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The directory of MicroImages Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants has been updated. MicroImages is seeking Resellers for the TNT products. 5 May 2008 A revised Strike/Dip sample Tool Script computes geological strike/dip values for strata from an accurate DEM and overlaid aerial or satellite image. The tool allows you to place three non-collinear points on each planar feature, creates vector points with attached strike and dip values, and styles the points using an embedded CartoScript that is automatically saved with the vector object for later use. The script can automatically adjust for DEMs georeferenced to different coordinate reference systems, including geographic (latitude/longitude) coordinates. StrikeDipTool73.sml 2 May 2008 Two new sets of sample CartoScripts™ have been posted. CartoScripts give you the ability to design custom map symbols for lines and points in vector and CAD objects. MicroImages has created several sets of free scripts designed to render the specialized line and point symbols for geologic and geotectonic maps. The new folds2 set includes Asymmetric, Plunging, and Doubly-plunging styles for both anticline and syncline features. The new faults2 set includes left- and right-lateral high angle styles, left- and right-lateral transpressional styles, and left- and right-lateral transtensional styles.
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A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how to use WMS and/or ArcIMS layers as reference layers while creating or editing local objects. You can add multiple web layers from one or more WMSs/ArcIMSs if desired. Each WMS layer can be one layer or a composite of layers from a single WMS. 30 April 2008  
A new product application page surveys the seamless integration of GIS, image processing, and 3D visualization processes in TNTmips that make it a good choice for the challenge of geologic mapping and geologic map presentation. A geologic map is very data-rich, conveying information on rock types, contacts, and outcrop and map-scale structures, each requiring attributes and special symbology. 25 April 2008 For many years MicroImages has systematically tracked the technical literature and culled over 2,000 reference articles of special interest for our software engineers. An online database lets you search title, author(s), journal, and publication date. 22 April 2008 The language interface packages for French and German have been updated 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. 21 April 2008  
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how to select Web Map Service (WMS) layers from the internet for viewing as display layers in the TNT products. The TNT display process includes features for using WMS catalogs, searching, using recent selections and saving favorites so you can dynamically include a wide variety of publicly available geodata with your other project materials. 18 April 2008 
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how to use a reference vector in the Feature Mapping process to identify features. You may have existing vector data on hand, such as wetland polygons, that you want to use as you map wetland features from new imagery. As you select training cells for a prototype feature, the process can refer to the polygons in the reference layer to guide feature identification across the larger image. 16 April 2008 Support for the software authorization key used for version 2008:74 of the TNT products is finally available to permit MicroImages to release a native 64-bit version for Intel based Macs (HASP key only). This 64-bit version of the TNTmips, TNTedit, and TNTview and their equivalents in TNTlite can be downloaded now as the weekly release (i.e., weekly patch) from microimages.com. 14 April 2008 
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 gives detailed instructions on the use of iTNTmap, the free WMS / ArcIMS viewer for iPhone and iTouch. iTNTmap lets users select from 1.300.000 WMS and ArcIMS map layers freely available on the internet. iTNTmap is just one part of the Release Version of the TNT products 2008:74. View Maps and Images on the iPhone and iTouch (2-sided)
10 April 2008
WSP Group Finland has been added as an Authorized Reseller for the TNT products in Finland. Contact Pentti Ruokokoski in Helsinki for sales and consulting services. MicroImages has Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants in 29 countries worldwide. 8 April 2008 
The TNT products include a geospatial scripting language that you can use to customize the creation, interpretation, and presentation of your geospatial data. A script can be anything from a single expression to a long structured program. You can use different types of scripts for a variety of purposes. MicroImages offers 80 free booklets with step-by-step exercises that introduce the concepts of GIS, desktop cartography, and image processing in the use of the TNT products.
7 April 2008 A new sample pipeline script illustrates the use of a custom dialog window and assembly of an image pipeline using options set from the dialog. The script computes a pan-sharpened color composite image from three low-resolution bands of a multispectral image and a higher-resolution panchromatic image. The pan-sharpened image can be saved as an RVC raster object or as a TIFF, PNG, JP2, or JPEG file. The script dialog provides a choice of color-blending options. SML takes direct advantage of the internal pipeline architecture in the TNT products for fast, efficient processing. The pipeline coding at the system level in the TNT products supports multi-thread, multi-core processing. 4 April 2008 
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 illustrates how the Separate By Attribute and By Element features in the Buffer Zone process are affected by the Use Polygons as Region option. To select elements for buffering you can mix and match use of the Mark by Query (from the Layer Manager) with selection using the mouse and the Select tool or using the checkbox for each record shown in the tabular view of a database table. The By Query processing option evaluates your entered query and buffers only those elements that satisfy the query without regard for any elements selected in the View window ... Geospatial Analysis: Buffer Zone Options for "Islands"
3 April 2008 The Web Map Service and Web Feature Service materials hosted by MicroImages are now all running on TNTserver 2007:73. The Online Maps page that offers seamless State Orthophoto mosaics of 1- and 2-meter resolution lets you select recent statewide coverages of 43 U. S. states. TNTserver is a robust OGC-compliant Web Map Server that lets you publish your geospatial data on the web for viewing in any WMS viewer, such as Google Maps, Google Earth, or TNTmap. Demonstration Atlases of Seamless State Orthophoto Mosaics ... 2 April 2008
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A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the Voronoi Diagram process, which provides a number of features for efficient two-dimensional spatial analysis. In theory, a Voronoi diagram is unbounded, but its use as a vector object in geospatial analysis requires a finite boundary, which can be created by a selection of clipping operations. You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
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A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the Feature Mapping Process's new Grow and Mark Features tool, which works on one feature at a time. When you click in a representative area, the process looks at the neighborhood around the click point and determines a basic range and previews the resulting feature. Then you can expand or reduce the range using the mouse wheel. You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74. 26 March 2008 
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes how to display your point elements in Google Earth with the same symbols used in the TNT products. The KML file created stores each point symbol as a placemark element (also called Marker) and its associated symbol as a placemark icon. You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74. 24 March 2008
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use the TNTmips Export process to convert the attributes attached to vector or CAD elements into KML schema tags. When the KML file created from a geometric object is displayed in the Google Earth, the object name shows up under the Temporary Places folder on the Places panel of Google Earth along with the elements listed with the value of the table.field you selected during the export process. Although you can view the records from other fields for each element, Google Earth does not allow you to view the whole content of the table but Google Earth Pro does. You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74. Database Tables to KML Schema Tags
21 March 2008
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use the TNTmips Import process to create a CAD or Vector object and a database table attached to the object's elements from a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file using KML schema tags. The points, polygons, and/or lines stored in a KML file can be imported into a CAD or vector object along with the attributes attached to the objects’ elements if the KML file involves schema tags to keep the database tables. You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74. 19 March 2008 The Release Version 2007:73 and the Development Version 2008:74 of the free TNTatlas product for Mac OS X are now available for download. TNTatlas is a free product for viewing hierarchical atlases prepared in TNTmips with HyperIndex Linker, or for single-layout atlases. TNTatlas provides a means for small or widespread distribution of atlases. The recipient of an atlas on CD-ROM has everything required to view the atlas. MicroImages also provides a free tutorial booklet on the use of TNTatlas. You can download TNTatlas in the Development Version or the Release Version of the TNT products 18 March 2008
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the new feature in the TNT display process that lets you render all the layers in a group or layout into a local KML or KMZ file for use as temporary places in Google Earth. This includes web layers that have been located on the Internet and added to the view from sites that are publishing maps and images using an ArcIMS or Web Map Service (WMS). You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74. Render WMS and ArcIMS Layers to KML (2-sided)
17 March 2008
The online OGC User magazine features a review of TNTmap, the free Web Map Service (WMS) browser and viewer from MicroImages. OGC User Magazine is a free bi-monthly e-mail publication of the Open GIS Consortium that highlights the use of OpenGIS Specifications in building world class, interoperable solutions for spatial and related technologies. TNTmap: A Free Web Map Service / Web Feature Service Browser and Viewer 12 March 2008
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the new feature for extracting an area from a raster object by using a buffer to modify the area for extraction with TNT's By Region and By Polygon extraction methods. TNT lets you define raster extraction areas manually and by range, by mask, by region, and by polygon. Extracting Raster Areas with Buffer (2-sided) 11 March 2008
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the new pipeline features in SML whereby TNT geospatial scripts can implement an image processing pipeline that uses region objects to mask an image and/or to crop an image to the bounding extents of a simple or complex area of interest. Using Regions in a Pipeline (2-sided) 7 March 2008
A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the redesigned Buffer Zone process in TNTmips (Geometric/Compute/Buffer Zones), which can use shape, CAD, region, and pinmap objects in addition to vector objects as input. The buffer zones generated can be saved as a polygonal vector, CAD, or region object. The options presented in the process depend on the object type selected for input, the elements it contains, and the target object type. The newly added Accurate method makes it possible to generate very small buffer zones. Buffer Zone Generation (2-sided) 6 March 2008  Apple's download pages offer the TNTmap dashboard widget from MicroImages: 5 March 2008
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A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 illustrates programming techniques for using pipelines with multiple input objects in a geospatial script. For illustration it proves two sample scripts (PipelineResampleToGeorefMulti.sml and PipelineMosaicToReference.sml) that demonstrate use of an image processing pipeline in an iterative Pipeline Structures for Multiple Inputs (2-sided) 28 February 2008
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21 February 2008  The beta version of the new View window in the Display process is being introduced in the 6 February upgrade of DV2008:74. Some of its new features are illustrated in the revised color plate linked here. The missing scroll bars are to be replaced by real-time pan and scroll of the View in DV2008:74 in several weeks. (This will be a multi-threaded operation but you will not need a multicore computer to take advantage of this new feature.) 19 February 2008  A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the features in the TNTmips Watershed process (Raster / Elevation / Watershed) that provide the option to create a segmented flowpath vector object in addition to the standard flowpath vector. You can segment flowpaths using values of either elevation or flow accumulation (i.e. upstream contributing area expressed as the number of DEM cells). You can set boundary values in three ways using the Interval menu: Equal, Exponential, or Unequal. 18 February 2008  A new product overview page describes spatial databases in the TNT products, which store geospatial data features that do not exist in typical databases. You can import from a variety of spatial database formats such as ESRI Personal Geodatabase, MySQL Spatial, PostGIS, and Oracle Spatial. Using the Import process you can either set up links to spatial layers or fully import the spatial layers to TNT objects. Each linked spatial layer with its associated attributes is stored as a shape database link in a TNT Project File. Alternatively, you can choose to import the spatial layers as vector or CAD objects. 14 February 2008  A new product overview page describes the TNT products tools for creating a KML or KMZ file from your geodata for use in Google Earth, Google Maps, Virtual Earth and other software with KML support. You can choose either to render the currently viewed portions of your geodata in your groups or layouts or to export your geospatial elements to KML or KMZ files. You can also save your geotagged photos as KML files and display your photos with their locations in Google Earth. 13 February 2008  A new product overview page describes how the Spatial Display process lets you select layers published by any Web Map Service (WMS) or ArcIMS to display in combination with any of your local raster, vector, shape, CAD, TIN, and pinmap objects. Likewise, the Spatial Editor lets you use WMS and ArcIMS layers as reference layers when creating and editing your own spatial data. MicroImages maintains catalogs of available WMS (>900,000) and ArcIMS (>400,000) layers. The search capabilities enable you to quickly select from this multitude of layers using text or geographic area as your search criterion. 12 February 2008  A new product overview page describes the online atlases published by TNTserver, which runs as a Web Map Service (WMS) and/or Web Feature Service (WFS) on your Internet host machine. Layers published by TNTserver can be viewed with TNTmap (MicroImages’ WMS/WFS client) or any other WMS/WFS compliant client. MicroImages also maintains catalogs of WMS and WFS layers available over the Internet. There are more than 900,000 WMS layers available for selection and nearly 4,000 WFS layers. Like any Internet browsing activity, connections must be functioning properly at both ends for fast, reliable display. 11 February 2008  A new product overview page describes how you can publish your geodata on CD or DVD and recipients can use the free TNTatlas for visualization. You can also publish your geodata on the Internet or a private local network using TNTserver and view published materials using the free TNTmap or any other Web Map Service (WMS) compliant viewer. Published geodata can be a single group or layout or can make use of the hierarchical HyperIndex links that can be established with TNTmips to move from display of a starting layout to other related information. 7 February 2008  The beta version of the new View window in the Display process is being introduced in the 6 February upgrade of DV2008:74. Some of its new features are illustrated in the accompanying color plate. Support is not yet included for running your MacroScripts and ToolScripts (probably in 13 February release). The missing scroll bars are to be replaced by real-time pan and scroll of the View in DV2008:74 in several weeks. (This will be a multi-threaded operation but you will not need a multicore computer to take advantage of this new feature.) 5 February 2008  A new product overview page introduces the Network Analysis process, which is used for solving routing and logistical problems on a network of connected lines in a vector object. The network might represent city streets, state highways, water or sewer pipelines, or some other utility network. You can use Network Analysis to determine the optimal route connecting stops in the network, or to allocate different parts of the network to service areas around individual facility locations. These analyses utilize the topology of the network and properties of the lines and intersections (such as one-way directions and impedance and demand values) that you can set up easily using the provided tools. 4 February 2008  A new product overview page introduces the many advanced TNT processes for compiling, analyzing, and interpreting the geospatial characteristics and database attributes of your geodata layers and creating higher-level products from them. Specialized analysis processes are provided for geodata in both raster and geometric (vector, CAD, shape) formats and for transferring spatial information from one layer to another. These processes enable you to turn the data in your geospatial layers into geospatial information. 1 February 2008   AA new Technical Guide for 2007:73 describes the features and use of the TNTmap Dashboard widget for the Macintosh. TNTmap Builder can be used to select WFS layers from anywhere on the Internet for viewing in Google Maps, Google Earth, TNTmap Open, and TNTmap Viewer Widget Viewing of WMS/WFS Content for Mac OS X 10.5 (2-sided)
31 January 2008
The directory of MicroImages Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants has been updated. MicroImages is seeking Resellers for the TNT products. MicroImages Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants
30 January 2008  Terranean Mapping Technologies has been added as an Authorized Reseller for the TNT products in Australia. Contact David Moore in Brisbane for sales and consulting services. MicroImages has Authorized Resellers and Geospatial Consultants in 29 countries worldwide. 29 January 2008
28 January 2008  A new product overview page describes the TNT geospatial scripting language (SML), which provides a wide range of options for custom display and processing of your geospatial data. You can implement novel new processes with dialogs, Views, and custom tools, or automate workflows through a chain of processes. You can add interactive tools and enhancements to standard Views so you can use or transform the displayed layers or automatically present specific attribute information in custom DataTips. Thousands of built-in functions, integrated documentation, and hundreds of sample scripts make it easy to learn how to use these powerful tools. 25 January 2008  A new product overview page describes how TNTmips allows you to display, create, and process images of any type and up to terrabytes in size. You can enhance, combine, rectify, reproject, mosaic, and classify your geospatial images to optimize information extraction and data presentation. In addition, the Display process provides inline spatial filtering, enhancement, and reprojection options that allow you to design the best views of your images. You can even work with hyperspectral images in the Hyperspectral Analysis process. 24 January 2008  2007 orthophoto coverage for Nebraska is now online. View any area of Nebraska covered by a seamless mosaic of NAIP (National Agriculture Imagery Program) imagery with a ground detail of 1 and 2 meters in Google Maps, Google Earth, TNTmap Viewer, or TNTmap Open. This statewide coverage of Nebraska is hosted by Microlmages' TNTserver, a Web Map Service (WMS) certified as compliant with this specification of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
23 January 2008  A new product overview page describes how TNTmips works as a full-featured GIS that integrates imagery along with features presented in vector, CAD, shape, pinmap, and TIN formats. Projects may be oriented toward map production or various analytical processes, such as management of activities within a specified distance of sensitive areas or distribution of services. Wildlife management, mineral exploration, agricultural management, site planning, environmental monitoring, cartography, archeology, land stewardship, disaster relief, and demography, among many other management tasks, can also be accomplished with advanced GIS software. 22 January 2008  A new product overview page describes the processes performing spatial/spectral classifications of your images. The Automatic Classification process provides automated unsupervised and supervised multispectral image classification. The Feature Mapping process lets you visually identify class sample areas to guide an incremental image classification. You can analyze and classify hyperspectral images in the Hyperspectral Analysis Process. The Automatic Raster Combination process lets you comine classification results from different dates or conditions. 21 January 2008  A new product overview page describes the specialized tools you need to fully exploit the spectral range and spectral resolution of your hyperspectral images. On-the-fly reflectance calibration and an integrated spectral library make the process easy to use, yet it also includes powerful tools for data reduction, spectral search, and spectral mapping. You can extract and archive spectra from your image and import your own field or laboratory reflectance spectra. Your hyperspectral images can be imported or converted to a single compressed hyperspectral object for efficient storage, use, and processing. 18 January 2008   A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use the Save Section As feature of TNTmips’ Editor to select any area of any raster, vector, or CAD object and save it as a new object of the same type. Shape objects opened using Object/Open External are saved as Project File vectors by this feature. You can draw a free form polygon to select the area, use the circle or rectangle tool, or use an already saved region.
17 January 2008  A new product overview page describes the range of features and processes that support thematic mapping of your geospatial data. Using the attributes attached to your elements, you can create color theme maps or graduated symbol maps for visualization and analysis. The thematic mapping tools in the TNT products allow you to assign a range of styles to represent the range of values for any attribute.
16 January 2008  A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes how to select any area of any raster, vector, CAD, or shape object and save it as a new object of the same type. You can select the save area by drawing a free-form polygon. using the circle or rectangle tool, or using an already saved region.
15 January 2008  A new product overview page describes the range of features and processes that support surface modeling in the TNT products. You can construct and transform representations of natural terrains and mathematical surfaces from 3D information. The Surface Fitting, Contouring, and Triangulation operations allow you to produce Digital Elevation Model rasters (DEMs), contour lines, and triangulated irregular networks (TINs)..
14 January 2008  A new product overview page describes the range of features and processes that support terrain operations in the TNT products. A wide range of tools for analyzing and processing digital elevation model (DEM) raster objects give you general terrain characteristics such as cell-by-cell slope, aspect, shading, and curvature; viewsheds, cut and fill analysis, watershed models, and surface modeling transformations.
11 January 2008   A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use a template object, which has the same georeference and database structure as the object it was created from, to create a new object that has no elements (geometric templates) or cell values (raster templates). You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
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9 January 2008  A new product overview page describes the range of features and processes that support map layout and design in the TNT products. Interactive layout tools let you position your layers and groups precisely and then add automatic scale bars, map grids, legends, and annotation text. Complex maps can be designed for hardcopy prints or electronic delivery.
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7 January 2008   A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes the new support for S-57, the electronic data transfer standard prepared by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) for use with Digital Hydrographic Data. The TNT products provide the predefined tables and table structure (schema) that contain all the attribute information used for digital hydrologic features. Using these predefined tables lets you prepare an object for assignment of any number of attributes very quickly for points, lines, and/or polygons. You can try this new feature in the Development Version of the TNT products 2008:74.
4 January 2008  A new Technical Guide for 2008:74 describes how to use a pen display for creating and editing geodata objects in TNTedit and the Spatial Editor in TNTmips. Using a pen directly on the screen is an ideal interface when you are working with geometric objects (vector, shape, or CAD) over reference imagery or map layers.
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