Introducing enlighten Version 5.0

Introduction

As a commercial-off-the-shelf product, enlighten delivers a wealth of functionality from day one. The improved productivity, enhanced decision making, rapid deployment and expert commercial support are all factors that add up to enlighten being an excellent business decision.

 

With Open Spatial enlighten, there is no need for programming knowledge or specialized software. The database-driven spatial analysis is accomplished through a web-browser, eliminating reliance on client-side software, reducing the cost of ownership and the need for on-going support, frequent upgrades and costly maintenance.

 

What's New in Enlighten 5.0

Enlighten 5.0 sees the transition from an AJAX framework to a modern React framework, which in essence, is a JavaScript library used to build user interfaces by creating individual re-usable components and combining them into a single application. The React viewer facilitates access to the map window in either Fusion or Ajax styles without the end user having to re-author the map styles. The React library is well supported and maintained by the Open Source community and allows developers to easily compartmentalize different parts of an interface without fear of interfering with other components. React has plenty of longevity and a huge ecosystem which provides stability and staying power.

 

Enlighten 5.0 has adopted Google Layout and Google Material Design in terms of user interface and provides a modern look and feel. The toolbars and menu icons follow the Material Design interface creating a uniform experience across the enlighten application based on a well supported framework. Changes to the Technology stack have been brought into line with the latest technology trends.

 

The User Interface has been refreshed with a clean, modern and logical layout maximizing the use of functions whilst retaining the maximum map area available in the browser. By utilizing the latest rendering engine, performance has significantly improved and retains Enlightens unique ability to update vector and attribute data in real-time. The addition of XYZ vector tile set support and improved WMS/WMTS functionality, provides the user with significant flexibility to consume pre-tiled data and third party tile services.

 

Access to detailed asset and geographic information has been significantly improved through the advanced form, renamed as the Show Info form, enabling the user to visualize the selected rows on the map. This provides the ability to scroll through the selections and spatially visualize the individual elements. The user is now able to scroll through previous selection sets whilst in the advanced forms. The Basic Form has been redesigned and allows quick access to basic asset and Geographic information.

 

Enlighten 5.0 now supports the ability to create thematic mapping, providing superior representation of Geographic Information for use in analytics. Tooltips has been improved, providing the user a convenient way to visualize feature attributes, simply by a mouse over event. Tooltips continues the support of images to visualize assets quickly and further supports a direct link to the Show Info form providing a quick and easy way to interrogate associated attribution.