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Amerisurv Software Review: Topocad 9 from Chaos Systems Posted on January 17, 2008
Topocad from Chaos System comes to us from Sweden. In this day and age more and more municipalities are requesting some form of surveying and engineering work that can be incorporated into their local GIS, so having a program that fits seamlessly into ArcGIS is pretty handy. Topocad is an independent survey and design program that needs no other programs, yet it works seamlessly with other programs.
Autodesk’s Enterprise Solutions, 2008 - Welcome Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2008, TopoBase 2008 Posted on July 26, 2007 Recently, Autodesk officially announced the release of Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise (MGE) 2008. This commercial product offering, built on the same architecture as the Open Source Autodesk MapGuide, was announced alongside the official release of Autodesk TopoBase 2008 – an enterprise-scale solution with several vertical application modules. The company is now making a “splash” with the official launch of these two enterprise solutions.
Looking Forward to the 2006 (First) Worldwide FME User Conference Posted on September 07, 2006 Later this month, September 21-22 to be exact, Safe Software will be hosting their first International FME User Conference in Vancouver, B.C. – Safe’s backyard! I had a chance to discuss the event with Safe Software VP, Dale Lutz… read on for more about this interesting event including a look at what existing “power users” can expect and what’s offered for FME newbies.
GISuser Test Drive - Geographic Imager, Avenza Systems Inc. Posted on February 28, 2006 Avenza's Geographic Imager is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS2 that allows you to work with spatial raster images within Photoshop, thus allowing you to use the powerful and vast image editing tools of Photoshop to enhance and manipulate your spatial imagery. Not only will these images retain their georeference information after being processed by Photoshop, it is also possible to georeference, transform and mosaic them. In a way, Geographic Imager is to Photoshop what MAPublisher is to Illustrator.
ArcGIS Explorer - The next-generation simple and fun web, mobile, and desktop client from ESRI Posted on February 07, 2006 Coming Soon... ArcGIS Explorer - ArcGIS Explorer was first referred to as ArcExplorer 9.2 last summer at the International ESRI User Conference (See http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/6426/) . The name may have changed, however, users can still expect the product to be a a free, fast, attractive, simple, and fun web, mobile, and desktop client. Users are waiting in anticipation, thus we offer up our own ArcGIS Explorer QuikTake - we also introduce you to the Arc2Earth (A2E) extension.
GeoExpress 6 Improving the way people distribute and use imagery; much more than image compression Posted on January 31, 2006 This week LizardTech has rolled out the next-generation of their powerful image editing and manipulation tools in GeoExpress 6. I had the pleasure of getting a first-hand look at this latest solution, courtesy of Carlos Domingo, company President & CEO, and Jon Skiffington, GeoExpress product manager. Read on for a look at the new features available to users of this powerful image editing and manipulation tool.
Autodesk's Free DWF Viewer Matures at Version 6.5 Posted on November 23, 2005 Now available with faster sharing of design data... have you upgraded your viewer yet?? View DWF data with the free DWF Viewer, publish DWF with the DWF writer, round-trip markups, annotations, and other changes with Autodesk DWF Composer.
Sharing Autodesk Drawings With the Free DWG TrueView Posted on October 28, 2005 There's another free viewing on the block... this one comes from Autodesk and it supports DWG and DXF! View and plot DWG and DXF files, and then publish them as DWF files for quick and easy review and markup in Autodesk DWF Composer. We take a Quik Look at the functionality provided in the latest offering from Autodesk.
See more threads and details about Glenn's AnyGeo Weblog HERE The Editor (Glenn) started the AnyGeo blog some time ago and the threads are now also mirrored here at GISuser.com - RSS feed is available to add to your favorite news reader.
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Recently, Autodesk officially announced the release of Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise (MGE) 2008. This commercial product offering, built on the same architecture as the Open Source Autodesk MapGuide, was announced alongside the official release of Autodesk TopoBase 2008 – an enterprise-scale solution with several vertical application modules. The company is now making a “splash” with the official launch of these two enterprise solutions.
Autodesk recently announced the availability of Topobase 2007. To understand where this solution comes from you'll need to go back to the 2005 Autodesk acquisition of c-Plan.
Later this month, September 21-22 to be exact, Safe Software will be hosting their first International FME User Conference in Vancouver, B.C. – Safe’s backyard! I had a chance to discuss the event with Safe Software VP, Dale Lutz… read on for more about this interesting event including a look at what existing “power users” can expect and what’s offered for FME newbies.
Avenza's Geographic Imager is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS2 that allows you to work with spatial raster images within Photoshop, thus allowing you to use the powerful and vast image editing tools of Photoshop to enhance and manipulate your spatial imagery. Not only will these images retain their georeference information after being processed by Photoshop, it is also possible to georeference, transform and mosaic them. In a way, Geographic Imager is to Photoshop what MAPublisher is to Illustrator.
Coming Soon... ArcGIS Explorer - ArcGIS Explorer was first referred to as ArcExplorer 9.2 last summer at the International ESRI User Conference (See 
This week LizardTech has rolled out the next-generation of their powerful image editing and manipulation tools in GeoExpress 6. I had the pleasure of getting a first-hand look at this latest solution, courtesy of Carlos Domingo, company President & CEO, and Jon Skiffington, GeoExpress product manager. Read on for a look at the new features available to users of this powerful image editing and manipulation tool.
Now available with faster sharing of design data... have you upgraded your viewer yet?? View DWF data with the free DWF Viewer, publish DWF with the DWF writer, round-trip markups, annotations, and other changes with Autodesk DWF Composer.
There's another free viewing on the block... this one comes from Autodesk and it supports DWG and DXF! View and plot DWG and DXF files, and then publish them as DWF files for quick and easy review and markup in Autodesk DWF Composer. We take a Quik Look at the functionality provided in the latest offering from Autodesk.
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