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From the News Room

2008:74 is the 59th Release of the TNT products

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MicroImages maintains an ambitious software development schedule with a new version of the TNT products coming out every year with new features, fixes, and speed-ups. This aggressive schedule allows the company to implement innovative features quickly and be responsive to user requests.
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26 August 2008 Quick Look - Inspect an LAS File [image: Inspect an LAS File]   
LAS files, which are a public format for the storage and exchange of LIDAR point data, can be directly displayed in the TNTmips Display process. You can view the metadata contained in the file header by opening the Metadata Viewer and Editor window from the layer's right mouse button menu in the Display Manager. The LAS header includes file creation date, generating software, number of point records and number of points by return.
For more information on LIDAR data in TNT Products, please see the following Technical Guides:
    - Use LAS LIDAR Point Files as Shape Objects     - Point Profile Tool
Also see:
    - Announcement: Recent LIDAR Activities
25 August 2008 TNT Products Application: Tourism Planning (2-sided) [image: 00tourismplanning.gif] 
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Tourism Planning. TNTmips provides powerfull tools for managing spatial materials for tourism planning to identify tourism opportunities, develop diverse types of natural and cultural attractions, tourism infrastructure and provide tourism services. With GIS, image processing, 2D/3D visualisation and geospatial analysis tools, TNTmips help tourism planners create, modify, and analyze spatial data to plan tourism developments, monitor their implementation and impact on economy, environment, and culture. 
Tourism Planning(2-sided) 
20 August 2008 Quick Look - Dragging Nodes [image: Dragging Nodes]   
The 2008 Editor provides automatic reshaping of lines connected to a node you are repositioning. You determine the percentage of the line length you want reshaped and the vertices are adjusted linearly with a scale determined by their distance from the repositioned node. When the line length is set to 100%, all the vertices are repositioned. When the line length is set to 0%, the node is connected to the nearest vertex by a straight line.
For more information on editing vectors, see the following tutorials:
    - Editing Vector Geodata
    - Advanced Vector Editing
19 August 2008 TNT Products Application: Planning Tourism Events (2-sided) [image: 00tourismevents.gif] 
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Planning Tourism Events. TNTmips provides a variety of tools for managing spatial materials for event planning from selecting the event site to organizing the physical arrangement of booths, stands, stages etc. With GIS, 2D/3D visualization and geospatial analysis tools, TNTmips helps event planners plan, organize, promote, operate and evaluate tourism events. 
TNTmips also provides a variety of data publishing methods such as hardcopy printing, PDF creation, online mapping, electronic atlases, Google Earth overlays, and 3D simulations to assist in using your spatial information to promote, publicize and manage your events.
Planning Tourism Events(2-sided)
15 August 2008 A New Documentation Category: Quick Look [image: Edit in Stereo]   
MicroImages is working on a new type of documentation called Quick Look. A Quick Look page provides a graphic introduction to new features in the TNT products. Look for upcoming Technical Guides to provide more details on these features.
The sample on the left shows the new capability of "Editing in Stereo" which was added to version 2008:74 recently. When you have a stereo image on your Spatial Editor, the process will automatically get the elevation values from the surface and create your vector in 3D using those values.
14 August 2008 New in TNTmips 2008! [image: 74SyncGoogleEarthRasterThemeMapNF1.jpg]   
A new 2-page feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new functionality of Syncing with Google Earth in TNT products. The TNT products provide a variety of ways to communicate with Google Earth. The newest method in your TNT product lets you synchronize Google Earth to view the same area as your 2D and 3D views. When you reposition or zoom your view, the new view information is sent to Google Earth and its position and zoom are adjusted to match.
This method is activated by turning on the Zoom Google Earth to Match View icon in the View window. This method lets you see Google Earth's representation of the area you are viewing in TNT. To view your TNT layers in Google Earth, use the Render To KML feature in the TNT Display process or the Export to KML process.
Syncing with Google Earth ...
13 August 2008 Display speed is phenomenal [image: testimonials4.jpg]   
[Client email from USA]
The speed of display is phenomenal given the size of the dataset and fact that it is run through [i.e., from] an external drive [USB drive]. The Nevada MrSIDs [county files] take around 40-60 seconds to display on my beefed up laptop!
[These comments refer to display of a single multifile raster object will 8192 by 8192 JP2 tiles compressed 15 to 1 (~60 Gb). The single image covers all of Nevada in 24 bit color at 1 meter resolution (uncompressed ~800 Gb).]
[The MrSID display noted above is for a smaller county sized file being displayed from the USB attached drive. These county files in MrSID format are also compressed 15 to 1 and were used to build the single multifile raster object of the state.]
[The clients comments refer to a display time on his portable from this file of about 1 second at any scale and without any caching. If the multifile raster of the Nevada state coverage was on the hard drive the display time would be reduced to .3 seconds at any scale and without caching. This identical Nevada multfile raster object can be viewed at any scale in seconds via the TNTserver at www.microimages.com/TNTmap/StateOrtho2.htm.
Client Testimonials ...
12 August 2008 Industry News... [image: NikonP600.jpg]   
Affordable Geotagging Camera
Take high resolution geotagged photos for use in the TNT products for US$500 using Nikon's Coolpix P6000, announced at 8 August 2008. This long-awaited camera has - Built-in GPS receiver - 13.5 megapixels (4224 by 3168 pixels) - Supports RAW format - 4X wide-angle zoom with optical stabilization - Built-in ethernet connector
Nikon web site ...
11 August 2008 Interest Growing [from Germany] [image: testimonials3.jpg]   
[email from an International Reseller]
The [a name] fair has been quite a success for us. First of all it is worth to mention that for the first time our booth was as large as the booth of ESRI. In the past ESRI used to cover around 15 to 20 sq m on the [fair's] floor and more than 300 sq m on the [exposition's]. , while we always book 5 sq m for the [fair] (like ESRI did this year) and up to 18 sq m on the [exposition]. Their booth has been empty of visitors and staff most of the time, no lights, no [language] materials. Quite good for us. See attached materials.
We have had some promising discussions with people already using Geomedia and ESRI products. And we have had a great feedback from those already using TNT products and know the ESRI products as well. Most of them prefer to do their work with TNT products!
On the [fair] we have met with [2 client names] who are both heavily using the TNTmips SAL [Special Academic License]. It is [a name] who now wants to extent the TNTmips SAL to 10 seats. One reason is the free use of TNTserver.
The interest in the TNT products seem to grow. One reason might be that after more than 10 years of GIS usage in authorities and engineering companies the staff is more experienced and can now understand what TNT really offers. [The expositions noted here are a national fair and European exposition focused upon geospatial activities.]
Client Testimonials ...
6 August 2008
TNT Products Application: Environmental Planning (2-sided) [image: 00EnvPlanning.gif] 
A new product application page surveys the use of the TNT products in Environmental Planning. TNTmips provides powerful spatial analysis tools that can assist you in addressing wide variety of environmental issues such as soil and slope analysis, watershed analysis, landuse and ground water protection, ecological assestment for vegetation, wetlands and habitats, air quality, energy etc. With GIS, image processing, 2D/3D visualisation and geospatial analysis tools, TNTmips enhances understanding and analysis of the environment, related hydrological, geological and ecological systems, and human development. 
TNTmips also supports collaborative environmental management by providing a variety of data publishing methods such as creating electronic atlases, Google Earth overlays, and 3D simulations.
Environmental Planning(2-sided) 
5 August 2008 Mineral Resources Map of East Asia created in TNTmips [from Japan] [image: mrm-e_asia-1s.jpg]   
The Geological Survey of Japan, AIST has recently published a Mineral Resources Map of East Asia 1:3,000,000 which "was mostly processed by TNTmips" according to an email from an international reseller.
This map consists of two large sheets (109 by 79 cm) that show approximately 3,200 mineral deposits.  Symbol shape and color depict the metal or mineral content and symbol size denotes the relative importance of the deposit. Fill colors depict the age and general category of exposed rock units and hatch overlays indicate more specific rock types. Major faults are also mapped. The map base includes hydrographic features and major place names.
The Mineral Resources Map of East Asia is available for purchase from the Geological Survey of Japan:
http://www.gsj.jp/Map/EN/new-maps.htmss="a10">

4 August 2008 Direct Editing and Creation of Shapefiles (2-sided) [image: 74EditShape.gif]   
A new 2-page Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that describes how you can use the Spatial Data Editor to directly create or edit shapefiles.
When you select a shapefile for direct editing, changes are updated to the linked shapefile as they are made. When creating a new shapefile, you are prompted to select a shapefile and you click on the new file button and name it at that time.
Direct Editing and Creation of Shapefiles (2-sided) ...
1 August 2008 TNTserver: Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Specifications [image: 74OGCsupport.gif]   
A new 2-page Technical Guide for 2008:74 has been posted that summarizes the current status of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service specifications and the support for them in TNTserver.
TNTserver supports all of the mandatory operations in the current OGC specifications for the core web service capabilities: Web Map Service, Web Features Service, and Web Coordinate Transformation Service.
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Specifications ...
31 July 2008 Language update for Italian 2008:74 [image: italian74thumb.gif]   
The language interface package for Italian has been posted for 2008:74. The TNT products can be used with 29 international languages.
All language packages are included in the full TNT products distribution, and the most recent updates are available for free download.
30 July 2008 Quick Guide: Create PDF Files from Map Layouts [image: 74renderlayoutstoPDF.gif]   
A new Quick Guide for 2008:74 has been posted describing how you can create a PDF file from your group or layout.
What Creating PDF Files from Map Layouts Gives You:
- Match the extents of any open 2D or 3D View window or match the inclusive extents of all layers in a view - Choose to link to system fonts, embed fonts, or render text - Set the coordinate accuracy for raster cells and geometric elements in PDF file - Control visibility of group(s) and spatial objects individually in Acrobat
Create PDF Files from Map Layouts ...
29 July 2008 Geological Map of Central Asia created in TNTmips [from Japan] [image: c_asia-1_s.jpg]   
The Geological Survey of Japan, AIST has recently published a Geological Map of Central Asia 1:3,000,000 which "was mostly processed by TNTmips" according to an email from an international reseller.
This map consists of two large sheets (109 by 79 cm) with colors depicting the age and general category of exposed rock units and hatch overlays indicating more specific rock types. Major faults are also mapped. The map base includes hydrographic features and major place names.
The Geological Map of Central Asia is available for purchase from the Geological Survey of Japan:
http://www.gsj.jp/Map/EN/new-maps.htm ...
28 July 2008 New in TNTmips 2008! [image: 74InlineFilterNF.gif]   
A new feature summary for 2008:74 has been posted describing the new Inline Image Filtering capability.
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