| PRODUCT FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS |
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| Licensing: One license per user. Concurrent-user licensing also available. |
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Free license |
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Operating Systems:
Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7). System requirements are the same as for the Windows operating system. |
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| Viewing: |
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| Zooming in/out, panning on the map |
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| Multiple vector file formats (layer types) in the same project |
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| Legend control (panel) to organize layers and layer priority |
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| Extended Legend for hierarchical layers, layer grouping, sub-projects |
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| MiniMap window with World or continent map tab options |
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| Visual layer property control for all aspects of the map appearance (colors, styles, polygon fills, outlines, symbols, labels, transparency, etc.) |
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| Create or edit TatukGIS project files |
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| Open ArcView 3, ArcExplorer, MapInfo Professional project files and projects exported from ArcGIS/ArcMap using the free Arc2TatukGIS plug-in |
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| Scale bar |
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| Custom render map geometry, styles, labels, symbols, etc. based on scale |
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| Manipulate pixel layers (brightness, transparency, histograms, etc.) |
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| Thematic mapping based on attribute values, colored-gradient value themes, color render grid layers |
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| CGM and TrueType symbols for points and lines; CGM, TrueType, and WMF symbols for fills |
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| Advanced attribute data presentation table with filtering and SQL Query Builder |
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| Spatial querying/selection (by point, line, circle, rectangle, polygon, buffer, custom clipboard layer, SQL query) based on the DE-9IM model (Dimensionally Extended 9 Intersection Model). |
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| Topological operations, e.g., buffers, intersections, unions, etc. |
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| Advanced labeling (Dynamic label placement, overlap avoidance, multi-field, formatted) |
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| HTML style rendering of labels |
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| Pie and bar charts |
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| Map hints to automatically display information about any feature under the cursor |
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| URL Hotlink feature to link map shapes via a URL to any web site, document, or mailto |
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| Multiple hotlinks to a single shape |
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| Open WMS/WFS (OpenGIS Web Map Service/Web Feature Service) map layers from a remote server |
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| Open ECWP map layer from a remote server |
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| Open web tiled services (Web Map Tiles), such as MapQuest OpenStreetMaps & Imagery |
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| R-tree spatial indexing for best performance with very large vector files |
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| Measurement tools for distance, area, and perimeter |
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| View data collected with a GPS device as a GPX layer |
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| PDF file generation for high resolution local printing of any map view |
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| Standard printing from the HTML image with limited resolution |
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| Template based printing with ability to add new print layouts |
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| Internet Server Wizard" to set up simple ASP.NET projects for web publishing with the TatukGIS Internet Server |
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| 16 language options for program user interface |
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| Antialiased output for enhanced map rendering quality |
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| Unicode support (for all foreign language characters) |
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| 3D Viewing |
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| Rendering of 3D vectors |
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| Digital Terrian Model (DTM) presentation |
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| Automatic draping of 2D vector and image layers over a DTM |
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| Flood simulation |
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| Lighs & shadow control |
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| Camera/Scene control (zooming, rotation) |
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| Coordinate Systems: |
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| Nearly 3,000 pre-defined geographic coordinate systems (including all U.S. State Planes) |
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| Support for EPSG codes and OpenGIS WKT definitions |
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| User defined, custom coordinate systems based on 120 projections, 350 datums |
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| Automatic coordinate system recognition with any supported layer type (including PRJ file support) |
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| On-the-fly reprojection of vector, raster, and grid layers between coordinate systems for real-time map display |
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| Export vector, raster, grid layers to new coordinate system |
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| Live GPS presentation on projected map layer |
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| Vector and raster map layer rotation (such as for GPS tracking) |
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| Editing: |
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| Export map view to image file (TIFF/GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PixelStore) with generation of World File and TAB reference file. |
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| Mosaic multiple already georeferenced images into a single exported image file |
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| Create, edit, save, store, import/export vector map data to multiple file and SQL database layer formats. (See below for supported formats.) |
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| User-defined layers to read/write data from almost any source |
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| Export layer geometry based on extent, selection, buffer, attribute query, shape type |
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| Create/edit/export points data as a GPX file for uploading to GPS device |
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| Real-time GPS connectivity using NMEA standard |
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| Edit vertices of vector map geometry |
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| Edit attribute names and field values of vector map files (can be performed via the data table) |
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| Special shape drawing tools: rectangle, rotated rectangle, quadrilateral, circle, right angle, freehand drawing |
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| Create/update vector shapes by importing x,y coordinates from a text file, spreadsheet, or WKT representation |
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| Import x,y points data from a CSV file as a vector points layer, with attributes |
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| Edit map geometry using COGO distance/bearing measurements |
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| Edit 3D shapes (Z and M coordinate values) |
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| Unions and splitting of shapes |
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| Merge vector maps into a single layer |
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| Export/import selected or queried attribute data to/from Editor data table to spread sheet, database, text file |
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| Topology builder/corrector to systematically clear geometry errors from vector map layers, e.g. overlapping polygons, holes between polygons, missed line intersections, dangling nodes |
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| Database Support: |
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Database joining for any vector layer or object group by name, class, type for dynamic presentation, etc. using ADO/ODBC or dbExpress.
Supporting: MSJET (MDB), MSSQL Server, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird, MySQL, SQLite |
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| Storage of vector/raster map layers as SQL database files on database server. Supporting: MSSQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Interbase, Firebird, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite |
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| SQL database layer Connection Wizard |
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| Storage of vector/raster map layers as SQL database files on local database. Supporting: MSJET (MDB), SQLite |
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| Programming Support: |
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| Fully scriptable IDE supporting Basic and Pascal scripts to enable users to enhance or modify the default functionality, including full menu redesign, custom dialog boxes, specialized features, custom routines, command line interface, etc. for end-user custom applications. Exposes the full power of TatukGIS Developer Kernel, with its hundreds of classes and thousands of methods. |
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| Load and run deployed scripts |
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| No third-party development environment required |
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Dozens of tutorial source code scripts (in Basic & Pascal) providing useful custom functionality, such as: user interface customization, GPS, batch conversion of x,y coordinates between coordinate systems, customized data editing, database querying, map tiles generator for Google Maps and Bing Maps, Google Earth integration, Bing Maps and Google Maps integration, "cruise points" generator to fill selected polygon with a points grid, extent based OpenStreetMaps.com downloader...
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