Introduction to the Map Viewer
The Map Viewer is desktop GIS (geoinformation system) mapping and data editing window within Pantheon Farming, which is made by TatukGIS component.
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Menu Tools --> Map Viewer is only visible if you have FA license; if you have other PANTHEON license, menu is not visible.
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Main Functionalities:: editing, importing, saving, exporting spatial data
The Map Viewer window
Viewing
The Map Viewer opens most GIS/CAD vector and raster (image, grid) files and SQL geodatabase layers, even advanced spatial databases such as Microsoft SQL Spatial,. Maps can be opened from the web using WMS, WMTS, and WFS (OpenGIS) protocols. Support for each data type is “native", meaning that layers are opened directly without a format conversion or import operation. Comprehensive visual layer property, legend, and scale controls provide for deep customization of the map appearance, colors, line styles, labels, symbols, thematic presentations, layer hierarchies, sub-layers, legend, scale … The data grid table provides for SQL type queries in combination with advanced spatial selections. Besides native map projects, the Map Viewer opens most ESRI ArcView v.3 or MapInfo Professional projects and projects exported from ESRI ArcGIS/ArcMap v.9 & 10 using the free Arc2TatukGIS plug-in to ArcGIS.
Coordinate systems
State-of-the-art support for coordinate systems includes thousands of pre-defined projected and geographic coordinate systems, user-defined coordinate systems, on-the-fly reprojection of vector and raster layers between coordinate systems, and automatic coordinate system recognition for all supported layer types. The support reflects EPSG codes and OpenGIS WKT coordinate system definitions.
Databases
Support is for most database engines (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Interbase, Firebird, Sybase, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS Access...) and compatible SQL and spatial databases, offering a wide-open choice for enterprise-level data storage. Vector layers can be joined to external databases.
Editing
The MapViewer can edit, translate, and export data to a number of vector, raster (image), and Microsoft SQL Spatial format.
User interface
Detailed Functionalities:
| PRODUCT FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS |
| Viewing: |
| Zooming in/out, panning on the map |
| Multiple vector file formats (layer types) in the same project |
| Legend control (panel) to organize layers and layer priority |
| Extended Legend for hierarchical layers, layer grouping |
| Visual layer property control for all aspects of the map appearance (colors, styles, polygon fills, outlines, symbols, labels, transparency, etc.) |
| Create or edit TatukGIS project files |
| Open ArcView 3, ArcExplorer, MapInfo Professional project files; open projects exported from ArcGIS/ArcMap 9/10 using free Arc2TatukGIS extension |
| Scale bar |
| Custom render map geometry, styles, labels, symbols, etc. based on scale |
| Manipulate pixel layers (brightness, transparency, histograms, etc.) |
| Thematic mapping based on attribute values, colored-gradient value themes, color render grid layers |
| CGM and TrueType symbols for points and lines; CGM, TrueType, and WMF symbols for fills |
| HTML style rendering of labels |
| Pie and bar charts |
| OpenGIS WMS/WFS/WMTS layers (such as MapQuest OpenStreetMaps) from the web |
| R-tree spatial indexing for best performance with very large vector files |
| Measurement tools for distance, area, and perimeter |
| Template based printing |
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| Coordinate Systems: |
| 4,800 pre-defined geographic & projected coordinate systems (including all U.S. State Planes) |
| Custom (user-defined) coordinate systems using 150+ projections & 900+ datums |
| EPSG codes and OpenGIS WKT definitions |
| Layer coordinate system recognition (with PRJ file support) |
| Reprojection vector/raster layers, on-the-fly |
| Layer export to new coordinate system (with PRJ file) |
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| Editing: |
| Export map view to image file (TIFF/GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PixelStore) with World File |
| Edit/export vector layer geometry and attributes and save to supported formats, with PRJ file generation |
| Translate layers between supported file types |
| User-defined layers to read/write data from almost any source |
| Export layer geometry based on extent, spatial selection or attribute query, shape type |
| Unions and splitting polygon, line, and multi-point shapes |
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| Database Support: |
| MSSQL Server |
| Vector layer storage in database |
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