Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Surfer 11

Powerful Contouring, Gridding, and 3D Surface Mapping Software for Scientists and Engineers

Surfer is a full-function 3D visualization, contouring and surface modeling package that runs under Microsoft Windows. Surfer is used extensively for terrain modeling, bathymetric modeling, landscape visualization, surface analysis, contour mapping, watershed and 3D surface mapping, gridding, volumetrics, and much more.
Features
Surfer’s sophisticated interpolation engine transforms your XYZ data into publication-quality maps. Surfer provides more gridding methods and more control over gridding parameters, including customized variograms, than any other software package on the market. You can also use grid files obtained from other sources, such as USGS DEM files or ESRI grid files. Display your grid as outstanding contour, 3D surface, 3D wireframe, watershed, vector, image, shaded relief, and post maps. Add base maps and combine map types to create the most informative display possible. Virtually all aspects of your maps can be customized to produce exactly the presentation you want. Generating publication quality maps has never been quicker or easier.
  • Contour Maps
  • 3D Surface Maps
  • Image Maps
  • Shaded Relief Maps
  • Base Maps
  • Post Maps
  • Watershed Maps
  • 3D Wireframe Maps
  • Vector Maps
  • Map Layers
  • Stacking Maps
  • Map Projections
  • Profiles
  • Customize Your Map
  • Superior Gridding
  • Grid Note Editor
  • Variograms
  • Faults and Breaklines
  • Grid Functions
  • Using USGS and SRTM Data 
  • Worksheet
  • Object and Property Manager
  • Automation
  • Additional Features
  • Supported File Formats
Latest version Surfer 11: Surfer 11.exe  

MapGuide Open Source 2.4

MapGuide Project Home

MapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. MapGuide features an interactive viewer that includes support for feature selection, property inspection, map tips, and operations such as buffer, select within, and measure. MapGuide includes an XML database for managing content, and supports most popular geospatial file formats, databases, and standards. MapGuide can be deployed on Linux or Windows, supports Apache and IIS web servers, and offers extensive PHP, .NET, Java, and JavaScript APIs for application development. MapGuide Open Source is licensed under the LGPL.

MapGuide Open Source 2.4 released

The project that initially emerged from Autodesk and became MapGuide Open Source just released its version 2.4.

There seems to be numerous improvements to MapGuide OS's core, to Fusion Tools and FDO. Here's what looks like their list of major new items:

Latest version MapGuide Open Source 32-bit: MapGuide Open Source 2.4.0.7096 x86.exe
Latest version MapGuide Open Source 64-bit: MapGuide Open Source 2.4.0.7096 x64.exe

Links to Related Applications and Tools

MapGuide Maestro:

OpenLayers:

GeoREST:

Autodesk DWF Viewer:

BS Contact 8.1

Interactive 2D/3D Viewers

Bitmanagement offers interactive and realtime 3D software, its documentation and support/development. The multimedia–software for 2D/3D, audio and video performs the visualization in your software- and/or hardware related concept or product, based on ISO-Standards VRML, X3D, MPEG-4 and Collada. These ISO formats which are exported as data format from almost all tools for 3D content creation are suitable for the Internet and used worldwide.

The 3D software from Bitmanagement is used by customers on a variety of markets as visualization software. If you want to enhance your software concept from 2D to 3D, from 3D into the Internet or integrate 3D and video, please contact us for using our 3D enabling software in your concept/product. 3D Content can be visualized on PCs, CD ROM, via e-mail or on the Internet.

BS Contact

BS Contact is a realtime and online capable viewer offering full interactivity.
 
Bitmanagement Software (“BS”) develops BS Contact as the core product of a visualisation platform. Customers use BS Contact as frontend of their applications on almost all computers and graphics cards in the industry and the consumer market.

BS Contact can be tailored by functionality, GUI, menu or size to fit best to customer specific requirements. As middleware technology it can be used as OEM software enabling cutting edge applications.

Customers carry out their business concept with an interactive frontend that can be easily integrated to back end systems based on open standards and interfaces.

Main features:
  • Stand alone viewer or embedded in leading web browsers based on DirectX or OpenGL
  • Cross-platform on Windows, Linux (please see BS Contact Linux), Mac (please see BS Contact Mac) and Mobile (please see BS Contact Mobile)
  • Suited for 3D vector and spline formats e.g. VRML, X3D, COLLADA, KMZ
  • Broad functionality suited for all distribution channels, e.g. Web, CD/DVD or PC
  • State of the Art computer graphics with continued development since 1995 e.g. texturing with flash, physics or multi use
Advantages:
  • Millions of downloads over the years - customer feedback included in development
  • Stable rendering engine – non stop rendering, e.g. 14 days continued testing in industry
  • High performance rendering – outstanding content quality due to highest rendering frame rate per second, proven in various independent research analysis
  • Easy to navigate – over 100.000 users in a customer application in first week and several millions of users in total worldwide
  • Easy to use with up to one click for viewer and application (Instant Interactivity) – best coverage of biggest variety of computers and graphics cards worldwide
  • Cross platform - running on simple laptops up to highend multi-core 64 bit workstations
  • Broadcast quality but interactive content at far less data and bandwith required than video
  • GUI, navigation or menu of the viewer and application customisable to the customer's business model
  • Size of the viewer from 1 MB to 5 MB depending on the required functionality in OEM applications
  • Powerful API in BS SDK Package together with additional tools (BS Authoring Tools) for content enhancements, content encryption and integration of the frontend in customer applications
  • Standard complient with node extensions – future proof due to open ISO and Industry Standard formats
  • Flexible licensing scheme
  • Customers specific developments based on own source code and intensive know-how
Latest version BS Contact 32-bit: BS Contact 8.1 32-bit.exe
Latest version BS Contact 64-bit: BS Contact 8.1 64-bit.exe