V6.3 New Features

Highlight Features:  
Create Layout Templates.
Publish atlases on MicroImages' TNTserver.

System Level Features

• Use menu to switch languages for multilingual installations.
• Full path to folder or object shown during selection.
• File and object selection tools support full Network Neighborhood navigation.
• Preview thumbnail of any object type before final selection (automatic or on-demand).
• Universal Naming Convention (UNC) provides paths to Project Files on shared machines.
• Network paths no longer need to be mapped to drive letters to access Project Files.
• Project Files greater than 2 gigabytes now supported on Solaris 2.6 or later.

Visualization

• Geolocking is now automatic for multiple views.
• Customize display menus and toolbars from window (turn off unused features).
• Clipping to extents for geographically attached groups now controlled by one group.
• Add attributes to elements as they are created with sketch tool in GeoToolbox.
• Directly create a table and records with sketch tool for elements being drawn.

Layouts

• Create and save reusable templates for any kind of map/image layout.
• Templates prompt for new layers, text, and other possible changes.
• Retain general layout characteristics (grid projection, spacing, etc.) while altering template.
• Simplify a complex LegendView by hiding layers (e.g. layers used only for DataTips).
• Show only 1 entry in LegendView for group with several similar layers (e.g. virtual mosaic).

Advanced Tabular Viewing

• Display tables with large number of fields much faster.
• Perform real-time scrolling.
• Tabular view available from icon on toolbar.
• Use icon to insert a new record into the table.
• Resize field widths by dragging column separators.
• Reorder fields and headers by dragging.
• HelpTip on vertical scroll bar indicates current record's position in table.
• Automatically scroll to first selected record when showing all records.
• Expanded sorting, such as sort in ascending/descending order or sort on multiple fields.
• Deleting records now more protective by requiring stronger confirmation.

Database Management

• Multiple records now read from table linked via ODBC, therefore much faster.
• Dialog for creating new tables has been improved.
• Setting up field constraints for tables is now easier.
• String fields can now be longer than 256 characters.
• Computed fields (string expression fields) return text of any length.
• The following table joins (combining 2 tables) are now supported:
• natural joins, outer joins, left outer joins, and right outer joins

Editing Rasters

• Draw and fill all symmetric polygons (3, 4, 5, 6, ... sides).
• Status information displayed for creation, copying, and flood filling.
• Cancel button added to raster tools.
• Create and edit 16-bit color mapped rasters.
• New colors automatically added to color map if space available.
• Notification provided if all colors in the color map are allocated.
• Closest color assigned if all colors are allocated in color map.

Editing Vectors

• Sliver polygon filter also deletes attached attributes.
• Bubble filter can delete attributes or attach them to parent or neighbor polygon.

Auto-Import Text to Tables

• Text files automatically scanned to determine their table format:
• Comma separated data structures are detected and inserted into fields.
• Columnar data structures are imported into fields.
• When first text line contains field names, they will be used.
• Number of fields, field types, decimal places, and others are identified.
• Modify the results of the automatically detected format in dialog box.

Import/Export

• ·Import images and scientific data from Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS) V4.1, r3.
• · Improved import of SDTS rasters. · Import 3D shapefiles.
• · Improved import/export for MapInfo's TAB format. · Import Sun rasters.

New Tutorial Booklets

• Operating with a GPS Unit · Modeling Watersheds and Land Surfaces
• Enterprise: Installation · All 53 booklets updated to V6.30

TNTatlas

• Specify the scale at which each layer will be initially displayed (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...).
• Publish your CD-sized TNTatlas without cost for 6 months on MicroImages' TNTserver.
• Free service for those using a current TNTmips (V6.30 or later).
• Provides use of TNTclient and TNTserver as extended features of TNTmips.

TNTclient

• An alternate but equivalent "standalone" Java-based TNTclient can be downloaded.
• The locally stored standalone client does not require a browser to access TNTserver.
• Layers in a view easily turned on and off using check boxes on control panel.
• Groups in a view easily turned on and off using a folder icon on control panel.
• List of all the layers in an open group may be exposed or hidden.
• Right mouse button on the name of an atlas level in control panel exposes popup menu to show/hide all groups or expand/collapse all groups in level.
• Right mouse button on the name of a group in control panel exposes popup menu to show/hide all layers or zoom to group's extent.
• Right mouse button on the name of a layer in control panel exposes popup menu to get metadata or zoom to layer's extent.
• New Legend panel provides attractive legend for layers actually exposed in a view.
• Select view and coordinates in Latitude/Longitude, State Plane, or UTM system.
• Choose units for coordinates to be meters, feet, kilometers, or miles.
• Zoom at view center to 1 mile, 10 miles, 1 km, 10 km, full resolution, and many others.
• Zoom at cursor to 1 mile, 10 miles, 1 km, 10 km, full resolution, and many others.
• Instant undo to the previous view or 9 more via TNTserver.
• Elastic measurement tool can now be rotated to measure inclined rectangles.
• Measurements can be made and summed from successive views (e.g. stream length).
• The atlas name, server name, date of the TNTclient and TNTserver are displayed.
• InfoTips now provide URLs to link other sites, atlases, or products.

TNTserver

• Use the scale set for each hyperlink object (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...).
• Permits atlases with multiple links for a specific index area.
• Provides links via InfoTips to URLs for other sites.
• Supports connection requests from standalone client stored on visitor's platform.
• Generates various statistics to profile the activity of each visitor.

Languages

• Available: Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Greek, German, Portuguese, Polish, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
• In preparation: Thai, Finnish, Dutch, French, and Slovakian.

Editing Vectors

• Sliver polygon filter also deletes attached attributes.
• Bubble filter can delete attributes or attach them to parent or neighbor polygon.

Auto-Import Text to Tables

• Text files automatically scanned to determine their table format:
• Comma separated data structures are detected and inserted into fields.
• Columnar data structures are imported into fields.
• When first text line contains field names, they will be used.
• Number of fields, field types, decimal places, and others are identified.
• Modify the results of the automatically detected format in dialog box.

Import/Export

• ·Import images and scientific data from Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS) V4.1, r3.
• · Improved import of SDTS rasters. · Import 3D shapefiles.
• · Improved import/export for MapInfo's TAB format. · Import Sun rasters.

New Tutorial Booklets

• Operating with a GPS Unit · Modeling Watersheds and Land Surfaces
• Enterprise: Installation · All 53 booklets updated to V6.30

TNTatlas

• Specify the scale at which each layer will be initially displayed (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...).
• Publish your CD-sized TNTatlas without cost for 6 months on MicroImages' TNTserver.
• Free service for those using a current TNTmips (V6.30 or later).
• Provides use of TNTclient and TNTserver as extended features of TNTmips.

TNTclient

• An alternate but equivalent "standalone" Java-based TNTclient can be downloaded.
• The locally stored standalone client does not require a browser to access TNTserver.
• Layers in a view easily turned on and off using check boxes on control panel.
• Groups in a view easily turned on and off using a folder icon on control panel.
• List of all the layers in an open group may be exposed or hidden.
• Right mouse button on the name of an atlas level in control panel exposes popup menu to show/hide all groups or expand/collapse all groups in level.
• Right mouse button on the name of a group in control panel exposes popup menu to show/hide all layers or zoom to group's extent.
• Right mouse button on the name of a layer in control panel exposes popup menu to get metadata or zoom to layer's extent.
• New Legend panel provides attractive legend for layers actually exposed in a view.
• Select view and coordinates in Latitude/Longitude, State Plane, or UTM system.
• Choose units for coordinates to be meters, feet, kilometers, or miles.
• Zoom at view center to 1 mile, 10 miles, 1 km, 10 km, full resolution, and many others.
• Zoom at cursor to 1 mile, 10 miles, 1 km, 10 km, full resolution, and many others.
• Instant undo to the previous view or 9 more via TNTserver.
• Elastic measurement tool can now be rotated to measure inclined rectangles.
• Measurements can be made and summed from successive views (e.g. stream length).
• The atlas name, server name, date of the TNTclient and TNTserver are displayed.
• InfoTips now provide URLs to link other sites, atlases, or products.

TNTserver

• Use the scale set for each hyperlink object (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...).
• Permits atlases with multiple links for a specific index area.
• Provides links via InfoTips to URLs for other sites.
• Supports connection requests from standalone client stored on visitor's platform.
• Generates various statistics to profile the activity of each visitor.

Languages

• Available: Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Greek, German, Portuguese, Polish, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
• In preparation: Thai, Finnish, Dutch, French, and Slovakian.