Direct Import API

The Direct Import SDK provides a way of loading geospatial data at runtime in a performant, scalable way. More...

Detailed Description

The Direct Import SDK provides a way of loading geospatial data at runtime in a performant, scalable way.

The approach potentially does away with the need to load and pre-process data with MapLink Studio.

The data is loaded and processed using the concept of a processing pipeline with the ability to use as many threads as possible.

The SDK is capable of loading large shapefile and raster data within seconds depending on how the processing and scale bands have been setup.

Once the data has been processed the processed data can be saved for subsequent loading (TBC).

The vector processing has the concepts of Feature sub-classing and masking as well as the ability to read a simplified SLD file (with vendor extensions).

Care still needs to be taken to ensure that the data display scale is considered carefully to ensure that GIS data is not displayed at the incorrect scale or too much information is displayed at the wrong scale.

Either of these two issues can cause performance problems regardless of how the data is processed and displayed.

Platforms: Windows, Linux

Module: Direct Import SDK

See MapLink Pro C++ Modules for library files required to use this module.

Classes
class	TSLDirectImportDataLayer
class	TSLDirectImportDataLayerAnalysisCallbacks
class	TSLDirectImportDataLayerCallbacks
class	TSLDirectImportDataSet
class	TSLDirectImportDataSetMultiLevelRaster
class	TSLDirectImportDataSetRaster
class	TSLDirectImportDataSetVector
class	TSLDirectImportDriver
class	TSLDirectImportRaster
class	TSLDirectImportRasterSettings
class	TSLDirectImportScaleBand
class	TSLDirectImportVectorSettings