Two 3rd party training kits for the TatukGIS Editor are designed to help users, developers, and organizations substantially reduce the learning curve to more quickly become productive with use of the Editor product.

The TatukGIS Editor Training Kit focuses on the default user interface features. It includes a detailed training manual containing over 70 pages of hands-on instructional material covering 10 chapters illustrating, step-by-step, how to use almost all aspects of the Editor.

The TatukGIS Editor Customization Training Kit focuses on use the built-in scripting features and object API to customize the default user interface, implement new features, and create custom applications. It includes a detailed training manual containing 100+ pages of hands-on instructional material with 17 chapters illustrating, step-by-step, how to set-up and use the Editor to create 12 focused applications, each with Pascal and Basic source code, sample data, and videos.

The chapter indexes from the training manuals of each kit present a summary of the covered topics.

TatukGIS Editor Training Manual

GIS BASICS.

LESSON 1. ADDING GIS LAYERS TO THE EDITOR AND SETTING UP A MAP PROJECT.

LESSON 2. MAP COORDINATE SYSTEMS

LESSON 3. CHANGING THE MAP EXTENT, ZOOMING, PANNING, AND SETTING THE SCALE.

LESSON 4. SELECTING FEATURES: SELECT BY ATTRIBUTES, ZOOM TO SELECTION, MANUAL SELECTION, AND USING CLIPBOARD LAYERS.

LESSON 5. CREATING NEW VECTOR LAYERS, CREATING NEW FEATURES, SNAPPING TO FEATURES, WORKING WITH MULTIPART SHAPES, CREATING 'DONUT-HOLE' POLYGONS, AND EDITING VERTICES OF FEATURES.

LESSON 6. GEOPROCESSING: SPLITTING SHAPES, UNIONING SHAPES, BUFFERING SHAPES, SUBTRACTING SHAPES, MERGING VECTOR LAYERS, AND GENERATING A GRID OF POINTS.

LESSON 7. ADDING ATTRIBUTES TO FEATURES, ADDING NEW FIELDS, USING THE DATA PANEL, ADDING ASCENDING ID NUMBERS TO A FIELD, FINDING FIELD VALUE FREQUENCIES.

LESSON 8. SYMBOLIZING FEATURES USING THE LAYER PROPERTIES DIALOG AND SAVING SYMBOLOGY TO LAYER PROPERTIES .INI FILES.

LESSON 9. MAP OUTPUT: USING THE PRINT DIALOG, USING MAP TEMPLATES, EXPORTING THE VIEW TO AN IMAGE, AND CREATING CUSTOM NORTH ARROWS, SCALEBARS, AND LEGENDS.

LESSON 10. USING THE 3D PANEL: USING 3D LAYERS, CREATING 3D FEATURES, AND SETTING UP A DEM.

TatukGIS Editor Customization Training Manual

LESSON 1. CREATING A NEW TATUKGIS EDITOR CUSTOMIZATION, .TTKGP PROJECT FILES, AND ADDING/REMOVING LAYERS FROM THE DISPLAY

LESSON 2. CHANGING THE MAP EXTENT, ZOOMING, AND SETTING THE SCALE

LESSON 3. SELECTING FEATURES: SELECT BY ATTRIBUTES, ZOOM TO SELECTION, SELECT BY LOCATION, AND MANUAL SELECTION. IN-MEMORY LAYERS AND THE TGIS_LAYERVECTOR.LOOP METHOD ARE INTRODUCED

LESSON 4. USING THE TGIS_EDITOR OBJECT TO CREATE NEW SHAPES, SAVE AND ABORT EDIT OPERATIONS, EDIT VERTICES, UNDO/REDO, DELETE LAST SHAPE, ADD PARTS, DELETE PARTS, AND DELETE VERTICES

LESSON 5. CREATING NEW VECTOR LAYERS, EDITING SHAPES WITH CODE(AS OPPOSED TO USING THE TGIS_EDITOR OBJECT), BUFFERING SHAPES, CREATING AN 'IN-MEMORY' LAYER, AND EXPORTING VECTOR LAYERS

LESSON 6. GEOPROCESSING: SPLITTING SHAPES, UNIONING SHAPES, SUBTRACTING SHAPES, CLIPPING SHAPES, MERGING VECTOR LAYERS, AND GENERATING RANDOM POINTS

LESSON 7. ATTRIBUTING FEATURES, THE TGIS_CONTROLATTRIBUTES OBJECT, AND THE TGIS_DATASET

LESSON 8. SYMBOLIZING FEATURES USING THE LAYER PROPERTIES DIALOG AND VIA CODE AND SAVING SYMBOLOGY TO LAYER PROPERTIES .INI FILES

LESSON 9. SETTING THE TGIS_VIEWERWND AND LAYER COORDINATE SYSTEMS, REPROJECTING-ON-THE-FLY, AND EXPORTING LAYERS TO A DIFFERENT COORDINATE SYSTEM

LESSON 10. MEASUREMENTS: AREAS, DISTANCES, XY COORDINATES, CONVERT PROJECTED POINTS TO GEOGRAPHIC, AND CREATE POINT B USING BEARING AND DISTANCE FROM POINT A

LESSON 11. WORKING WITH ENTERPRISE GIS DATABASES: THE SQL LAYER AND THE PIXELSTORE LAYER

LESSON 12. MAP OUTPUT: EXPORT TGIS_VIEWERWND DISPLAY TO IMAGE, SEND MAP TO MS WORD AT A CERTAIN SCALE, PRINT PREVIEW, PRINT SIMPLE MAP, USING MAP TEMPLATES

LESSON 13. USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM INPUT

LESSON 14. ADDRESS MATCHING AND ROUTING

LESSON 15. USING OTHER DATA FORMATS

LESSON 16. USEFUL FUNCTIONS IN THE GISDEFS UNIT

LESSON 17. CUSTOMIZING THE EDITOR USER INTERFACE AND PRESENTING A CUSTOMIZATION TO THE USER