GeoFES – New Features

New

• Information- ArcGIS integration (GDI): Load base map online
• Situation management - operational sections: retrieval of relevant dangers/damages/measures via context menu
• Situation management – operational sections: retrieval of unit- and resource tables for selecting the command vehicle
• Situation management – Damage area display: The filter in the table corresponds to the display on the map

Improvements

• GreenInfo – information tool which analyzes upon request, for example areas
• Situation management – the search function for tactical symbols has been extended to include labelling elements and first names
• Situation management – Table of contents display; tactical symbols have been adjusted to the map
• Information – automatic return including a reference to the history when the task is closed
• Map display – themes with restricting displays are greyed out when not selected in QuickTOC

Correction

• Map document – storage space problem has been identified; display query for OSM data has been implemented on LIKE
• Situation management – Problem when the multiple captioning tool doesn‘t retrieve any data
• Situation management – Problem that the date is not correctly set in areas or points of damage
• Situation management – Tactical symbol tables have been revised for improved performance

New

• Localization – Using a table (class) for address search
• GreenInfo – Displays multiple data sets in the register
• Analysis areas – Import of LASAIR files
• Analysis areas – Turning off pattern filling
• Analysis – Supplementation of columns that display overlaps (planes and lines); for example total length, proportional length, length in percent of one hundred
• History – Placement of point in time according to the log book (context menu in one line of the log book).  
• Log book – Display of history related to one particular entry (context menu) in the log book.  
• Log book – copy and paste into Excel.
• Theme display – Reset the theme to standard display.
• Support – Logging and sending error messages is possible
• Operation import – The import tool has been revised using batch file-based archival of operations

Improvements

• Administration – Extended administration of user-specific localization
• Administration – A maximum number of data sets to be analyzed can be administrated
• Operation – Operation numbers can feature up to 10 digits
• Operation – Option to hide operational resources without hiding dangers, damages, and measures
• Operation – In the subtask for administration, operations can be sorted according to alarm date
• Analysis areas – Revision of dialogue in the analysis area task
• Analysis – The number of objects found in the analysis is shown
• Dialogue – Revision of dialogues for checklists and damage areas
• PDF – referring to jump labels in PDF files (checklists/damage areas/link collection)

Correction

• Operation – Key words containing concrete vehicles were not imported correctly
• Operation – Increasing the key word caused only the differing vehicles to be loaded
• Localization – Addresses with missing postal codes led to an error message
• GreenInfo – Difficulties in finding a nearby object using GreenInfo
• Information – WMS services are transparent in the current ArcGIS versions  
• Situation map – The problem that the map display is white after starting GeoFES
• Archive – Collects the documents viewed in tabs and enables sending them together
• PDF – When printing PDF documents, the print dialogue lost focus.

New

• Analyis area – Importing data (.txt files) from the MEMPLEX dispersion model is possible
• Situation management – User-defined display (column separation) in the table Forces & Resources can be administrated
• Localization – Extended search for objects (disjunction)
• Checklists/information – PDF-link documents can contain a search string in the link
• Operation – The new feature for importing operations via XML-interface at any time has been implemented  

Improvements

• Administration – The checking tool for tactical symbols was revised
• Coordinate systems – Data with varying projections can now be used without restriction
• Operation – Umlauts can be used in labelling large-scale emergencies
• Operation – The XML interface for importing control center data has been revised
• Operation – The update function has been completely revised
• Operation – Subtask Administration – Operations are sorted by date and time of alert
• Localization – During an address search, the entire address inventory is shown, sorted by streets (when there is a change in district and/or postal code)
• Information – Operation export is logged in the incident log
• Information – Further adjustments in the incident log entries
• Information – WMS services are transparent in ArcGIS 10.2.2
• Information – Imported data services (WMS, WFS) are entered in QuickTOC and stay there until another map document is loaded or GeoFES is restarted
• Information – Continuous logging in the incident log is enabled when the take-over button is activated (use Tab key!)
• Situation management – Settings for scaling of tactical symbols
• Situation management – The  multiple-labelling tool now features drag-and-drop
• Situation management – Selection information for multiple-label elements has been extended (speech bubble)
• Situation management – Hand card / damage account has been optimized
• Situation management – In operation segments, the overview now shows the number of areas on the map
• Situation management – When automatic placement of tactical symbols from the K&M table is active, a message appears if the current scale does not display all symbols
•  Analysis – Topics that can be analyzed are alphabetically listed in the selection menu
• Analysis – Displays the number of objects found in the analysis
• Analysis – Reference to the maximum number of objects shown in the analysis (administrable!)
• Checklist – Checklists only show the document names, so that these are easier to read
• Checklist – Reduction of map updates when working with checklists
• Help – Smartboard installation is explained in detail in the Help section
• Help – Extensive tool tips in the tool menus
• GreenInfo – Text search optimized

Correction

• Login – Can be done with a Windows password; for users who don‘t have a local profile
• Administration – First name in vehicles and units can be edited in the admin tool
• Administration – Invalid symbols are avoided by generating a new operation keyword
• Coordinate systems – area calcuation with OSM data is now correct (attention: please use current OSM data via download)
• Operation start – Map is updated after launch using ArcMAP 10.2.2, so that the map is no longer white
• Operation – Operation export via email failed in specific circumstances
• Operation – Import tool functions, and several smaller errors were eliminated
• Information – Display of analysis results via incident log is possible even when the document name contains a comma
• Situation management – Revised filters in the K&M overview
• Situation management – Certain tactical symbols have been revised
• Situation management – Drag and drop of vehicles into the K&M table, even if column filters are active
• Situation management – Last editor, field of activity, and time are shown correctly during editing
• Situation management – in the K&M table, only currently open events/operations are shown
• Analysis areas – Hazardous areas can be extended after the selection is shifted
• Analysis – Operating resources can be fully determined in the analysis
• Analysis – Population statistics can be shown with point and line themes again
• Analysis – Sorting analysis results according to distance (administrable!) now works correctly, even when entries contain both meters and kilometer units
• Analysis – Map is updated when an area of analysis is selected
• Archive – PDF situation maps are now additionally listed in the archive
• Situation maps – are now created for linear and area operation sites

New

• Information – WMS and WFS can be appended

Improvement

• Administration – The testing tool for tactical symbols has been improved
• Coordinate system – The EPSG code for ArcGIS 10.2.2 (GDI) has been adapted
• Information – Improved entry in incident log when a vehicle is deregistered

Correction

• Information – Missing entries in incident log (operation sections) have been corrected
• Situation management – The filter error (location) in the Sources and Resources table has been corrected
• MXD – Analysis of layer names with commas are now correctly imported to the incident log
• Localization – Object search with spaces has been corrected