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Basic solutions, good business

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. There is always something that tools of big companies don’t do very well, on this small ones take advantage to develop solutions that meet clients’ needs, generally themselves were clients. If it is a good business or not, the model is interesting, often go to the annual conferences ...

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Dynamic Maps, doing more with Manifold IMS

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Good businesses in technology are always filling unmet needs of existing products or improving their skills. In recent days we have been talking about Manifold IMS services, which although are not equivalent to having GisServer, neither cost $ 35,000 per processor. In my case I think Manifold is ...

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Videos for learning Manifold and ArcGIS

ScanControl is a website with much to show, but what more drew my attention is that it has presented a demo videos series first of ArcGIS, something not surprising as it’s a highly popularized tool; but what is really interesting is that it also presents a series of videos of Manifold GIS, a tool that is growing but of which ...

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Questions about IIS, IMS and Manifold GIS

  Answering to questions from my last meeting with the technician who is thinking a lot with the municipalities in the creation of publishing services with Manifold GIS, in order to end the Manifold’s manual I mentioned earlier. The intention to create these services is that the land registry department can serve data without sharing the files, nor worrying about ...

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Top 60, the most searched of egeomate 2008

Here is the list of the 60 most popular words in egeomate (geofumadas in Spanish) in this 2008 year: 1. Own brand (1%) This is the keyword for which have reached more visits, usually used by those who already know the blog, who did not attend nor have read rss in their favorites, and not to write the crazy url ...

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Who Moved My Cheese?

I like Geoinformatics so much, cause besides being a magazine with a great layout appeal; the contents are very good in geospatial. Today has been announced the release of April, where I have taken some texts highlighted in red to motivate a luscious reading. In earlier versions I did a summary for them, today I’ve taken as the post theme, ...

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Connect MicroStation V8i with WMS services

  A while ago we showed an archaic form of how was it possible to connect to OGC services using MicroStation; I remember Keith told me that the next version would have these capabilities. Connect To access, it’s always made using raster manager that now, additional to adding a raster file and imaging service it is displayed web map service ...

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Connect Manifold with Open Street Map

Some time ago I spoke that Manifold can connect to Google, Yahoo and Virtual Earth. It has now emerged the connector to link with Open Street Maps (OSM), which incidentally has been developed in C# by a forum user called Jkelly. The news appeared this week in the Manifold’s forum, where were both loaded the .dll to connect as the ...

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Manifold GIS manual for municipal use

Some time ago I had mentioned I was working a manual for the Geographic Information System (GIS) implementation using Manifold GIS. After my advice, several had commented their interest in the document, so given that such initiatives should be popularized for use by others, who will improve and provide feedback; here it is published only for reference and not for ...

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ArcGIS and Manifold GIS comparison

It’s just a titanic work which has made by a Manifold’s user called tomasfa and that has been uploaded to that tool’s forum. It reminds me that Arthur J. Lembo’s work when he did a very systematic job of how to do the same routine with ArcGIS and Manifold. More than the comparative sense I was struck by the number ...

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Manifold GIS creating layouts for printing

In this post we will see how to create an output map or what we call layout using Manifold GIS. Basics To create a layout, Manifold allows you to keep nested in a dataframe or a map as it is known, although it may be within a folder or associated with a layer or another Manifold object called parent. You ...

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Manifold GIS 9… faster

From March 16, we got a vaporware than Manifold has made a press release, which speaks about the upcoming precedence of its 9th version product.   According to what they have said, Manifold GIS 9 would be leaving the market in this 2009 first half, and Chris C has already pronounced about it. After two years, we know it was not ...

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How to activate a Manifold GIS license

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. There I see the question in Google Analytics very often, so let’s talk awhile to smoke about this. 1. Download Manifold Manifold can not be downloaded like any other brand, unless you pay with your credit card ($ 245 USD) the personal version, then before 30 days ended ...

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A Manifold GIS course in 2 days

If it were necessary to provide a course of Manifold in just two days, this would be the course outline. The fields marked as practical should be done hands on work, using a step by step exercise. First day 1. GIS Principles What is GIS Differences between raster and vector data Cartographic Projections Free Resources 2. Manifold Basic Operation (Practice) ...

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Finally back from Manifold’s course

This week has been hard, after an excellent technician who was for over a year in the project with us has resigned; so I had to make the seminars that he was going to give on Manifold for municipal use. At the same time I must prepare two new replacement instructors. The first workshop was a Microstation review three weeks ...

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Testing a NetBook in CAD/GIS

Some days ago I had considered testing how it works a Netbook in the geomatic medium, in this case I have been testing an Acer One that rural technicians commissioned me to buy on a visit to the city. The test helped me to decide if my next purchase will be invested on other high performance HP or if these ...

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How to create hyperlinks in Manifold GIS

A hyperlink is always necessary in a map, we have used it for example in a cadastral layer to associate photos, cadastral certificate, the writing of a record or in the case of municipal layer to associate information relative to that territory, mainly the one who is not easily tabulated. In this case you will see how to create hyperlinks ...

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Business Intelligence, GIS for business

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. The case I saw this software a year ago with some studious (egeomated) friends while they were making a system for an international banking group. Specifically, the matter was to geo-reference account holders’ credit card, which was an odyssey considering that addresses were written almost in rock art. ...

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