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The Insider
Where on Eartha?
In September's Where on Eartha Challenge, we asked you to name the desert in the XMap-generated, 3-D satellite image. A surprisingly high number of you were able to recognize the Namib Desert in Namibia - perhaps the clues that were provided made it a little too easy! Nonetheless, Gary Whelan, from the Fisheries Division of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, will be receiving a copy of XMap 4.5 for submitting the correct response that was the first pulled from the hat.
This month, the stakes are higher so no clues are being offered. If you think you know the location shown in the image below, e-mail your response to contest@delorme.com before November 10, 2006. To coincide with the release of XMap 5.0 GIS, October's winner will be receiving a copy of XMap 5.0 GIS Editor along with XMap USA Topographic Data 2007 and XMap USA Street Level Data 2007. That is a value of nearly $900!
Good luck!
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to the following individuals who won an Earthmate Blue Logger GPS device after visiting our booth at recent conferences:
Winner from GIS in the Rockies Conference:
Wilson Wheeler, GIS Manager from Matrix Design Group in Denver, Colorado
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Winner from GITA's Oil & Gas Conference:
Roger Eldridge from Colonial Pipeline Company in Alpharetta, Georgia |
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Which XMap is Right For You?
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XMap Developments
Introducing the XMap 5.0 GIS Suite
Affordable Professional Mapping and GIS Database Management Software
ordernow.jpg) DeLorme is pleased to announce the release of XMap 5.0, its latest professional mapping and GIS software suite. XMap 5.0 has been designed to meet the needs of professionals who work with GIS data in the field as well as office-based mapping and GIS consultants.
XMap 5.0 is a three-tiered GIS suite that integrates advanced geospatial data management functionality into DeLorme’s core GPS-enabled mapping framework. XMap 5.0 offers access to a wide variety of raster and vector GIS file formats including AutoCAD (.dxf, .dwg) ESRI (.eoo, .shp, .prj), GML, GPX, MapInfo (.mif, .tab), MrSid, and GeoTIFF and is equally well suited as a standalone GIS solution and as a supplement to your existing GIS infrastructure. Specific markets that will benefit from XMap 5.0’s advanced GIS tools and GPS navigation include Energy and Telecom, Natural Resources, Public Safety, Government Organizations, Real Estate, Insurance, Education, and Research.
XMap 5.0 GIS Enterprise – (New) Advanced GIS database management designed to meet the needs of enterprise GIS administrators - $1499.95 per seat
- Easily deploy your GIS data to the field with check-out/in, field redlining, and database synchronization
- Create raster layers using multi-point image registration
- Efficiently utilize your current GIS databases with ArcSDE support
- Includes all of the features found in XMap 5.0 GIS Editor
XMap 5.0 GIS Editor – (Upgrade from XMap/GIS Editor) – Full featured GIS software. Finally experience the benefits of GIS in your work or expand your GIS capabilities through easy access to standard GIS data formats - $749.95 per seat (price does not include base map dataset)
- Import or create vector GIS layers with easy-to-use CAD, attribution, COGO, and topological editing tools
- Build buffer zones and geometric queries to analyze the spatial characteristics of your data
- Share your data through advanced print, file exporting, and web publishing tools
- Includes all of the features found in XMap 5.0 Professional
XMap 5.0 Professional (Upgrade from XMap 4.5) – Entry-level professional mapping software is equally well suited as a multi-faceted mapping tool and as an affordable alternative to a full-fledged GIS for field use and worksite data verification and updating –$199.95 per seat (price does not include base map data)
- Import your address-based datasets with the new bulk importer (includes command line support)
- View GIS data layers that have been processed using XMap 5.0 GIS Editor and XMap 5.0 GIS Enterprise
- Redline field data corrections using easy-to-use draw tools enabled through XMap 5.0 GIS Enterprise
- Navigate to your destination using GPS-based routing with voice-controlled navigation tools
The development of the XMap 5.0 suite of products extends DeLorme’s commitment to offer powerful spatial solutions that are both affordable and easy to learn.
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Updated XMap Vector Datasets
XMap USA Topographic Data 2007 is a topographic base map for use with all versions of XMap. Below are just some of the many features in this dataset.
Note: XMap USA Topographic Data does not include DeLorme’s searchable places of interest (POI) data. To use this data in XMap, choose the XMap USA Street Level Data 2007 base map.
- Over 6 million updated roads and 300,000 miles of trails for on-road and in-the-field navigation.
- Display your data on top of stunning terrain maps. Contours are generated dynamically and optimized for the current map view.
- Select just the features that you want to see: manually adjust the contour interval and adjust simulated position of the sun that is used to generate shaded relief.
- Shows land cover information including wetlands, forests, glaciers, grassland, rock cover, swamps, glaciers, parks and urban areas.
- Enables XMap’s 3-D terrain modeling capability for stunningly realistic map views. Click on any road, trail, or your own linear vector objects and see instant elevation profiles showing cutaway views of the terrain.
XMap USA Street Level Data 2007 is a street-level, routable vector dataset of the United States and Canada. This dataset includes:
- More than 3.4 million new and updated U.S and Canadian streets & addresses
- 6.2 million streets
- 4 million places-of-interest (POIs), including:
* Restaurants
* Accommodations
* Gas Stations
* Other Businesses
* Hospitals
* Schools & Universities
* Government Building
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XMap Testimonial Winner
ipod-winner.gif) Congratulations to Kirk Davis from Jahna Dredging, Inc. for submitting the following testimonial and winning an iPod Nano!
Jahna Dredging, Inc. is a contract dredging company located in central Florida that performs environmental dredging of canals, lakes, and rivers. In 2005, we were contracted by the Lake County Water Authority to complete maintenance dredging in 37 man-made canals located along the marshy shoreline of Lake Griffin. The canals have a total cumulative length of approximately 14 miles, most being 25 to 40 feet in width. The canals had been dug in the 1950s and 1960s through forested wetlands and swamp areas around the lake to provide boat access from the lake to the newly developed areas along the upland shoreline. Muck and sand had accumulated over the years resulting in shallow weed infested canals that were practically unusable to the residents.
A condition of the contract required Jahna to video document the condition of the canals (pre- and post-dredging) to show the transformation of the canals and to verify that boat docks, sea walls, and other structures had not been damaged by the dredging activity. Because many of the canals looked very similar to one another, and in order to accurately locate/orient the video files, Jahna purchased a copy of DeLorme XMap 4.5 with Earthmate GPS. We then purchased an imagery dataset (ADP) of the project area which was downloaded off the Internet from DeLorme. The XMap software and dataset were loaded onto a laptop computer so that it could be used in a small workboat on the canals. The USGS DOQQ aerial photos are used in the field as base maps for the videos while the green pulsating GPS locator shows exactly where we are positioned on the canals at any given time during the filming.
A small digital video camera is placed on a tripod in the front of the workboat. This digital signal is input to the laptop which is running XMap. A display window is opened and sized in the top corner of the computer screen so that the video camera image and the pertinent portions of the XMap screen can be seen together. A small text screen is additionally opened which describes the name of the canal, whether the video is pre- or post-dredging, and the date of filming. An S-video out signal is then sent from the computer to a DVD recorder in the boat. A disc representing the real time images on the computer can be recorded as the boat travels down the subject canal. These DVDs are provided to the client for documentation of canal completion along with surveyed as-built cross sections.
Jahna chose XMap because the software was relatively inexpensive to purchase, it could be loaded onto a laptop computer for use in the field, it had the ability to easily and inexpensively incorporate georeferenced aerial imagery for the base map, the GPS had the required accuracy relative to the width of the canals, and it required very little time for training to use software. We literally had the system functional within a day of purchasing XMap and the components.
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