July 06, 2009 -- Victoria, British Columbia—Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Geocortex Essentials 2.0, the next-generation version of its popular value-added software for ESRI’s ArcGIS Server.

Geocortex Essentials 2.0 introduces the Geocortex Essentials REST API. Using this REST API, developers can create JavaScript API, Flex API and Silverlight API applications that consume core Geocortex Essentials functions such as data linking, template-based printing and custom reporting. Latitude’s all-new Geocortex Essentials REST Elements follows ESRI’s RESTful development paradigm.

Corresponding with Geocortex Essentials 2.0, Latitude Geographics is also unveiling an ESRI-style Geocortex Resource Center ( http://resources.geocortex.com), which contains samples and documentation to support REST Elements and complement ESRI’s related resources for developers.

For version 2.0, Geocortex Essentials is divided into two tracks: Web ADF Elements and REST Elements. Web ADF Elements contains all capabilities associated with Geocortex Essentials 1.x technology, as well as some new features.

The general release of Geocortex Essentials 2.0 comes after several months of user beta testing. “Geocortex Essentials 2.0 is a major milestone for the team at Latitude Geographics”, explains Steven Myhill-Jones, President and CEO of Latitude Geographics, “while we have a long list of features planned for the months ahead, our underlying framework and initial features that introduce rich support for ESRI’s important emerging RESTful approach are complete.”

For more information about Geocortex Essentials 2.0, please visit: www.geocortex.com/essentials

About Latitude Geographics
Latitude Geographics Group Ltd., through its Geocortex Internet Mapping division, helps people succeed with web-based geography to enable better decisions about the world around us. Specialists in market-leading ESRI web-GIS technology since 1999, Latitude Geographics creates software that streamlines and accelerates the process of building and maintaining world-class ArcGIS Server applications. For more information about Latitude Geographics please visit www.latitudegeo.com