Just a couple of videos featuring our new geoCMS platform released a couple of months ago. This is a web GIS based application designed to easily create, manage and publish spatial data. Currently there are three modules available: geooportal, geoCMS and a mobile application. The first tw... [More]

While working on one of our recent projects we came with an idea (or I should rather say - we eventually managed to spare some time on something not strictly project related ;) that giving some more context to a map should improve the perception of the map data itself: Looks like the idea is not ... [More]

These steps show how to calibrate scanned maps. In this example we work with Polish projection - Borowa Gora Steps: 1. Import raster (format *.jpeg, *.jpg) 2. Create control points on raster. Add them clock wise. 3. Create empty drawingand assign projection (Polish - Borowa Gora). ... [More]

You may sometime need to export all the components of given type so they can be used in another GIS environment. Here goes a script that does exactly this. The example exports all the drawings and tables to either shp or xls: using Manifold.Interop.Scripts; using M = Manifold.Interop; class Scr... [More]

It's been a while since the last post appeared here so this one will be rather longish ;-) Recently in one of our projects we had a requirement to allow users to upload their images to the database so they can later be viewed by other users of the application. For the clientside we used the ExtJs ... [More]

Recently I have played a bit with manifold to find out how to prepare a cost surface. There are no out of the box tools in manifold to magically create such a surface but a bit of sql does the job. Lets assume we have two components - a surface and a drawing. Surface will be a container for our out... [More]

We have recently been asked to write an article about what we do for a new CAD & GIS magazine that is to be introduced to the Polish professional market soon. We have decided to introduce Manifold to the readers as it is still rather not present in the Polish market. Below is a translation of t... [More]

In this post Andre explained how to set up a dev environment on win7 so Geoserver can coexist with IIS 7.5. When it comes to deploying Geoserver to a machine that is exposed to the Internet things may go a bit more difficult. It actually took me a while to figure out how to make all the pieces work... [More]