Posts Tagged ‘GIS Software’

ArcGIS Explorer Build 1200 Released

March 11th, 2010

The new version of ArcGIS Explorer (Build 1200) is available for download since today. This version is essentially an update of the current version (Build 900), builds on its intuitive design, improving access to geoprocessing services and expanding available maps in the Basemap Gallery.

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GeoSpatial Modelling Environment

March 9th, 2010

The Geospatial Modelling Environment (GME) is the predecessor of the Hawths Tools extension for ArcGIS, but with some important improvements. It is designed to help to facilitate rigorous spatial analysis and modelling by linking ArcGIS to the statistical software package R. It has a greater range of analysis and modelling tools, supports batch processing, offers new graphing functionality, automatically records work-flows for future reference, supports geodatabases, and can be called programatically.

ScribbleMaps: Create your own map online

March 8th, 2010

ScribbleMaps is a useful Google Maps mashup, which easy to use web tool for annotating and sharing maps. It supports Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and CloudMade and a menu of tools we can customize our map by adding lines, points, text, shapes of different colors, in short, a complete online edition.

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Geosense for Windows

March 3rd, 2010

Geosense is a free software driven location, applications that are able to determine where you are in the world are a powerful way to make information more relevant without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.

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Terrain Visualization with Terrain Bender

March 2nd, 2010

Terrain Bender applies progressive bending to digital terrain models for 3D mapping. It offers interactive tools to add a bent base to a digital terrain model.

» Read more: Terrain Visualization with Terrain Bender

Desktop Earth 2.0

February 25th, 2010

Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator. It will generate a high-resolution, accurate representation of the Earth. The imagery is based on NASA’s Blue Marble Next and Earth’s City Lights.

Desktop Earth will generate a high-resolution (the imagery is calculated from high-resolution 2560×1280 textures!!) representation of the Earth combined with city lights data which will be used to generate the Wallpaper. The image also changes automatically to represent snow and foilage changes across the seasons.

» Read more: Desktop Earth 2.0

Merge Two or More Shapefiles or TAB Files into a Single Shapefile Using GeoMerge

February 20th, 2010

GeoMerge is a utility that lets you merge two or more shapefiles or  TAB files into a single shapefile.

Select two or more shapefiles or TAB files that are to be merged, and click the ‘Merge Files’ button. The files will be validated for a common schema. If all of the files selected have exactly the same column definitions in the .dbf file the records and shapes from each individual file will be concatenated into a new shapefile.

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ArcView 3.x Extension : Multiple Images Hotlink

February 16th, 2010

This ArcView 3.x extension allows you to display multiple images that have been associated with a feature. Simply requires that you have the path and filename of the image stored in a field. Fields can contain multiple paths and names of other images. Orange diamond is added to the View toolbar. Click the tool and then select the function you want to see the pictures. The images will open in a new window display. You can resize, pan, zoom, etc.

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Easy to Copy a Complex MXD onto a CD or DVD

February 10th, 2010

MXD packager will copy any layers in the ArcMap TOC to a single destination, and change the data source for the layers to point to the new datasets on disk. This script will also change the MXD to hold Relative Paths, making it easy to copy a complex MXD onto a CD or DVD with all datasets included.


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ArcBruTile: OpenStreetMap, ESRI, Bing Maps and Geodan GeoServer in ArcGIS Desktop

January 27th, 2010

ArcBruTile, based on the library BruTile to allow display tiles from OpenStreetMap, ESRI, Bing Maps and Geodan GeoServer in ArcGIS Desktop.

Examples:
Local data can be combined with tiles from ArcBruTile, here we see United Nations Haiti Basemap Data from ArcGIS Online combined with the actual OpenStreetMap for Haiti.
haiti.png » Read more: ArcBruTile: OpenStreetMap, ESRI, Bing Maps and Geodan GeoServer in ArcGIS Desktop

ArcGIS Server On BlackBerry

January 27th, 2010

Freeance Mobile brings ESRI’s ArcGIS® Server software to BlackBerry® smartphones. Save time and resources with quick map and data lookup right from your BlackBerry smartphone.

Freeance Mobile is innovative, easy to use location software for mobile applications effectively. Now you can make your ArcGIS available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. These issues are of free software for users and administrators. Designed for the ESRI and BlackBerry environments Freeance Mobile from $ 999 per server for unlimited users and off-combines the simplicity of the platform with the opportunity to make their applications.

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Nokia’s Ovi Maps Navigation Goes Free

January 22nd, 2010

Nokia announced that it is releasing a new version of Ovi Maps navigation software is free for download at www.nokia.com / maps. Ten Nokia phones update currently, but only in the USA: the Mini-N97, E72, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition. According to the company develops, every Nokia Symbian S60 device developed from now on will be eligible for the free navigation service.

Ovi Maps covers more than 180 countries with car and pedestrian navigation for 74 countries in 46 languages and 6000 3D landmarks for 200 cities around the world. Lonely Planet and Michelin guides have information on more than 1,000 destinations globally.

» Read more: Nokia’s Ovi Maps Navigation Goes Free

Technical Guide Datum and Coordinate System

January 20th, 2010

Download for free

Technical Guide Datum and Coordinate System from BAKOSURTANAL

This technical guide available in PDF format include an application software to :

  • Geographic Coordinate transformation to UTM and vice versa
  • Geographic Coordinates Transformation to TM3 ° and vice versa
  • Coordinate Transformation adjacent UTM zone
  • Coordinate Transformation in ID-74 to DGN-95
  • Corner Coordinate Transformation in Map-ID-74 to 95 DGN
  • UTM Map Projection Transformation in ID-74 to DGN-95
  • Map Projection Transformation TM3 ° to UTM.

» Read more: Technical Guide Datum and Coordinate System

LiDAR-Tools Collection for ArcMap (VBA / with menu)

January 4th, 2010

The FELIS-Analyst is a free LiDAR-tools for ArcMap.

The device offers several possibilities to import LiDAR-RawData to ArcMap & analyze it. In the actual Version of the FELIS-Analyst the following tools are included:

  • Raw data:
  1. Import of ASCII – raw data
  2. Georeferencing of raw data
  3. Merging raw data
  4. Normalization or raw data
  5. Selection of raw data
  • Digital Elevation models:
  1. Calculation of DTMs (Digital Terrain Models)
  2. Calculation of DSMs (Digital Surface Models)
  3. Calculation of nDSMs (normalized Digital Surface Models)

Analysis: Several tools of the Spatial Analyst are integrated into the FELIS-Analyst (Hillshade-Image, Slope-Image, Aspect-Image, Contour lines) » Read more: LiDAR-Tools Collection for ArcMap (VBA / with menu)

GPS For Google Earth

December 26th, 2009

GPS for Google Earth converts the free Google-Earth-Version into to a realtime GPS-navigation for laptop and netbook. The own GPS-position it shown and tracked in real time in “Google Earth”. Also by night, with fog or mist you’ll see your current movement like on a bright day on the screen.
Each tour is automatically recorded. One may play animations of formerly recorded GPS logs.

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