Another Recent Newsgroup Thread about Manifold System

Here is yet another series of postings about Manifold System Release 4.50 GIS that occurred in comp.infosystems.gis when a writer asked the GIS community if Manifold is for real.... (Alternate colors are different postings in the thread... names have been removed to protect posters' privacy.)

I am sure this has been aired here before, but manifold seems to be an 
incredible bargain. Has anyone got any views about this program good 
and bad. On paper it competes well with Arcview/Mapinfo but in practice 
is it as good as it looks.

Yes, sure it is.

I was a MapInfo 4.5 user and now I use Manifold for the same tasks, better
and faster in most of them. I have some cons, as it uses a lot of memory,
and lacks an e00 exporter (just some cons).
Moreover, some of the MapBasic freeley available programs currently
complementing the MapInfo functions are included as free solvers by the
Manifold's people. Just an example. The "conversion of many polylines to
regions" work I was performing with the help of MapLogix (sold separately).
To convert some 35,000 polylines to regions was a job of some *7 days* in my
Pentium II 400 Mhz, 128 RAM, but its is a matter of some *4 hours* with the
solver included in the Manifold 4.5 release.
The release 5 is coming, supporting raster functions, too

Thank you for your views, they are useful. It does seem to be well 
worthwhile pursuing and I have ordered a copy.

I don't think you'll be unhappy with your decision to buy Manifold. It
seems like a strong, easy-to-use all-round GIS and a terrific value for
the money.

I've been using Manifold for some months now and find its pretty good
generally, Learning curve is huge though - there's just so many things it
can do. In capabilities it leaves both Arcview and Mapinfo for dead.

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