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European User Meeting 2007 - London, July 9 - 10

The European Manifold user community will be getting together in London at University College London on Monday, July 9 as well as Tuesday morning, July 10. For details and to sign up for the meeting, see the announcement on the Manifold user community forum.

The user meeting will feature presentations by Manifold users and manifold.net staff. Presentations on Monday will be oriented towards experienced users and will include discussion of the Manifold product roadmap for 2007 and 2008. Presentations on Tuesday morning will be oriented to new users. Attendance at presentations regarding the product roadmap will require advance registration and signing a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and will be open only to those attendees approved for NDA status by manifold.net.

Free Manifold Toolbar Released for Internet Explorer

Visit the Manifold Toolbar Page and get the free Manifold Toolbar for Internet Explorer. The toolbar adds geographic browser capability to IE so that you can instantly view a map or satellite image of just about any place on Earth. This is so cool you have to see it to believe it. The toolbar uses Microsoft Virtual Earth as a built-in image server, but you can use any Manifold image server module to visit other image servers. See the Manifold Toolbar Page. The toolbar is free for any lawful use. Enjoy!

(Image, Right): Use the toolbar to search for addresses like "1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA" or for place names like "Bern, Switzerland." The display shows a satellite image for Fremont, California. Instantly switch to road map presentation as well!

Release 7x Goes on Sale / Low-Cost Upgrade for 6.50 Licensees / First 64-bit Windows GIS!

Release 7x has just been issued as a low cost update! The next generation of Manifold System products has been issued as Release 7x. This new generation product provides a relatively limited number of new items in the release notes (about 100) but introduces a systematically re-engineered product that now optionally delivers full 64-bit, native mode functionality when run on x64 Windows systems running AMD or Intel x64 processors, including multi-core x64 processors. Manifold System is the first true 100% 64-bit Windows GIS! Wow!

Over one and a half million lines of code in thousands of modules were reviewed with new code or edits in hundreds of thousands of lines of code to make the quantum leap to full 64-bit operation. The campaign for 64-bit operation was originally planned as part of the 7.5 or 8.0 product evolutions scheduled for 2006 and 2007; however, given the very strong quality of 7.00 it was decided to bring 64-bit functionality forward into a 7x release issued relatively soon after 7.00.

To see complete details, browse the online version of the 7x User Manual. Hands down, 7x is by far the best Manifold System release ever! See the 7x Upgrade FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions.

Release 7x is a free upgrade for Manifold 6.50 licensees until January 15, 2007, at which point the upgrade will cost $50 until March 15, 2007, at which the price of the upgrade will increase to $150. All upgrade offers from 6.50 to 7x terminate on 1 May 2007. Upgrade assistance terminates on that day as well. 6.50 licensees should not procrastinate - get 7x now while it is a discounted upgrade!

Manifold System is the first GIS to run in native 64-bit mode in premium Windows x64 processors like AMD AthlonX2 and Intel Core 2 Duo!

64-bit Manifold System x64 Product Versions

Manifold System editions are now available in regular editions (for 32-bit Windows systems) and new x64 versions for Windows x64 systems. The x64 versions are priced at $50 additional. Existing 32-bit 7.00 or 7x serial numbers may be upgraded to x64 capability by purchasing the Upgrade to 7x x64 product on the Manifold Online Store for $50. This product requires you to provide a regular 7x or 7.00 serial number during the Check Out phase of placing an order. When your order is processed, that regular serial number will be revoked and a new x64 serial number will be sent to you. It's just like the process used to upgrade a Professional edition serial number to an Enterprise serial number. For information on 64-bit operation, see the 32-bit and 64-bit Manifold Editions Help topic.

Extensions

All Manifold 7.00 extension serial numbers work unmodified for Manifold 7x installations. Extensions will automatically run in 64-bit mode if you are running x64 editions of Manifold System in 64-bit mode. Runtime licenses automatically run in 64-bit mode in x64 Windows systems. In particular, the 64-bit functioning of Universal Runtime in multi-processor x64 Windows systems for a mere $225 has got to be the GIS bargain of the century!

Ultimate and Ultimate x64 Editions

A new Manifold System edition, Ultimate Edition, has been published in regular and in x64 versions. Ultimate edition is a discounted bundle that provides Database Administrator edition plus the Option pack at a discounted price with the convenience of a single serial number.

(Detail, right): KML export can now "extrude" points, lines or areas for 3D visualizations within Google Earth.

Highlights of the 7x release include:

64-bit operation supported - When installed from the Manifold 64-bit installation package, Manifold System will run in 100% native 64-bit mode on 64-bit x64 processors running 64-bit Windows systems.
AMD 4 x 4 Ready - AMD has announced a new 64-bit multicore motherboard platform allowing dual processors with four processing cores each for a total of eight, 64-bit processing cores, called the "4 x 4" initiative. Release 7x is 4 x 4 ready. This is totally cool - we can't wait to deploy those motherboards for IMS servers and power Manifold users!
Intel Core 2 Duo Ready - Release 7x is the perfect choice for Intel's new Core 2 Duo processor family. Rock and roll at 64 bits using Intel's hottest multicore processors ever!
Automated checking for updates - A new subsystem, set in the Tools - Options dialog, checks to see if updates have been issued for the currently-running Manifold version. This eliminates the need to remember to manually check a web site. It also eliminates the risk that a spam filter will intercept email notifications of new updates.
Ultimate Edition - Many users requested a Database Administrator edition that was packaged with all three extensions. The new Ultimate Edition provides Database Administrator and all three extensions in a single serial number.
Four-part build / version numbers - A new nomenclature for identifying specific Manifold builds makes it easier to keep track of the latest update. The new nomenclature provides a solid, clear foundation for an era of more rapid updates and thus more rapid delivery to users of new features, bug fixes and faster evolution of Manifold System in response to user suggestions.
Dual mode serial numbers - The serial number mechanism will automatically accept either 7.00 or 7x serial numbers for activating 32-bit installations of 7x. New 64-bit 7x serial numbers can activate either 32-bit installations or 64-bit installations of 7x. This provides flexibility to 64-bit 7x licensees to run their 7x systems either in 32-bit Windows systems in 32-bit mode, or to run their 7x systems in 64-bit Windows systems either in 32-bit mode or in 64-bit mode. Runtime licenses and extensions always allow the latter 32-bit or 64-bit mode so there is no need to keep track whether a runtime or an extension serial number was issued as a 32-bit or a 64-bit license.
Increased internal structures - Internal limits on data structures which store data in RAM and on disk have been raised to allow storing vastly more data when running in 64-bit mode and even significantly more data in 32-bit mode.
Unified disk storage - Data structures which store data both in RAM and on disk have been adjusted to use a unified disk storage, for efficiency and performance.
Datum conversion uses scales - Transforming coordinates between datums uses a scale factor parameter. Custom datums can specify the value of the scale factor parameter via the <scaleAdjustment> tag.
Faster line style rendering - The performance of rendering railroad-like line styles has been significantly increased.
Line labels for short lines - The View - Display Options dialog for labels includes a new option that enables rendering of labels bound to lines that are too short to fully display the text.
Styles dump option - A new slist command line option dumps the names of all formatting styles available for areas, labels, lines and points into a text file, so programmers can see exact names available for a given release.GPS Console improvements - A variety of tweaks and bug fixes improve robustness and flexibility of connections to USB devices and COM ports beyond COM9.
KML Import - Manifold can now import from KML or KMZ formats.KML Export from Maps - All drawings in a map can automatically be exported into distinct KML folders.
KML Extrusion for 3D shapes - The KML / KMZ exporter now allows specifying a Height column from which heights of point, line or area objects are taken to create "extruded" 3D shapes within Google Earth.
Geocoding support for floating-point columns - Geocoding dialogs allow saving latitude and longitude data into floating-point columns, such as those in linked tables, that have not been specifically set to store latitude and longitude values. This makes it easy to geocode data resident in external data sources that may have floating-point columns but not explicit latitude or longitude types.
Miscellaneous bug fixes and Help corrections - The extensive system-wide review required to implement 64-bit functionality turned up very rare bugs before they were reported in the field. In addition, numerous corrections to Help have been made. Some such bugs and errors have been in the system but not found since before release 6.50, in at least one case going back to Release 4.50!

Information on Upgrades

Release 7x is a free upgrade for Manifold 6.50 licensees until January 15, 2007, at which point the upgrade will cost $50 until March 15, 2007, on which date the price of the upgrade will increase to $150. All upgrade offers from 6.50 to 7x terminate on 1 May 2007. Upgrade assistance terminates on that day as well. 6.50 licensees should not procrastinate - get 7x now while it is a discounted upgrade!

Note that trading in a 6.50 serial number gets you a regular, 32-bit 7x serial number. If you would like to run Manifold in 64-bit mode on a Windows x64 system, you'll need to follow a two-step process: first, trade in your 6.50 serial number to get a regular 7x serial number. Next, visit the Online Store and order the Upgrade to 7x x64 product for $50, providing that regular 7x serial number during Check Out as the number to be upgraded. When your order is processed, you'll receive a serial number email containing your new x64 7x serial number. You can then use that new x64 7x serial number to activate your x64 Manifold installation.

Important: The free or discounted upgrade process to 7x for 6.50 licensees is for those users who can read the instructions and have the technical skills to trade in a 6.50 serial number for a 7x serial number, download the free 7x upgrade package and install and activate it without any assistance. If you need assistance with this process, you must upgrade by purchasing a Manifold 7x DVD (Media Only) product. Tech support for any part of the upgrade process is available only to those users who have purchased a Manifold 7x DVD.

Order your Manifold 7x DVD (Media Only) today: The new Manifold 7x DVD includes gigabytes of data and products that are free to 7x licensees and which otherwise cost hundreds of dollars. The new DVD includes the Manifold Geocoding Database (from which the Placer County and Carson City maps were automatically created, a cool new Geocoding Tools feature), the Digital Chart of the World, Manifold World, Manifold 3D View Studio and Manifold Database Commander. The 7x DVD also includes fully-licensed Express editions of the three market leaders in Enterprise DBMS: IBM DB2, Oracle 10g (with vector Spatial capability) and SQL Server 2005. All editions are licensed for an unlimited number of users. Oracle and SQL Server are licensed for databases up to 4 GB in size and IBM DB2 is licensed for unlimited sized databases. Note: The Manifold 7x DVD (Media Only) product must be ordered via the Online Store. This product is not available by telephone orders.

Release 7.00 Goes on Sale / Still Free to 6.50 Licensees - Yes!

Release 7.00 is out! The much-rumored 6.50 SP1 service pack has been issued as Release 7.00. With over 530 improvements to 6.50, including major new changes in product line, it would have been crazy to call it a "service pack." [Note: Because 7x is now out this news item has been edited to preserve archival information while not duplicating the equivalent 7x information. With the release of 7x, 7.00 has been replaced. Until January 15, 2007, 6.50 users may upgrade to 7x at no charge. After January, 15, 2007, a fee for upgrading from 6.50 to 7x will apply.]

7.00 is not only the most intense and serious GIS analytic tool ever created, with killer Enterprise skills, it is also a blast to work with on a purely personal level. For example, in the cheap thrills department, if you have Google Earth installed please download some sample KML files created, in seconds, with Manifold 7.00. Click on the thumbnail at right to see a larger image of contours between 1000 and 1200 feet in the Montara Mountain sample surface. Better still, install Google Earth and then download the KML Samples zip file. Unzip the archive and then double-click on a KML file and watch Google Earth do its "zoom from space" thing to see the GIS data. Wow! Google Earth is a great "free viewer" for simple GIS data and Manifold 7.00 is the quickest and easiest way to publish for Google Earth. For big fun with KML files, the KML Samples zip file file includes the Montara Mountain contour example, as well as county maps for Carson City, Nevada, and Placer County, California as Google Earth KML files.

Manifold System 7.00 includes a vast array of capabilities, including revolutionary new support for Oracle Spatial DBMS as well as native Oracle connections to all Oracle DBMS products. 6.50 licensees can upgrade to 7.00 using one of two paths: DVD (complete) - Order the upgrade on DVD. This costs $50, but delivers many bonus products and data sets previously sold for hundreds of dollars. Some new 7.00 features, like Geocoding Tools, work with products on the 7.00 DVD such as the Geocoding Database. The Oracle native capabilities and commands in 7.00 require access to an Oracle spatial-capable DBMS like the Oracle installation on the 7.00 DVD. The DVD also includes IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server installations that are not in the download.

Product Line Changes for 7.00

With the release of 7.00 The Manifold product line has been altered to provide several new offerings, to repackage some previous offerings and to provide at no charge on the Manifold DVD several products that are normally sold for hundreds of dollars. The following descriptions provide a summary of licensing changes only. Virtually every part of Manifold has acquired improvements in 7.00 so "unchanged" simply means the same licensing as before.

New: Manifold® System License Server - The new Manifold System License Server product allows managing many Manifold licenses in large enterprise environments without the need for serial numbers and Activation keys on each machine. Whether your organization uses only ten licenses or ten thousand, License Server provides the economy of floating licenses as well as tremendous savings in administrative overhead.
New: Manifold® System Personal Edition - All Professional Edition features except the Internet Map Server (IMS) and the File - Export - Web Page command used to create IMS sites.
Upgraded: Manifold® System Professional Edition - Has been upgraded to include the Debugger that formerly required a "professional plus debugger" edition. Note that Personal Edition also has the debugger as well. Also available in a Professional Runtime edition.
Deleted: Manifold® System Professional plus Debugger Edition - No longer necessary since all editions now have the debugger.
Unchanged: Manifold® System Enterprise Edition - The same package as in 6.50, with massive new features. Many new enhancements have been added, such as versioned editing used for concurrent multi-user editing of linked drawings, that are specific to Enterprise Edition.
Upgraded: Manifold® System Universal Edition - Enterprise Edition plus the Business Tools, Geocoding Tools and Surface Tools extensions. Street address geocoding capabilities have been moved into a separate extension which is now part of Universal Edition. Also available in a Universal Runtime edition.
New: Manifold® System Database Administrator Edition - Enterprise Edition also equipped with the Administrator Console and Batch Export facilities to provide administrative and managerial capabilities essential when using Manifold together with enterprise-class database servers to provide centralized geospatial storage and concurrent, multi-user editing. Database Administrator Edition allows fast and easy configuration and management of data stored within databases, including user friendly features such as friendly names, formatting storage on the database for drawings, pre-specified import and link options and other useful features. Once configured via the Administrator Console, such user friendly features are accessible to all Enterprise users connecting to that database with Database Console. Every significant installation using databases to provide centralized storage and multi-user editing should have at least one license of Database Administrator that is used to set up the database for greater convenience and capability when used with Manifold.
Unchanged: Manifold® Business Tools - The same package as in 6.50.
Unchanged: Manifold® Surface Tools - The same package as in 6.50.
New: Manifold® Geocoding Tools - Street address geocoding capabilities now require the new Geocoding Tools extension. Formerly, street address geocoding required acquisition and installation of a geocoding data source, such as the Manifold Geocoding Database. Instead of licensing street address geocoding by physical access to a data source, Manifold now provides free access to the data source and licenses geocoding capability using an extension. If Geocoding Tools are installed, Manifold can automatically import drawings with street, hydrology and other feature drawings from the Manifold Geocoding Database for all US counties. Cool!
Free: Manifold® Geocoding Data - The Manifold Geocoding Database is now provided at no charge on the Manifold DVD and is no longer sold as a separate product. Note that a Geocoding Tools license is required to make use of this data.
Free: Digital Chart of the World - The Digital Chart of the World is now provided at no charge on the Manifold DVD.
Free: Manifold® World Volume 1 - Manifold World is now provided at no charge on the Manifold DVD.
Free: Manifold® Database Commander - Database Commander is now provided at no charge on the Manifold DVD.
Free: Manifold® 3D View Studio - 3D View Studio is now provided at no charge on the Manifold DVD.

See the price list on the Online Store for complete pricing information. The License Server product is $1995 and cannot be ordered via the Online Store. Contact sales@manifold.net for information on acquiring License Server.

Manifold System Release 7.00 Executive Summary

With over 530 improvements, hundreds of which are significant features, it's not easy to get your head around all that is new in 7.00. The following list provides highlights that will likely be of greatest interest to managers and executives planning Manifold deployments. For a more detailed list of the Top 100 items with hyperlinks into the manual, see the 7.00 Highlights page. Hyperlinks in this page and on the Top 100 page are into the online version of the 7.00 user manual.

Massive new support for enterprises through the use of Oracle Spatial facilities as well as through use of SQL Server and IBM DB2. This provides Manifold users a full enterprise-class, server storage model to the existing desktop storage models and the Manifold Enterprise Edition storage model (see the Data Storage Strategies topic). While the new capabilities are of critical interest to large enterprises, because Manifold is priced so low and the capabilities are so easy to use they will be of interest even to small organizations.

Manifold now provides free, fully-licensed installations of IBM DB2 Express-C, Oracle 10g Express and SQL Server 2005 Express on the Manifold DVD. Oracle includes spatial capabilities for vector drawings, DB2 allows unlimited size databases (excellent for setting up Enterprise Servers) and SQL Server provides unparalleled integration with Microsoft .NET development facilities.

Extensive worldwide data on the Manifold DVD, including the Digital Chart of the World and Manifold World, as well as the full Manifold Geocoding Database for the US. Although clearly dated, the Manifold Database Commander product is provided at no charge on the Manifold DVD and provides a very fun and useful personal information manager and utility for working with tables.

Concurrent multi-user editing of linked drawings, with multiuser editing of formatting, both with really elegant, visual resolution of editing conflicts.

Fully editable linked drawings using Area of Interest windows into arbitrarily huge (terabyte) drawings when used with Oracle spatial technology.

Support for image libraries, automatically tiled mosaics of independent images with automatic georegistration from a wealth of formats, including ECW and GeoTIFF. Includes automatic creation of index drawings for image libraries. If you want to display terabytes of image mosaics, this is how.

Multiprocessing functionality - Manifold now uses multiple processors or multiple processor cores (as many as are available in the system) for various functions. Parallelized functions that use multiprocessing include rendering of image libraries, rendering images linked from Oracle databases using Oracle's GeoRaster technology, downloading data for images linked from remote web sites, using the debugger as well as accessing remote data sources via multi-threaded drivers or providers.

Easy export to Google Earth - A revolutionary way to publish GIS data using Google Earth as a free viewer. Just attach a .kml file to an email and off you go. See the Fun with Google Earth topic and see if you agree.

Manifold Image Server open source interface with sample open source modules for Google Maps, Google Earth, Yahoo! Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Manifold's own IMS running as an image server. As cool as any one of these are, what's even more important is the option to add new ones whenever you want or to produce your own with IMS.

Manifold IMS has been extended to now support HTML/ASP/ASP.NET serving, OGC WFS (with postback editing of drawings!), OGC WMS, 3D Terrain rendering, Profile rendering, and image serving as is done by Google and others.

The Manifold Geocoding Server open source interface allows use of user-supplied geocoding data sources, with a sample open source module for the Geocoder.us web service.

Unprecedented simplification and user friendliness using Oracle spatial and other DBMS packages via the Database Administrator Edition aand the user-friendly features it confers upon ordinary users. Items like friendly names make such things usable by people who are not DBMS experts, and it is people like that who staff the GIS positions in most organizations.

Full read/write/editing/design of linked tables either as standalone tables or as linked drawings. Manifold can now be used as an extraordinary "commander" console to control and design work in all sorts of remote databases, not just those providing linked drawings, images or surfaces, and you can work with linked drawings in a seamless way as if they were local.

Instant import of county drawings showing streets, transportation and hydrology from the Geocoding Database (requires Geocoding Tools).

Significant improvements in the capacity and accuracy of geometric transforms. The transforms require significantly less memory and can handle much heavier loads of data. There were some speed improvements as well.

Significant improvements in the capacity of queries. Limits on the number of records were already high and now they are much higher.

Several new imports and exports have been added, and significant improvements were made in many existing imports and exports (ADF, DNG, CSV, DWG, DXF, KML, and others).

Numerous new features have been added to the object model.

The WFS interface exposed by Manifold IMS supports transactions, that is, it is read/write. Coupled with the improvements made to linked drawings, which are now read/write as well, this allows an organization to not only access vector data stored in a database (SDO_GEOMETRY, WKB, Geoms, whatever) but also to alter that data via the web. Some people refer to WFS servers that support transactions as to WFS-T servers, so Manifold's server can be described as a WFS-T server as well.

7.00 includes numerous small improvements throughout the entire system, adding a new checkbox here, making the behavior more intuitive there, and so on. For example, 7.00 shows the original data source and rowset of a linked component in the component properties dialog; 7.00 works around various bugs and gotchas of popular database drivers; 7.00 keeps all metadata it stores on a database in a human-readable form, so that people can understand what it says, analyze it using their own tools, and change it without any involvement from our side; when saving a KML file, 7.00 checks the filename typed by the user and automatically switches to using a compressed format if the extension is ".kmz", and so on. 7.00 adds several dozen new coordinate system presets, several new data types for use in tables and queries, several new query functions. Whenever you see any list of features in 6.50, 7.00 likely has added to it. It is almost harder to say what 7.00 does not touch than what it does touch.

Town of Monroe IMS Web Site Published

Town of Monroe Master Plan Update - The IMS home page now includes a large, sophisticated IMS site that is a commercial product created by expert IMS programmers. This site assists various Town of Monroe departments in creating, updating and implementing the town's master plan. It includes a variety of different layer types (drawings, images, etc) and allows free-form SQL entry. This is a "cloned" version of the town's actual site. However, some of the actual tools have been removed, and the parcel data used in the example on our site is ten years old and should not be used for actual legal or governmental purposes. This web site was designed for daily use by trained personnel and requires large monitors with good resolution for best viewing. An instructional video and site template for creating sophisticated sites like this is available from the GISAdvisor.com web site. The architectural design of the template allows creation of new sites within minutes. Towns wishing to GIS-enable their operations through the web can utilize this product (together with Manifold) to implement a spectacular site costing far less than the many tens of thousands of dollars such a site would cost to create using old-fashioned technology. GISAdvisor.com has offered a 50% discount on the product to the first 100 users. Just enter the coupon code of GISA-KNNC.

GISAdvisor Releases German Language Training Products

GISAdvisor.com is a third party company unrelated to manifold.net that creates acclaimed training products for Manifold System. GISAdvisor.com is pleased to announce that their popular Introduction to Manifold 6.0 video training is now available in German. In cooperation with GISWana, each of the lessons have been dubbed in the German language and are now available for purchase and immediate download via RegNow while information about the product in the German language is found at the GISWana website.

Georeference Forum Moves to Manifold Site

The top Internet forum for the Manifold online community, Georeference, has moved in-house to manifold.net servers and will be maintained by manifold.net staff! Visit the forum website for access to the new Georeference forum. During migration from the previous site, the forum at first will feature a streamlined, simplified user interface similar to those used for community sites such as craigslist or commercial sites like Google; however, all content, postings, threads, logins and passwords from the previous site have been maintained for the convenience of users even though the look and feel of the forum is initially different. The forum will be augmented in the days and weeks ahead to serve the Manifold user community. Georeference has grown spectacularly in the last two years, getting so large and so sophisticated that it now merits a full-time staff with a dedicated team for hardware maintenance, forum maintenance, software improvements and integration with other Manifold resources. Plans are to give the forum direct access to the Manifold knowledge base, the internal technical support knowledge base, integrated access to product features and much more.

GISMonitor Interview: Manifold Hurricane Disaster IMS Site

One of the Internet's top GIS news and analysis publications, GISMonitor.com, has recently published an interview with Dr. Arthur Lembo of Cornell University reporting the creation of an Internet mapping site that allows emergency personnel and agencies to keep track of damage to critical structures caused by the hurricane Katrina disaster affecting the US Gulf Coast.

As the article reports, "Users of the website can turn the various data sources on and off on a map displaying, for example, hospital locations, roads, waterways, or power lines. They may click through to high-resolution satellite images showing the degree of inundation of an area, or digital photos and video taken by the MCEER team of individual buildings, bridges, and other key infrastructure components."

The GISMonitor article quotes Dr. Lembo on the benefits of Manifold: ...Lembo chose to use Manifold GIS because, he told me, "its architecture allows us to rapidly develop IMS sites in response to emergency situations. With Manifold, we were able to develop the entire application, with one person, in about 24 hours — just as we did for the tsunami site last December." He also listed several other reasons for this choice: cost ("At $245, it is a steal."); the ability to use spatial constructs directly within SQL; its Integrated Map Server architecture ("Because Manifold GIS is the map server, everything we do in the GIS is immediately available in our Internet application."); and tight integration with Microsoft: "For example, Manifold can automatically link with Excel, and create dynamic drawing from Excel spreadsheets. In turn, Excel, through its Web Query capabilities, can dynamically read Web pages. Therefore, we use Excel to hit a Web page, and then Manifold polls the Excel application every 10 minutes and refreshes the map. So, we are able to use Manifold to dynamically display data from other websites, without the need for any programming."

Click here for the complete GISMonitor article and newsletter text.

Manifold Partners Resources

See the new Manifold Partners Resources web page for information about resources for the Manifold community. This page includes a sampling of organizations serving the Manifold user community with training, consultancy and other services.

Don't miss coverage of the new Manifold Partners center in California, the latest addition to the Manifold Partners Resources web page. The new Manifold Partners facility provides a convenient location supporting conferences with enterprise users, strategic partners and user meetings for training, consulting, applications development and other Manifold projects.

The Manifold Partners center occupies ultramodern office facilities in the famous Crossroads complex in the San Francisco Bay region less than a mile from Oracle world headquarters and just a short drive from the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus. See the resources page for contact information.

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