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From the News Room
TNT 2009 is the 60th Release of the TNT products
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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30 December 2009
Complex Geologic Map Created in TNTmips
Geologists Jerzy Don and Roman Gotowala of the Institute of Geological Sciences, Wroclaw University, Poland, have used
TNTmips to create a complex, large-format geologic map of an area in southern Poland and the Czech Republic. Entitled
Tectonic Map of the Nysa Klodzka Graben (Sudetes), the hardcopy version of the map is 15.75 by 29.4 inches (40 by 75.6
centimeters) in size and covers an area of about 450 square kilometers at a scale of 1:50,000. This colorful map portrays the distribution of 9 rock units, major faults and tectonic boundaries, and local structural
measurements. The map makes use of many of the cartographic capabilities ...
Complex Geologic Map Created in TNTmips ...
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23 December 2009
LIDAR: Interactive Editing of Point Classes
LIDAR point files in LAS format include a Classification
field that can be populated using choices in the standard
Classification table included in the file. TNTmips provides
the ability to interactively change these point
classifications directly in LAS files that are linked as shape
objects. To begin, display the LAS shape object and open
the Reclassify window from the Display Manager using
the right mouse button menu for the shape layer.
LIDAR: Interactive Editing of Point Classes ...
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18 December 2009
LIDAR: Point Profile Tool
The Point Profile tool creates a vertical
profile of 3D points falling within the rectangular
area you designate in the View
window. This tool is designed for use with
points in one or more 3D vector or shape
objects, including LIDAR points in linked
LAS files. The Point Profile
allows you to visualize the 3D
relationships of the points and provides several
methods for manually marking points
or groups of points within the profile for
closer inspection or reclassification.
LIDAR: Point Profile Tool ...
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11 December 2009
Geomedia Publishing: Introduction to Geomashups
A geomashup combines geospatial data (such as maps,
images, point locations, ...) from multiple sources into a single
interactive web page display.
Geomedia Publishing: Introduction to Geomashups ...
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9 December 2009
Add WMS and ArcIMS Layers to View
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can select WMS and ArcIMS layers for
viewing alone or in combination with local map and image layers.
What Selecting WMS and ArcIMS Layers Gives You:
- Choose from more than 2,000,000 layers available worldwide
- Reference layers for viewing and editing
- Search for layers by name or geographic location
- Display thread separated from local layers so not delayed by slow service
- Choose layers from any intranet or Internet site that supports these formats
Add WMS and ArcIMS Layers to View ...
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4 December 2009
Managing Geoattributes
Expanded tutorial ... The TNTmips' Managing Geoattributes tutorial
has been updated and is now current with TNT 2009.
It includes 10 new pages:
- Single Record View of Database Table
- Tabular View of Database Table
- Single Record vs Tabular View Menus
- System Tables
- Internal Table and Internal Element Details
- DataTip Viewing Modes
- Assigning Attributes from a Picklist
- Histogram of Numeric Field
- Geotagging Digitial Photos
- Viewing Geotagged Image Tables
Managing Geoattributes ...
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1 December 2009
Editing Vector Geodata
Rewritten tutorial ... The TNTmips Editing Vector Geodata tutorial
has been rewritten to reflect the Editor's new interface and improved functionality that was added in TNT 2008. This tutorial is now current with TNT 2009.
Editing Vector Geodata ...
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25 November 2009
Tilesets: Using a TSD Link File
The TNT products can
access custom tilesets
that reside on a local or
network drive or anywhere
on the Internet.
In order to use one of
these tilesets, the tileset
structure and location
must be defined in a
TileSet Definition
(TSD) file, a small
XML text file that
serves as a descriptive
link to the tileset.
Tilesets: Using a TSD Link File ...
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20 November 2009
Tilesets: Components of the Tileset Definition File
TNTmips Pro can prepare and use custom tilesets designed for Google Maps, Google Earth, Microsoft Bing Maps, and NASA World Wind. In order to use one of these tilesets in TNT, the tileset structure must be defined by a TileSet Definition file, a small XML text file that serves as a descriptive link to the tileset location and structure.
Tilesets: Components of the Tileset Definition File ...
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17 November 2009
Scheduling Automatically Repeating Jobs
The Job Processing System in TNTmips Pro allows you to
run multiple simultaneous processes off-line, in the background.
This distributes the processing load across your
computer's multiple cores (see the collection of Technical
Guides on job processing with TNTmips Pro at http://
www.microimages.com/documentation/JobProcessing.htm).
You can also set up a schedule to automatically repeat particular
jobs at specific times and intervals.
Scheduled repeat job processing is useful for situations where
identical processing needs to be applied to input data that is
continuously or periodically updated, but otherwise retains
the same name and location.
Scheduling Automatically Repeating Jobs ...
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13 November 2009
Geomedia Publishing: Today's Earthquakes in California and Nevada
The Internet is increasingly becoming a source
for publicly available, regularly-updated
geospatial data that capture manmade and natural
phenomena that vary with time. Examples
include satellite and aerial imagery, natural hazards
data (wildfires, earthquakes, ...), and
weather and climate data. At the same time,
free web geoviewers and local geoviewer applications
such as Google Maps, Google Earth,
and Microsoft Bing Maps now allow anyone to
mashup their geodata with the native global
maps and images in these viewers, providing
an enriched geospatial context. These developments
set the stage for automated applications
to harvest time-sensitive data, process and/or
combine it with other pertinent geospatial data,
and present the results locally or on a web page
in one of these geoviewers.
The Geospatial Scripting Language (SML) and
Job Processing System in TNTmips Pro allow
you to design and implement such an automated
application.
Geomedia Publishing: Today's Earthquakes in California and Nevada ...
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10 November 2009
Tilesets: Google Maps Structure
The custom tilesets you create in TNTmips for use in Google
Maps conform to all of Google's specifications for their native
tileset structure. Google refers to these as "Tile Overlays".
Each of these tilesets consists of a single hierarchical directory
structure containing uniformly-sized tile files 256 by 256-pixel
tiles (128 by 128 for cell phones). Every tile is aligned on a
fixed global grid in the Spherical Web Mercator projection.
Each tile represents the ground at a fixed, predetermined zoom
level. Thus every pixel in every tile at any zoom level represents
a single fixed ground location.
Tilesets: Google Maps Structure ...
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6 November 2009
Tilesets: Understanding Sizes
Custom tileset structures that you create in TNTmips for use in Google
Maps, Microsoft Bing Maps, NASA World Wind, or Google Earth contain
several tiers or levels of tiles at different spatial resolutions covering
the entire area of the tileset (see the Technical Guide entitled Tilesets:
Setting Zoom Levels). These pre-rendered pyramids of tile files ensure
rapid retrieval and display of the required tiles at any zoom level, but contribute
signficantly to the stored size of the overall tileset. Each additional
higher-resolution zoom level adds up to 4 times the number of tiles found
in the next lower zoom level. Thus the higher resolution zoom levels (i.e.,
higher zoom number) have the most significant impact on the stored size
of the tileset in these structures.
Tilesets: Understanding Sizes ...
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3 November 2009
Spatial Display: Adding Tilesets to Your View
TNTmips can prepare and view
tilesets in the native structures defined by Google,
Microsoft, or NASA for use in their web geoviewers and
local geoviewer applications. Tilesets published on the
Internet (or locally) do not require any special web server
or service. They are easily accessed by URLs that direct
the geoviewer or local application, including TNTmips,
to the location of the requested tiles in their structure. A
link on a web page can direct these popular geoviewers
to display the tiles for any area and zoom level included
in a tileset. The TNT products can also link to and add any
of these tileset structures from local or Internet sources.
This capability is available whether or not the native tileset
structure was prepared by TNTmips or is available from
some other source.
Spatial Display: Adding Tilesets to Your View ...
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29 October 2009
Tilesets: Setting Zoom Levels
Custom tilesets that you create in TNTmips for use in Google Maps, Microsoft
Bing Maps, NASA World Wind, or Google Earth contain several tiers or levels of
tiles at different spatial resolutions covering the entire area of the tileset. These
pre-rendered pyramids of tile files ensure rapid retrieval and display of the required
tiles at any zoom level. The Export to Tilesets and Auto Mosaic processes
allow you to set the highest zoom level to be created in your tileset (and thus its
maximum spatial detail) as well as the total number of zoom levels to be created.
Tilesets: Setting Zoom Levels ...
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28 October 2009
New Object Selection Dialog
New Object Selection Dialog
The standard object selection dialog in the TNT products has been redesigned. The navigate bar in the new window lets you jump to any level or other directory along the current path. Use click, control-click for discontinuous selection and click, shift-click for continuous selection of items in the list below the Navigate Bar.
At the drive or folder level (indicated by icon at left of Navigate Bar), you can save the current path to a list of favorites.
New Object Selection Dialog
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22 October 2009
TNT Menu Revised for 2010
TNT Menu Revised for 2010
There are two new entries on the menubar for TNTmips 2010: Tileset and Terrain. The Tileset menu includes Mosaic to, Export to, Merge, and Import. Its inclusion as a main menu item reflects the growing number of processes for the creation and use of tilesets. The Terrain menu incorporates choices that were formerly found under Raster/Elevation and from Convert/Surface Modeling. As new LiDAR processes are added to TNTmips, they will be added to the Terrain menu. The Raster menu has been renamed Image to provide a more generic term for the data type handled by the choices on this menu.
For the complete new menu structure see: TNTmips Menu 2010.
TNT Menu Revised for 2010
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19 October 2009
Tilesets: Clipping to a Project Boundary
When you prepare tilesets in the Create Tilesets and Auto Mosaic
processes in TNTmips, you can select a geometric object to
provide the polygon(s) to limit the overall extents of the output
tileset or tilesets. You also have the option to apply an outer
buffer zone to these boundary polygons.
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13 October 2009
Tilesets: Clipping Input Images
When you prepare tilesets in the Create Tilesets and Auto Mosaic processes in TNTmips, you can designate an individual
clipping area for each input image to define the portion of that
image to be used in creating the output tileset. You also have
the option to apply an outer buffer zone to the clipping areas.
Tilesets: Clipping Input Images ...
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9 October 2009
Tilesets: Tile Image Formats
The Create Tilesets and Auto Mosaic
processes in TNTmips allow
you to choose from the allowed
range of image formats and tile
sizes for the tileset structure you select
from the Target menu.
Tiles in a Google Maps,
Microsoft Bing Maps, or
NASA World Wind tileset
are JPEG and/or PNG files.
Google Earth is more flexible
with regard to tile
formats, including TIFF files
in addition to JPEG and
PNG. The Automatic format
option (described herein) that
is provided for these tileset
structuress creates an optimal
combination of these tile formats for most uses. A
TNT tileset raster object contains tile files in a single
format chosen from PNG, GeoTIFF, or JPEG2000
(GeoJP2) image formats.
Tilesets: Tile Image Formats ...
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6 October 2009
Tilesets: Creating a Structure
TNTmips can prepare tilesets whose structure conforms to those
described by Google, Microsoft, and NASA for their popular
viewers. These include:
- Tile Overlays for Google Maps
- Super-Overlays for Google Earth
- Custom Tile Layers for Microsoft Bing Maps
- Tile Layers for NASA's World Wind and also
- TNT raster object tilesets for use in MicroImages' commercial
products.
Each of these standard tilesets must conform
to its vendor's specific file naming and directory structure. Each
directory level contains tile files of specified size, image file
format, and zoom level. These tileset structures are designed
to ensure rapid retrieval and display of the required tiles at any
zoom level.
Tilesets: Creating a Structure ...
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2 October 2009
Tilesets: Merge Structures
The Merge Tilesets process allows you to assemble many individual
tilesets that you have prepared in the Create Tilesets
process into a single larger tileset. You can merge tilesets whose
structures conform to those described by Google, Microsoft,
and NASA for their popular viewers. These include:
- Tile Overlays for Google Maps
- Super-Overlays for Google Earth
- Custom Tile Layers for Microsoft Bing Maps
- Tile Layers for NASA's World Wind
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29 September 2009
Tilesets: Assembling Very Large Tilesets
The Create Tilesets and Merge Tilesets processes are designed to work together to efficiently assemble very large tilesets. Create
Tilesets exploits your system's multiple processor cores and the TNTmips Job Processing System to convert multiple orthoimages or
other rasters into Google Maps Tile Overlays, Google Earth Super-Overlays, Bing Maps Custom Tile Layers, NASA World Wind
Tile Layers, or TNT tilesets. The Merge Tilesets
process is then used to assemble
many individual large
tilesets prepared in Create
Tilesets into an even larger
single tileset by simply copying
or moving the tiles
together and merging tiles in
any overlapping areas.
Tilesets: Assembling Very Large Tilesets ...
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22 September 2009
Extract Vector Elements Using Attributes
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can use element attributes to select which
elements to extract.
What Using Attributes to Extract Gives You:
- Choose elements to extract directly from a database table
- Choose elements to extract using a query
- Use a combination of any selection method
- Remove or keep unattached records
Extract Vector Elements Using Attributes ...
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2 September 2009
Managing Relational Databases
Updated tutorial ... The TNTmips Managing Relational Databases tutorial
has been updated and is now current with TNT 2009.
It includes 7 new pages:
- More About Joining Tables
- Copying Tables from Other Databases
- Other Ways to Add Tables
- Picklist Wizard
- OLE DB and ODBC
- Other Database System Requirements
- Other Tables Generated in TNTmips
Managing Relational Databases ...
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28 August 2009
TNT products Support Mac OS X 10.6
The current 2009 release and the 2010 development version of your
TNT product are now available for use with Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 (alias
Snow Leopard).
Download and install the latest update of your 2009 TNT product to run
under 10.6.
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25 August 2009
TNT products Support Windows 7
The current 2009 release and the 2010 development version of your
TNT product are now available for use with Microsoft's Windows 7.
Download and install the latest update of your 2009 TNT product to run under Windows 7.
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21 August 2009
Wizard Adds Picklist
The picklist wizard assists you in setting up picklists so you can quickly assign or change attributes with a single mouse click. Picklists can be saved as part of an object template for reuse.
- using the coordinates of a point or range you enter,
- using the full extents of any open group,
- using the current extents of any View, or
- using text you specify.
Wizard Adds Picklist
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18 August 2009
Filter File Type when Selecting Geodata
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can restrict browsing or use of your
geocatalog(s) to a particular geodata file type.
What Restricting File Types gives you:
- Reduce number of files listed for selection when browsing your drives
- Easy selection of all files of one type in a folder or subfolder
- Reduce number of files listed after geocatalog searches
- Switch between different file types to view selectable files
- Different file types offered for selection depending on current process
- View all or restricted file types allowed for selection in current process
Filter File Type when Selecting Geodata ...
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14 August 2009
Making Map Layouts
Updated tutorial ...
The TNTmips Making Map Layouts tutorial has been updated and is now current with TNT 2009.
It includes the following new pages:
- Additional Clipping Options
- Placement Tool Hot and Modifier Keys
- Raster Theme Mapping and Legends
- Using the Character Map Feature
- Hinting and Antialiasing Geometric Lines
- Map Grids in 3D Groups
- Attach Groups by Georeference
- Map Scale Controlled Visibility
- Rendering Displays to Various Formats
Making Map Layouts ...
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12 August 2009
Geodata: ASTER Global Elevation Data
Revised to illustrate comparison of 30 meter ASTER DEM with 30 meter SRTM DEM.
A Global, 1 arc-second (approximately 30-m) Digital Elevation Model
(GDEM) derived from Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and
Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery is now available. This DEM
was jointly released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry
(METI) of Japan and the United States National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). It consists of 22,600 1°-by-1° tiles covering
land surfaces between 83°N and 83°S latitude.
Geodata: ASTER Global Elevation Data ...
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7 August 2009
Geodata: JPEG2000 Compression for Global ASTER DEM
DEM data generally compress very
efficiently because contiguous cells
have similar values. The stored size
of ASTER GDEM tiles and mosaics
can be dramatically reduced without
loss or with insignificant loss of detail
by using JPEG2000 compression.
JPEG2000 provides both lossless and
lossy compression schemes that are
based on a pyramided representation
of the raster, reducing the need for additional
pyramid tiers for fast
viewing. TNTmips allows you to apply
JPEG2000 compression to raster
objects stored in TNT Project Files
or to export linked GeoTIFF files to
GeoJP2 files using JPEG2000 compression.
Geodata: JPEG2000 Compression for Global ASTER DEM ...
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31 July 2009
Seeking Resellers and VARs for TNTmips
Resellers and VARs sought for China, Russia, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Norway, S Korea, Middle East, Central America, Africa, and other nations. See map of current Resellers. Request information and application materials from sales@microimages.com.
Seeking Resellers and VARs for TNTmips ...
Why Become a MicroImages Authorized Reseller? ...
Profile of a Successful Reseller ...
Authorized Reseller Map ...
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28 July 2009
Picklists for Geometric Attributes
A picklist provides the set of allowable values for a particular attribute associated with elements in
a geometric object. For example, the allowable soil types for a county-wide soil map would contain
the soil types known to occur in that county while the choices for location of pipe discharge into a
stream could be head of stream, right bank, or left bank. Picklists are particularly useful in the
Spatial Editor with only one click necessary for assigning attributes to new elements.
Picklists for Geometric Attributes ...
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24 July 2009
System: Automatic Update of Geocatalogs
You and/or your associates may frequently add new or modify your TNT Project Files
or other geodata files. These activities often affect the geographic extents and other properties of the geodata
indexed by your geocatalogs. To keep current with these changes, it may be convenient to set up your geocatalogs for
regular and possibly frequent automatic updating. To keep your geocatalogs current, you
can schedule automatic updating at the same time you
make the geocatalog using the Tools/Geospatial Catalog
Manager in TNTmips Pro 2010 Development Version.
System: Automatic Update of Geocatalogs ...
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22 July 2009
Scripting: Geospatial Scripts for LIDAR Processing
Terranean Mapping Technologies, a MicroImages reseller in Australia, operates a LIDAR system and uses TNTmips in combination with specialized software to process their LIDAR data. They have recently made available a series of scripts they have developed using the TNT Geospatial Scripting Language (SML) to carry out LIDAR processing in TNTmips. They use these scripts to create, filter, and refine surfaces from LAS files, to classify the LIDAR points, and to extract additional information from the LIDAR point clouds. These scripts are described in a Technical Guide and in a TNTtalk discussion led by Terranean's David Moore.
Scripting: Geospatial Scripts for LIDAR Processing ...
TNTtalk: TNTmips and LiDAR ...
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20 July 2009
Seamless Digital Geological Map of Japan
The Geological Survey of Japan AIST recently released a digital Seamless Geological Map of Japan that was
compiled and prepared in TNTmips. The map compilation includes data for 124 quadrangles (1 degree of longitude
by 40 minutes of latitude) that cover nearly all of Japan at a scale of 1:200,000. The digital maps are distributed
on a pair of DVDs and include fully-styled vector maps in TNTmips Project Files. These vector maps are also
provided in USGS Digital Line Graph and shapefile formats exported from TNTmips and as raster images of the
styled map quadrangles in several image formats.
Seamless Digital Geological Map of Japan ...
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16 July 2009
View and Publish Geodata in Google Maps
Google Maps can be used to publish and view your TNT image and map geodata. Using Google
Maps insures that unique project materials prepared in TNTmips will be viewed by anyone in a
widely familiar web application. TNTmips converts your geodata into the standard Google Tile
Overlay structure while providing a wide suite of tools to prepare your materials for this conversion.
View and Publish Geodata in Google Maps ...
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13 July 2009
Sample Script: Compute Map Unit Areas for Catchments
Sampling and geochemical analysis of stream sediment is
an important tool used in exploration for mineral resources.
The sediment in a single sample is sourced from the upstream
catchment area, so any prospective geochemical
anomalies must relate to that area. If multiple samples lie
within the same drainage, all of the smaller upstream
catchments contribute to the sediment sampled at the more
downstream locations. MicroImages provides a custom
geospatial processing script (SampleCatchments) that uses
watershed functions to delineate the upstream catchment
area for each point in a large sample set ...
Sample Script: Compute Map Unit Areas for Catchments ...
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9 July 2009
Database: Picklists Provide Easy Assignment of Attributes
Overview:
- What Is a Picklist?
- How Is a Picklist Used?
- What Is a Picklist Table?
- Use Wizard to Create or Edit a Picklist Table.
- Build a Picklist from Text or Table.
Database: Picklists Provide Easy Assignment of Attributes ...
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6 July 2009
Even Better Precision Topology
The current edition of TNTmips 2009 provides improved vector topology.
Maintaining topology in vector objects that use extremely precise coordinates is complex.
Unusual geometric conditions can occur that are not resolved even when topology is validated.
Conflation is the process or result of merging multiple vector objects.
Resolution of the many special conditions created by conflating vector objects is a powerful feature of TNTmips'
Merge process, particularly when the objects to be merged contain similar, but not perfectly matched, elements.
However, merging can still infrequently create very unusual geometric artifacts. For example, extremely acute
shapes and orientations of sliver polygons that appear as long, acute thorns extending from the polygon and many
intersections of nearly coincident lines may result.
Occasionally clients report these conditions to MicroImages and then filter or edit the vector to eliminate the
spurious features. The improved topology engine in the current update of TNTmips 2009 resolves all known topological
issues that have been previously reported by you or encountered at MicroImages. All vector objects with known
topological issues can now be successfully validated.
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2 July 2009
Production-Oriented Job Processing
Exploits Multiple Cores and Threads. TNT Job Processing can significantly increase your productivity. TNT jobs are created by individual
TNTmips processes or by your geospatial analysis (SML) scripts. TNT Job Processing
queues and runs each job or task as a separate process so your computer OS can run them
concurrently in separate independent threads/cores. Even a single core CPU can complete multiple
export, resample, extract, fusion, and other TNT repetive tasks about twice as fast using job
processing. If a multiple-core CPU is available your completion times can increase many times.
Production-Oriented Job Processing ...
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29 June 2009
Surface Modeling
Updated tutorial ... The TNTmips Surface
Modeling tutorial has been updated and is now current with TNT 2009.
It includes the following pages:
- Welcome to Surface Modeling
- Begin Surface Fitting
- Set Input and Output Parameters
- Surface Fitting by Inverse Distance
- Polynomial Trend Analysis
- Surface Fitting by Univariate Curve
- Evaluate the Surface Raster Result
- Surface Fitting by Minimum Curvature
- Minimum Curvature with Tension
- Surface Fitting by Triangle Interpolation
- Triangle Interpolation Options
- Bidirectional Surface Fitting
- Other Surface Fitting Methods
- Contouring a TIN Object
- Contouring a Raster: Linear Method
- Contouring with Resampling
- Contouring by Iterative Thresholding
- Triangulation from Point Data
- Triangulation from a Raster
- Triangulation with Breaklines
- Triangulation Using Breaklines to Clip
- Triangulation with Optimization
- Profiling a Surface Raster
- Creating Rotated Profiles
- Surface Modeling Summary
Surface Modeling ...
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25 June 2009
Installation and Setup Guide
Expanded and updated booklet ... This TNTmips booklet was updated to reflect current
(TNT 2009) platform support and
licensing levels including TNTmips Pro, TNTmips Basic, and TNTmips Free.
Installation and Setup Guide ...
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19 June 2009
System: Making Geospatial Catalogs
TNTmips' geospatial catalog
functions let you select
data by its geographic location
from your hundreds or thousands of
Project Files and other map and image geodata
file types supported for direct use (e.g., *.tif,
*.jp2, *.shp). Before your geodata is available
for selection by geographic area, you must build
a catalog that contains the extents and other information
about your geodata objects and files
so that geodata that meets your geographic search criteria
can be quickly identified.
System: Making Geospatial Catalogs ...
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16 June 2009
System: Searching Geospatial Catalogs
The Select Object dialog's Catalog Search tabbed panel provides text and geographic
methods to filter the search results from the
geocatalog(s) you select. All files and objects in the selected
catalogs will be listed on the Catalog Results panel
if you do not enter text or geographic coordinates to filter
your search. Use these search filters to help simplify the
list and locate specific geodata layers you want to view or
process if you have access to large collections of geodata.
System: Searching Geospatial Catalogs ...
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12 June 2009
System: Using Geospatial Catalogs
The TNT products let you select geodata for viewing and
analysis based on their geographic location or by their location on your drive or local network.
The geographic method can be used to select from all your own geodata layers or for web
layers published by a Web Map Service (WMS) or ArcIMS. MicroImages maintains the catalogs for geographic selection
of WMS and ArcIMS layers, while you create and update the Geocatalog(s) for the local data
you want to select geographically. Geocatalogs contains the extents, properties, and physical location of georeferenced layers, objects,
and files.
System: Using Geospatial Catalogs ...
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9 June 2009
Publish Images for Use in Google Earth
Easy as 1-2-3 for Fast Viewing Anywhere Use Google Earth to distribute and view large custom images from your web site or from a DVD or
other media you distribute. No special server, custom service, or modification of your web site is
required to allow viewing of your map data in Google Earth.
Publish Images for Use in Google Earth ...
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2 June 2009
Database: Wizard to Create a New Picklist
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes the wizard used to create a new
picklist for use with a new or existing database table. A picklist lets you quickly assign attribute values from a list you set up. The picklist wizard sets this table up with the correct database relationships
when you are creating or editing a table that has a field you want to populate with values from the picklist you create.
Database: Wizard to Create a New Picklist ...
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29 May 2009
Geomedia Publishing: Publishing Custom Google Maps on Your Web Site
Once you have created a Google Maps Tile Overlay from your
image(s) or map data in the TNTmips Auto Mosaic process, you
can easily publish the Tile Overlay on your web site. Mosaic
creates a sample HTML file that defines a set of custom maps
(mashups) that combine the Tile Overlay with map and image
layers from Google Maps.
Geomedia Publishing: Publishing Custom Google Maps on Your Web Site ...
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26 May 2009
Publish Images Using Google Maps
Easy as 1-2-3 for Fast Viewing Anywhere Use the familiar tools in Google Maps to view your imagery from your web site or from a DVD or
other media you distribute. No special server, custom service, or modification of your web site is
required to allow viewing of your map data in a browser.
Publish Images Using Google Maps ...
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22 May 2009
Geomedia Publishing: Publish Your High-Detail Imagery in Google Maps
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes how high-resolution imagery, superior in detail to that in Google Maps, can be
viewed as a Tile Overlay in Google Maps. An HTML file can then request
that Google Maps fetch these tiles from your web site, or from other media,
and display them in your browser alone or in combination with Google's own
image and/or map tiles.
Geomedia Publishing: Publish Your High-Detail Imagery in Google Maps (2-sided) ...
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20 May 2009
Geomedia Publishing: Publish New Imagery in Google Maps
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes how new, local image coverage of any size area anywhere in the world
with any image detail can be transformed into a standard Google
Maps Tile Overlay using the TNTmips Auto Mosaic process. Any
visitor to your web site can then view this imagery Tile Overlay in
Google Maps.
Geomedia Publishing: Publish New Imagery in Google Maps (2-sided) ...
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19 May 2009
Mosaic: Mosaic to Google Maps Tile Overlay
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes how the TNTmips Pro Auto Mosaic process can can convert a large set of your maps and images into a tileset with the native Google Maps Tile
Overlay structure. This tile overlay can be viewed by anyone from your web site in a web browser or locally from a DVD or other
media. In addition to creating the strictly-defined Google Maps Tile Overlay structure, the process creates a sample HTML file
that references your tileset and allows you to display it in a browser with various combinations of the native Google Maps tile
layers and labels (i.e., Google Maps mashups).
Mosaic: Mosaic To Google Earth Super-Overlay (2-sided) ...
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14 May 2009
Mosaic To Google Earth Super-Overlay
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes how the TNTmips Pro Auto Mosaic process can convert a large collection
of your maps and images into a tileset with the native Google
Earth Super-Overlay structure for optimal viewing in Google Earth.
Mosaic To Google Earth Super-Overlay ...
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13 May 2009
Select from Geodata Catalogs
You can search your GeoCatalogs to select layers for use in Display and as input for other TNT processes
- using the coordinates of a point or range you enter,
- using the full extents of any open group,
- using the current extents of any View, or
- using text you specify.
Select from Geodata Catalogs
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11 May 2009
Mosaic: Mosaic Selected Areas
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes how the Auto Mosaic process in TNTmips (Raster / Auto Mosaic) allows you to use all or a selected portion of each input raster
object (or set of component rasters) to form the output TNT or Google tileset or TNT raster object. You can choose a
previously-created object (region, vector, shape, or coincident binary raster mask) to define the processing area to be used
from each input raster.
Mosaic: Mosaic Selected Areas (2-sided) ...
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1 May 2009
System: File Type Selection Options
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes how to specify what type of files to show in the Select Object dialog.
The TNT products support many external file
types for direct use in visualization and processing.
You can designate what file types
are shown to you during any object selection
process.
System: File Type Selection Options ...
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29 April 2009
Define Area To Mosaic
The Automatic Mosaic process in TNTmips lets you mask each input raster using a geometric object.
Define Area To Mosaic
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27 April 2009
Mosaic: Tile Formats for Google Earth and Google Maps
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes Google tiles, which are effortlessly created in TNTmips.
Optimal performance of your geodata in Google Earth and Google Maps
requires use of Google's standard tile structures and file formats.
TNTmips Pro's Auto Mosaic process can assemble your maps and images
into these standard, optimal tilesets with tiles in the proper formats. The
Automatic format option provides an optimal combination
of these tile formats for most uses.
Mosaic: Tile Formats for Google Earth and Google Maps ...
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21 April 2009
Export: Export LIDAR Points to LAS Files
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes the LIDAR point cloud export to LAS Files.
The TNTmips Export process allows you to export large
collections of LIDAR points to LAS files, the standard binary
file format used for exchange of LIDAR point cloud
data. The points you export can be in vector, shape, CAD,
or TIN objects.
Export: Export LIDAR Points to LAS Files ...
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17 April 2009
Export: Styles by Script to Shapefile *.avl
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 discusses how to ensure vector 'by script' styles are retained in exported Shapefile and KML file formats.
You can create a style assignment table with a single button click when your vector drawing
styles are assigned by script. The Convert Script to Table button is found in the
Vector Layer Controls window, which allows this feature to be used in any process with a
View window. The table made by clicking on this button can be selected to control the
styles when exporting vector objects to shapefiles. The styles are then translated into a same
named *.avl file for use in displaying the shapefile in other software. The table created can
also be selected to provide styles when exporting to KML.
Export: Styles by Script to Shapefile *.avl ...
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7 April 2009
Geomedia Publishing: Publishing Your Professional Geodata Via Google
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 discusses how to publish geodata in Google Maps and Google Earth.
TNTmips Pro can be used to prepare the geodata layers you wish to publish as Google Maps and Google Earth tilesets.
TNTmips Pro is a fully-featured geospatial analysis system. It can be used to analyze and prepare these Google tilesets from
many different kinds of source materials including images, vectors, CAD, shapes, spatial databases, and TINs.
Geomedia Publishing: Publishing Your Professional Geodata Via Google (2-sided) ...
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23 March 2009
Complex Query and Multipage Reports via Script
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes a script that opens a simple user interface for creating complex queries and reports.
The TNT Geospatial Scripting Language (SML) allows you to create custom applications with
a user interface to simplify setting up complex operations. For example, MicroImages recently
created a farm management script for an international client. The script and its dialogs allow
people with little training to set up and run queries involving multiple criteria in the farm management
database and to generate attractive reports as PDF files.
Complex Query and Multipage Reports via Script (2-sided) ...
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11 March 2009
TNTmips Job Processing System
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes the TNTmips Job Processing System (JPS). The JPS and the associated Job Manager
are designed to significantly improve
throughput of your production projects, exploit your computer's multiple cores, and interact with other software products
and the Internet. Tasks can be defined by interactive TNTmips processes, geospatial analysis scripts (i.e. SML),
web applications, and your own programs. Each task is an XML job file that defines its input and output parameters and
the TNT process, SML script, or other program it controls and executes. When TNTmips is running the TNT Job
Processing System (JPS) is automatically activated in the background to detect, prioritize, and run these TNT tasks in
parallel. If no tasks are being executed, this background process uses almost none of your computer resources.
TNTmips Job Processing System ...
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6 March 2009
Basic TNT Concepts
Expanded and updated tutorial ... This TNTmips tutorial, formerly called Navigating,
has undergone major revision and is now current with TNT 2009. It includes the following pages:
- The TNT Products
- The Project File
- Subobjects and Project File Hierarchy
- Raster Objects
- Vector Objects
- CAD Objects
- Shape Objects
- TIN Objects
- Region Objects
- Database Objects
- Raster Color Maps
- Raster Contrast Tables
- Manage Project Files
- Geospatial Catalogs
- Custom Toolbars
- Geometric Element Selection
- Map Projections
- Style Assignment
- Multiple Views and Displays
Basic TNT Concepts ...
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4 March 2009
Geologic Exploration
[extracted directly from email from South Africa]
As far as our geological team has been involved, you will be pleased to learn that TNTmips has, yet again,
been the central tool in our armory that has allowed us to collate, clean and integrate the enormous variety of
geological data needed for interpretation and we have done so to an exceptionally high level (i.e. continent down
to mine scale). From this, analytical processes could then be applied in order that scientifically -based decisions
could be taken to produce the best possible outcomes. [a name] was instrumental in creating a TNT toolkit for the
semi-automated regolith mapping using Aster, which also used reprocessed SRTM data - he further took the latter to a
new level to assist in structural analysis at both regional and project scales. We worked hard at producing a MySQL
backend database for field structural measurement, geological observations (field, trench and drillholes) which was
real neat - the next step would have been the dynamic linking of this into TNT's views, with the ultimate goal of
doing this via the TNTserver - the necessary here being where one has a central repository of data from which users
with different needs / software systems, could then tap a single source. Soil geochem and other geological field
mapping data would have followed suite. The use of TNTatlas as a viewing tool for management who are not "geospatial experts",
has again proven to be an absolute winner. Even from this simple tool, the ability for them to overlay data into/onto
Google Earth is superb - it is also a fantastic way in a present action to take the TNT data from the view window and
then be able to drape it over Google Earth where one can fly around in 3D and see a more regional perspective ... love it.
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27 February 2009
Measuring Geospatial PDFs with Reader
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can make measurements in geospatial PDF files in Reader.
What measuring in Adobe Reader gives you:
- Ability for others to make measurements in geospatial PDFs you provide
- Measure distance, area, and perimeter
- Choose your default measurement units for distance and area
- Enable measurement markup
Measuring Geospatial PDFs with Reader ...
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20 February 2009
What Are Job Files?
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes the Job File, which is an XML file
used to set up large jobs, many similar jobs, and/or SML scripts to run during off-hours.
The TNT Job Processing System uses a simple XML text file
structure to record all of the processing parameters needed for a
particular job. A job file specifies the TNT process to run, the
input and output objects or files, and the necessary job-specific
processing parameters and their values.
Job files are automatically created when you
press the Run Jobs or Save Jobs button
in a TNTmips process window.
You can also create job files with
an I/O program (i.e. SML) written to provide
a user interface for selecting the input objects for one or more
jobs and setting the processing parameter values.
What Are Job Files? ...
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16 February 2009
Modeling Watershed Geomorphology
Expanded and updated tutorial ... This TNTmips tutorial was expanded from 20 to 28 pages
and is current with TNT 2008:74. The following new pages were added:
- Flow Path Attributes
- Watershed and Basin Attributes
- Hydrologic Connectivity
- Hydrologic Properties of the Terrain
- Filling Depressions
- Draining Depressions
- Segment Flow Paths by Elevation
- Segment by Flow Accumulation
More ...
Modeling Watershed Geomorphology ...
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10 February 2009
Points, Multi-Points, and Options
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 discusses multi-point/line/polygon elements. These are
complex elements that consist of more than one of the
indicated element type grouped for selection and further
manipulation as a single element. When an object containing
these complex elements is drawn, the elements
look no different than multiple, individual elements. However,
interactive element selection will reveal that more
than one point, line, or polygon is selected when you click
on one of the elements that is part of a complex element.
Points, Multi-Points, and Options ...
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6 February 2009
TNTmips Job Processing MEMO Correction
The MicroImages MEMO entitled TNTmips Job Processing that appeared in this NEWS on 8 January 2009
contained an incorrect list of features that support Job Processing. The corrected list follows and the TNTmips
Job Processing MEMO is now correct. If you have a justification for adding a Save Job button (i.e., support for
Job Processing) to a TNT feature that is not yet on this list please communicate it to MicroImages.
TNTmips Job Processing Memo Corrections ...
TNTmips Job Processing (6-pages) ...
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3 February 2009
Edit Bitmap Patterns for Point Symbols
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can interactively edit a bitmap pattern for use
as a point symbol.
Editing Bitmap Patterns Interactively Lets You:
- Create a new bitmap pattern from scratch or modify an existing pattern
- Use an existing bitmap fill pattern as a template to create new symbols
- Rotate and/or flip bitmap patterns
- Use tools to fill and replace array of pixels or an individual pixel
Edit Bitmap Patterns for Point Symbols ...
Use Bitmap Patterns for Point Symbols ...
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23 January 2009
Automatic Stereo Smoothing
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 illustrates that accurately georeferenced satellite images,
orthophotos, and maps of any resolution for anywhere in the
world can be automatically viewed in smooth, high-quality
stereo.
Automatic Stereo Smoothing ...
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22 January 2009
Use Bitmap Patterns for Point Symbols
A new Quick Guide
describes how you can use bitmap patterns for point symbols.
What Using Bitmap Patterns for Point Symbols Gives You:
- Create new bitmap patterns or edit the existing ones
- Use any image in png format for point symbols
- Select an existing bitmap fill pattern to use as a point symbol
- Display your point symbols in Google Earth as displayed in TNTmips
Use Bitmap Patterns for Point Symbols ...
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19 January 2009
Setting Up an Attribute Pick List (2-sided)
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 describes how to set up pick lists.
Assigned attributes provide the Information about geometric features in Geographic Information Systems. The
spatial data you work with for GIS purposes may run the gamut from one extreme (geometric elements organized
into files/objects that are georeferenced and are linked to a complete relational database) to the other extreme (geometric
elements that do not exist until after you create them using photointerpretive techniques, real-time GPS input,
or by some other means). Regardless of where your project falls on the spectrum, pick lists are designed to make assigning attributes to geometric elements easier.
Setting Up an Attribute Pick List (2-sided) ...
Choose Attributes Using a Pick List (2-sided) ...
Create a Pick List for a Shapefile (2-sided) ...
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14 January 2009
Free Geodata from MicroImages
Each professional TNT product ships with FREE geodata sets on DVDs. These geodata sets provide useful reference
data for your projects. They also demonstrate the latest, optimized, fast TNT geometric and raster structures you can
create and use for your geodata in TNTmips, TNTedit, and TNTview. For example, the
global 90-meter and 30-meter USA elevations are both single, large, raster tile sets
that are so fast they can be used for stereo viewing or analysis directly from DVD.
Similarly, each global feature layer (e.g., coast lines, political boundaries, and so
on) is a single global vector layer with full topology and attributes. See the
Technical Guides at www.microimages.com/documentation/html/Categories/Geodata.htm for
more detailed information on these datasets.
Free Geodata from MicroImages (2-pages) ...
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8 January 2009
TNTmips Job Processing
The DV2009 version of TNTmips introduces a new Job Processing (JP) concept to assist you in optimizing your geospatial analysis activities. It permits you to use the interactive TNTmips interface to set up large jobs, many similar jobs, and/or SML scripts to run during off-hours and to automatically use many cores, as a distributed system, and other setups.
TNTmips Job Processing (6-pages) ...
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2 January 2009
Create a Pick List for a Shapefile (2-sided)
A new
Technical Guide for TNT 2009 has been posted that describes how you can create and use a pick list with a
shapefile to help you change existing attributes and assign attributes to newly added elements. The TNT products support direct use of shapefiles in any process
that takes geometric object input. However, the simple database file associated with a shapefile is essentially one
table containing a single record for each element. With TNT products, you can extend this database and create a
relational database to use with the shapefile. These additional tables and other TNT features, such as display
parameters, are stored in a separate .rlk file. This TNT file is located along side the .shp file
and other files associated with the shapefile such as .dbf and prj.
Create a Pick List for a Shapefile(2-sided) ...
Choose Attributes Using a Pick List (2-sided) ...
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