About Us

MapSphere is developed by a group of highly qualified professionals. We work with world-famous companies for many years. Together we create cutting-edge technologies and products. Many of you have seen the results of this work and even held them in the hands.

Now we want to put all our accumulated experience and techniques into MapSphere which is our vision of the future of user interaction with mapping and navigation systems.

Mapping Technologies

MapSphere grows from mapping. The word MapSphere itself means everything that is close to maps. Thus, maps and satellite/aerial images serve as a solid basis for all other technologies and functions.

Our goal is to make the mapping part of MapSphere as flexible as possible. There should be no considerable restrictions for data representation. You are able to attach any mapping data through MapSphere plug-ins.

Each plug-in can use all power of MapSphere to download data from the web in several flows simultaneously, and then store the data on a local drive for future offline use. You can adjust several map view windows according to your purposes, and observe the data in different 2D or 3D modes.

Rendering Technologies

Continuous Level of Details for 3D

CLOD provides an almost infinite level of details for Earth rendering. It ensures good performance for different types of terrain and high quality at the same time.

3D Navigation Interface

In order to create a presence effect the user interface should be easy for understanding and also powerful enough to fly to any location in the world. 3D Navigation Interface implements this task for MapSphere.

Enhanced 2D Rendering

A lot of mapping applications provide only one mode of visualization - either 2D, or 3D. MapSphere supports both of them. Moreover, it absorbs the most advanced technologies for 2D rendering: dynamic level of details, map rotation, and reduction of map projection distortions.

Geographical Personal Information Manager

A GeoPIM's purpose is to facilitate collecting, storage, processing, and management of geographically referenced user data. This is not only tracks and waypoints. For example you can associate a photo with the place where it was shot or make a voice comment to some location.

GeoPIM helps to find the answers to a lot of questions: where were you in a specific moment, how fast did you moved, what is your daily mileage, and much more.

Online Services

MapSphere Online Services combine several possibilities of communication between MapSphere users through the web.

Live Position Tracking

LPT is intended to allow users to see their current positional relationship and preceding tracks of each other. To do this MapSphere gets information about the current position from GPS and sends it to the LPT server.

An important part of LPT is security. It restricts the access of other users to your personal information such as your current position. You can grant this access to your friends and trusted users only.

MapSphere User Data Exchange

MapSphere helps users to create their own collections of tracks and waypoints, to supply them with comments, pictures, photos, and other media. MUDE simplifies the exchange of such data between users and it can also be used to publish these collections on the web.

Multiuser Entertainment Platform

MEP technology comes from MMO RPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games), but in contrast to it MEP unites virtual and real worlds together. Users can walk on a virtual globe and meet other real or imaginary persons that are currently situated in the same place on the real or virtual globes. After that they can carry on dialogs, exchange objects or communicate in another way.

Speech Technologies

Conversational Voice User Interface

CVUI provides the ability to talk with the software using natural language just the same way we do this in human-to-human conversations. This research area includes both grammatical and semantic analysis of user's speech, communication context understanding, dialog flow management and natural language answers generation.

Phonetic Search

Phonetic Search means the search of geographical objects not only by the spelling of their names but also by their possible pronunciation. This search can be performed both from CVUI and from typed input. Wrong spelling isn't longer a problem while the intended pronunciation is correct.

Artificial Communication Partner

ACP is a technology intended to enrich user's experience. The software you interact with is no more than a computer program but it can also possess its own opinion and related arguments that can be shared with the user if machine considers this worth doing. A model of human personality and cognitive processes drives the behavior of ACP: this includes the ability to learn from experience, to make logical judgments and to maintain its personal integrity.