re: MI Geographic Explorer under a Test?
Neil,
We are certainly aware that this initial free release of the Geographic Explorer has
some translation issues relating to preserving attributes in some conversions. Our
architechure (based on our FormatX interface) for adding file format support in an
extensible manner supports attribute transfer, much of which isn't implemented at this
time. Is anyone interested in implementing it? You simply create a FormatX reader
and writer for the format. We have already had five firms/individuals contact us who
are willing to collaborate on the development end of this idea, all of who have
excellent read/write format support for one or many various map file formats that
Geographic Explorer users may want down the road.
Again, we view this initial free release to be simply a starting point.
You can read more about the FormatX interface on our website at
http://www.bluemarblegeo.com
By the way, the level of interest in this idea has proven to be extremely suprising to
us. Several thousand (we will have an exact count next Sunday) copies have been
downloaded in just the last 6 days and we reallly haven't even started serious
promotion/advertising at this point! Many of our own developers/customers (~80,000)
don't even know about the product yet! We have received many email messages from
folks who have downloaded the product. Many thanks for the ideas! Keep them coming.
Thanks,
Jeff.
You wrote:
>> Hmmmm...? Too good to be true?
>> MidNight Mapper
>> aka Neil
>> 1/21/99
>> Subject: BM Geographic Explorer 3.0 problems
>> Date: WED JAN 20,1999 00:50:26 EST
>> posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yieldmap)
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>> I downloaded the new FREE version of Blue Marble's Geographic Explorer
>> 3.0 last night. When using it, I found that files converted from mid/mif
>> or MapInfo tab to shape had a slight problem. The shapefiles did not seem
>> to have any table data associated with them, such as soil test point
>> values, etc. Anyone else had problems converting files?
>> BTW...It is an EXCELLENT file viewer. It runs from your windows explorer
>> and is just a right-click away from viewing map files. Talk about
>> handy!!!
>> Visit Blue Marble...
>> LINK HERE
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