DbGIS dev offers all the functionality of Abaco's DbCAD dev:
- Supports AutoCAD® DWG/DXF file formats.
- Supports ESRI® SHP file formats.
- Supports MicroStation® DGN file formats.
- Supports TIFF, JPG, BMP, and other raster file formats.
- Displays drawings, maps, and images, simultaneously and with unlimited dimensions.
- Supports several graphical windows simultaneously · Offers overview, pan, and zoom commands.
- Creates, imports, selects, and edits any vectorial entity in standard database formats.
- Supports dBase III, Access® MDB, etc.
- Links vectorial entities with external data bases, such as MS SQL, ORACLE, etc.
- Dynamically manages objects (GPS).
In addition to these features, DbGIS dev is the expansion towards the functions of the most advanced SIT/GIS applications, and the enhancement of applications already written with DbCAD dev:
- Supports GeoTIFF 24bit file formats (excluding LZW compression).
- Boolean operations between polygons.
- Spatial analysis.
- Raster tassellation.
- Raster transparency.
- Includes SHP* driver (supports ESRI® Spatial Database Engine and allows storing, querying, and management of all geo-spatial data).
- Includes MrSID* driver (supports geo-referenced files, such as MrSID® files by LizardTech®).
- Includes ECW* driver (supports wavelet files in geo-referenced format, such as ECW files by Earth Resource Mapping).