Manifold Net ships all six TIGER/Line 1997 CDs for only $52
Manifold Net's "Summer TIGER/Line Sale" provides
all six TIGER/Line 1997 CDs for only $52 for purchasers of Manifold System.
10 June 1999 - Carson City: Manifold Net today announced the lowest price
ever for the US Census Bureau's TIGER/Line 1997 data set. Purchasers of Manifold System
GIS ($145) may also purchase the six-CD
TIGER/Line 1997 data set for only $52, a $45 discount from Manifold's regular
price of $97 for TIGER/Line 1997.
"We had a lot of fun saving our customers $1400 from the Census Bureau's rip-off
price of $1500 for TIGER/Line" commented Dimitri Rotow, Product Manager "The
Summer Sale on TIGER/Line gives a special deal to those of our customers who are also
buying Manifold. The combination provides the best map authoring and data extraction
environment for exploiting TIGER/Line regardless of what the ultimate GIS target may
be."
"Because Manifold includes exporters to popular GIS formats as well as a Publish for
Microsoft MapPoint 2000 wizard, using Manifold with TIGER/Line is a great solution for
people who need data for GIS applications they are creating with object libraries, or even
for people who are working with ESRI or MapInfo GIS products. In fact, some people charge
more for a simple TIGER/Line converter than we charge for all of TIGER/Line, a world-class
GIS, and converters together."
Manifold System is a high-end,
professional GIS package that people use to link maps with databases. The package can
display maps from almost any source and use data from almost any database. By marrying
databases with maps, Manifold gives users the ability to manipulate data using a free-form
combination of geographic relationships, database relationships, and computed
relationships such as mathematical or statistical measures. It is intended for use by
individual Windows "power users" and professionals in businesses and
organizations worldwide. Manifold's map editing capabilities make it popular for use with
data sets such as TIGER/Line.
The TIGER/Line 1997 data set is a collection of important GIS maps issued by the US Bureau
of the Census. It includes streets and numerous other features for the entire United
States in great detail. Hundreds of Census field agents have worked for years to update
the data set with current address and zip code and other information. The US Census Bureau
sells the TIGER/Line 1997 data set for $1500 for six CDs. Visit Manifold's TIGER/Line 1997 information page for more
info.
In 1998, Manifold Net became the first company to provide low cost copies of the
TIGER/Line 1997 data set. Manifold Net began with CD masters provided by the Census Bureau
and ships exact, bit-for-bit digital copies of the Census Bureau CDs. The TIGER/Line 1997
data set CDs shipped by Manifold are exact, unmodified digital copies of the CDs provided
by the Census Bureau. They are in original, unmodified TIGER/Line 1997 format complete
with all Census Bureau documentation and files. Manifold's TIGER/Line 1997 data CDs may be
used with any GIS package that can read TIGER/Line 1997 format.
Manifold priced the TIGER/Line 1997 data set at only $97, thus undercutting the Census
Bureau by $1403 for the data. In late 1998, Manifold Net successfully beat back an attempt
by the United States Department of Commerce to prevent the company from marketing its
copies of the TIGER/Line 1997 data set in competition with the US Bureau of the Census.
The result has been a dramatic drop in the cost of TIGER/Line data when sold by third
parties such as Manifold.
Although many people purchase Manifold's TIGER/Line 1997 data set products for use with
ESRI(R), MapInfo(R) and other GIS systems, the TIGER/Line 1997 data is very popular with
users of Manifold's own high end GIS product, Manifold System Release 4.50. The $52 price
is offered to purchasers of Manifold System GIS to encourage users of Manifold to acquire
and exploit the TIGER/Line 1997 data set.
Even those TIGER/Line 1997 users who plan on using the data set with other GIS systems or
with their own GIS-enabled software will benefit from the combination deal. Manifold
System is often used as a map authoring and data preparation tool to extract needed data
from the immense TIGER/Line 1997 data set. Manifold's new "clip" and
"split" solvers make it easy to "clip" a section of TIGER/Line data
that is neatly aligned to a specified area boundary. This allows practical utilization of
TIGER/Line information in simpler applications, such as GIS applications built from
component libraries, that otherwise would not have the ability to "clip"
necessary data.
Manifold's technical support costs are lower when TIGER/Line 1997 is used with Manifold
because Manifold includes at no charge an importer designed to handle TIGER/Line 1997 and
that understands the differences between TIGER/Line 1997 format and the predecessor Census
Bureau format, TIGER/Line 1995.
"Census changed the format slightly when they went from TIGER/Line 1995 to TIGER/Line
1997," said Rotow, "and not all GIS systems or third party TIGER/Line importers
understand the difference. It's important to use a TIGER/Line 1997 importer if you want to
use the latest Census data."
Manifold System and Manifold's reproduction of the TIGER/Line 1997 data set may be
purchased via the company's web site at www.manifold.net
Orders at Manifold's Online Store will automatically include the $45 discount
in price when both Manifold System and the TIGER/Line 1997 data set are ordered together.
About Manifold System
Manifold is one of the most sophisticated software packages ever developed. It is unique in providing spatial, networking, geometric, database, and statistical GIS capabilities for only $145. Despite the low price, it usually outperforms in capacity, speed, and sophistication packages that sell for thousands of dollars. Manifold can do so because it was created using the software tools of the late '90s and it leverages the new generation of desktop systems. Because Manifold is unusually easy to use for a high-end GIS, many consumers as well as organizations have taken advantage of the low price to use Manifold in simple applications as well as in complex ones.
Technical Journalists: Get the Full Story on Manifold
There's a lot more to Manifold System besides Topology Factory. If you cover computer software and hardware and want all the gory technical details on Manifold System, please contact us for the Manifold Release 4.50 Press Release or check out the Release 4.50 Highlights page . Visit the web site at www.manifold.net for extensive details.
Manifold Net is a privately held company that creates cool data visualization and manipulation software.
Contact: Dimitri Rotow, 800-556-5919 / dar@manifold.net
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