Hi
You are in potential trouble, VM is much better and faster at interpolation
than AV (you only got simple IDW and TIN, not even IDW with zoning, which is
a must).
The old versions of AV SA and 3DA also has very poor user interfaces, in
fact you are forced to do much with Avenue programming. The new version of
SA is a bit better with the model builder (which would bee nice in VM,
IDRISI or GRASS)
But you can use VM as a front-end to data creation, trim the data to a
common region (in AV SA you will need an excact coordinate and grid cell
match) and export the result as ASCII GRID (which is ESRI's ASCII grid
format). You can then import these ASCII grid into AV (or other raster GIS
packages) and work with them.
I'm using this approach with VM and IDRISI32 (the interpolation is so slow,
that i prefer this way, which includes an additional step with converting
from ESRI ASCII grid to GRASS, because IDRISI can't read ESRI ASCII grid's)
Ole Gregor
Viborg Amt, Milj� og Teknik
(45) 87 27 13 07
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: matias [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:52 PM
> To: MapInfo-L (E-mail)
> Subject: MI and VM versus AV and ????
>
>
> Hello listers
>
> I'am a 5 years Mapinfo user and in a new big planning project I must use
> ArcView.
> My problem is to find an ArcView Extension tool that incorporate all the
> Vertical Mapper 2.5 capabilities.
>
> I presume that I must to use two of them : 3D Analyst and Spatial Analyst.
>
> Why the medium cost of Vertical is about us$ 1,500 versus us$5,000 for
> both arcview extensions ?????
>
> Finally, somebody knows if ARCVIEW can read Vertical Mapper files
> ????........and then save money
>
>
> MATIAS
> C H I L E
>
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