Hello DTCC 4.1 Users, In an effort to better serve our customers, NIMA has decided to discontinue support to the MADTRAN and DT&CC4.1 datum transformation and coordinate conversion applications. In their place, we will begin offering GEOTRANS. GEOTRANS, a stand-alone application jointly owned by NIMA and the Army Topographic Engineering Center (USATEC) and developed by PAR Government Systems, will run under either Windows NT/95 or Sun Solaris. The GEOTRANS graphical user interface is well organized and easy to navigate and the software is provided with well-written user document on and extensive on-line help. DISA's Joint Interoperability Test Center (JITC) has certified GEOTRANS as meeting the functional and performance requirements of the Joint Mapping Toolkit (JMTK). In fact, GEOTRANS has been chosen as the coordinate transformation engine for JMTK. As part of JMTK Utilities Segment, GEOTRANS based APIs will work on all required DIICOE platforms. GEOTRANS supports the following capabilities: all datum transformations specified in the most recent (3rd) edition of NIMA's WGS84 Technical Report (TR8350.2); accurate coordinate conversions between 25 different coordinate systems, grids, and projections; height conversions between heights referenced to the WGS84 ellipsoid and Mean Sea Level (using EGM96); output coordinate accuracy reporting; creation of user specified datums and ellipsoids; coordinate file processing; and more! NIMA will begin offering GEOTRANS for download through the web site currently set up to distribute MADTRAN in late-October. Links to this site will be established from the JMTK home page, the DT&CC4.1 web site, and other relevant (to-be-identified) sites. GEOTRANS source code is available through the government Points of Contact indicated below. Stay tuned to this and related sites for further information. Check back in late October to obtain your copy of GEOTRANS. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Dennis Bredthauer at (301) 227-2696 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or Dan Specht at (703) 428-6761 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])." Dennis Bredthauer National Imagery and Mapping Agency (301) 227-2696 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
