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15 February 2007 Testimonials and Other Tidbits (2006:72)This
document in PDF ... The following are some of the complimentary written comments and related interesting items received at MicroImages since the shipment of version 2005:71 of the TNT products exactly as provided except for the comments and edit alterations [shown in brackets] to keep them anonymous where necessary. Additional favorable comments are received by MicroImages by voice but cannot be reproduced here verbatim as quotes. Please note that these quotations are not edited from their original form in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and so on, and many are written by those whose first language is not English. MicroImages clients using TNT professional products Email from Canada When I spoke to you last, I mentioned that I have been using the 3D display a lot for one of our projects, and I have a couple of questions for you so that I can better display some information. When I use a 3D surface using one of the predefined color palettes, I get a wonderful display, but I would like to be able to use some transparency in this layer, and I also use a J2000 image underneath. When I use the J2000 image, I have a great image, but I have rectangle all around the image (corresponding to the extents of the image). How can I get rid of the white area around the image to improve my 3D display (see the attached screen shot of my 2D and 3D display window). Email from Spain I’m a newbie in SML, and I’m not used to programming languages at all. In fact, this was the very first time I felt encouraged enough to try something a little bit serious, so it took a couple of weeks for me to get the script to work properly… but it really works! Email from Greece [a university] have installed the TNTmips floating license key successfully. They got enthusiastic with the capabilities of the TNT products! Email from South Africa I would also like to inform you that our GIS team recently conducted a training course over a period of two weeks where we trained at least two GIS people from the National Statistical Offices (NSO) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The course consisted of lectures on theory, demonstrations, practicals and guest lectures. The focus of the course was on the use of GIS in NSO’s. As part of the practicals, TNTlite was used to show the application of a full GIS in the work of NSO’s. The areas where TNTlite were mainly used was in importing data, projections, on-screen digitizing, georeferencing and vectorization. Many of the delegates were very impressed with the functionality and user friendliness of TNTlite. As part of the course material provided to them, they were given a copy of TNTlite and the data that was used in the course. Email from USA Last night I attended a planning meeting at [a major University] involved with Webster University (it has branches over much of the USA and several foreign countries). They are proposing the creation of a certificate program in remote sensing. Of particular interest to you is a paragraph: “Software Tools: We would prefer the instructors recommend and select “freeware” tools for use in their classes to facilitate ease of access outside the classroom by students wishing to work off line outside the Webster Lab. We recommend selection of “Freeware” tools that also have a commercial version so compatibility with end-user environments can be facilitated to the best extent possible.” During the evening presentation our leadership specifically mentioned TNTlite favorably (and no other brands), giving students the analysis tools that should be found in the other brands. They may want to give an introduction to TNTlite software to the new faculty. Next session they intend to have TNTlite on a server rather than on the individual computers in the Lab. Part of our development program is to design the certificate course and initially offer it free to 20 State [employees] (18 credit hours worth but no credit for them). Thereafter it will become a regular university program for official credit and certificate. Email from USA I downloaded and tried out the latest TNTmips/View yesterday. The Display interface will take some getting use to, but TNTview sure looks a lot simpler for someone new to the program. The interface looks easier to use with the new design and the export option would make TNTview a very good platform for some SMLs. Email from England I’ve spent some more time with the [TNTmap] Viewer, and I have some additional comments. I’m excited about the possibility that the Viewer presents for a sleeker, easier interface for the next version of [our site] Online. Email from South Africa It’s a pleasure. This new version is very exciting and I’m glad I can have a small part in the process. Email from South Africa I can’t wait to run the new Paris method on my data! [Refers to the Paris pansharpening method.] Email from Australia [These comments relate to the new 2006:72 catchment analysis scripts developed to trace sample values upstream to their spatial sources (e.g., non-point source pollution, soil, type, geologic source, ….] The drainage script is now working reasonably well, though I continue to have some problems with certain datasets and error messages that pop up during the processing. I suspect that some of these result from a lack of computer power and spare memory in particular as the problems are less frequent when working with small datasets. I wish to acknowledge the good work of [MicroImages staff] in advancing the script. I believe it is the best of its type on the market, and my colleagues who have tried the tools in ArcGIS agree. The ability to calculate watershed features over a larger area is a move I applaud, despite the computation problems and time this is likely to take. I look forward to hearing that the upgrade has been successfully trialed and is available for use. I remain a firm supporter of the MIPS software and feel it still has the edge over many other packages. I have been demonstrating this to my colleagues in [my company], hence the reactivation of the two licenses since I joined them. … Email from Reston, VA I have been sick all this week, and I wanted to make sure I can use the final Wed 15 March version of your company’s software, so I just asked for and was granted permission to delay my Capitol Hill presentation by a week. So, I will be able to accept input from MicroImages until and including Mon 20 March 2006. I think this will be good for both of us. [The demonstration is to be on the Mac. Capitol Hill formally refers to the hill upon which the U.S. Congress Building is set. Sometimes those from around our nation’s capitol also refer to the main buildings of the many agencies (NASA, USGS, USDA, … surrounding the mall in front of this building as part of Capitol Hill.] Email from Reston, VA [from same party sending the email immediately above] Thank you very much for the DC TNTatlas DVD Draft. Here are my initial comments. Redraw speeds are fast. Redraw times are probably best described as fast, but not (yet) interactive. Redraw speeds will improve with the adoption of Kakadu 5.1 on dual processors and dual core processors. Redraw speeds will improve with the adoption of hardware based SSE acceleration on Intel based computers. Redraw speeds will certainly improve on computers with both dual core and SSE acceleration enabled. Email from Reston, VA [from same party sending the email immediately above] TNTatlas uses a remarkably small amount of memory. This is especially true as compared to ESRI ArcMap / ArcReader. Congratulations on that significant technical accomplishment. Email from Norway on [from a TNTmips client] Thanks for the details on the Indian reseller. Yes, I am referring to [an Indian organization]. The arrangement was made by the end client, after I conducted basic GIS training for some of their staff about a year ago. I recommended TNTmips due to its versatility and the fact that they needed software that would let them conduct spatial analysis and develop GIS databases in their watershed development projects (watershed analysis, good vector GIS capabilities and some remote sensing). [They are] also collaborating with [a TNTmips client] in Ethiopia, and saw TNTmips in use there. Email from Chile on [from email requesting a quote for the cost to upgrade a TNTmips at a University] Our students use IDRISI for image processing and ESRI programs for GIS thanks to a donation that is upgraded every year. TNTmips is only used for big research projects. Email from an International site [These comments concern the SampleCatchment.sml script, which identifies the basins for thousands of geochemical sample points. The script is illustrated in 2 color plates issued with this TNT version.] My apologies I have taken so long to get back to you with feedback on your final drainage script. Since we last communicated on the topic I have run many drainage datasets with the script, ranging from details to regional datasets. Overall the results are very good, however I do have a number of reoccurring problems, and have identified ways in which these could be resolved more efficiently. [This email continues on here to describe possible improvements to operation of the script, these are not errors but discussion of how the script can be improved. For example, sometimes the nearest drainage line, which is the one the sample point is snapped to, is not the drainage within which the sample point was collected and this case needs to be flagged for manual correction. The script alteration is to snap to the nearest line but identify and record the distance to all the drainages found within the snap radius. Points that find more than 1 drainage (e.g., a possible occurrence in flat terrain) need to be visually checked on imagery or from field notes and potentially moved toward the correct drainage by editing their position.] FYI the drainage analysis results have been shown to senior exploration managers in [my company]. They like the overall concept and results. I am setting up a dedicated workstation in [a city] with ‘cheat sheets’ for the step by step import, script running and result export for TNTmips novices using SRTM / project data. If the process can be made to work smoothly and deliver the right result then this should lead to greater interest / uptake of MIPS license within [my company] and presumably other like minded mineral explorers. The changes listed above will certainly assist with this process. Email from Slovenia In the future weeks I’ll inform you about results of work with your marvelous product, especially in the field of DEM production. Email from Australia BTW I really like the new menu structure of 2006:72, although I’ll have to amend all my documented TNTmips procedures now. The new display interface is excellent – much more intuitive. Email from USA I have been using 2006:72 with great success. So, I have been encouraging [a company] to upgrade. From TNTtalk I’ve downloaded the Geotiff SRTM data at http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/ inputCoord.asp and used the MultiFile import on them. It works beautifully. Thanks. Email from Spain Thanks a lot, Demir. MicroImages has to be proud of this. [This refers specifically to returning an animation showing how to do a task.] Email from USA Tried rendering to Google Earth. WOW! Way Cool. What else are you hiding? Email from Europe By the way, I met [a name] again, at the GIS symposium and trade fair “AGIT” at Salzburg in Austria. We had intensive discussion concerning TNT software, and we share the same opinion that your work on development of new Import/link/Export formats is much appreciated. For consultants, TNTmips is the best tool available to get all GIS and geodata processing jobs done in a very professional and effective way, but many clients force us to deliver project data or even styled layouts in formats like shp, geodatabase, because they have installed the corresponding software. I remember an old client statement mentioned on a MI flier [more likely an old testimonial] more than 10 years ago, it went like this: “We claim to have ArcInfo, but then do the job with TNTmips.” It is still very much the same … Email from USA The “fix” worked great. I appreciate the quick response. The great support is why I stick with MicroImages!! Email from South Africa [from an organization currently using 5 TNT analysis products and a TNTserver] We are currently reviewing our software needs and for the first time have total management support for what we are up to. So a MicroImages’ dominated organization will prevail – as we expand our operations, so we will have to get additional licenses. This is going to be put into effect before the end of the year as things in [play] hot up with the numerous projects we have on the go there. Received our TNT72 this week – so this is now loaded and have been playing around with the Global datasets – very impressed with what I have seen thus far, altho’ an extract process ran for just under 10 hours and gave a result with no elements – had a similar thing happen this morning (the system is patched) and have now had the opportunity of testing the online reporting procedure – this feature is really cool as one often in the heat and pressure of a project finds an alternative solution to it and then can not remember all the steps that were in play when a crash occurred. Email from South Africa The new menu structure, and the redesign of the spatial display interface, for 2006:72 is great. It’ll make it easier to teach students compared to the previous versions. Email from Italy … I attach some photos taken in the exposition area. … The big orthophoto (3m x 2m) covering three panels has been assembled using three different data sources with different projections and originally slightly different colours. The work has been greatly appreciated. The Landsat image even became a sort of logo: it was printed and handed over to each [conference] participant and to press (I did not scan the images from the newspapers yet) and it was projected onto a 4m x 3m panel when nothing else (PowerPoint presentations etc) need to be projected. Email from South Africa FYI – current system growing fairly well – tasks include a mixture of geo-spatial data reorganization, preparing new data from satellite processing and combined GIS/RS work for target generation. First complex set of atlases now in use by the boss who uses it on a daily basis and loves it. Will spread it thro’ organization from early next year as we complete some more datasets to include. Also looking at underlying databases (currently trying out MySQL and MS SQL Express) for certain data that need access from different software packages and this is a challenge of note. Also now have a better chance of looking at the integration of GIS and 3D geological modeling systems that I had thought of many years ago. … Email from Canada The new multirasters are quite incredible for fast display. I discovered today that I could extract a raster from a multiraster very quickly, even if the are selected includes more than one tile: this will be very convenient for us… From MicroImages Resellers Email from Italy I’m impressed from mosaic capabilities of TNTmips. I have apply all the steps of “MrSID Directly to JPEG2000” color plates, with a really good result. To create mosaic I have used jpeg 2000 compression with a 1:10 rate. Now I would like to export this raster object in jpeg2000 format and I want to maintain the object as it is (it’s just in some way a jpeg2000 file). Which jpeg2000 export option must select? [It is not advisable to compress a compressed raster object so TNTmips does not do it without decompressing input first. This job could be approached as follows. Mosaic will automatically create an uncompressed mosaic raster object in process from the input MrSID files, so mosaic to an uncompressed result. Next extract this uncompress mosaic object to the desired 10:1 JPEG2000 raster object. The total time involved will be the same as going from MrSID to a JPEG2000 mosaic raster object as described by this client. Finally, export this uncompressed mosaic object to JP2 file at whatever greater compression ratio is desired. Then discard large uncompressed mosaic object.] Email from South Africa Our 2 large current clients who we have done a few projects with this year are absolutely blown away with the atlases that have been produced for their projects – one of these is a 12GB project delivered on portable HDD – the other we also produced 1:50lk topo image maps using reprocessed 30m SRTM data and ASTER Image maps that blew them away – they are good adverts for our capabilities. Email from Germany Thank you and the engineers very much for fixing this bug that fast. Although I am getting more and more used to the quick response of MicroImages software support staff, I am still amazed about the speed it frequently has. Email from an International Reseller I’ve just installed the latest version…I think the new menu is great…and I have the following questions and comments: Email from an International Reseller The new interface of v72 looks and functions very good and fine. Email from an International Reseller So I used it in the TNTlite version. I do like very much the new menu and the small size of the interface font. It gives the interface a more elegant appearance. Email from an International Reseller We have a client in Poland at the University of Olzstyn using TNTlite for educational purposes. This staff member [a name] is from [our nation], therefore he contacted us for assistance. He is very amazed about what TNTlite can do for him. Email from an International Reseller [from a detailed report about a potential client that collects air photos and holds a large national collection of archived images] … [A competitor] set up their system as a large and expensive rollout, so their investment in [that software] has been very large, as has the investment in [their database software] and the sort of custom spatial datablade they created there. …They have used [this competitor’s] products throughout their life as a business and still have some of the old [competitor’s] hardware specific components running in their office which are usually only seen in museums of CAD these days. … The main features of interest which I am pushing with them is the excellent storage format of the project file and geospatial catalogs, the large array of format support, the speed and flexibility of operating with massive datasets, the impressive technical support and development of MicroImages Inc., and last but certainly not lease, the unique ability to do all their operation from one piece of software. These factors all lead back to the simple business cases of providing an excellent return on investment and greatly reduced cost of ownership, alongside of the key technical feature of total system integration. From what I understand to date, the popularity within the company of [the existing software] is its native multi-format support. TNTmips is of course perfectly comparable in this area. [That software] is also very capable software for creating and editing datasets, however it is slow and memory and process intensive, an area where TNTmips holds a hefty advantage. [That competitor’s] support is weak (a fault on [all their] products in general) and maintenance is very expensive. [As this] system is heavily customized this becomes a particularly large issue for them. I also understand that [the database] system is a bit of a headache as they have let it fall somewhat out of date and to upgrade that database to [the latest version] they would have to spend a large amount of money getting customization to fit with the [geospatial product] overhauled, thus they face a redundancy problem. I know there are other issues but as yet I haven’t managed to obtain a complete list. Finally a word on the products in general. DV7.2 is looking fantastic. The interface change is looking nice and follows a clear logic and will be easy to adapt to from a users point of view. [A new client] has also been impressed with what they have seen from that end. 7.1 is running like a charm and the stability has been increasing all the time. … [This client is] using dual screens and I can’t get over how well TNTmips works when using dual screens, it is really impressive being able to lay out your desktop in a manner that keeps all the tools together and still allow plenty of space for the views. I am having a great deal of success demonstrating TNTmips against other software’s in specific sites. I find I can ask anyone to show me something they do in ArcGIS and then in turn show them the same operation in TNTmips in half the time with considerable ease. The feature that the software covers a CAD and image processing system has huge mileage in exactly the way your ‘A True Story’ plate describes. In [this client’s] case they are replacing MicroStation, AutoCAD, CorelDraw, ArcGIS and IrriCAD with just one software and can also undertake a project to get all their hardcopy plans into vector and CAD layouts thanks to being able to georeference and digitize so well from scans. The exact same issue has cropped up with [another potential client] and is a key selling point in there. The native support is also fantastic in this manner. Being able to use shapefiles and open DXF’s and so forth natively is just awesome. The reception that has received in demonstrations is really quite remarkable. It all goes to drive home that the tools that allow the users to keep their data integrated and make their lives easier by being able to do everything from one place is one of the strongest features of TNTmips. Email from an International Reseller Today I have made my first steps with 72. I was wondering about the results of rewriting the code for the display process. I gave it a try. I have done the following: 1) Added a new group 2) Added 898 binary objects stored in one RVC file 3) Displayed them 4) Zoomed forth and back. It took around 4 min. for the process to load the 898 objects into the layer controls window. With 71 it took around an half hour. After the objects have been loaded it took 21 seconds for the first overview display. Zooming in to a certain layer was less than one second. Zooming back to the overview was around 4 seconds. Saving the layout now seems to be much faster than before. And opening a project (formerly layout) and loading all the 898 objects from the project just took less than a minute. (Machine used: 2.4GHz AMD Athlon, 1 GB RAM, but RAM requirements have been low). This is exactly the speed our prospective client [a name] and [a government authority] do need. I will report this major improvement to the people in [the nation] as soon as we have the interface translated. I will go out for a training session to a client in [that nation] from 7. to 9. march. Since they are quite close to [the town], I would like to visit the people there to show the improvements. Email from an International Reseller Yesterday I have again been out at the [a name] agency. They have been using our TNTmips key one week for testing purposes. Yesterday we have again a seven hours working session. First of all let me tell you that TNTmips is much more reliable and stable than it used to be. Within 16 hours of total work time with TNTmips, we have only one crash of TNTdisp, which could not be reproduced. And it is worth mentioning that not myself have been operating TNTmips, but a staff member not very familiar with TNTmips. So cheers to all of the MicroImages staff! Email from an International Reseller Last week I have been out for a three days training session in [a nation] with our client [a name]. [He] had invited four more persons to attend the training. Overall they have been five persons all working on the Mac machines (MacMini, iMac, Powerbooks, different CPUs). During the complete training session we did not have one crash of TNT. This is really great and used to be different a few years ago. We have used 2006:71 20060301 patch on Mac and on my Windows machine. Email from an International Reseller [This from a report on an initiative for an enterprise installation for the management of the truck fleet of a major construction firm.] I believe this puts us in a good position as we can bring real commercial reality to the situation and show top return on investment and low cost of ownership that your software brings. The scalability of the software is also exemplary, so we can cover those hot spots better than anyone. The team were very keen on us progressing to a detailed proposal with an eye to commencing immediately into the system construction. Interestingly they have shelved a plan from the MapInfo agents for a MapInfo Pro/MapXextreme based system because the costs were huge. It has once again highlighted the strength of the TNTmips/TNTserver based system with its clear pricing structure. It continues to surprise me when I see proposals from other vendors that effectively get more expensive the more that people use them, primarily by way of licensing by connection volumes. It really flies in the face of the economics of scale concept anyway. … Email from an International Reseller From a month ago I has been trying this new release, so I’m impressed with this new interface, because is more understandable, specially for new users and users from another software like ArcGIS. Email from an International Reseller Another two words just on the TNTview SAL [Special Academic License]. I think this is a very important. I also think that this could effectively open a door into the universities here around. Some time ago I reported about the many unauthorized copies of ArcGIS, ArcView and other GIS and CAD software here in [a named] university: … From a work I am currently doing (an urban plan of a small suburban township with 10,000 inhabitants), I learned that at this scale also TNTlite can be well employed. In fact, we are currently working with three licenses: TNTmips, TNTview, TNTlite. Much of the work can indeed be done with TNTlite, since the township is small and, for the moment, all thematic datasets match the TNTlite limitations. Some other work, such as data extraction and manipulation from the base map, needs to be carried out with TNTmips, while the map layouts and printing is done with TNTedit (but it could be clearly done also with TNTview). So, in an academic environment, having several (many) TNTview licenses, a few TNTmips license and obviously, many TNTlite installations, almost every learning task can be easily managed. Some simple editing tasks can be done with TNTlite, while ‘heavy’ data viewing and database manipulation can be done with TNTview, and a few TNTmips-operations can be done, too, maybe directly by the teacher with a beamer [projector] (during my lesson, I took my laptop computer with my TNTmips license and projected it onto the wall at the university). Email from an International Reseller First of all I want to say that once again you have made a very great job with the new release. It’s always a pleasure to work with your products. I’m very happy that TNTmips is really easier to learn for newcomers. Email from an International Reseller [This university has a floating license to use 5 TNTmips under the Special Academic Program.] [A system integrator] said by the phone that he is setting up TNTlite environment in [a university]. Number of PCs is 600. As they do not want to enter 600 activation codes for TNTlite for each 600 PC manually. [He] thought to use some utility software called [a name] which distributes the disk image of one PC to 599 PCs. … Email from an International Reseller Thank you for sending the information on the multi-link raster objects. Yesterday I made the first trials. I tried this with TIF files. The speed of display is more than amazing. It takes just a glimpse to display the rasters. In other words it’s a great new feature. Email from an International Reseller [This reseller is not located in China.] This KML production through quick snapshot of vector data is actually VERY NICE!!! Gratulations. I use it here in China frequently in our land use planning workshops. Quick snapshot of the thematic map, double-click the KML and moving through the thematic map in 3D with Google Earth (works offline as well if you have its cache big enough). I have to add, we are here in mountainous terrain, so the 3D effect is strong. Village farmers can relate immediately to their terrain and tell us, what is correct and what is not. Quick and easy. We may call that “participatory GIS”. Very easy also to put Chinese characters into Google Earth. This is otherwise not possible as far as I know [in Google Earth]: just auto-label the vector, quick snapshot it, and – voila – here they are (as raster, but better than nothing). Email from an International Reseller [further comments related to email above] Then I discovered how fast the PNG could be draped over the GE [Google Earth] surface (specially the transparent null values of PNG make the effect of looking exactly as a vector map). That was good enough for the time being. The variable transparency in GE is amazing and makes the content of the thematic map much easier [more] comprehensible to the audience. Just now we had a crucial strategy meeting on land use planning in the project townships in northern Sichuan and used that method quite successfully. Email from an International Reseller [a portion of a discussion of a pending vehicle management project] Speculatively [a name] (the head of my GIS team) and myself have been working after hours preparing the road network data, working on the routines and testing database structure. The big upside of that is that the network analysis component of TNTmips is doing everything we ask of it with ease. I wish I had had it at my disposal when I was doing electrical utility systems some years ago. ESRI always prided themselves on their network capabilities, yet I spent many long nights with my team trying to make the software do basic rerouting functions and get projects delivered. Thus far everything we have thrown at the TNTmips network analysis component has been a breeze. I have been very interested to note that many of the functions we had to build as add-ons to ArcGIS networking are already built in. Having not used Network analysis as fully as we have begun to now, there are many features I didn’t fully appreciate. The simplicity of adding stops before others and rerouting is fantastic. ArcObjects AM/FM development environment was the only thing that allowed this with the ESRI suite, and even then it was with considerable scripting. Email from an International Reseller [This Reseller has been working with the TNT products for some time. Previous to that he was employed by the ESRI dealer in his nation.] I am about to install another demo for their [a name] team, and hopefully the decision on that license will come through shortly after that. I have been working with their new [team] members on using TNTmips and they are very taken with the system. One operator is from an AutoCAD background and the other from ArcGIS and both feel TNTmips is easily the most complete software they have come across. It was very satisfying to be able to show them through the software and then demonstrate how to do everything they could do in their previous softwares faster and easier that they ever had before. Of particular note was the ability to use DXF and shape files directly so they didn’t have to always try and translate consultants’ work etc. I was also interested to hear them both comment on how stable TNTmips is compared to AutoCAD and ArcGIS. This is very telling because it is a comment I get a lot. The policy of fixing errors is excellent and is an area that many people comment on, I can’t help but be constantly impressed by how few errors there actually are. It is taken as a given within ESRI that ArcGIS will crash 8 times per day on average. TNTmips wouldn’t crash more than a few times in a complete release cycle, so I believe that is an area which you can be particularly pleased. Email from an International Reseller [The following reference is to TNTserver 2006:72. Most of the effort put into upgrading TNTserver 2006:71 to TNTserver 72 was put into eliminating the use of other software such as the Tomcat servlet and making the installation of all components as automatic as possible.] Thanks very much for the faxes; I greatly appreciate your thoughts on the various things we have been working on. I have now installed TNTserver many times on many different configurations and am really happy with how that has been going. I have even managed to install perfectly smoothly on a machine I had not seen before in front of a potential client – a bold move but I think it will earn us a conversion from a previously loyal ESRI client. There were two things that were particularly notable from this experience, one was how impressed they were with how easy TNTserver was to set up and the other was how amazing they found the performance of a atlas containing half a GB of data. I have started to concentrate closely on these aspects in some presentations I have coming up given the strength of the positive reactions. I wouldn’t want to install under pressure like that, but I am trying to create a nice canned demo video for my presentations showing things running smoothly. Email from an International Reseller I must take this opportunity to say that the latest TNTmap is really fantastic. I have been finding it much faster and more stable than before, but more importantly [my client’s] team are using it at the moment are absolutely loving it, especially the google map viewer. The speed at which the client has progressed is quite phenomenal for any development team, keep up the good work. Email from an International Reseller MI Tech. Support Team I will take this opportunity to thanks for all the great job you have been doing along the year, thanks for the adequate and timely help provided to solve the doubts or issues we found along this journey, as well as for your patience with the questions many times maybe not focused or appropriate. From TNTlite users comments from a download from Stockholm I downloaded TNTlite to Windows yesterday, and I also want to try it out on my Mac. I do lots of mapping in Africa, and some of my friends use TNTlite and we are very happy about it. email from German Finally TNTlite is running on my laptop. Great! email from the USA I loaded the new 32-bit version and now I can get rid of my ESRI software. email from India I have used TNTlite earlier & am very fond of this product. In order to recommend your product for a project I would like to pose a question. … email from the USA I’m currently a graduate student through NW Missouri State University and I’ve been using the software and its awesome but have had to reload software (3 times now!) because of other problems regarding my computer. Thank you. email from Australia Thanks for your email regarding download of TNT for Mac. The software, tutorials and sample data all work a treat under X11 on OSX. email from Australia Keep up the excellent work! Many Thanks. comments from a download from India TNTlite and MicroImages products i found more convenient to use and pictures are very clear and use full too and your response is quite impressive it’s a very good and use full one i have contracted you as a reseller and authorized user in future soon. email from Poland Now, after having installed the latest version, working with TNT is much more fun than ever before! Running stable, import and all other problems didn’t occur till now [i.e., no longer occur]! Good! Thanks for the advice. [advice was to patch or get a new version] Network Chatter email from England to Ethiopia I have been presented with a problem on a small river basin management project in Russia – our local associates want us to get them some software to process contour maps into a digital elevation model. They have copies of rare Russian topo maps, but want to build a database on catchment topography. Do you have any knowledge of this type of thing? Any advice would be much appreciated. response from Ethiopia to England Long time no email! What ever are you doing in China? I thought you were buried on [a project name]. My advice would be to digitize the maps using AutoCAD, either as polylines or as 3D polylines and then import into TNTmips (people are generally AutoCAD literate these days). You can do everything in TNTmips but I find the AutoCAD controls easier for rapid working though TNTmips is much more rigorous. If money is tight then only use TNTmips ($7000). More information can be downloaded from their website microimages.com or by email from Terry Peterson on sales@microimages.com. I have been using MicroImages stuff for 15 years or so now for pretty much exactly the sort of stuff you are suggesting. Their support staff respond in real time (usually less than 24 hrs) and extremely helpful in a world where most support staff just brush you off with a reference to their FAQ page on the web site. The contours are then used to generate a DTM which can then be used to generate watershed maps and whole host of other useful things which can be exported to AutoCAD or other graphics packages. TNTmips is also a GIS so you can do pretty much whatever you need to with the 3D data and other geocoded information. It supports Cyrillic script and I suspect it also has Russian help menus but you can confirm that from Terry. 
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