Zoom

Zoom organizes and packages GIS graphics and related attributes and makes the data accessible to a broad audience – not just the GIS-savvy.  Zoom makes it easy to create high quality printed maps and reports.

Zoom is a GIS view and query tool intended for use by casual users.  The training time for Zoom in its simplest form for a user who is already familiar with Windows is typically 15 minutes.

Zoom may be installed on individual Windows PCs or may be served to any PC on a network when installed on a server.

Capabilities

• Provides easy navigation to locations such as addresses, place names, intersections, and infrastructure assets.
• Controls the map contents and display characteristics such as font heights and polygon fill colors, and the inclusion of areal photo backgrounds.
• Creates and uses keymaps.
• Shares map views between users across the enterprise or in specific user groups.
• Imports and exports DXF, Shape, and ESRI personal and SDE geodatabases.
• Imports GPS files from Trimble, Lowrance, DeLorme, Garmin, and Leica.
• Imports and geocodes CSV and text files that contain location descriptions such as addresses and intersections.
• Exports the map view to a variety of image file formats.
• Exports the current map view or an entire feature class to Google’s KML.
• Prints high quality maps and map books.
• Generates buffers and mailing labels for notification.
• Supports simple spatial searches for finding features inside a buffer, user-defined search polygon, an existing polygonal map feature, or the current view extent.  Once selected, the features can be the subject of reports such as mailing labels.
• Runs pre-defined macros (e.g. launch another application like document management with arguments like the current feature).