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The first Geocortex user group

September 15th, 2008 by Darin

Our customers and partners have long asked us to kickstart Geocortex user groups where there were a concentration of users around them. A combination of busyness (building the technology) and platform penetration have hindered this before, but no longer…

We (and more importantly, our users) are pleased to announce the first Geocortex user group – California. The Golden State is home to the largest pool of Geocortex users anywhere, and based on ongoing interest, its time to bring them together.

Our first meeting is scheduled for Thursday October 16, 2008 in Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County has generously offered to host this event. So far, our draft agenda includes introductions, a “Geocortex Technology Update” section (courtesy of me!), user presentations, Q&A and more.

If you’re a customer or partner and think you should be home to user group #2, contact your account manager!

For more information about the California User Group, please contact me. Hope to see you there.

New Webinars Scheduled

January 14th, 2008 by Darin

We put together a number of webinars for the launch of Geocortex IMF 5.2 a little while ago, and got some great feedback from clients. So, we’ve added a few more and hope to offer them on a recurring basis. Topics vary from new products to new releases to technology we feel clients and prospective customers should keep their eyes on. Check out our Learning and Education page for more information and to sign up.

New year, new logo

January 1st, 2008 by Steven Myhill-Jones

On Tuesday, we rang in the new year with a soft launch of our new Geocortex logo on the websites.

old_geocortexBecause of the hassle and expense associated with the switch, we’ve put it off for a long time despite the fact the old logo (at right) looks like something a graphic design-challenged entrepreneur might have hacked together in his old Fort Street apartment circa October 1999 using a student license of CorelDraw 8 (and that observation would be as correct as it is specific).

I suspect that nobody really notices a decent logo, but they do notice an amateurish logo. With the help of our qualified graphic design staff, I think the new version better fits the Latitude Geographics of 2008. I’m still wondering if we should’ve dropped the Internet Mapping part, given that the term doesn’t adequately capture what we do (web-based Geographic Information Systems for non-specialist users is on the long/inaccessible side). Oh well.

2008 IMF/Geocortex User Conference Registration Opens

December 18th, 2007 by Darin

Registration for the 3rd Annual IMF/Geocortex User Conference, April 20-22nd, 2008 in Victoria, BC, is now open! To learn more and to register, head over to our user conference homepage at www.geocortex.com/uc

We look to improve our conference experience every year, and our 2008 conference is no exception. We sold out our workshops very early last year, and as a result, we’ve added additional seats this time around. Our workshops will be on the University of Victoria campus this year, and I’m told we may have a double-decker bus (which are seen regularly around town) in the works for the short shuttle up to campus! Since we’d have the bus for the day, we’re also considering combining the shuttle trip with some sightseeing for those not attending the workshops – contact us if you’re interested.

We hope to see you in Victoria in April ’08!

Geocortex IMF 5.2 Released

October 24th, 2007 by Drew Millen

We’re not sending out the press release until Monday, but Geocortex IMF 5.2 is now available. We haven’t done the launch on the main product page yet, but the main demonstration site on our Map Gallery is now running 5.2. I have attached the Geocortex IMF and Site Manager release notes to this post.

We’ve been working on 5.2 for a while now with Moxi. In addition to some new features (e.g. dynamic CSS support and updated UI, configurable WMS layer transparency, built-in drop-down tab support), it rolls up lots of great little client suggestions and tweaks.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Geocortex Editing Suite 5.3 Released

September 27th, 2007 by Drew Millen

A few weeks ago I mentioned that our products team was working away on a couple of projects including Geocortex Editing Suite. Yesterday we cut and released Editing Suite 5.3. This release represents a significant development effort and introduces a few cool new features including:

  • Base-data editing allows editors to commit changes against the base data layer (of course, version-based editing is still supported in Editing Suite)
  • Quality Assurance / Quality Control (QA/QC) workflows allow editors to create editing “projects” which persist across sessions and remain locked (restricted from other editors) until they are approved or rejected by a system or data administrator
  • Feature-based locking restricts more than one user from selecting a single feature for editing at any given time

A public link to the Geocortex Editing Suite 5.3 demonstration site is available from our Map Gallery. When logging in to Editing Suite, use the username/password: edit1/edit1.

Geocortex IMF Update

August 23rd, 2007 by Drew Millen

I thought I’d give a quick update on Geocortex IMF-related product releases.

We’re coding away for a 5.2 release of Geocortex IMF, scheduled for late September/early October. This is a minor release in the IMF 5.x line; separate from the IMF 6.0 project which Moxi is still working on. We’ve also got a new version of Editing Suite for Geocortex IMF coming in September.

Stay tuned for more updates.