Saturday, June 2, 2018

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

TurboCAD - Professional 2D and 3D Design Software

TurboCAD Professional

Turbo CAD is a CAD software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting running on the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Turbo CAD is designed by IMSI/Design, LLC, a private company headquartered in Novato, California. IMSI/Design products include the award-winning Turbo CAD, TurboFLOORPLAN, TurboSketch, and DesignCAD families of precision design applications.
Turbo CAD Pro Basic and Platinum editions contain general drafting tools, as well as tools for 3D architectural and mechanical design. Both editions will create ACIS Solids or TC Surface objects. The Basic editions contain limited set architectural and mechanical tools, whereas Platinum contains all the tools (600+).

For less demanding users, a less expensive Turbo CAD Deluxe 2D / 3D version is available. Its 3D tools are TC Surface tools and have a limited amount of Architectural and mechanical tools.
For users needing only 2D functionality, there is the much less expensive TurboCAD Designer. With the exception of Turbo CAD Designer, the other Turbo CAD releases support both 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools.
Turbo CAD Pro 18 is IMSI's powerful, professional 2D and 3D design CAD package for all design professionals - architects, surveyors, joiners, fitters, mechanical engineers and conceptual designers. Turbo CAD delivers an outstanding combination of tools; more often associated with costly, high-support-dependant CAD solutions.
Users want to be able to seamlessly import files from other CAD sources so they can carry on with their design project - not spend hours on the phone to technical support trying to resolve problems.

Salient Features of Turbo CAD

1) Advanced Drawing tools include over 40 line, arc, curve, and spline tools plus over 50 modification tools. They aren’t organized exactly like Auto CAD, but they are still easy to find.

2) What if analysis is provided to streamline your design process. Being able to plan ahead and see if your ideas would work out without spending a lot of time designing them.

3) Select, copy, and editing tools allow you to edit more than one component at a time and can save you time by copying similar objects and editing them to create a new object.

4) Parametric design allows you to create objects and components that you can reuse throughout your project. For those of you who are experts there is also a scripting function to design your parts.

5) The Light works rendering engine has been updated to allow illumination to be added anywhere in your design. This is a nice wow feature for when you’re doing “the sell” presentation.

6) You can connect to any ODBC database and define bill of materials, field reports, and part lists.

7) With the Arch and Platinum edition you can add sheetrock, wiring, etc. Also a nice wow feature, but also a good way to keep building costs in mind.

8 ) Doors and windows parametrically designed can be dragged and dropped into place and yes they’re self healing.

9) Stairs, railings, and slabs have all been improved and there are tons of options.

Turbo CAD is very similar to Auto CAD, both having different options and similar options. It’s hard to say one is better than the other. Some people are raving about the improved ability to import and export from Google sketch, and being able to connect to an offsite or network database are two extremely helpful improvements. Because Turbo CAD isn’t a market leader they are offering more options than Auto CAD who is the market leader; although the programs are similar.

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Turbo CAD software is the way to go since they are offering more functionality and features.

Friday, December 9, 2011

List of Map Vendors and Commercially Available GIS data for India

Geospatial Data availability in India
India is fast moving into being an information and knowledge society – especially with the emphasis on Information Technology and “transparent” e-governance. The future will see further large-scale investment in communications technology as India moves to exploit the full potential of the information age. Initiatives by the Government, including the IT Act, as well as announced plans for private and public investment, make it clear that within a few years an unprecedented capability will exist for sharing of data along “electronic superhighways.” Amongst the variety of datasets that would be involved, spatial (or map) information will be a major “content”. These Spatial information sets are vital to make sound decisions at the local, regional, state and central level planning, implementation of action plans, infrastructure development, disaster management support, and business development. Natural Resources management, flood mitigation, environmental restoration, land use assessments and disaster recovery are just a few examples of areas in which decision-makers are benefiting from spatial information.


Follwing is the list of some Map Vendors and Commercially available GIS data for India

·  MPGIS: A village level GIS on State of Madhya Pradesh, India. The economic and quality solutions given by it designers is the outcome of large experience in field level applications. It is available for all kinds of GIS mapping and custom based GIS software solutions.
·  GIS Maps: GIS Maps is a online India GIS data map store. Where you can fullfill all your gis data related requirements. We have an outstanding amount of GIS map data for different parts of the country. We have maintain very low price range for all our gis maps product, Our all gis & data products you can purchase online from our GIS DATA section. Our GIS data can serve for wide range of industries and sector including Transportaion, Telecommunication, Mining, Tourism, Muncipal, Utility sectors, Automotive, Real Estate and Retail sector etc
Eicher  : Leader of high quality GIS data in India since 1995, through a strategic alliance with Survey of India, Eicher offers spatial data at scales ranging from 1:4000 to 1:1M for various cities & states of India. Eicher’s Spatial Data is available for industries such as Telecom, Utilities and Power, Government Organizations like Defense, Election Commissions, Municipal Corporations, Town Planning organizations, Rural & Urban Development authorities, Emergency Services & Police, Infrastructure, FMCG companies, Transportation, Fleet Management & Logistic companies, Real Estate. email : reach@eicher.co.in
·  India Map store: We are leading GIS and Vector Map Development Company.Our team is specalised in GIS and vector data processing | care@indiamapstore.com
·  TTK Maps and GIS: TTK Maps was established in 1965 as a cartographic map making unit and since then it has evolved into a strong GIS, Cartography and Application Development presence. Backed by decades of experience in Cartography and mapping solutions, TTK Maps GIS Division has the expertise to provide complete mapping solutions with its new state-of-the art technology and infrastructure now in place. Contact us at harish@ttkgis.com
·  ArdoSama Geospatial: We have the fresh GPS Points data at Reasonable Cost for more than 50 categories.Mail us at ardosama@gmail.com
·  RFVERSA: RFVERSA supplies crucial busines related GIS data, both for India and other parts of the world. We provide GIS data in different formats as per the client request. We supply digital maps of various Indian cities including navigable streets, clutter data, administrative boundaries and business geographics. E-mail: vijay@rfversa.com
·  Transworld Compressor Technologies Ltd.: GIS Point data for India. Collected database of Cellular Base Stations across India, geo-referenced.
·  SGS Infotech Pvt. Ltd.: Providing GIS Maps and their solutions.
·  Lepton Software Export & Research Pvt. Ltd.: Over years, Leptonmaps has evolved as one of the top mapping firm serving the needs of global Telecommunications ,local navigation and LBS industries. The strength of Leptonmaps lies in delivering customized map content to the continuously changing customer needs.
·  TriCAD: TriCAD is in the process of collecting the attribute data of every individual parcel for all metros, major cities in india on cost sharing basis. this model is worked out well for our valued clients to procure the highly accurate data at 1/2 the cost. What ever the complicated GIS application/decision support system you think we make it comfortable and economical. Interested talk to us on 9848325455.
·  LeadDog Consulting: LeadDog is a leading provider of GIS mapping worldwide with coverage in over 90 countries. LeadDog maps provide the fuel for many global spatial applications. Please visit our website to view our maps online and to contact us for a map catalog.
·  ML Infomap Pvt Ltd: ML Infomap's map data sets have evolved over a period of fifteen years, while the company has focused on consistently improving map coverage, accuracy and currency. Today, it has the largest repository of POIs and seamless, nationwide base maps and city street maps. Clients use ML Infomap's map data sets to support terrain modelling, retail segmentation, navigation and Location Based Services. The map data sets are widely used for academic research, geographical analysis and Internet publishing.
·  Geographic Enterprises: Highest Quality GIS Map Datasets available ‘off the shelf’ in MapInfo and ESRI ArcGIS formats.
·  CE Info Systems (P) Ltd: Shop our map & data store for a comprehensive range of CD Maps, digital maps, digital data & paper maps. We guarantee they will aid you drive business decisions faster & deploy enterprise level GIS seamlessly across your organization.
·  Environmental Information Center: Comprehensive environmental dataset from The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), India
·  Maptell: Maptell include an astounding amount of GIS data, both for India and other parts of the world. We provide GIS data in different formats as per the client request. We supply digital maps of various Indian cities. This data comprise roads, landuse, points of interest and a lot more.


Freely available GIS data for India
  • Geo Community: Free nationwide data for India - Admin boundaries, Hyderpgraphy, DEM etc.
  • Election Commission of India GIS Data (free): Under the Electronic Election data initiative, the Commission has opened its databases. This section contains GIS data of Parliament and Assembly Boundaries, as SHAPE files as well as Digital Data (Lat-Long points) in XML format.
Web GIS Portals
  • Samajkalyana.org: Development support mapping and documentation system. Web mapping for Karnataka state.
  • TamilNadu Maps Online: Online map portal by GIS DIVISION - National Informatics Centre-Tamil Nadu State Centre, Chennai
  • NIC Portal: WebGIS application for village level mapping of demographics and amenities for entire India


Thursday, December 8, 2011

Learn GIS Online- Useful Links

1. Courses & Tutorials                                              
Geographic Informaton System (GIS) is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analyzing and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface.
Typically, a Geographical Information System is used for handling maps of one kind or another. These might be represented as several different layers where each layer holds data about a particular kind of feature. Each feature is linked to a position on the graphical image on a map and a record in an attribute table. GIS can relate otherwise disparate data on the basis of common geography, revealing hidden patterns, relationships, and trends that are not readily apparent in spreadsheets or statistical packages, often creating new information from existing data resources.
Hidden in most data is a geographical component: an address, postal code, census block, city, county, or latitude/longitude coordinate. With GIS, you can explore the spatial element of your data to display soil types, track crime patterns, analyze animal migration patterns, find the best location for an expanding business, model the path of atmospheric pollution, and make decisions for many types of complicated problems.
Whether you are a student, faculty, or a staff already using GIS or you are completely new to this technology, here are some useful links to online literature and tools to upgrade your knowledge and skillset.

GIS Tutorials
Remote Sensing Tutorials
  • ENVI Tutorials- A variety of step-by-step guides covering topics ranging from getting started with ENVI to classification tools to programming with IDL.
  • Remote Sensing Tutorial- A comprehensive introduction to Remote Sensing developed by NASA.
GPS Tutorials
Internaltional GIS Programs / Courses 

2. GIS Software :  There are many GIS software packages, each offering different application niches. Below is a list of popular GIS and Remote Sensing software programs.
ArcGIS is developed by ESRI, a GIS industry leader. ESRI software focuses on the technical needs of GIS users and has products for desktop computers, servers and hand-held devices. Stanford has a campus-wide site license of ESRI software. Visit our download software page for more information.
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System), originally developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is an open source program with complete GIS functionality.
Manifold is a low-cost and a complete GIS. License files are available to Stanford; please contact the GIS Manager for further details.
GeoDa a free spatial analysis package also specializing in geovisualization.
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly open source GIS that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.
DIVA-GIS is a free GIS focusing on mapping and analyzing biodiversity data.
Remote Sensing Software
IdrisiIDRISI developed by Clark University's Clark Labs, is an low-cost integrated GIS and image processing software with many analysis modules.
IMAGINE an image processing, classification and visualization software.
ENVI provides a variety of image processing and classification functions and has a particular strength in hyperspectural image analysis. ENVI is written in IDL (Interactive Data Language)and both are available to the Stanford community at a low cost through Software Licensing
Virtual Globe
Google Earth is free for individual use and is a great program for visualizing imagery of the Earth. Personal geospatial data can be added and additional functionality is available through the Plus and Pro versions at a low-cost price.
NASA World Wind is a free 3D visualization tool linking to many NASA imagery sources, such as Landsat and MODIS satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)data.

3. Sites to find Scripts and other GIS tools
  • ESRI ArcScripts - Expand the power of GIS with many helpful scripts. and extensions
  • Directions Magazine - Free tools (extensions, translators, scripts, fonts, etc..) for many different GIS programs.
  • Spatial Online -A collection of ArcView extensions and applications.
ArcGIS Tools and Scripting Help
  • EasyCalculate
    set of expressions for the ArcGIS field calculator
  • ET GeoWizards
    A set of functions for ArcGIS 8.1 and above packed in a user friendly wizard-type interface that helps users manipulate data with ease.
  • MXD Defragmenter
    reduce the size over overly large MXD files
  • Spatial Ecology
    An extension for ArcGIS designed to automate and perform spatial analysis
    functions that cannot be conveniently accomplished with out-of-the-box
    ArcGIS
  • V-LATE
    Vector-based Landscape Analysis Tools Extension.
  • XTools
    contains useful vector spatial analysis, shape conversion and table management tools developed by the Oregon Department of Forestry
ArcView Tools
  • Spatial Tools ArcView ExtensionSpatial Tools is a collection of tools for Raster/Grid data. Its menus, tools, and buttons provide access to various spatial modeling and analysis capabilities such as: clipping, mosaicking,  merging grids, resolution alteration, data clean-up and spatial analysis. Note: Spatial Analyst  must be loaded simultaneously. Download from USGS.
  • Image to Map Transformer Utility
    If you need to georeference .bmp or .jpg images (aerials) to a map in ArcView, use this extension available from Seminole County GIS.
  • ArcView Stream Digitizing ExtensionCreated to support on-screen (heads-up) digitizing of lines and polygons in stream mode
  • Spatial News
    This page offers many ArcView scripts that can't be found anywhere else.
  • Piersson's ArcView Tools
    Various ArcView scripts, extensions, and other goodies.  Some are unique to this site.
  • Patch Analyst
    ArcView extension facilitating the spatial analysis of landscape patches.
ArcInfo Tools
General GIS Tools
Help for Python Scripting with ArcGIS
Python is one of the most user-friendly programming languages available today. It is open source, runs on just about every platform, and can be used to program many kinds of GIS software, including many ESRI products.
Books
Websites
A Guide to the Python Universe for ESRI
The official website for the Python language

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Antique Maps

Maps in the Human History

The map is one of the oldest forms of nonverbal communication. Humans were probably drawing maps before they were writing texts

A map is a graphic representation or scale model of spatial concepts. It is a means for conveying geographic information. Maps are a universal medium for communication, easily understood and appreciated by most people, regardless of language or culture.


Are maps realistic representations of the actual world? No--never! Field measurements are subject to errors of accuracy and precision.A map can display only a few selected features, which are portrayed usually in highly symbolic styles according to some kind of classification scheme. In these ways, all maps are estimations, generalizations, and interpretations of true geographic conditions.

As far as historians and geographers can determine, every culture in every part of the world uses and makes maps. This deep lineage reflects the descriptive usefulness of a map—a map is one of the best proofs that a “picture is worth a thousand words.”

The variety of roles that maps play is astonishing. While one map might provide a simple portrait of place and a record of the contemporary landscape, another will be intentionally designed as a commercial census of the people and resources of a place. Yet another offers a glimpse into the fanciful imagination or the great artistry of the mapmaker. Sometimes a single map offers all these insights at once. To look at a historical map is to step into the past; to look at an old map is also to see the world as it would have been seen by the elites, the government, the military, or the navigators of the day.

Old maps provide much information about what was known in times past, as well as the philosophy and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography. The quest to map the world represents the quest to map the soul, to discover and explore the very limits of human potential.

Man has mapped the heavens from the first moment he turned his gaze upward towards the celestial sphere. There, in the unfathomable vastness of space, he found both gods and devils, truth and mystery. Upon the starry sky, and its uncounted denizens -stars, comets, moons and planets- man imprinted his greatest hopes hates and fears. The skies he peopled with his memories and his wildest imaginings. Now, as modern science has broken the barrier of the firmament and taken us even unto the moon, we reach our aspirations ever higher and farther, into the unknown realms that mapmakers populated with dreams…

Cartography is the art and science of making maps. The oldest known maps are preserved on Babylonian clay tablets from about 2300 B.C.In the great age of numbers and statistics following the Enlightenment (17th – 19th Centuries) men of learning and distinction saw, through the compilation of all human knowledge, a road unto heaven itself. The composition of an accurate world map was one of great way-stations on this noble progression.
Europe, the beating heart and soul of western civilization, home to the great ancient empires of Greece and Rome, and home of the nomadic invaders that destroyed them. Here, the socio-cultural background developed that would eventually birth modern science, and send its navigators to the four corners of the Earth in search of new lands, treasures and peoples. During the period when many of our maps were designed, European powers stood astride the world like colossuses, and it is through these eyes that the cartographers gazed…


Antique Map Gallery

I just happend to find this interesting site Geographicus who have large collection of fine and rare antiquarian cartography and historic maps of the 15th though 19th centuries. A large inventory of authentic antique maps are available here in thier online gallery for  study and enjoyment. Geographicus Rare Antique Maps,  are passionate collectors and students of historic maps as well as dealers. As you browse our online gallery of rare maps you will enjoy some of the highest resolution images and most thoroughly researched studies of thier individual offerings available anywhere.
What could be a better gift for any historian, traveler, or patriot than a magnificent map of their favorite place, from their favorite era?. Antique Maps are great gifts and perfect decorative additions to any home or office. They are compelling objects that instantly grab people’s attention and transport them to a different time and place.

Visit Geographicus for Rare Antique Maps

Friday, March 16, 2007

Useful links to Geostatistics

Statistical techniques and procedures are applied in all fields of academic research; wherever data are collected and summarized or wherever any numerical information is analyzed or research is conducted, statistics are needed for sound analysis and interpretation of results.

Geographers use statistics in numerous ways:

  • To describe and summarize spatial data.
  • To make generalizations concerning complex spatial patterns.
  • To estimate the probability of outcomes for an event at a given location.
  • To use samples of geographic data to infer characteristics for a larger set of geographic data (population).
  • To determine if the magnitude or frequency of some phenomenon differs from one location to another.
  • To learn whether an actual spatial pattern matches some expected pattern.

These Links provides useful Literatute and fundamentals of Geostatistics

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Gamma Design Software - Geostatistics for the Environmental Science

Provides description of geostatistics including examples of software useful for quantifying spatial relationships and drawing maps. GS++ is the popular geostatistics software used by the scientists world over. A rich, fast and intuitive platform for both new and experienced geostatistics users.

Books on Geostatistics