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TatukGIS Editor

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The TatukGIS Editor supports all of the features of the free TatukGIS Viewer, plus an extensive set of features to create, edit, export, translate, and analyze GIS map files and projects. The Editor opens most GIS/CAD and raster image file types and most ArcView®, ArcExplorer®, and MapInfo Professional® projects. It supports the editing and saving of vector map geometry and attribute data to a number of shapefile and SQL database file types. The support for all file formats is ‘native’, which means that there is no need to convert to/from any internal format. This makes the Editor highly compatible with other GIS software products which an organization may be using.

The Editor can be used as a stand-alone desktop application or in a client-server or web server configuration. It can be connected to the following types of SQL database map layers: Oracle Spatial/Locator®, ESRI ArcSDE and Personal Geodatabase, Geomedia® (SQL Server and Access Warehouse), OpenGIS® Simple Features Specification for SQL, and TatukGIS binary. The Editor also supports the opening of WMS (Web Map Service) layers.

The Editor includes advanced functionality to build line and polygon topology to systematically identify and correct topology errors – such as polygon holes or overlaps, dangling line nodes, unconnected line intersections, etc. - from shapefile map layers.

Besides the reasonable license price, the TatukGIS Editor is intuitive to learn and use, which can significantly reduce user training costs. The Editor can be learned from the tutorials and help files which are accessible under the program’s Help menu. The user interface is provided in 16 languages.

Editing Features:

  • Edit already existing or create/digitize new vector file geometry and attributes. Save to supported shapefile formats, e.g., SHP, MID/MIF, DXF, GML, KML, DLG, GPX, CSV, and SQL database layer formats: i) Oracle Spatial/Locator, ii) ESRI Personal Geodatabase, iii) Geomedia SQL Server & Access Warehouse, iv) OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL Implementation, and v) TatukGIS native/binary.
  • Open/display ESRI ArcSDE spatial database map layers, export ArcSDE data to other supported formats.
  • Update or create vector shapes by importing x,y coordinates from a text file, spreadsheet, or WKT representation
  • Import x,y points data from a CSV file as a points shapefile layer, with attributes
  • Special shapefile drawing tools: rectangle, rotated rectangle, quadrilateral, circle, right angle, freehand drawing
  • Shapefile editing with distance/bearing measurements
  • Snap vertices to already existing vertices during when editing or digitizing new shapes
  • Translate map layers between supported file types using the import and export operations
  • Advanced filtering tools, e.g., shape type, spatial extent, selection, and/or attribute query (using SQL Builder), to extract specific data from a shapefile layer.
  • Edit shapefile attribute information in tabular form within the data panel
  • Export/import shapefile attribute data to/from a spreadsheet or database file
  • Line smoothing mode using B-Splines
  • Special clipboard layer (copy, paste, save, unions, subtractions, etc.)
  • Splitting and unions of vector shapes
  • Merge shapefile layers into one
  • Create buffers and convex hulls and use to perform spatial selections
  • Import/export data between a map layer and GPS devices using the GPX format
  • Build polygon and polyline topology layers and use to systematically identify and correct geometrical errors in shapefile layers
  • Integrated tutorials and help files; free trial version
Viewing Features:

  • Open/read most shapefile (vector), grid, image, and SQL database map layer formats; support is native, with no need to import or convert data into any internal format
  • Open the attribute information of any vector map layer as a table in the data panel; perform advanced queries against attribute values
  • Open WMS map layers from a remote server
  • Use map layers containing multiple file types in the same project
  • Open most ESRI ArcView®, ArcExplorer®, and MapInfo Professional® projects as well as TatukGIS project files
  • Create or edit TatukGIS project files
  • Zoom in/out, pan
  • Legend panel
  • Visual layer property control for all aspects of the layer appearance (colors, styles, polygon fills, outlines, symbols, labels, transparency, etc.)
  • Custom render thematic maps based on vector attribute fields, including colored-gradient value themes; color render grid layers
  • Manipulate pixel layers (brightness, transparency, histograms, etc.)
  • Color render Digital Terrain Model (DTM) or with directional light and shadowing
  • Scale bar and user defined scale for viewing/printing
  • Add, remove, and reorder layers in a project; unlimited number of layers
  • Advanced labeling features to control fonts, sizes, colors, dynamic positioning, etc.
  • Custom render map geometry, labels, charts, etc. based on zoom (scale) level
  • Use CGM and TrueType symbols for points and lines; CGM, TrueType, and WMF symbols for fills
  • URL Hotlink for automatic linking objects to any document referenced with a valid URL (web page, file, even mailto)
  • Present data as bar and pie charts
  • Spatial querying (by point, line, circle, rectangle, polygon, and custom clipboard layer) based on the Dimensionally Extended 9 Intersection Model (DE-9IM).
  • Advanced attribute data presentation, querying, and selection with the data panel; SQL query builder
  • Measurement tools for distance, area, and perimeter
  • Print and print preview, print to PDF file
  • Copy visible extent of all layers to Windows clipboard using the EMF meta format
  • Export specific extent to image files with full or reduced resolution: TIFF/GeoTIFF/LZW, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PixelStore, PDF
  • "Internet Server Wizard" to easily set up a simple ASP.NET project for web publishing with the TatukGIS Internet Server. This provides an easy and affordable path to web publish any GIS mapping project. Click here to see a sample that was prepared with the free Viewer and web published with the TatukGIS Internet Server LITE edition.
  • 16 language user interface options

Screen shots from TatukGIS Editor:


Click to enlarge; Main menu controls relating to editing functionality, i.e...

Click to enlarge; A spatial query performed using a circle on an Oracle Spatial database layer. Query is calculated on the server side...


Click to enlarge; Digitizing a new vector layer from a MrSID format orthorectified aerial image

Click to enlarge; X,Y coordinate presentation for each vertex forming the selected polygon.


Click to enlarge; A cutting line is used to split a polygon into two polygons


Click to enlarge; Use of a river buffer to perform a selection on a polygon layer...


Click to enlarge; The merging of two TIGER line layers into a single file.

Click to enlarge; Spatial selection with a drawn circle. The attribute information for the selected streets is presented in the data panel for further processing or editing...

Click to enlarge; The results of a topology build identifies holes and overlap errors in a polygon layer


Specifications: TatukGIS Editor

Licensing Per computer

(See Price)
(See License Agreement [PDF])

Product is stand-alone. No other GIS or CAD software is required.

Supported platforms Windows (95/98/2000/ME/NT/XP/Vista).

Editing support
  • Edit/create shapefile geometry by digitizing on map with snapping to vertices
  • Edit/create shapefile geometry (points, multi-points, lines, polygons) by digitizing on map with snapping to vertices
  • Edit shapes via the import of points from a text file
  • Create a points shapefile layer via import from a text file
  • Edit, create, import, export shapefile attribute data via the data grid table
  • Unions and splitting of shapes
  • Merge shapefile layers
  • Topology building/correcting to systematically clear topology errors from shapefile layers


Vector Layer formats
  read write
SHP (ArcView shape format)* Yes Yes
E00 (ASCII & Binary) Yes  
MID/MIF (MapInfo import format) Yes Yes
TAB (MapInfo vector format) Yes  
DGN (Microstation)* Yes  
DXF (AutoCAD Export format; ASCII & Binary;
Incl. XData) *
Yes Yes
GML (Geographic Markup Language) Yes Yes
KML (Google Earth Keyhole Markup Language) Yes Yes
GDF Yes  
GPX (GPS Exchange format) Yes Yes
SDTS (TVP-Topological Vector Profile) Yes  
DLG (Digital Line Graphs) Yes Yes
TIGER 2000 (U.S. Dept. of Census) Yes  
VPF (Vector Product Format) Yes  
CSV (Comma separated values text file) Yes Yes
SQL Layers – TatukGIS format (FAQ# Q10765) Yes Yes
SQL Layers – OPENGIS® (BLOB & Normalized)
(FAQ# Q10765)**
Yes Yes
Geomedia® SQL Server & Access Warehouse (FAQ# Q10550) Yes Yes
ESRI Personal Geodatabase (Access DB)(FAQ# Q10765) Yes Yes
ESRI ArcSDE spatial server database (FAQ# Q10783) Yes  
Oracle Spatial/Locator database format (FAQ# Q10779) Yes Yes

All formats supported 'natively', i.e., without converting the data to an internal format.

* Reads SHP, DXF, and DGN 3D files
** OPENGIS® (www.opengis.org) Simple Features for SQL (Doc 99-049)

Pixel/Grid Layer formats
  read write
TIFF, GeoTIFF (uncompressed, LZW) Yes Yes
TIFF, GeoTIFF (packbits, group4) Yes  
BMP Yes Yes
BIL/SPOT Yes  
JPEG Yes Yes
JPEG2000 Yes  
PNG Yes Yes
GIF Yes  
IMG (ERDAS IMAGINE) Yes  
ECW (file based) Yes  
ECWP (server based) Yes  
MrSID (LizardTech multiresolution seamless image database) Yes  
CADRG (& CIB) (Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics) Yes  
SDTS-RPF (Raster Profile & Extensions) Yes  
TTKPS (TatukGIS PixelStore SQL-based pixel & grid coverages) Yes Yes
WMS - OpenGIS Web Mapping Service Layer Yes  
ADF (ArcInfo Integer Grid) Yes  
BT (Binary Terrain Grid) Yes  
DEM (USGS Digital Elevation Models) Yes  
DT0 (Digital Terrain Elevation Data level 0) Yes  
DT1 (Digital Terrain Elevation Data level 1) Yes  
DT2 (Digital Terrain Elevation Data level 2) Yes  
FLT (Arcinfo Float Binary Grid) Yes  
GRD (Arcinfo ASCII Grid) Yes  
GRD (Surfer ASCII Grid-DSAA) Yes  

External Database Support Read/write SQL server database vector layers in the following formats: 1) Orcale Spatial/Locator, 2) ESRI Personal Geodatabase, 3) Geomedia® SQL Server and Access Warehouse, 4)  OpenGIS® Simple Features Specification for SQL implementation, 5) TatukGIS native/binary. Reading ERSI ArcSDE vector layers.

Supported database engines: MSJET (MDB), MSSQL, Oracle, Interbase®, IBM DB2, Advantage, MySQL, and sapDB.

Import/export data between a database file and vector map attributes.
Spatial Indexing R-Tree

Spatial Querying Advanced, based on the geometric relationships between shapes using the Dimensionally Extended 9 Intersection Model (DE-9IM).

Attribute Querying Advanced, using SQL Query Builder.

Pixel Layer Manipulation Including histogram equalizations, layer transparency factor, color coding, color enhancing, etc.

Thematic Mapping Custom rendering based on layers or vector attributes; colored-gradient value themes

Window options Legend panel, mini-map viewer panel, attribute table panel

Charts/Graphs Pie and bar style

Labeling features Advanced label placement, overlap avoidance, multi-field, formatted, and support of practically any international language character set (Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Greek, etc.)

Symbols CGM Clear Text, CGM binary, and TrueType symbols for lines; CGM, TrueType, and WMF symbols for fills

Topology Buffers, intersections, unions, etc. Advanced polygon and polyline builder and correction.

Buffers Yes

OpenGIS® Features Implementation WMS, WKB, (WKT in v. 2)

Printing Print, print preview, print to PDF file format

Speed Very fast.

User Interface Language Options English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Greek, Czech, Thai, Hungarian

The Editor 2.0 version will add the following additional features.


Geographic Coordinate Systems Support for geographic coordinate systems, including on-the-fly layer reprojection of vector and raster layers between coordinate systems and OpenGIS® WKT features implementation. Includes:

- 125 projections
- 345 datums
- 500 coordinate transformations (datum shifts)
- 51 ellipsoids
- 13 Prime Meridians
- 57 unit types
- 1,800 coordinate systems, including U.S. State Planes, N.Z. Map Grid, and most other national and regional map grids in use around the world
- user defined coordinate systems based on WKT (Open GIS) projection files


Scripting Support for Pascal and Basic scripts to enable user to implement custom features or routines, user interface customizations, and access to the DK API.

Formats S-57 Marine Charting format (read-only)

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