GEOSPATIAL PORTAL 16.0 EP01
RELEASE NOTES
November 24, 2016
Contents
Contents
About this release: ..................................................................................................................... 3
What’s new in Geospatial Portal 16.0 EP01? ........................................................................... 4
WMS Get URL Length Limit .............................................................................................. 4
Square Buffer in Clip-Zip-Ship........................................................................................... 5
Imperial Feet Units in Scale Bar or Measurements ........................................................... 6
Download with Filter .......................................................................................................... 6
Improvements on Printing Service in Geospatial Portal .................................................... 7
Graphic Style Supported in 3D View ................................................................................. 7
Secured Services can be accessed through ERDAS APOLLO Browse ............................ 7
Full Motion Video Support ................................................................................................. 7
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About this release:
About this release:
This document describes the enhancements for:

Geospatial Portal 16.0 EP01
This document is only an overview and does not provide all of the details about all product's capabilities. See
the online help and other documents provided with Geospatial Portal for more information.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
READ CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START INSTALLATION OF THIS PATCH
It is required that Hexagon Geospatial Platform Suite and Provider Suite products installed on this server have the same
release and patch version. Before you start installation, please go through the following steps to facilitate the server update
process:
1)
2)
3)
Verify the products installed on the server
Check if the product installation/upgrade concerns two or more of the following products:

Platform Suite: GeoMedia WebMap, Geospatial SDI, Geospatial Portal
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Provider Suite: ERDAS APOLLO
Make sure that for the products detected in point (2) there are compatible patches available.
Make sure all products detected in point (2) are upgraded to the compatible patch before you initiate instance upgrade
procedure. In case some of the products do not provide a compatible patch do not proceed with the installation.
Additionally IIS URL authentication system feature is required to be installed before installing Geospatial Portal EP01
patch or later.
Please contact Support in case of any questions regarding compatibility of products and patches
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What’s new in Geospatial Portal 16.0 EP01?
What’s new in Geospatial Portal 16.0 EP01?
WMS Get URL Length Limit
It is possible to change the maximum length of an URL that Geospatial Portal sends to the WMS when
requesting the data using GET method.
In the Geospatial Portal, the length of WMS GET request (does not apply to POST requests) can be changed
using the wmsUrlLengthLimit parameter. The parameter wmsUrlLengthLimit is available in
<WMSDisplaying> element of portal's Web.config file. Default value is set to 2000 (as some browsers may
not handle longer requests) and the possible range is 2000 : 32000
If SLD_BODY attribute is added to the WMS request and (because of it) length of URL is greater than set in
parameter wmsUrlLengthLimit, then this SLD_BODY is extracted and shorter URL is sent to WMS server. In
such case layer(s) will be displayed in a "default" style.
The WMS must be tailored to support increased ULR length it can receive.
To Configure WMS on the GeoMedia WebMap server side to increase length of URL it can receive:
1. Open Registry Editor on the WMS service host machine.
2. Go to the following
key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parameters
3. Add new registry values:
 "MaxFieldLength"=dword:0000fffe
 "MaxRequestBytes"=dword:01000000
To add new registry values:
a. From Registry Editor menu click Edit > New >DWORD (32-bit) Value
b. Close Registry Editor.
4. Edit Web.config file for WMS service instance.
5. Change or insert the keys like below:
<system.web>
<httpRuntime maxUrlLength="65535" maxQueryStringLength="2097151" />
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<requestLimits maxUrl="65535" maxQueryString="65535"
maxAllowedContentLength="1073741824">
<headerLimits><add header="Content-type" sizeLimit="65535"
/></headerLimits>
</requestLimits>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
All these allows the portal to send a GET request of specified length although the POST method is
recommended.
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What’s new in Geospatial Portal 16.0 EP01?
Square Buffer in Clip-Zip-Ship
When performing the clip-zip-ship operations in Geospatial Portal the part of an image that is to be processed
can be specified by drawn geometry or other features selected on the map. For those two methods - Draw on
the map and Select feature from the map - the buffer can be set for point geometry.
Now it can be either a Circle or Square buffer around the selected point. The Value field defines a radius for a
circle buffer or a width/height value for a square buffer, For example, a buffer value of 2km for a selected point
location will result in either a 4km diameter circle or a 2x2km square, depending on the buffer type selected.
Default type of buffer for point geometries is Circle (round) but this can changed in the portal Web.config file.
To change default buffer type:
1. Edit Web.config file for Geospatial Portal.
2. Go to the <webclient> section.
3. Type the "square" value for the parameter bufferType to set the square buffer as a
default buffer type in portal.
<clipZipShip bufferType="square" />
OR
Type the "round" value for the parameter bufferType to set the circle buffer as a
default buffer type.
<clipZipShip bufferType="round" />
4. Save changes in Web.config file and reload the Geospatial Portal.
The Clip-Zip-Ship functionality is available in Apollo.aspx and ApolloPro.aspx layouts.
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What’s new in Geospatial Portal 16.0 EP01?
Imperial Feet Units in Scale Bar or Measurements
When imperial system of measurement is applied in Geospatial Portal, the feet units can be used.
The enabledUnits parameter in Geospatial Portal Web.config file indicates what units should be available
when doing measurements. Measurements will use available unit in which values can be expressed as greater
than 1. Now available units are: "m, km, ft, yd, mi, m2, km2, ft2, yd2, mi2, are, ha, acre". Base units that
cannot be disabled are m, m2 and yd, yd2 for metric and imperial unit system respectively. If units ft, ft2 are
defined they are used instead of yd, yd2. Yards are used as default (for imperial units) and can be overwritten
by feet.
Sample where ft and ft2 units are defined instead of yd an yd2:
<ui dblClickTimeout="400" settingsRequireConfirmation="false"
systemOfMeasurement="imperial" enabledUnits="m, km, ft, mi, m2, km2, ft2, mi2,
are, ha, acre">
Download with Filter
Starting with version 16.00.0100 of Geospatial Portal, users can perform Clip-Zip-Ship operation such as
before or use a simplified procedure called Download with Filter. Two new radio buttons – Clip and
Download – are available on the Clip-Zip-Ship Common options tab. Clip option enables controls on
Common options and Coverage options tabs that are used to perform Clip-Zip-Ship operation. If Download
option is selected only controls for download with filter operation are available (on Common options tab). The
Coverage options tab is disabled then. Possible geometry filters are: Only in visible map area, Draw on the
map and Select feature from the map.
Clip and Download controls are available out of the box and does not require any additional configuration on
the server side. The Clip-Zip-Ship functionality is available in Apollo.aspx and ApolloPro.aspx layouts.
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What’s new in Geospatial Portal 16.0 EP01?
Improvements on Printing Service in Geospatial Portal
The mechanism for calculating tile ranges of the map view range was improved so now map printouts
requested at different DPI maintain aspect ratio and map scale. True map scale is always displayed on the
printout. The print quality was also improved.
Graphic Style Supported in 3D View
Now Geospatial Portal supports graphic style for point features in both: 3D and 2D view mode. This feature
enhancement doesn’t require any configuration on the portal’s server side.
Secured Services can be accessed through ERDAS APOLLO
Browse
Now ERDAS APOLLO users can add to the legend data from secured service through a browse of the ERDAS
APOLLO catalogue control. When adding secured data to the legend users will be prompted to enter username
and password if required.
Full Motion Video Support
ERDAS APOLLO introduces Full Motion Video support within patch EP01. This new ERDAS APOLLO feature
requires the ERDAS APOLLO Catalogue in version 16.01 for proper work and may cause issues when older
catalogue version is registered.
In order to maintain backward compatibility with ERDAS APOLLO Catalogue prior to 16.01 the
apolloFullMotionVideoSupport flag with false value must be added into Portal’s configuration. This setting
disables the Full Motion Video Support (enabled by default).
In order to disable the Full Motion Video Support ERDAS APOLLO feature in Portal:
1. Edit Web.config file for Portal.
2. Add the apolloFullMotionVideoBSupport="false" entry in <webclient> section.
3. Save Web.config file.
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