We’ve just released our new viewer, LizardTech GeoViewer 3.0, and so far it’s flying off the shelf, or rather across the Internet. It’s free to download here (http://www.lizardtech.com) and we’ve had thousands of takers already. We issued a press release yesterday, and I was going to follow up with an announcement here, but the way things are going it’ll be old news by the time I hit “publish”.

Geospatial professionals have been asking us for a new viewer for a long time, and we were finally able to devote some time to making one. We didn’t want to short-change it, and I think you’ll love the results if you’re a person who uses imagery every day.

For input GeoViewer supports too many raster formats to list here, plus ESRI Shapefiles. It exports to GeoTIFF, JPEG, and PNG. What’s more, you can add layers (images and vector overlays) from local repositories, from a LizardTech Express Server catalog, or from WMS or JPIP servers.

Best of all, you can group your layers and hide or show them, so you can visually compare years, or regions — or any other organizational units you care to create — with a click.

We put a lot of care into making GeoViewer easy to install and get started with. If you haven’t already grabbed yours, why not try it out? And let us know what you think.