ThinkGeo UI 14.2 Released
We're excited to announce the official release of ThinkGeo UI 14.2! This latest update brings new enhancements, performance boosts, and bug fixes that elevate your GIS development experience. With upgraded GDAL support, improved WMTS capabilities, and an enhanced GridFeatureLayer, we've fine-tuned our platform to help you build even more powerful and efficient geospatial applications.
ThinkGeo UI 14.2 also introduces new support for MAUI events and AdornmentOverlays, expanding your toolkit for creating dynamic and interactive mobile solutions.
Read more about the release highlights below. For a detailed look at all the updates and improvements, check out the full changelogs:
MAUI Adornment Overlays
The 14.2 release introduces formal support for Adornment Overlays in MAUI. To learn more about using the AdornmentOverlay to add a legend to your MAUI map, have a look at this blog post.
Stay tuned for future blog posts where we’ll explore how to use other adornments on your mobile applications.
GeoPackage Support
The 14.2 release also finalizes support for GeoPackage (.gpkg) files. The GeoPackage file format is an open specification defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and has seen widespread support from various government, commercial, and open source organizations.
Check out this post to learn more about adding your GeoPackage files to your Desktop and Web applications.
Upgraded GDAL Support
The 14.2 release introduces a significant upgrade to the ThinkGeo.Gdal package, now using GDAL v3.9.1 on both Windows and Linux. This update enhances many of our GDAL-based file formats, including GeoTIFF, GeoPDF, MrSID, ECW, and GeoPackages, providing better compatibility with newer file format versions.
New Features, Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes
The 14.2 release also has many new features, performance enhancements and bug fixes. For example, the WMTSLayer now auto-detects the server type (RESTful or KVP). And the GridFeatureLayer has been updated with a new Weight property on the GridCell. And there is also enhanced support for sparse matrices in InMemoryGridFeatureSource
Performance enhancements can be found on tile caching, MAUI Web-Based Overlays, and enhanced animations on WPF.
We’ve also included several bug fixes and stability improvements in this release. We want to thank our users for reporting issues on the community forums and helpdesk.
We Welcome Your Feedback
If you have any questions or if you have a topic you would like to learn more about, please email sales@thinkgeo.com or schedule a meeting to talk in person.
Start your evaluation today and stay tuned for future posts where we dive into other real-world examples that can be used in your own projects.
About ThinkGeo
We are a GIS software company founded in 2004 and located in Frisco, TX. Our clients are in more than 40 industries including agriculture, energy, transportation, government, engineering, IT, and defense.
We pride ourselves on our excellent service and transparency. ThinkGeo offers a variety of products and services to meet almost any GIS application need. We can even help you develop your next project - anywhere from a few hours of consulting to outsourcing an entire project. To learn more, email us at sales@thinkgeo.com, or call us direct at 1-214-449-0330.
