Viz World
Bring the world to your audience
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Enables producers, journalists, and operators to include branded maps and geographical information in any story
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Create branded maps that include optional data for streets, satellite imagery, topography, and more
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Boost viewer engagement by including animated real-time maps in your storytelling
Viz World enables producers, journalists, and operators to include maps and geographical information in any Vizrt graphic template. Maps are supported by all journalist entry systems in Vizrt such as Viz Pilot, Viz Multiplay, and others. Users can automatically change map locations, add animated 3D objects and labels, show street and traffic information, display on-demand satellite images, create geographical locators, and design fully animated real-time 3D branded maps.
Maps from Viz World can be part of any live production, from daily news stories to virtual sets and augmented reality presentations. The system’s flexibility and unique branding capabilities allow map designs to be a key part of the company’s on-air design.
Comprehensive data options
Viz World includes a database of political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, major roads, named places, and relief topography covering the entire world. In addition, you can use optional data for streets, satellite imagery, topography, and more. Further enhancements are possible when including live geo-referenced feeds for elections and weather.
Satellite imagery – Satellite imagery is available at a variety of resolutions. With Viz World users have access to online satellite imagery providers to download imagery directly from within Viz World when editing map templates.
Street Data – Local and highly detailed street data is available for countries and cities around the globe. Data is searchable by street name, address, point of interest, or intersection.
Relief topography – The relief data included with Viz World originates from the USGS (US Geological Survey) and has a 1km resolution. Higher resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data is also available for large areas, including 90m data for most of the world, and 30m data for all of the USA and some European countries.
KML/KMZ data – Import custom vector data in .kml and .kmz formats from a variety of open-source vendors or create your own. The option allows broadcasters to use custom data that is specific to their regional needs.
.SHP – Import standard .shp files for custom graphics information, including government utilities and voting districts.
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Viz World 24
April 30th, 2025 | Viz World 24 empowers broadcasters to create professional and engaging satellite maps like never before. By leveraging Maxar’s new MGP Pro satellite service, you can access high-resolution global base map imagery at 30cm HD, ensuring your maps are both visually stunning and accurate. Additionally, the new service offers cost predictability, allowing you to stay on top of your usage with monthly data usage reporting.
As we transition to this new service, please note that the Maxar SecureWatch and Microsoft Bing Maps satellite services will be deprecated on June 30th, 2025. Customers using the Maxar SecureWatch or Basic Bing Maps satellite services must update to Viz World 24 by 30th June 2025 to avoid potential disruption in service. Existing Maxar SecureWatch subscribers will seamlessly transition to the new Maxar MGP Pro service and there will be no additional cost involved.
A new license will need to be issued, so please speak to your Vizrt Account Manager to get this.
For Viz World customers not currently using a satellite service (or using other 3rd party services), this update offers a great opportunity to improve your map graphics with the leading satellite service from Maxar.
Learn more about this release in the release article, and active customers can download the installation files and release notes from the Vizrt FTP.
Viz World 23
December 13th, 2023 | Viz World 23 features several improvements, including the latest Collins Bartholomew base map data for 2023. We’ve worked closely with the data provider to ensure the most up-to-date global updates including recent accuracy adjustments for Brazil, Iran, and Afghanistan. This release also improves user experience and workflow by resolving some bugs such as the occasional deformation of labels, the inheritance of KLM subfolder permissions, and others.
