Manifold System Release 5.00 Formats

Manifold System Release 5.00 Formats

Manifold System Release 5.00 Professional Edition reads over 80 different vector, raster, terrain and database formats. Many of the formats listed below exist in significantly different subtypes and so constitute more than one format. Manifold will automatically detect such subtypes and use the correct importer. Some "raster" formats can be used for terrain elevation data while some surface formats can be used for images. Some "drawing" formats such as SDTS can contain other types of data such as surfaces. Manifold will work with such variations to import the data correctly.

Format availability is subject to change without notice. Please contact sales@manifold.net if a particular format is absolutely required for your work. Please send requests for formats to sales@manifold.net - All formats are fair game!

Import

Raster Image Formats
AVHRR .l1b	Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Level 1 B
ADF
ADRG	NIMA ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
BMP .bmp	Windows bitmap
BMF .dib
CADRG	NIMA Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
CIB	NIMA Controlled Image Base
DOQ .doq, .coq, .jpg	USGS Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle
DRG .tif	USGS Digital Raster graphics (scanned maps)
E00 .e00	ESRI .e00 files containing rasters.
ECW .ecw	ERMapper Wavelet compressed.
EMF .emf, .wmf	Windows Meta File and Extended Meta File
ENVI IMG .img	ENVI
ERDAS GIS .gis, .lan	ERDAS
ERDAS IMG .img	ERDAS
ERS .ers	ERMapper
GIF .gif
GRASS	(US Army Corps of Engineers)
GXF
HDR .hdr	GeoSPOT
HDF .hdf	SeaWiFS, EOS
IMDISP .lbl	US AVHRR / Conterminus US Land Cover
JPEG .jpg, .jpeg
LAS/LBL .ddr
LULC CTG	Land use land coverage
NITF .ntf	NIMA image format (different than UK Ordance Survey .ntf)
PCX .pcx
PIX .pix	PCIDISK
PNG .png	Portable Network Graphics ("Ping") - Just say no to .gif!
PPM .ppm
RAW .raw
IDRISI IMG .img	IDRISI
IDRISI32 RST .rst	IDRISI
SGI .sgi	Silicon Graphics
SPOT .dat	SPOT satellite
SUN .sun	Sun Microsystems
TAB .tab	MapInfo TAB grid files
TGA .tga	Targa
TIF .tif
TIFF .tif (geocoded)	GeoTIFF, regular .tif, .tif with .tfw "world files", etc.
WMF .wmf	Windows Meta File (see EMF)
XYZ	Generic XYZ

Vector Drawing Formats
BNA .bna	Atlas
DGN .dgn	Intergraph
DLG .dlg, .opt	USGS Digital Line Graph Optional
DWG .dwg	AutoCAD
DXF .dxf	AutoCAD
EOO .e00	ESRI
GDF .gdf	European common format
LULC	GIRAS
ETAK	MapAccess
MBS .mbs, .xbs	ETAK MapBase
MFD .mfd	Manifold 4.50
MIF .mif	MapInfo mid/mif
NTAD .are, .lnk, .nod, .pnt	BTS National Transportation Atlas Database
NTF .ntf	UK Ordnance Survey
STDS	US government Spatial Data Transfer Standard
SHP .shp	ESRI ArcView, including 3D and measured Shapefiles
TAB .tab	MapInfo Tab
TAIF .nde, .edg, .fac	Tele Atlas Interchange Format, Street Net, Multi Net
TIGER/Line	US Bureau of the Census TIGER (TL '95, '97, '98, '99, '00 and '00 Redist)
VCT .vct	IDRISI
VMAP .dht	NIMA Vector Product Format: VMAP0, VMAP1 and VMAP2 (.vpf)

Elevation / Surface Formats	(Some overlap with image formats)
ADF
AVHRR .l1b	Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Level 1 B
BIL .bil, .hdr	ESRI BIL surfaces/terrain elevation
CEOS .vdf	SeaWiFS Satellite
CTG .ctg	LULC CTG
DDR .ddr	LAS files
DEM	USGS Digital Elevation Module
DEM STDS	USGS DEM using Spatial Data Transfer Standard
DEM ArcInfo .dem, .hdr	ESRI ArcINFO
DEM GLOBE	Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation
DEM GTOPO30	Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Format
DTED	Digital Terrain Elevation Data (US Military / NIMA), DTED Level 1, Level 2
E00 .e00	ESRI .e00 Grid files
ENVI IMG .img	ENVI IMG
ERDAS GIS .gis,.lan	ERDAS
ERDAS IMG .img	ERDAS
ERS .ers	ERMapper
FLT .flt	ArcINFO Floating-Point Grid
GeoSPOT .hdr	GeoSPOT satellite
GRC .grc,.grd	Northwood GRC/GRD Grid Files
GRD .grd	ESRI ArcINFO ASCII Grid
GRASS	US Army Corps of Engineers
GXF .gxf
HDF .hdf	EOS
HDF .hdf	SeaWiFS
HDR .hdr,.img	ENVI IMG
HDR .hdr	GeoSPOT
IMG .img	IMDISP
IMG .img	IDRISI IMG
GRC .grc	Northwood Grid Files
NTF .ntf	NTF Grid
VDF .vdf	CEOS SeaWiFS
GXF .gxf	Grid Exchange File
PIX .pix
RAW ASCII	Flexible format raw ASCII
RAW Binary	Flexible format raw Binary
RAW .raw	Generic "raw" files.
DAT .dat	SPOT files
TAB .tab	MapInfo TAB grid files
TIF .tif	Geocoded TIFF, generic TIF as surfaces
XYZ .xyz	Generic XYZ

Database Formats
CSV .asc, .csv, .tab, .txt, etc...	Text formats
DB .db	Borland Paradox
DBF .dbf	dBase, FoxPro
HTML .htm, .html	Tables in HTML pages
MDB .mdb	Microsoft Access 2000 and Access 97 .mdb format
UDL .udl	Microsoft Universal Data Link
WKx .wj, .wk	Lotus
XLS .xls	Microsoft Excel
ODBC	Any ODBC driver.
OLE DB	Any OLE DB Provider.
Default OLE DB Providers	(Typical Windows 2000 Installation)
Microsoft Jet 3.51 OLE DB Provider (Access 97)
Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider (Access 2000+)
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Indexing Service
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for OLAP Services
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server
Microsoft OLE DB Simple Provider
MSDataShape
OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Directory Services

Export

Raster Image Formats
BMP .bmp	Windows bitmap
ECW .ecw	ERMapper Wavelet compressed.
EMF .emf, .wmf	Windows Meta File and Extended Meta File
GIF .gif
JPEG .jpg, .jpeg
PNG .png	Portable Network Graphics ("Ping") - Just say no to .gif!
TGA .tga	Targa
TIF .tif
TIFF .tif (geocoded)	GeoTIFF, regular .tif, .tif with .tfw "world files", etc.

Vector Drawing Formats
DXF .dxf	AutoCAD
MFD .mfd	Manifold 4.50
MIF .mif	MapInfo mid/mif
SHP .shp	ESRI ArcView, including 3D and measured Shapefiles

Elevation / Surface Formats	(Some overlap with image formats)
BIL .bil, .hdr	ESRI BIL surfaces/terrain elevation

Database Formats
CSV .asc, .csv, .tab, .txt, etc...	Text formats
DB .db	Borland Paradox
DBF .dbf	dBase, FoxPro
HTML .htm, .html	Tables in HTML pages
MDB .mdb	Microsoft Access 2000 and Access 97 .mdb format
UDL .udl	Microsoft Universal Data Link
WKx .wj, .wk	Lotus
XLS .xls	Microsoft Excel
ODBC	Any ODBC driver.
OLE DB	Any OLE DB Provider.
Default OLE DB Providers	(Typical Windows 2000 Installation)
Microsoft Jet 3.51 OLE DB Provider (Access 97)
Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider (Access 2000+)
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Indexing Service
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for OLAP Services
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server
Microsoft OLE DB Simple Provider
MSDataShape
OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Directory Services

The Best Buy in GIS !

No other general purpose GIS package, at any price, delivers so many formats for you to use. Other GIS packages require expensive add-ons or expensive conversion applications to access as many formats. Why so older systems support so few formats? The reason is that many such systems are sold by companies who are also want to sell you map data. Most map data is created by the government and provided for free (in the US). If a GIS company reserves for itself the ability to read those government formats, they can download free data, convert it to their proprietary format and then sell it to you! With Manifold System, you can download the data for free directly from its original source.

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