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Article: Map Factory. (ThinkSpace Map Factory raster-based mapping program) (Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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The dominant Geographic information System (GIS) programs for the Macintosh, ESRI's ArcView and Map Info's MapInfo, use a vector-data model, which represents geographic features as points, lines, or polygons. Both are limited to the static viewing of raster data, where a fine grid is laid over the landscape, dividing it into a large number of evenly spaced cells with each cell accorded its own value.
ThinkSpace's Map Factory, a new entry in the GIS market, focuses exclusively on the raster-data model. While its overall capabilities are not as broad as ArcView's or MapInfo's, Map Factory provides a rich set of functions for creating, editing, analyzing, and presenting ...