We have extended import support with several popular file types. These include TINs (triangulated meshes) stored in LandXML or Shapefiles, exportable from BIM/CAD software (such as Trimble Novapoint, AutoCAD Civil 3D and Bentley InRoads/PowerCivil), as well as point clouds stored as LAS files. These formats are supported for constructing workspaces, but more importantly for including new data into existing workspaces. This allows, for example, constructing a workspace on a national model for context, and then importing a newly planned road or re-designed terrain on top.

You can read more about the extended import support in the manual.

Download format selection for polygon downloads

It is now possible to set default formats to be used when downloading data from SCALGO Live in the bottom of your account page. The selected vector format will be used when downloading upstream polygons using the watershed tool, and exporting depression polygons from the Depression Map. Previously these would always be exported as Shapefiles.

The selected defaults for vector, raster and aerial data will also apply for normal downloads, but you can still change away from the default in the download dialog as before.

Denmark: updated national computation

We have refreshed the national analysis using GeoDanmark data from November 2018. We now get the hydrological corrections directly from GeoDanmark. This implies that the changes to the hydrological corrections made before November 2018 are reflected in this computation.

Recently, the Swedish mapping authority, Lantmäteriet, released the Laserdata Skog point cloud as open data. We have made this dataset available for our SCALGO Live Sweden users. You can find it in the library through the "Add" button in the bottom left of your screen.

The current dataset covers only a small part of the country. It will be updated regularly by Lantmäteriet and we will also keep it updated in SCALGO Live. It has about 1-2 points per square meter, and is made available as a 1 m raster in SCALGO Live. In comparison, the national Swedish model is a 2 m raster.

Naturally, the data is also available for download and for use in workspaces. If you want to use it in a workspace, use the "Existing Model" option in the workspace creation dialog. After selecting your region you can then click the green pencil next to the elevation model to create your workspace.

You can read more about Laserdata Skog in the manual.

By popular demand it is now possible to create paths and areas with non-vertical side slopes (banks) in your workspace. Use this new feature to make your terrain edits look more realistic and get closer to the final design of your solution. Interesting use-cases for this new feature include:

• Estimate the surface area required by a new channel or retention basin including the extra width taken up by the banks.
• Achieve more accurate volume estimates for basins.
• Bring more realistic and better-looking project proposals and screenings to stake holders and the public.
• Improve performance in subsequent processing, e.g. in hydro-dynamic modeling.

See the manual for details on how to add side slopes to your features.

Bigger workspaces

We have increased the workspace size limit significantly, by factor of 5 in most cases.

Updated Orthophotos in Denmark

The new Danish orthophotos from spring 2018 are now available for viewing and download in SCALGO Live. Find them in the library.

You can now specify a boundary polygon for workspace creation and downloads by dragging a Shapefile or GeoJSON file onto the creation/download dialog. Drag and drop styling has also been improved throughout the UI.

Download and vectors

We have released a number of updates related to downloading data from SCALGO Live:

• We now support DXF and GeoPackage for downloading vector data.
• Furthermore you can now control the coordinate system of the downloaded data. You can choose the coordinate system from the download dialog. If you pick a new coordinate system (from the top right menu) this setting will also be reflected in the download dialog.
• There is a new download option in the Flash Flood Map: building information. If you choose this option you will download building footprints annotated with information about water in depressions neighboring the buildling. See the manual for more information.

Subsurface in sea-level rise computations

Subsurface edits in workspaces are now included in the sea-level rise computations. They were previously ignored.

Denmark: National Computation

The national sea-level rise computation has been updated to use the national set of hydrological corrections as subsurface structures. This implies the analysis is no longer based on the Denmark/2105/Sea model, however the model will remain available in SCALGO Live for use in other tools. All computations have been updated to use newer GeoDanmark buildings (accquired from Kortforsyningen 6th of April 2018).

We are proud to announce the release of a nationwide Swedish contour map based on the full high-resolution (2m) national elevation model. It is available for immediate viewing and download in SCALGO Live.

The contour map comes in different equidistances and is designed to be cartographically pleasing and have a manageable size, and at the same time provide hard guarantees on how much each individual contours deviates from the elevation model in the x, y and z axis. The map has been generated based on the SCALGO technology that was used to generate the national Danish contour map.

We have added a new workspace tool that lets you model a subsurface basin or sewage drain in a point. The point is modelled as a sink of a user-specified finite volume, any flow entering the sink will stay in the sink until the full volume (service level) associated with the sink has been consumed. This volume can either be typed in manually or set to an event-specific runoff volume. The latter is done using the watershed of the sink point to define the area and the flash flood map rain slider to define the event. See the manual for more information about how to use the new tool.

We have redesigned the user interface to simplify access to the information you care about, allowing you to focus on your task and limit the time spend searching for a particular dataset. You can read more about the new interface in the corresponding news story.

Export high-resolution maps

As part of the release it is now possible to export the current map view as high resolution JPEG and PDF files. Look for the tool in the Actions menu in the top right corner.

When using the flash flood map watershed tool you now get information about the volume of water flowing through the queried point, and the volume of water stored in depressions upstream. More precisely, you get the depression storage of the point, which is defined as the volume of rainwater stored in the depressions in the watershed of the point. You also get the runoff volume flowing through the point, this is the total volume of the precipitation upstream of the queried point minus what is stored in depressions in the watershed. We refer to the manual for more information.

SCALGO Live has proven a valuable tool for emergency responses under multiple different flood events in Denmark in 2017. With this release, we enhance your ability to visualize, prioritize, and plan coastal protection. Using the new "Critical Points" analysis (available with "Sea-Level Rise" layers), users can visualize the vulnerable points where seawater can intrude and flood low-lying areas beyond. The critical points might be dimples in dykes, or a natural water path, e.g. a small stream of particular interest for flood prevention.

The feature is also available in workspaces, where users can test the effect of barriers at the critical points and generate new vulnerability maps of the critical points that may emerge after placement of these barriers.

Critical points are ranked by the size of the area at risk, that is, the area that is flooded if the seawater rises above the critical point. Using a slider, points associated with a low area at risk can be filtered out.

Download watersheds as vectors

By popular request, you can now download vectorized watersheds in SCALGO Live. When you select the download button next to a watershed layer, the UI will ask you if you want a vectorized output or the raw watershed raster. Note that the vector output is not simplified so the polygons can be fairly large.

Denmark: Models and analysis update

We have updated the elevation models and the analysis products (flash flood map, flow accumulation, watersheds and sea-level rise) to include newer buildings from GeoDanmark - acquired on November 19 2017 from Kortforsyningen. Your existing workspaces have not been changed.

We have updated the flash flood map in SCALGO Live Denmark. Traditionally, the national Danish set of hydrological corrections to the terrain model are used to hydrologically condition the terrain model by carving through barriers (e.g. bridges) in the terrain model. However in the new flash flood map, we use the hydrological corrections as subsurface structures instead. This implies that we can distinguish the flow across a bridge from the flow underneath it. Note that in SCALGO Live, a subsurface structure transports an unlimited amount of water, but it does not store any water itself – it has zero volume.

Furthermore, when you create a workspace, hydrological corrections are now imported into the workspace as editable features. This implies that you can now work directly with the hydrological corrections inside a workspace. It is still possible to create a new workspace based on the traditional terrain model with the corrections included.

Denmark: New base map

We have switched the view projection for SCALGO Live Denmark to UTM32. This implies that we can now use the standard base maps put out by the Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency (SDFE). This should also make it easier to integrate SCALGO Live with certain webgis and will improve the precision of elevation profiles.

New workspace creation dialog

We have updated the workspace creation dialog. It now provides a convenient shortcut for users wishing to create a workspace for working with the flash flood map or the sea-level analysis. Using the analysis-specific creation option you no longer have to manually select an elevation model. For instance, when you want to work with the flash flood map the system will pick the model matching the national analysis available and configure the workspace computation options so that only the flash flood map is computed. The dialog also makes it easy to manually select a model in the traditional way, or to upload your own model.

Workspace duplication

You can now duplicate a workspace. Simply find the detailed workspace view in the account management system and hit the duplicate button underneath the map.