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RELEASE OF V6.70 TNT PRODUCTS Table of Contents Introduction 7 Optimize Your Performance 8 Multi-Processor PCs? 8 Latest Display Board. 9 Computers. 10 Product Licenses 13 Large Format Printing. 13 New Universal USB Keys. 13 Mac OS X 15 Mac 10.1.5 Direct Support. 15 Mac 9.x. 16 Editorial and Associated News [by Dr. Lee D. Miller, President] 17 And Yet Another Release. 17 Why a FREE TNTsim3D. 18 Wavelet Compression Via JPEG2000. 20 SVG or Not to Be! 22 National Mapping Programs. 24 Topographic Maps on a Shoestring. 30 X Server (alias MI/X) 31 TNTsim3D™ for Windows 31 Background. 31 Easy Download and Install. 33 Landscape Builder. 33 Multiple View Windows. 33 Multiple Textures. 39 Readout Panels. 40 Vertical Exaggeration. 43 Using TNTsim3D with TNTatlas. 43 Add Points and Styles in Landscape Builder. 43 Bill Boarded and Stalked Point Symbols. 44 Sample Landscape Files. 44 TNTatlas 6.7 for Windows and X 45 Introduction. 45 Sharing TNTatlas and TNTsim3D objects. 46 Launching TNTsim3D from TNTatlas. 46 Launching TNTatlases from TNTsim3D. 48 Miscellaneous. 49 Published Atlases 50 Quito, Ecuador. 50 SouthEast Asia. 50 TNTserver 3.0 50 TNTserver W2000 Only. 50 Future Improvements. 51 TNTclients. 52 TNTview® 6.7 53 MICROIMAGES MEMO 3 19 AUGUST 2002 RELEASE OF V6.70 TNT PRODUCTS New Empowerments. 53 Large Format Printing Option. 54 Inherited New Features. 54 Upgrading. 54 Installed Sizes. 55 TNTedit™ 6.6 55 Convert Map Layouts to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). 55 Large Format Printing Option. 56 Advanced Label Placement. 56 Advanced Label Editing. 56 Inherited New Features. 57 Upgrading. 57 Installed Sizes. 58 QuickGuides 58 Tutorial and Reference Booklets 58 New Booklets Available. 58 Expanded Booklets. 59 Translated Booklets. 59 New TNTmips Features 59 System Level Changes. 59 Geospatial Display. 62 * JPEG2000 Compression Using Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT). 62 Landscape Builder. 72 Map Projections and Coordinate Systems. 73 Raster Extract. 73 Raster Import/Export. 73 Vector Import/Export. 74 CAD Import/Export. 74 Surface Modeling. 74 Harmonic Series Analysis of Multidate Rasters. 75 * Buffer Zones. 81 * Polygon Fitting. 82 Sample Application. 83 Transfer Attributes. 84 * Spatial Data Editor. 84 Map Layouts. 86 Map and View Legends. 88 * Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) (a prototype process). 94 Spatial Manipulation Language (SML). 101 Upgrading. 103 Installed Sizes. 104 Internationalization and Localization 104 New Manual Available in Thai. 104 New Reference Books in Turkish. 105 Operating Languages. 106 MicroImages Authorized Dealers / Geospatial Consultants 106 Discontinued Dealers 108 MICROIMAGES MEMO 4 19 AUGUST 2002 RELEASE OF V6.70 TNT PRODUCTS Papers on Applications 108 Appendix: Abbreviations 110 Attached Color Plates Immersive Geospatial Analysis Immersive TNTsim3D Geospatial Analysis Built for Mac OS X Use Powerful SML Scripts in Mac OS X TNTmips for Mac OS X 16 Years and Still On Top Color Plates on the Web Preparing Multiple Textures for TNTsim3D Georeferenced Views in TNTsim3D Simultaneous Views in TNTsim3D Map View in TNTsim (1/2) Set Vertical Exaggeration (2/2) TNTsim3D Point-Of-Interest Views Multiple Textures in TNTsim3D Launching TNTsim3D from TNTatlas 2-sided Using TNTsim3D to Launch TNTatlas Geotectonic Map of East and Southeast Asia New Tutorial and Application Booklets Translated Documentation Windows Desktop or the X Desktop Customizing TNT Menus JPEG2000: Compression Results JPEG2000: Lossy or Lossless? JPEG2000 versus JPEG “Classic” JPEG2000: A Closer Look at Compression Artifacts JPEG2000: Almost Lossless New Buffer Zone Features Separating Buffer Zones by Attribute Polygon Fitting By Attribute Transferring Attributes in Polygon Fitting Auto Generating Vector Polygon Labels Auto Generating Vector Line Labels Screening for Label Collisions (1/2) Interactive Editing of Line Labels (1/2) Interactive Editing of Labels and Leader Lines Legend Samples for CartoScript Styles Orient Point Symbols Using CartoScripts Geologic Map of Granite Gulch Study Area Text Labels for Polygon Legends (1/2) Alignment Control for Legend Text (1/2) Advanced Text Features Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) SVG Capabilities Layouts Converted to SVG and PDF MICROIMAGES MEMO 5 19 AUGUST 2002 RELEASE OF V6.70 TNT PRODUCTS Editing SVG MICROIMAGES MEMO 6 19 AUGUST 2002 RELEASE OF V6.70 TNT PRODUCTS Introduction MicroImages is pleased to distribute V6.70 of the TNT products, which is the 52nd re- lease of TNTmips and adds 124 new features submitted by clients and MicroImages. All TNT products can use now use a native Windows desktop and create and use JPEG2000 files with images compressed 100 times. TNTsim3D has more than dou- bled in features and is now a free TNT geopublishing tool just like TNTatlas. Generating buffer zones and fitting polygons to point observations have many new, unique features. Polygon and line label placement and appearance is improved and coupled with new, interactive label editing. Even more attractive maps can be created with new legend design tools. TNT map layouts can be converted to the new web standard Scalable Vector Graphics. And, all of these are now available for use with Apple’s latest Mac OS X. A summary of the new capabilities introduced in V6.70 are listed below. • Native Windows Desktop: Elect to see and manage every TNT window and dialog as a separate window on your Microsoft Windows’ desktop. In this mode, TNT win- dows are not directly rendered by the X server. Now TNT windows and other soft- ware’s windows are intermixed and operate similarly. • ISO Standard Wavelet Compression: Be the first to directly use, import, and ex- port georeferenced JPEG2000, the replacement for JPEG files. Compress still im- ages to 1/100 of their original size, where appropriate, without introducing any image noise or other artifacts. • Better Label Placement: New label placement for polygons finds the best place in the polygon or outside with a leader line. Multiple like line segments are automati- cally assembled into a virtual line and assigned 1 label. Other elements in a layer, including polygon fills, are prevented from drawing in label clipping boxes. • Interactive Label Editing: Pan successively to every label to check it and edit it and its placement as needed. Select and move a polygon label outside its polygon and a leader line is automatically added. Slide line labels along the line. Use many new text styling features and labels of more than 1 line in length. • FREE Real-Time 3D Simulations: TNTsim3D for Windows is now free and can be distributed for use with any Landscape File(s). Use layer controls during a simulation to select or switch between various surface texture layers, which can be offset, merged, mosaicked, and be locally transparent. Open and maintain multiple simula- tion views with different viewpoints: at fixed points, special map view, down, left, right, and others. New readout panels provide all position and orientation parame- ters for all open views. Move cursor in any view and track its surface and distance coordinates in any projection and units. • TNTatlas and TNTsim3D: Automatically start up a TNTsim3D simulation from any position in a TNTatlas and automatically orbit about, pan, or stare at the starting point before moving on in the simulation. Start up a TNTatlas automatically zoomed in to view the position selected in a TNTsim3D view. • Landscape Builder: Create or add multiple texture layers in a Landscape File. • Scalable Vector Graphics: Convert TNT map layouts to the “new flash,” the World Wide Web Consortium’s standard layout, all expressed in open XML for use in browsers, page layout, Illustrator, and many other products. MICROIMAGES MEMO 7 19 AUGUST 2002 RELEASE OF V6.70 TNT PRODUCTS • Transfer Attributes: Transfer attributes provides new convenience options and all operations are faster, especially for polygons with a very large number of vertices. • Buffer Zones: A completely rewritten process providing a display window to pre- view buffer zone results. Many new options have been added to assist in preparing complex buffer zone layers. • Polygon Fitting: Large databases can be mined in a single pass to produce many separate groups of polygons in a vector or CAD object. Records representing points with common attributes are grouped together and fit with polygons and their attrib- utes attached. Many such groups of points defined by their attributes can be proc- essed in a single pass and all written to a single CAD or vector object. • Harmonic Analysis: This is a new process using Fourier analysis to extract time dependent changes from the common multi-temporal set of images. • HTML-based TNTclient: Easily customized to control which features are presented to its end user and this, in turn, controls its size during its download. • HTML-based TNTbrowser: Now uses same HTML code base as HTML-based TNTbrowser and, thus, provides the same features. Downloads now as a familiar Windows installable program. • QuickGuides: 9 new QuickGuides are available. • Getting Started Booklets: 5 new Tutorial booklets are available as well as revised and expanded versions of 6 earlier booklets. • MacOS X: TNTmips, TNTedit, and TNTview are now fully supported in Apple’s na- tive Aqua interface and desktop for all features including moving about a network via a floating license. • Better USB Key Support: A new USB software authorization key permits a fixed li- cense TNT professional product to be immediately moved between Windows, Mac 9.x, Mac OS X, and Linux based computers with a USB connector. Optimize Your Performance Multi-Processor PCs? Periodically questions are received about the advantages, if any, of dual processor PC’s for use with TNTmips. By now it is common knowledge that the operating system man- ages and allocates tasks or portions of tasks on dual or higher multiple processor PCs. However, as processors are added, the efficiency of the utilization of each processor goes down as overhead to manage them increases.