GeoFES – New Features

GeoFES 4.5.2

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

GeoFES 4.5.1.0.150728

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.

GeoFES 4.4.0.0.150126

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

GeoFES 4.4.0.0.1024

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

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