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W. Mayer, B. Aigner 
PROGIS Software GmbH, GIS Development, Postgasse 6, 9500, Villach, Austria 
KEY WORDS: Agriculture, Cartography, GIS, Geography, Development, GPS/INS, Orthoimage 
ABSTRACT: 
PROGIS enables ICT developers to link the GIS software WinGIS, in combination with the embedded Bing Maps module to any 
database application based on the ActiveX developer component AXWinGIS. WinGIS provides a wide range of GIS functionalities, 
modules (thematic maps, ISO module, GPS modules, geocoding module) and interfaces (import / export / GPS). This is a worldwide 
unique solution, bringing together the advantages of an easy to use, cost efficient and versatile GIS software - WinGIS - and the 
outstanding potential of Microsoft (database) products and online services like Bing Maps. 
1. WINGIS - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION 
SYSTEM 
WinGIS is an easy to use, easy to leam, powerful and cost 
efficient GIS software with extensive geographic application 
possibilities and facilities. Due to the integration of the online 
map data of Microsoft Bing Maps as „embedded Module“, 
the access to worldwide available geographic data like 
satellite and aerial images, road maps and address databases 
is already part of the software package. By using the ActiveX 
developer component, application developers have the 
possibility to link their application very easy with WinGIS in 
order to visualize, edit and administrate any data with a 
geographic relation. 
2. MICROSOFT BING MAPS 
Microsoft Bing Maps provides worldwide in high quality and 
continuous expanding online map data such as satellite and 
aerial images, road maps and extensive address databses 
(geocoding). The access to these geo data is integrated in 
WinGIS as a module and works transaction based. The access 
to the map data of Microsoft Bing Maps occurs online and 
transaction based (1 transaction = 8 image tiles with 256x256 
pixels). To activate the access to Bing Maps you order a 
number of transactions to get your personal Bing Maps 
account (login data). Image tiles which are were already 
loaded keeps stored for 24 hours on the harddisk (cache). 
Therefor the online access and the transaction counting is 
limited to new image tiles only. Bing Maps provides 
continuous expanding and worldwide available map data like 
satellite images, im wide areas available aerial images with a 
resolution up to 30cm (e.g. in Europe, North America and 
also most of the urban regions worldwide), road maps and 
hybrid maps (aerial images with labels and overlayed road 
map). 
The extensive Bing Maps online address database enables the 
WinGIS integrated Geocoder module to convert an address 
information (e.g. city, street, street number) to the 
corresponding coordinate (address search). The Bing Maps 
DB-Geocoder module converts addresses of entire database 
tables to the corresponding coordinates. After selection of the 
database (e.g. MS Access mdb file), the table and the query 
fields (e.g. street, city, country), for every record an online 
transaction converts the address to a coordinate and adds X 
and Y fields to the table. Therefore you get an easy and 
efficient possibility to locate and visualize your personal 
database content (e.g. customer databases). 
3. AXWINGIS - DEVELOPER COMPONENT 
The ActiveX component AXWinGIS enables the 
communication between an application and WinGIS. The 
whole function set and every menu entry can be called 
directly from the application. The communication works 
bidirectional. Events in WinGIS (e.g. the selection of an area) 
are sent to the application and can be related to the 
corresponding database entries (attribute information).