In KB "Panorama" the digital geographic map of scale 1: 1 000 000 in SITZ format onto territory of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has been prepared. As a source for preparation of the map the VMap0 data obtained from the information from the site www.gis-lab.info has served. The map contain information on the number of inhabitants for cities and the name of settlements in Russian. As additional materials the World map of scale 1: 5 000 000 and OpenStreetMap data were used.

The map was led to the classifier of geographic maps of scale 1: 1 000 000 (1mogk13g.rsc). It can be used for a general assessment of the area and the study of natural conditions, to ensure the educational process, as a basis for the creation of geographic maps of a smaller scale, thematic and special maps, and solving other tasks. The map is distributed free of charge under a free license.

Digital geographic maps of scale 1: 1 000 000 in SITZ format are available for download on the page "Digital maps".

In KB the Panorama the GIS "MapView" version 1.1 for Android OS has been developed. In the new version a connection to popular geoportals of spatial data (OpenStreetMap, Yandex, KB "Panorama" and others) is implemented. This provides the user with the ability to use a wide range of cartographic substrates when working with the mobile application. To the selected geoportals any geospatial data in the GIS "Panorama" format (multisheet and user maps, rasters and matrixes) can be added. Connecting geoportals allows you to receive cartographic information anywhere in the world when determining the current location and record of the route from the built-in GPS/GLONASS receiver. The list of supported geoportals corresponds to the desktop version of GIS "Panorama", which makes it possible to prepare a set of spatial data for display in desktop versions of products (GIS "Panorama", "Panorama-Editor", GIS Panorama Mini), and to use it when working in a mobile GIS " Mapview".

In the new version of the application a supporting for the classifier of maps of agricultural purpose agro10t.rsc has been implemented. It is intended for creation of multilayered digital maps in agriculture and their applications in management of the agricultural enterprise. The classifier can be used to create map-schemes of agricultural land, maintain passports of fields, operational agrochemical monitoring of fields, thematic mapping for various categories and indicators, generate maps for managing transport and agricultural machinery of an enterprise, and solve transport logistics problems.

The structure of the user interface has been redesigned for the convenience of working with the application. To increase usable space when working with the map, the main menu of the application is implemented as a hidden component. For operational work, the main controls by the application are placed on top of the map displaying (main menu, data list, zoom, geolocation). The process of displaying data has been optimized by using background threads of the operating system. This increases the responsiveness of the application when the user performs typical operations when working with a mobile application.

The toolkit for developing your own applications the GIS Constructor for Android has been updated. For the convenience of developing and debugging GIS applications, MAPAPI libraries for the x86-64 architecture have been added. A developer can write his application using an emulator, check its operability and then transfer the already developed application to a full-fledged Android device with a minimum of changes in the source code of the program.

GIS "MapView" allows you to open the main formats of digital maps of the GIS "Panorama" on Android-based mobile devices and process the information from the built-in GPS/GLONASS receiver. The user can prepare in advance a necessary set of the spatial data in one of desktop products (GIS "Panorama", Panorama-Editor, GIS Panorama Mini), pack them into archive of ZIP format by standard tools and to transfer into mobile GIS "MapView". The process of working with data is carried out offline, without connecting to the Internet. When the user moves, his current position is dynamically displayed according to the coordinates received from the GPS/GLONASS receiver. For ease of use, it is possible to synchronize the position of the map with the current location. To save the coordinates obtained during the movement, a track recording mode is provided, which creates a separate map and puts the trajectory of movement onto it. For all objects of a map during the work the basic information is provided.

The source code of the GIS "MapView" for Android OS is included in the software product the GIS Constructor for Android and can be taken as a basis for creating your own mobile application in the Kotlin programming language. GIS "MapView" uses the MAPAPI programming interface, which implements ample opportunities for performing calculations, providing display of spatial data in standard and user systems of conventional symbols. The MAPAPI programming interface is accessed via the Java Native Interface (JNI) programming interface. The JNI programming interface allows accessing MAPAPI libraries implemented in C/C++ from the Java/Kotlin language. An example of the implementation of this interface is included into composition of GIS Constructor for Android.

The new version of the program is available for download in the Download section.

In KB "Panorama" the GIS "Panorama" version 14.2.2 has been developed for OS "Astra Linux Special Edition" (Release "Smolensk") and OS "Alto 8 SP" (architecture x86-64). The new version expands the possibilities for creating, updating and analyzing digital terrain models by including Python scripts into the software. Scripts can be preliminary prepared in a text editor which is a part of an operating system, and then are started by using the task from the GIS "Panorama" Because the Python scripting programming language has a large set of connected modules, the user receives an easy-to-use and extensive auxiliary toolkit (mathematical calculations, processing of text and graphic data, work with a network and another).

Start of Python scripts is accessible from separate tab of the "Run application" dialog. The script tree initially contains a basic set of scripts for demonstrating the execution of various procedures for processing coordinates and attributes of vector map objects, solving the computational problems, converting data and other tasks. To connect his own tasks, the user can create his own themes and fill them with the necessary set of scripts. For the convenience of the user, the creation of a new script and its editing can be performed directly from the dialog.

When writing scripts, several thousand GIS core functions (MAPAPI) are available. Function prototypes are declared as imported Python scripts from the folder /var/Panorama/Panorama14/py_mapapi14. The function called from the script performs some autonomous action or uses the selected objects on the map. To enter additional data processing parameters, both GIS dialogs and dialogs written on the basis of a standard Tkinter component can be called. Scripts indicate the progress of data processing by indicating the name of the processing stage and the percentage of completion in the main application window. By results of the analysis and processing the objects of a vector map can be selected and used for the further processing in a chain of executed scripts or interactive application tools.

Support of the classifier of maps of agricultural purpose agro10t.rsc has been implemented. It is intended for creation of multilayered digital maps in agriculture and their applications in management of the agricultural enterprise. The classifier can be used to create map-schemes of agricultural land, maintain passports of fields, operational agrochemical monitoring of fields, thematic mapping for various categories and indicators, generate maps for managing transport and agricultural machinery of an enterprise, and solve transport logistics problems.

The S57navy digital classifier of sea maps and the procedure for importing digital maps of the S57 standard have been improved to increase the degree of compliance of the displayed maps with the S52 standard. Data exchange protocols with the GIS Server have been optimized. Due to the optimization, the stability of the connection was improved, the process of addition of objects to data was accelerated, and the amount of transmitted data was reduced.

GIS "Panorama" - universal domestic geoinformation system for power structures. The program is designed for accumulation, storage, the automated processing and display of data, calculation results and forecasts with geospatial reference. GIS "Panorama contains tools of displaying and processing vector, raster and matrix maps. The application provides users with tools for solving specialized tasks of modeling the movement of special objects against the background of 3D model, forecasting of consequences of emergencies at hazardous objects, monitoring of aircraft movement, conducting of geodetic and topographic work, processing the data from GPS/GLONASS navigation devices, printing the displayed spatial data to various output devices and many others.

The new version of the program is available for download in the Download section.

In KB "Panorama" the GIS ToolKit version 14.3.2 has been developed for creating GIS-applications. In the new version the possibilities of applying user semantics have been expanded for recording arbitrary object properties which are not described in the list of semantics of RSC classifier.

User semantics are created when importing vector data (SHP, KML, MIF and others), when the field names (keys) of object attributes are not found in the selected RSC classifier. To support such semantics, temporary semantics are created in the RSC classifier in the range of codes 660000 and higher for the duration of a GIS session. Semantics name is filled by name of field in the source vector data. This provides work with user-defined semantics and semantics from RSC in a common list in various tasks. When simultaneous opening several maps with one classifier, the list of temporary semantics will be supplemented with user semantics from all maps. When opening different combinations of maps, temporary codes in different sessions may have different values. When exporting vector maps to SXF and TXF files, user semantics is written with code 32862 and data record of the form "field_name:value". When imported, such semantics are transfered back into temporary semantics with the addition of new code to RSC. On the map, semantics are written with codes in the range from 60000 and above. The correspondence between the semantics code on the map and the field name is stored in the map metadata. When opening a map by the list of field names of user semantics, temporal semantics are automatically added into RSC.

The GIS ToolKit consists of a set of visual components (supplied in source code) and API functions of the GIS core for direct access to spatial data. The toolkit is designed to develop client-server and desktop 32-bit and 64-bit applications that require processing and visualization of spatial data. Spatial data can be located both at the workplace (direct access to data), and in a local network or the Internet (access components to the GIS Server or data exchange using international protocols are used).

The new version of the program is available for download on the Download page.

In KB "Panorama" the GIS Panorama Mini version 14.3.3 has been developed. In the new version, the possibilities of the GIS for providing a request of information about areas from the Rosreestr geoportal are expanded, the use of arbitrary user attributes of objects of vector maps is improved, and the tools for displaying S57/S52 sea maps are refined.

The task of connecting geoportals has been improved. When connecting the Cadastral quarters layer, Rosreestr's geoportal requests data from a more accurate level, taking into account the presence of tiles. On the layer of Cadastral plots a possibility has been added for viewing information about plots by means of the button on the main panel the "Viewing the information on object". When connecting geoportals with a slow speed of issuing tiles, the periodic drawing of data on the screen in a background mode is carried out to improve image perception. For accurate alignment of the contours of terrain objects on images of pictures, vector maps and geoportals with an accuracy up to mm, a dialog for setting the geoportal offset has been added. The dialog is called by the right mouse button in the list of geoportals. To ensure the readability of tiles from geoportals on smartphones and tablets with high resolution, the image is automatically scaled to the standard resolution of the original tiles (96 dpi) with the adjustment of the image scale and the determined coordinates of points.

The task "Map Legend" has been improved. On the "Maps", "Rasters", "Matrixes", "Models" bookmarks, an information sign "(!)" is set if the coordinate system of the added data does not match the current coordinate system of the main document. On the "Maps" bookmark, an updating the content of the classifier tree has been improved when changing the contents of vector map objects. For example, if the filter "Objects available on the map" is set in the "Map legend", when an object is placed onto the map that is not part of the tree, the legend will be automatically rebuilt. In the "Map Legend" and "Data List" tasks, the updating of visibility of maps, rasters, matrixes and geoportals is synchronized.

For rasters imported in the "Do not copy the input image to RSW file" mode, support for channel color depth of 32 and 64 bits has been added. To convert the color to 8 bits, the minimum and maximum values determined by the reduced image are used during display. Single-channel rasters with real pixel encoding, which are usually used to store matrix height data, are displayed in grayscale.

The "Latest commands" item has been added into the context menu, which contains a list of the latest executed commands in various tasks. For immediately calling a list of latest commands, use the combination of the Shift key and the right mouse button.

The "Selection by an arbitrary area" mode has been improved. There is added an automatic starting the mode with the following combinations: drawing points in the form of a polygon by pressing the middle mouse button (MMB); pressing Shift and MMB - in the form of a rectangular area; outline the selected area by holding down MMB.

The S57navy.rsc digital classifier of sea maps and the procedure for importing digital maps of the S57 standard have been improved to increase the degree of compliance of the displayed maps with the S52 standard.

The new version of the program is available for download in the Download section.