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Upgrades
and Annual Support and Updates
Encom is committed to maintaining
and improving Discover and we believe that they are responsive to input
from customers. If your Annual Support and Update licenses have expired,
or if you would like to add it for the first time, renew them before the
end of the year for special savings. You can realize a substantial
savings over future upgrade costs and receive tech support in the meantime.
Contact us for details.
Discover 3.097, MapInfo 6.5 Patch
If you have upgraded to MapInfo 6.5
but are using Discover 3.0x there is a menu conflict on Startup. Contact
us for the patch.
MapInfo 6.5
If you have not upgraded to MapInfo
6.5 contact us for pricing. The transparent rasters are particularly effective
in for displaying shaded DEM's over geology, for instance. MapInfo in continuing
to improve their gridding routines and TIN's are now possible and grid
importing has been improved. Geotiffs are now directly readable. If you
have already upgraded you should be aware that there is a patch on the
MapInfo website.
Vertical Mapper 3.0
Vertical Mapper is an extremely powerful
gridding, contouring, 3-d display and grid manipulation add-on to MapInfo.
Version 3.0 has just been released. Contact us now for pricing information
and some example output. Version 3.0 adds some powerful multigrid modeling
routines for those of you who are interested in doing more with quantitative
GIS. Vertical Mapper is unique in MapInfo add-ons in allowing rasterization
and manipulation of vector data such that it can be fully utilized in multigrid
modeling such as can be done in Spatial Analyst for ArcView or in Idrisi.
Other Tools
Each month we review a commercial
package and one or more free or shareware tools.
Data Assistant
This new tool from Data Directions
really opens up the world of SQL queries to those who don't find it so
intuitive , have the training or really know the power that lies therein.
We bought a copy immediately after downloading the 30 day trial version.
One simple feature which we use all the time in Discover is duplicated
and improved here. That is the function of seeing all the possible entries
in a field and selecting the ones wanted from a pull-down. This is great
for maneuvering around and taking apart a data set. The improvement here
is that the resulting query from Data Assistant can be saved as a MapInfo
Query table and thus in a workspace. You can quickly buildup a set of meaningful
Thematic views and save it all without duplicating your data. Download
it at www.datadirections.com.au
and give it a try.
Free Tools
Our SetView utility
(setview.mbx) is invaluable for reproducing the size, shape and exact locational
content of a Mapper window. As you all know, these are the critical features
in making the connection between your Mapper and the Layout window. It
saves lists of views organized as you wish which can be applied to any
Mapper at any time and then sucked right into the appropriate Layout Frame.
It forms a key part of our down and dirty method of getting any Mapper
at the scale you want where you want it into any Layout, along with as
many Mappers as you want. We'll talk more about that in a future newsletter.
Best of all it's free. Just contact us by email at geoinfo@geomax.com. |
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