(pressebox) Berg near Munich/ Achberg at Bodensee lake, 16.02.2011 – Berg near Munich based 2D/3D Software provider now cooperates with visitcity / visitcity supports local marketing activities from cities and other local authorities / visitcity has a wide global value added provider network / High security level of data transfer through encryption / visitcity to become fully 3D visualized city portal
As the founder of the online-city portal visitcity IT specialist Juergen Ohneberg had a clear vision , namely to create a city portal which enables cities and local authorities to showcase their offers and products based on state of the art IT technology to everyone. Online visitors ought to employ a platform with which they better find their way in a designated region, easier find public administrations and local sights using interactive mappings. A Geo RSS interface provides ever updated information but also enables an Website owners to implement information by himself. Actually visitcity will be technically enabled to run also on mobile devices like iPhones or iPods. In the near future the city platform also will work under ‚Android‘ the Google operation System for mobile applications.
Due to an global network of value added services provider like Microsoft, Intergraph and POI service the online portal shows a successful market launch. A number of cities in German speaking countries already have integrated the visitcity platform in its websites and thus can provide its customers a convincing value added. Visitors of the visitcity platform will find offers from different industries, commendations from tourism, real estate tenders, maps of walks also providing additional current comments concerning regions and points of interest. Moreover a visitcity user detects comprehensive information concerning restaurants, hotels, public authorities and others.
The approach of the online portal visitcity is fairly new. Compared to comparable platforms visitcity offers an global platform for detailed regional contents. Visitcity makes a mapping platform available to users as well as all features needed for controlling and handling of content in the internet and in the backend for data management. Moreover contents will be embedded as POI’s like railway stations, sights and public buildings which all have relevance for users.
Based on a 3D Software cooperation visitcity will be the first fully three dimensional visualized city model platform. For this purpose the founder of the city portal and Bitmanagement Software GmbH have agreed to enter into a technical partnership. Bitmanagement is one of the front running provider of 3D visualization components. Customers all over the world integrate this technology in a big number of different applications. Based on VRML/X3D ISO 3D standard software users are in the position to render regional maps, advertisings and other searching results in 3D in a photorealistic way, to interact in any order and to distribute content via internet worldwide. A high level of data security is given when data are transferred using encryption. Most of these functions works much faster under Bitmanagement’s 3D viewer technology BS Contact.
Whenever a user is zooming into a city or a region which are linked to the system, visitcity automatically adopts the look and feel of the respective region or city. The level of content also changes and shows exclusively information which are updated by authorized persons in a city or a region. The updates will be accomplished by a special administration tool or by importing over an interface (Geo RSS interface).
About visitcity, Lindau at Bodensee Lake
visitcity has been founded and developed by IT specialist Jürgen Ohneberg as a value added service for local authorities and electric utilities. Visitcity is both, an online software solution, which offers based on Bing from Software or Google mapping material and research under the brand label ‚visit®Portal‘ a geo-portal for cities and companies. This enables to present its local Points of interests (POIs).
Visitcity offers under the brand label ‚visitcity ® Publisher‘ also a geo referenced visualization technology for interactive public GIS applications in 2D/3D – from online use on a PC to mobile devices ( e.g. I-phone, i-pad).
The city portal visitcity can be integrated in own websites and adopts the look and feel of the website owner. Thus he completes his online offers with additional information which make ones life easier. Such information range from employment offices to additional important details. Presently visitcity is distributed to the German speaking countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).