SuperMap iDesktopX New Features

Historical Versions New Features

SuperMap iDesktopX 2025

Version: 12.0.0.0, Release Date: June 2025

Data Management

  • Added Subtype Management feature, supporting classification of objects into subsets based on common attributes for unified and standardized management, helping maintain data consistency and norms, prevent data entry errors, and improve data quality.
  • Added Attachment Management feature, supporting adding multiple files such as images, videos, tables, and documents to geographic objects, enabling association management between non-spatial and spatial data.
  • Added XUGU DBdatabase workspace.
  • Added support for image data with eight-bit signed pixel values.
  • Vector Dataset now supports creation, viewing, and editing of M values, enabling precise association between linear referencing systems and spatial data by extending dynamic measurement attributes (such as mileage, time, pressure, etc.). Applicable only to PostGIS data sources.
  • Added LAS Dataset, achieving lightweight management by storing LAS file index paths, allowing quick access and unified management of massive point cloud data without importing the original point cloud data.
  • Added more than 5,000 coordinate systems for global regions to facilitate management of regional spatial data.
  • DMSpatial and XUGU data sources now include raster, mosaic, CAD, and text dataset types, supporting parameterized object storage, dataset groups, subtypes, domains, attachment management, and pyramid functions.
  • Supports importing empty geometries (empty geometry) from FileGDB into UDBX and PostgreSQL data sources.

Data Processing

  • Optimized SQL Query feature, supporting validation checks and prompts for input expressions. PostGIS database data sources can view error details to locate error positions.
  • Optimized Eliminate feature, adding a merge by common boundary option to make union results more consistent with real-world spatial relationships.

Edit Data

  • Added Template Editing feature, where new objects created using a template inherit the template’s attributes and selected fields, facilitating quick editing and data updates:
    • Supports quick creation of editing templates based on the current map.
    • Supports creation of editing templates for the current map based on existing templates.
    • Provides template manager capabilities, supporting template import and export operations.
  • Optimized Attribute Table Editing feature:
    • Supports drag-and-drop value assignment, offering copy, arithmetic progression, and geometric progression methods to improve data entry and editing efficiency.
    • Supports attribute replacement, enabling quick location and modification of data in the attribute table to improve data maintenance efficiency.
  • Optimized Draw Line to Modify Line feature, allowing line editing without selecting objects to simplify workflows and improve data editing efficiency.
  • Optimized Cross-Layer Object Merge, allowing deletion of merged objects during merge to reduce data redundancy.

Cartography

  • Added contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization stretch method, suitable for enhancing local image contrast, currently limited to 8-bit and 16-bit data type images.
  • Optimized Import Marker Symbol feature, supporting symbol search by Unicode input when importing TrueType fonts to accurately locate symbols and improve search efficiency.
  • Optimized Heat Map Charting feature, supporting setting display filters to select point objects for generating heat maps, improving map display performance.
  • Optimized in-region labels display positions for concentric ring data.
  • Fixed display errors in bar thematic maps after dynamic projection.
  • Fixed invalid gamma parameters of image layers when exporting to PDF.

Layout

  • Optimized Grid Display in Layout:
    • Layout latitude and longitude grids support showing coordinate direction abbreviations, with language switch between Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese.
    • Supports setting the display method of grid latitude and longitude labels to degrees and minutes, with configurable decimal places for degrees.
  • Optimized map layout display, added Zoom to Layer feature, allowing adjustment of visible bounds of the map in layout according to layer range, facilitating quick positioning and improving output efficiency.

Map Tiles

  • Optimized Load MongoDB Tiles feature, supporting data preview of tile lists in the database to improve flexibility and efficiency of tile loading.
  • Optimized Check Tiles tool, supporting multi-process checking to improve checking efficiency.

Machine Learning

  • Added 300M-parameter land cover large model, supporting extraction of eight land cover types (buildings, water, roads, forests, grasslands, croplands, bare land, and others) from remote sensing imagery with spatial resolution of 0.5m–2m.
  • Added pretrained model for road extraction, supporting road extraction from remote sensing imagery with spatial resolution of 0.5m–2m.
  • Added photovoltaic extraction pretrained model:
    • Supports extraction of solar panels from remote sensing imagery with spatial resolution of 0.1m–0.5m.
    • Supports extraction of photovoltaic land from remote sensing imagery with spatial resolution of 0.8m–2m.
  • Added remote sensing imagery 4x super-resolution reconstruction pretrained model, supporting 4x resolution enhancement for remote sensing imagery with spatial resolution of 0.8m–2m.
  • Optimized extraction performance of building extraction pretrained model.
  • Optimized extraction performance of cloud detection pretrained model.
  • Added remote sensing imagery Super-Resolution Reconstruction tools:
  • Added LoRA fine-tuning method for transfer learning, supporting Segformer and Mask2former network architectures for efficient transfer training of large parameter models, reducing resource consumption in transfer learning.
  • Added support for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data in object detection, providing tools for generating training data, model training, inference, and evaluation specifically for SAR imagery object detection models.
  • Enhanced binary classification workflows:
    • Added support for Mask2Former network architecture.
    • Inference tools now support vector result output.
  • Enhanced multiple classification inference tools:
    • Added vector result output support.
    • Optimized extraction in no-data image regions.
  • Enhanced general change detection workflows:

Data Migration

  • Optimized Migrate MXD to support migrating only map-associated data when migrating SDE data.
  • Optimized MAP Migration feature, which when using a specified folder automatically traverses the folder to find corresponding symbol library files, improving MAP migration efficiency and ensuring consistent data styles before and after migration.

GPA

  • Added a Set File Projection tool, which allows writing the projection directly into TIFF and Erdas Imagine image files.
  • Added a Split Line tool, which supports splitting at the vertices of polyline or polygon features to generate standalone polyline features.
  • The Proximity Search tool now includes a “Measure Distance Method” parameter, supporting the calculation of geodesic and planar distances. Users can select the appropriate method based on the coordinate system of the input data to eliminate errors from coordinate transformations and improve the accuracy of spatial relationship assessments.
  • The Create Vector Pyramid tool now includes a “Rebuild Pyramid” option to set whether to rebuild the vector pyramid.
  • Enhanced the Automated Mapping tool by adding support for configuring resulting map properties using map template files.
  • Enhanced the Join Features tool by adding a “Keep All Target Features” option.
  • Optimized the Elevation Statistics tool to support retaining source dataset fields in the result dataset, facilitating the direct use of source data attributes.
  • Optimized the Zonal Statistics tool, improving computational performance by over 20%.

3D Presentation

  • Added a 3D Presentation module (this version supports only Windows), which integrates 3D scenes with presentation PPTs to enrich displayed information, combining PPT’s flexible editing and presentation features for more intuitive and convenient reporting.
  • Presentation Project Management：
    • Support creating, opening, and saving presentation projects.
    • Support generating page scenes based on 3D scenes, offering create new page, edit page, and delete page functions, along with a page manager for managing pages.
  • Page Editing：
    • Support adding rich object elements to each page, including text, images, videos, charts, tables, and shapes.
    • Support adjusting the scene viewpoint of each page as the reporting background.
    • Support controlling the visibility of layer data in each page scene.
    • Support setting transition flights between pages to diversify display effects.
    • Support page management operations such as renaming, copying, and pasting pages.
  • Show the Presentation：
    • Support playing presentation pages; during playback, use keyboard controls for previous page, next page, play, and pause.
    • The presentation playback interface provides a shortcut toolbar for paging, measuring, rotating around the center, controlling the visibility of page objects, and other operations.
    • Support hiding page objects in playback mode to view only the scene background, offering more flexible display options.
  • Support exporting the presentation as PDF.

3D Scene

  • Added Scene Service Settings, which supports setting the scene clip extent and clipping mode. It is used to configure the clipping area and mode when publishing services on the server side and allows control over displayed layer bounds in Web3D scenes.
  • Added Image Overlay, which supports overlaying image data onto oblique photography 3D model data.
  • Added an Import GLTF (GLB) tool, supporting the import of *.gltf or *.glb models as model datasets.
  • Added support for setting the texture storage type of imported model data to JPG_PNG or DXT. The involved tools include: Import OBJ, Import DAE, Import FBX, Import 3DS, and Import X.
  • Added a Multi-Model Tile Local Update tool, which supports local updates of bulk-generated S3Mtile data based on extent or business ID, enabling incremental updates for data inside or outside existing layer bounds.
  • Added an Upload File to Cloud Storage tool, supporting the upload of S3Mtile data to Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, SeaweedFS, MinIO, AWS S3, and other cloud servers.
  • Added a 3D Clip tool, supporting clipping of 2D point/line/region and 3D point/line/region/model data by specified clip bounds.
  • Added a Model Scale tool, supporting scaling model data along the X, Y, and Z axes.
  • Added a Watermark Parameters tool, supporting the addition of custom text or image watermarks to oblique photography 3D model data.
  • Added a 3D Gaussian Data Generate Tiles tool, which supports generating S3Mtile data from 3D Gaussian data.
  • Added a Projection Transformation Parameters tool, supporting setting parameters involved in data projection such as scale difference, rotation angle, offset, and rotation origin.
  • Optimized the I3S to S3M function, supporting conversion of open-source GitHub community-compliant I3S data version 1.7~2.1 to S3M 3.0/3.01 data.
  • Optimized the S3M to 3D Tiles tool by adding support for converting S3M 2.0/3.0/3.01 data to 3D Tiles 1.0, converting repeat map group S3M data to 3D Tiles 1.0/1.1, and converting S3M 1.0/2.0/3.0/3.01 data to 3D Tiles 1.1.
  • Optimized the 3D Tiles to S3M tool by adding support for setting the resulting tile name.
  • Optimized the Oblique Import function by adding support for directly storing result data to Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, SeaweedFS, MinIO, and AWS S3.
  • Added an ignore material col or parameter, supporting setting whether to ignore material color when both model material and color exist. The involved tools include: Import OBJ, Import DAE, Import 3DS, Import FBX.
  • Optimized the Merge to Generate Tiles tool by adding parameters for generate second texture coordinates, model width, and model height, enabling self-illumination effects based on a second texture.
  • Optimized the Convert Model Data Projection tool by adding a model convert vertex tool, supporting per-vertex projection of instanced models.
  • Optimized the Point Set Generating Temporal Model Tiles function by adding support for generating tile data containing multi-feature, multi-dimensional attribute information.
  • Optimized the Point Set Generating Plug-in Model Tiles function by adding support for generating tile data with PBR materials.
  • Optimized the Oblique Data Update tool by adding support for incremental updates of data both within and outside existing tile data extents.
  • Optimized the Layer Properties function by adding dynamic update parameters for dynamically updating S3M tiles on the server side based on model datasets; added support for displaying S3Mtile data in solid color mode, color mode, or no-blend mode.
  • Optimized the Thematic Map function by adding support for setting the material path of plug-in model symbols when creating custom thematic maps based on point data.
  • Optimized the scene properties function, providing more realistic scene rendering capabilities.
  • Optimized Scene Navigation, resolving the issue of non-continuous zooming when using the mouse wheel.
  • Optimized the KML + Ground Clamping effect in the scene, resolving inconsistencies in ground line thickness.
  • Optimized the Tianditu Loading performance and visuals, resolving data loading order issues.

3D Geographic Design

  • Added Urban Road Design functionality, which supports rapid construction of urban road and intersection models based on source network datasets and parameter information.
  • Added an Extract Buildings from Oblique tool, which supports generating LOD 2.1 building models with real textures on roofs and facades based on building footprint surfaces and oblique photography 3D model data.
  • Added a Model Texture Downsampling tool, supporting reducing the resolution of model texture images to lower storage and computing costs while maintaining image quality.
  • Added Scene Beautification functionality, available only in Rendering Engine V2 mode, supporting material replacement for S3M tiles to achieve data beautification.
  • Added a GIM Quality Check tool, supporting quality checks on GIM files (*.gim) and outputting a log file recording check results to the source file path.
  • Added a Modeling Along Line tool, supporting placing models along a line to generate model instance data.
  • Added a Road Analysis tool, supporting analysis based on road centerlines and engineering parameters to derive highway, tunnel, and bridge centerlines.
  • Added a Build Bridge tool, supporting the construction of bridge model instance data based on bridge centerlines and road engineering parameters.
  • Added a Build Road Slope tool, supporting generation of retaining slope fill/cut data and road surface data based on road centerlines and engineering parameters.
  • Added a Road Engineering Parameters tool, supporting extraction of road engineering parameter information based on parameters and TIN terrain tile data.
  • Added a Build Retaining Wall tool, supporting the construction of retaining wall model instance data based on tunnel centerlines.
  • Added a Tunnel Modeling tool, supporting construction of tunnel model instance data and convex hull models based on road centerlines, engineering parameters, and TBM replacement models.
  • Added a Road Modeling tool, supporting construction of road model instance data based on road centerlines and engineering parameters.
  • Added a Get Geometry Array tool, supporting extraction of geometry arrays based on datasets.
  • Added a Save Instance Collection tool, supporting saving various model instance data to local files for direct use on web and PC clients.
  • Added a Save to Dataset tool, supporting writing various model instance data into datasets.
  • Optimized the Save as Model Dataset function by adding a “Retain LOD Files” parameter to preserve all levels of detail from the source data.
  • The Model Parallel tool has been renamed to Object Translation and now supports translation of 2D point/line/region and 3D point/line/region/model data, with the ability to elevate 2D data to 3D by setting the Z value.
  • Added data source con nection information parameters, supporting execution of data import tasks in a subprocess. The involved tools include: Import RVT, Import DGN, Import IFC, Import GIM, Import GIM Overhead Transmission Line, and Import GIM Substation (Converter Station).
  • Optimized the Import DGN tool by adding a model storage path parameter, enabling shared cells to be imported as point-attached external models and non-shared cells as standard models.
  • Optimized the Import RVT tool by adding a parameter for importing line objects, supporting line objects in Import RVT data.

Cloud Sharing

Runtime Environment

  • The GCC compilation environment has been upgraded to GLIBC 2.28 and GCC 8.3; ARM and Linux runtime environments must ensure GLIBC ≥ 2.28 and GCC ≥ 8.3 requirements are met.

iDesktopX Extension Pack

  • The Python Runtime Library in the extension pack has been upgraded to 3.10, providing a more stable runtime environment.

Interactive Experience

  • Optimized the Analysis Tools workflow to improve analysis efficiency:
    • Support selecting data from data sources not opened in the workspace (including file-based, FileGDB, and database) as source data for analysis.
    • Support storing result data into existing data sources not opened in the workspace (including file-based, FileGDB, and database).
  • Optimized the File Selector interaction by adding search and filter functions:
    • Support entering keywords directly to search for files.
    • Support filtering files by modification date and size.
  • Optimized the Validate Topology add dataset interaction, allowing datasets to be added directly in the Validate Topology dialog without navigating to other interfaces, simplifying the workflow.
  • Support opening spatial model tile data description files (*.scp) directly into 3D scenes from the Catalog Manager.
  • Support automatically full-screening the Application Window when dragged to the top of the screen and half-screen display when dragged to the left or right edge, facilitating efficient operation and layout in multi-screen environments.
  • Support free layout and docking of Window Views and Panels, facilitating efficient operation and layout in multi-screen environments and improving data processing efficiency.
  • Optimized the Attribute Table Status Bar display method by providing browsing functions in grouped form and allowing the maximum number of records per page to be selected via a dropdown list, enhancing the browsing experience.

License Notes

  • SuperMap iDesktopX 2025 update license ID, which is not compatible with 11i version licenses.

Function Changes

  • The current version no longer supports MySQL and MongoDB database workspaces; please use other types of database workspaces instead.
  • After parameterized storage of Parameterized Objects (circle, ellipse, circular arc, elliptical arc, poly Bezier) in 2D line region datasets and CAD datasets, some editing functions are no longer supported.

Interface Changes