MapMaker Pro

The affordable solution for those who need to get into digital mapping.
MapMaker Pro is a comprehensive Geographical Information System at a price you can afford. Keep up to date and competitive with the latest technology enabling you to offer your clients a better and all together more detailed service.

Ideal for converting CAD drawings into proper maps located to Lat Long OS National Grid, put surveyed data onto detailed background mapping, link with WoodPlan software to produce detailed reports with attached maps and display exact tree localities with attributes.

Creating basic maps in MapMaker Pro is simple, however simplicity in this case doesn’t mean lack of functionality, behind the simple, clean user-friendly interface lays a wealth of powerful features.

Impressive looking maps:
• Unlimited number of layers, raster and vector.
• Vector drawing and editing.
• Colour, mono, and grey-scale bitmap backgrounds.
• Virtually limitless range of user-definable fill styles, including symbol fills and multi-coloured hatching.
• User-definable symbols.
• Translucent and semi-translucent fills.
• Curved, stretched, and outline text and other text effects.
• Arrows, dimensions, grids, and other annotation.
• Easy to create scale bars, north points, legends, text panels, inset images etc.
• Include text and charts from MS Word.
• Point-and-click to pop-up images, documents and Internet links.

Map creation and editing:
• Create from new or import and edit.
• Intuitive cutting and joining of polygons.
• Single-click flood-fill vector polygon creation.
• Raster and vector rubber sheeting.
• Trim raster and vector to polygons.
• "Spaghetti processing", converting lines to polygons.
• Polygons from overlapping polygons.
• Powerful data tidying routines.
• Calibrate raster images.
• Raster to vector.
• Many, many, more vector and raster manipulation actions.

Compatibility:
• Import a wide range of vector data including ArcView SHP, MapInfo MIF, AutoCAD DXF, USGS DRG, Ordnance Survey NTF, Ordnance Survey MasterMap (GML) etc.
• Export maps as image overlays to Google Earth
• Export SHP, MIF, DXF etc.
• View BMP, TIF, Geo-Tiff, JPG, and ECW raster data.
• Export BMP, JPG, TIF, Geo-Tiff, and ECW images.
• Export attribute data to Microsoft Access, Excel, dBase etc. Using data with your maps:
• Use data from WoodPlan, Microsoft Access, Excel, or dBase files to colour up a map or determine symbols.
• Generate legends automatically.
• Data charts as well as data-controlled fills and symbols.
• Link data queries seamlessly to Microsoft Access forms or Lotus Approach Forms.
• Measuring areas and lengths is simple.
• Numerous spatial queries such as "contained in polygon", "within x distance of line" etc.
• Inherit data from one layer to another.
• Create and query buffer zones.
• Edit attributes of found set.

Latitude and Longitude:
• Limitless user definable datums as well as all the USGS recognised datums.
• UTM, UK National Grid, Lambert’s Conical, and user-defined Transverse Mercator and Conic projections.
• Support for correction matrices to compensate for local irregularities – e.g. 5cm accuracy for the UK.
• Convert a surface in Latitude and Longitude coordinates into projected coordinates, such as UTM.

GPS:
• Live data capture (NMEA and Garmin)
• Download waypoints and tracks.
• Live tracking of moving points.
• Ortho-rectify aerial photography using GPS control points.

Printing:
• User-defined page templates for high-quality accurately scaled prints.
• Variety of grids, graticules, and co-ordinate numbering.
• Multi-sheet printing of large maps.

Surface creation:
• Create 3D surfaces from spot heights or contours.
• Create density surfaces from distributions of points.

Perspective views:
• Create perspective visualisations of projects such as forestry plantations to help assess the visual impact.
• Add 3-dimensional features such as woodland, lakes, dams, wind farms, and power lines.
• Drape bitmaps, such as aerial photos or scanned paper maps, over the surface
• Lighting effects such as distance haze and sun direction for a particular date, time, and location.
• Create animated sequences

Cross sections:
• Create cross sections through a surface or multiple strata.

Edit surfaces:
• Push and pull a surface to change its shape
• Merge adjacent surfaces
• Trim, and resample surfaces
• Combine data surfaces
• Shift and/or multiply surfaces
• Remove spikes and other irregularities

Create bitmap:
• Create a bitmap representation of a surface to represent altitude
• Apply side lighting to highlight the form of the surface
• Create a bitmap to show areas of greatest slope
• Create a bitmap to pick out ridges and valleys
• Drape a aerial photograph or a scanned map over a surface.

Analysis:
• Calculate volumes.
• Calculate true areas and distances on the slope.
• Generate contours as vectors and bitmaps from digital surfaces in order to map data such as that used in precision agriculture.
• Determine catchment areas
• Examine lines of sight across a surface
• Interrogate height values on a map

Compatibility:
• Import surface data from other formats such as ArcGrid, Surfer, Idrisi, SRTM, USGS, and Ordnance Survey.
• Export surfaces to Surfer, ArcGrid, Idrisi, DBF, and as contours.

System requirements:
• Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP, 2000/XP recommended.
• 128Mb RAM, 512Mb recommended.
• min 800 x 600 display, 24 bit colour recommended.