GIS and Multi-Touch Surfaces

September 15, 2010 -- Most GIS applications used by utility companies are single user and runs on a regular PC. This makes paper based maps still a convenient alternative owing to its large size and ease of use in team collaboration scenarios. With the advent of Surface Computing technologies, the GIS data can now be viewed on a multi-touch surface. Multi-touch surfaces facilitates multi-user interaction and thus combines the benefits of GIS systems and paper maps. TRLabs has innovated a surface computing platform that is built on top of ArcGIS and Microsoft Silverlight/WPF with concurrency and convenience of use in mind.