, manage, and extend multiple web mapping applications from a single deployed instance of Geocortex Essentials. This approach not only assures total flexibility in application design to accommodate future enhancements but will propagate any changes into other York Region applications - saving the region valuable development time and dollars."

For more information on GeoConnections, please visit www.geoconnections.org. For more information about the York Region Atlas Plus project please contact Andrew Satterthwaite, andrew.satterthwaite@york.ca.

Geocortex IMF 5.2 offers a variety of new features and enhancements for organizations to build more powerful, feature rich ArcIMS applications. The modernized user-interface enhances application efficiency and ease-of-use, and developers have greater control over the look-and-feel.

Victoria, British Columbia-Latitude Geographics, in partnership with core IMF development partner Moxi Media Inc., has released Geocortex Internet Mapping Framework (IMF) 5.2. Geocortex IMF is the market leading software for extending the power of ESRI's popular ArcIMS web mapping engine, and version 5.2 provides a variety of new features and tools for customers to continue maximizing the potential of ArcIMS.

"While our development focus is on next-generation products such as Geocortex Essentials for ArcGIS Server and the .NET ADF, Geocortex IMF is at the core of many ArcIMS successful implementations that will be transitioning over time," explains David Stevenson, CTO of Latitude Geographics.

"Geocortex IMF 5.2 contains considerable input from our users" notes Drew Millen, Geocortex IMF Product Manager, "Their ideas and feedback were incorporated into our design, making IMF 5.2 a highly-anticipated release for our customers." In addition to new features and functionality, Geocortex IMF 5.2 also includes a new, modernized user interface that is easy for customers to customize through cascading style sheets.

Geocortex IMF contains a set of powerful tools that make it easy to create superb ArcIMS applications, including built-in capabilities to integrate other information technology systems. Geocortex IMF uses an elegant site configuration approach that delivers unrivalled functionality though a consistent interface-even when deployed from a variety of departments within an organization. Using Geocortex IMF, fully customized ArcIMS applications can be set up quickly, often within a few hours.

Too learn more or test drive Geocortex IMF 5.2 visit: www.geocortex.com/imf

Latitude Geographics announces the availability of Geocortex Essentials 1.1, Service Pack 1. Geocortex Essentials is extension software that jumpstarts the process of building applications built on ESRI's ArcGIS Server 9.2 and ADF technologies. Geocortex Essentials includes a powerful development foundation and ready-to-use tools that simplify the process of creating and managing enterprise ArcGIS Server applications.

Along with revisions and fixes, Service Pack 1 introduces new features that increase the power and usability of Geocortex Essentials. Developers can now easily add custom controls to viewer pages, embed map viewers within external applications, and make available our viewer enhancements to their ArcGIS Server applications.

"When we decided to release a service pack ahead of the next major release, we saw it as a great opportunity to add new functionality that had been fully completed and tested ahead of schedule", explains David Stevenson, CTO at Latitude Geographics, "and these enhancements give developers new tools and processes to accelerate development of true next-generation ArcGIS Server applications."

For more information about Geocortex Essentials or to arrange a free 60-day evaluation, please visit www.geocortex.com/essentials. For more information about ArcGIS Server, visit www.esri.com/arcgisserver

VICTORIA, BC - Engineered from the ground-up as extension software for ESRI's next-generation ArcGIS Server 9.2 and .NET ADF technologies, Latitude Geographics unveiled Geocortex Essentials 1.1 during the plenary session of the 2nd Annual IMF/Geocortex User Conference on April 30, 2007.

"It is clear that organizations are recognizing the value of ESRI's Application Developers Framework, which is ESRI's development foundation for the future," notes David Stevenson, CTO of Latitude Geographics, "so we've invested more than five thousand hours of development to create core tools and streamline the process of building real-world ArcGIS Server applications using the .NET version of Web ADF."

Latitude Geographics is the first web-GIS firm to release a software product to enhance the powerful ADF foundation provided by ESRI. "We expect Geocortex Essentials will appeal primarily to organizations that wish to remain closely aligned with ESRI's ongoing technology direction," continues Stevenson, "As ADF evolves, Geocortex Essentials will grow and expand with it-without having to reinvent the wheel or play catch-up."

Geocortex Essentials provides tools, features, and other enhancements to ESRI's default Web ADF viewer, but also provides powerful site management tools to simplify the process of creating and managing multiple applications.

"Our goal is to make ArcGIS Server as ‘out-of-the-box' as possible for developers and implementers," explains Steven Myhill-Jones, President & CEO of Latitude Geographics, "A Geocortex Essentials license provides an immediate and compelling return on investment, and that value will continually increase as Geocortex Essentials, Web ADF and ArcGIS Server evolve."

For more information about Geocortex Essentials, visit: www.geocortex.com/essentials

The second annual IMF/Geocortex User Conference took place April 30 to May 3, 2007 at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort & Spa in Victoria, BC. Once again, the event was a success, with excellent feedback from attendees.

With guests from the Netherlands to Wisconsin, the sixty-five attendees took in two days of presentations that covered both technical and business related topics. Many attendees also participated in one or more optional pre/post-conference workshops.

Users shared best practices, developers took in in-depth technical sessions, and Latitude Geographics and Moxi Media shared their vision for next-generation web-GIS technology and developing a strategy around ESRI's important 9.2 release.

From a brewpub dinner to whale watching, Latitude Geographics also organized a range of social events that provided an opportunity for attendees to meet, share ideas, and enjoy the charms of Victoria, British Columbia.

Latitude Geographics plans to announce a date/location for the 3rd Annual IMF/Geocortex User Conference in the near future.

VICTORIA, BC - Engineered from the ground-up as an extension to ESRI's ArcGIS Server 9.2 and .NET ADF, Latitude Geographics is proud to announce Geocortex Essentials 1.0. Available now, this next-generation product provides tools and features enabling users to more quickly create web-based applications.

"We originally planned to release Geocortex Essentials 1.0 at the end of March 2007, but clients told us they wanted a first release sooner so they could start building applications with some key functionality not provided as part of ESRI's 9.2 product," explains Drew Millen, Product Manager at Latitude Geographics, "This initial release includes several already completed core tools that clients can leverage immediately"

While licensing Geocortex Essentials 1.0 eliminates the cost and redundancy of recreating several tools, it is the upcoming Geocortex Essentials 1.1 that comprises the complete next-generation release. Geocortex Essentials 1.1 will provide many new tools and features, including an architecture for building and managing .NET ADF applications for ArcGIS Server.

"We have focused our Research and Development on products providing functionality to assist clients with their transitions to ESRI's 9.2 technology," explains Steven Myhill-Jones, President & CEO of Latitude Geographics, "From our work integrating our popular Geocortex IMF with ESRI's next-generation technology to Geocortex Essentials, our objective is to do for ArcGIS Server what we did for ArcIMS-simplify life for our clients."

Prior to the official release of the comprehensive Geocortex Essentials 1.1 product, Latitude Geographics is licensing Geocortex Essentials 1.0 at a reduced cost and licensees will be upgraded to the new release.

For more information about Geocortex Essentials, visit: www.geocortex.com/essentials