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More Information for Microsoft MapPoint 2000 Users
Manifold
Authoring for MapPoint: FAQ Added - Check out our Frequently Asked Questions
page for using Manifold in MapPoint Authoring. This will answer most questions
regarding use of Manifold with MapPoint. Manifold's new Release 4.50 includes a Publish
for MapPoint 2000 wizard that makes it easy to publish GIS data in Microsoft's
MapPoint 2000 program.
Please Note: A bug has been found in the Publish to
MapPoint subsystem and a hot fix has been issued to repair it. The
hot fix has been incorporated into Service Pack 1 for Manifold System Release 4.50.
If you are using Manifold with Microsoft MapPoint 2000, please Download Service Pack 1
and install it. It only takes a moment. Here is the hot fix
readme.txt file if you are curious about the fix.
Two New Case Studies: Sending Mass Email from Manifold
Join
the Customer
Care Caravan on its North-South tour: all customers within 50 miles of the
tour have been emailed so they can take advantage of this opportunity to get free visits
from the Customer Care specialists.
Check out the use of Manifold as a visual email organizer. This is an advanced topic showing how to apply the infinite database and selection power of Manifold in non-geographic settings to organize email campaigns. Our Case Study adds Associated Press emails to our Media Contacts workspace.
See the Case Studies page for other case studies.
Send Email from Manifold Release 4.50 - Free!
Ever have difficulty keeping your mass emailings organized?
Place your email address lists into an abstract Manifold map and then use Send
Email to send mass mailings to whatever groups you select. Once the data is
in Manifold, you can use visual selection with the mouse, SQL selection or any other
method. See the visual email
organizer case study for an example. Note:
this is an advanced use example.
Download Send Email for Manifold Release 4.50 - Please don't download this if you don't have Manifold 4.50... it won't work without Manifold 4.50.
Manifold Release 4.50 Is
SHIPPING!
There are not enough superlatives to describe Release 4.50: it sets a new milestone in quality, performance and value for GIS software. Visit the Release 4.50 Highlights page for a brief introduction to 4.50. Note the price increase to $145 for Release 4.50 - it's still a steal at twice the price! Existing Manifold users can upgrade to Release 4.50 for only $45. Release 4.50 includes over 60 major upgrades suggested by users and GIS dealers around the world. It will take weeks to upgrade this web site to incorporate Release 4.50 features throughout. Do you already have a previous version Manifold? See our Upgrade Offer for existing Manifold customers.
Manifold Release 4.50 User Manual Goes Online
Our next release of Manifold, Release 4.50, is a major improvement in almost all areas. If you would like a comprehensive preview of 4.5, browse the Web version of the 4.50 user manual, or download the Windows Help version of the Release 4.50 user manual. The download is a 3 MB zipfile that expands into a standard Microsoft help system of over 8 MB. Once downloaded, it is very fast to browse. The web version does not require a download, but it is very image-intensive and thus may be slow to view on slow Internet connections. This beta edition of the user manual does not have all the scripting and formulas examples, but it nontheless covers a lot of ground! Release 4.50 includes point in polygon spatial overlays, area operations such as finding the intersection of multiple areas and joining areas, transparent areas and much more. Detail, above right: Release 4.50 includes a cool WorldView window to display map locations on a 3D globe.
If you prefer browsing the manual over the web, try browsing a sample topic, Buffer Zones and ViewBots right now. This is a comprehensive tutorial topic from the Examples book. If you want to see the entire manual, jump directly to the table of contents for the Web version of the 4.50 user manual,
Official Planetary Place
Names as Manifold Maps
We are pleased to announce the first set of GIS interplanetary place name maps to be publicly available. This Manifold map provides the International Astronomical Union's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature official database of planetary place names and locations. It covers features such as craters, mountains, valles and much, much more for major planets, moons and more.
Detail, left: Map of Venus showing
craters and mountains with size of icon set by diameter attribute. 
US Time Zones for Manifold Users, Free!
Ever try to find a good map of time zones? This is a sneak preview of one of the many new maps on the Manifold System Release 4.50 CD. It's a map of continental US time zones, including the two states where Daylight Savings Time is not observed. The map was created by taking US county data encoded with time zone information provided by the US Government, including county splits for the ten counties that are split by time zones. The thousands of county areas were assembled into complete time zone areas using manifold.net's Topology Factory product (a cool new product that will be released in 1999... stay tuned). This map has been contributed to the Free World Data Foundation archives by manifold.net. The illustration at right shows the map in Lambert Conformal Conic projection.
Five More Stars from ZDNet for Manifold Net
ZDNet has awarded
its ultimate Five Star Editor's Pick rating to Manifold GPS Tools
for Access. This is the second Five Star Editor’s Pick
awarded to manifold.net, the first five star award going to Manifold
Commander. We are also pleased to announce that Manifold 3dView
for Access received a coveted four stars from ZDNet. Compared to
tens of thousands of applications, our database manipulation, 3d visualization, and GPS
data acquisition for Access all received top ratings from the pickiest reviewers in the
industry. Creating database products that outrank those of database companies helps make
these capabilities especially strong and easy to use within our GIS software. Visit
ZDNet at http://hotfiles.zdnet.com
for tons of cool software and services.
Copyright Notices: Microsoft Access 97 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Manifold is a registered trademark of CDA International Ltd., used under license by Manifold Net Ltd. TIGER/Line 1997 is a registered trademark of the United States Bureau of the Census.
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