THANK YOU! I have looked previously for this upgrade pricing, and not ever found this page. Don't know why. Appreciate the information.
Pam Lardear Run River Enterprises http://www.runriver.net 315-559-0526 "Helping you find your Way" -----Original Message----- From: Stewart Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Maptitude] Re: image files Hi Pam Please see <http://www.caliper.com/maptpric.htm> for upgrade pricing. One of our sales representatives would be happy to contact you by phone to discuss this further if that would be of help. Kind regards Stewart At 10:50 AM 1/12/2005 -0500, you wrote: >Right, I understand that you would recommend upgrading to 4.7. My problem >with that is there doesn't seem to be an "upgrade" price; all I can find is >the price to buy the whole thing all over again. > >I'm a really small business and this is one of the most expensive software >packages I own. But everything else I've ever purchased has an upgrade >option, especially when it's a change from 4.6 to 4.7, and not a whole new >version, like 5.0 > >Pam Lardear >Run River Enterprises >http://www.runriver.net >315-559-0526 >"Helping you find your Way" > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Stewart Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:13 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [Maptitude] Re: image files > > >Hi Pam > >I would definitely recommend upgrading to 4.7. Otherwise any image >conversion software used may degrade the image. > >Stewart > >At 10:06 AM 1/12/2005 -0500, you wrote: > > >Hi Stewart, > > > >I have ver. 4.6; is there no hope for my jpg files? The company I bought > >them from says it cannot offer tiff. > > > >I tried bringing the image file into a photo editor and saving it as .jpg, > >and changing the extension on the world file. The graphics came in, at > >close to the same location (at least it was on the map in the same area) >but > >the scale was no where near the same. > > > >Any hope? > > > >Pam > > > > > >Pam Lardear > >Run River Enterprises > >http://www.runriver.net > >315-559-0526 > >"Helping you find your Way" > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: berry_stewarttrancad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:51 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [Maptitude] Re: image files > > > > > > > >Hi Group: > > > >Maptitude 4.7 supports *.jpg files: > > > >The Joint Photographers Expert Group (JPEG) file format, named after > >the committee that wrote the standard, is based on a mechanism > >designed for compressing either full-color or gray-scale images of > >natural, real-world scenes. It works well on photographs, > >naturalistic artwork, and similar material; it does not work so well > >on lettering, simple cartoons, or line drawings. JPEG handles only > >still images (there is a related standard called MPEG for motion > >pictures). Maptitude can use pictures and images stored in JPEG files > >as layers in your map. > > > >JPEG is "lossy," meaning that the decompressed image isn't quite the > >same as the original image. JPEG is intended for compressing images > >that will be looked at by humans, because is designed to exploit > >known limitations of the human eye; you are more sensitive to small > >changes in brightness than to small changes in color. > > > >JPEG is a less-desirable image format than some others for two > >reasons. It is slow to display, because the file needs to be reread > >(starting from the beginning) each time a new portion of the image is > >displayed. Formats such as ECW, MrSID, and TIFF are designed so that > >portions of the image can be displayed by finding and reading only a > >part of the file. Also, JPEG has a fuzzy appearance and limited > >resolution, especially for large-scale display of map and other > >images with linework and text. Formats such as ECW and MrSID provide > >increasing levels of resolution as needed (to some limit) as you zoom > >to larger scales. > > > >To use a JPEG file in a map with other geographic layers, it must be > >accompanied by a JPEG/World (.JPW) file. This file contains > >registration information for the JPEG image, and Caliper registration > >information is added at the end of the file. The first time that you > >open a .JPG file and its .JPW file, they must be in a folder to which > >you have write access so that Maptitude can add the necessary > >registration information. > > > >Stewart > > > >--- In [email protected], "Pam Lardear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just purchase an aerial photograph that I am trying to use with my > > > Maptitude. It comes as a .jpg with a .jgw World file. Is there > >any way to > > > use this with Maptitude, or to convert it to the TIFF and TIFF > >World? > > > > > > > > > > > > If not, can anyone recommend a good source for aerial photos that > >work? > > > > > > > > > > > > This is from Terraserver. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Pam > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Pam Lardear > > > > > > Run River Enterprises > > > > > > http://www.runriver.net <http://www.runriver.net/> > > > > > > 315-559-0526 > > > > > > "Helping you find your Way" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > >Stewart J. Berry (BSc, MSc) >GIS Specialist >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Phone: 617-527-4700 >Fax: 617-527-5113 >Caliper Corporation >1172 Beacon Street, Newton, MA, 02461-9926, USA >Web site: http://www.caliper.com > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Stewart J. 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