This page provides a "short form" summary of Manifold System features. Click on a thumbnail to expand it for a view of the screen shot. The dialog and console views include various major consoles but still represent only about a tenth of the available dialogs in Manifold. Complexity is well hidden behind a well-organized system of menus. Most views and consoles in Manifold can be popped open and left "alive" even while work continues in other views and consoles.
Have you teleported into this page from a search engine or one of our introductory pages? Don't miss the GIS User's Page if you are an experienced GIS user, or the Personal Mapping page if you are new to mapping and GIS.
Sample Views, Consoles and Major Dialogs
(The numbers in parentheses show the size of each thumbnail image in Kbytes.)
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Map View 162K |
See data as a geographic map or CAD diagram. Geographic maps may be projected using a nearly infinite combination of projections, ellipsoids and projection parameters. Thumbnail shows simple toolbar configuration and layer tabs at the bottom. This is a complex map with many layers taken from Manifold World. |
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Table View 17K |
See data attributes in classic
row and column table database presentation. Click open as many Table Views as desired with
choice of entire map, a layer, active layer or the Selection. Table Views are dynamically
active so that changes in Map View (eg, changing the selection) will show up in Table View
and vice versa. Table View toolbars allow recalculating fields, highlighting some
records and recombining them with the Selection, import and export of data, and many other
functions.
Unlike "static" table views in MapInfo, Manifold's table view is a dynamic console complete with sophisticated selection toolbars that is automatically updated with changes in Map View or in other Table Views. |
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Manifold Spread Sheet 37K |
Any field cell in Table View can
contain an ActiveX formula, just like a super spreadsheet, that references other fields.
The thumbnail shows a simple, but sophisticated example.
The Table View in back has the Formulas button pushed in so we see the formula in each cell (both columns have the same formula repeated in each record cell). The Table View in front has the Formulas button pushed out so that the values in each cell are those computed from the formula. Creating this was easy: We first created two fields and loaded them with formulas using a simple shortcut (typing once to load into all the cells). The first field uses the Manifold length() function to compute the length of a line. The second formula uses the first field as an argument to be multiplied by 1.61 to give length in kilometers. The second field is an integer so it is automatically rounded. We can use columns with formulas in them just as we would any column. For example, to get the display in the Table View in front, we shift-clicked on the km column to sort it from largest value down. Note the SQL Toolbar at the bottom can use any of the computed spread sheet fields just like any data attribute field. Computed fields can be used for labels or any other purpose, just like a regular field. Screen shot shows the Launch toolbar at the bottom. After running the SQL toolbar selection, we clicked on the "show selection" button in the foreground Table View to show the selection as highlighted records. (Since we had previously sorted the records, they are all together at the top of the table.) |
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Form View 13K |
See an individual record with all
fields as a form. Click open from any Table View or by double-clicking in Map View on any
object. This form view shows that any table View can be resized using Windows
standard "drag the border" resizing. Double-click into any field value to edit it. |
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Results History 50K |
"Ticker tape" history of all text results. Includes selectability from within Results History, statistics, histograms and more. Thumnail shows a Results History window with the results of the Correlations solver followed by the Least Squares Line Regression solver. Clicking on the Least Squares Line icon pops open a plotting sub-dialog that shows the data graphically [lots of options even in the-subdialog, too!]. If desired, we could have scrolled up in Results History to compare this set of results with previous solver results. Results History can be used as a floating window or as a "docked" window in any size desired. |
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World View 19K |
Cool 3D world globe showing current map in context. Lots of options (graticule/no graticule, colors, etc). True 3D that can be spun and rotated with the mouse. Some users leave World View open on their desktop even when not working with Manifold. |
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SQL Toolbar 35K |
Tool bar for "one liner" simple SQL queries. Pre-loaded with numerous SQL operators, including spatial SQL operators such as "within". In the screen shot we've loaded the left box with the name of a layer, Oil and Gas Wells. In the middle box we are choosing "within" and next we will click on a region to load it in the right hand box. Press Select to find all the Oil and Gas wells within the region. SQL Toolbar makes it easy for anyone to utilize advanced Spatial SQL: just point and click. |
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GPS Console 11K 24K |
Floating, dynamic control panel
for getting data from GPS devices, controlling moving maps, tracking GPS and more. Thumbnails show main GPS console (top) and setup dialogs (bottom). |
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Network Console 28K |
Manifold can be used to make maps of networks showing websites, servers, etc. Network console repeatedly pings objects in the map that have an IP address or host name field and logs the results or sends email or a pager message when an object starts up or shuts down. Leave Network Console running in Manifold on an otherwise underutilized machine to keep an eye on your websites and networks. Thumbnail shows the Alerts sub-dialog opened for setup. |
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Legend 5K |
Automatically add formatting
samples for any format, autoformatting (thematic mapping) color or style scheme, symbol or
other item that appears in the map. Right click on an object to add the object or its format to the legend. Drag and drop legend formats from Display Navigator, Autoformat dialog, or other dialogs. Change text, style, alignment, colors, fonts and numerous other options from simple menus by double-clicking or right clicking into Legend items. |
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Scheme Manager 81K |
"Schemes" are preset
combinations of color and formatting that may be applied to entire maps at once. Schemes make it easy to rapidly format maps that consist of numerous layers. |
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Display Navigator 73K |
Complex maps often include
numerous layers and map objects in different formats. Display navigator makes it easy to
turn various classes of objects on and off for display and to add their formats to the
Legend. The thumbnail shows a few layers from the Manifold World European map series. |
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Views Manager 51K |
Manifold provides "named views": pan and zoom the map as desired and give that view a name. Leave the Views Manager open and jump instantly to any view by double-clicking on its name. Use named Views in Print Layout, too! |
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GoTo Panel 53K |
Manifold can GoTo any lat/lon
location, any layer, any map in the workspace, the entire current map, any specific
object, an offset from the present location , to the centroid of the current selection, to
a named Spot, or to a named View. A very small, but useful dialog. Thumbnail shows Novi Sad in Serbia with coordinates of bombed Danube bridges loaded into GoTo dialog. |
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Launch Toolbar 7K |
One click launching of frequently
used solvers. The thumbnail shows the Launch Toolbar customization dialog. We are about to add another solver to the launch toolbar from the solver menu tree. |
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Expert SQL 5K |
SQL includes standard SQL plus 75
Manifold extensions adding spatial SQL, networking SQL and geometric SQL comparisons. Example selects all areas wider than the area named "Drilling Field". |
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Preview Database 14K |
Browse databases to see what
fields and types they contain. Very useful before merging data. The thumbnail shows Preview Database being used to browse the Northwind sample database for Access. |
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Preview Map 6K |
Browse maps using schematic views
to get a feel for maps before importing them into the workspace or merging data from them. Thumbnail shows New Zealand's North Island from the Boundary layer Australia / New Zealand map in the Manifold World collection. |
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Projection Converter 11K |
Convert any projection to any other, including wide variation in ellipsoids, projection parameters such as center, false easting and northing and more. Simply point and click. |
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Edit Scripts 17K |
Manifold includes complete
scripting capability using Visual Basic scripting, Javascript or other ActiveX scripting
language. Write scripts and add them to the manifold menu tree. Thumbnail shows the built-in scripting console (use your own Editor if you prefer) loaded with the Soundex search tutorial example. Manifold installs with complete sources to all tutorial samples. |
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Create Package 7K |
Create an installable package
consisting of Manifold solver scripts, executables, .dlls, or other files. The Create Package dialog makes it easy to bundle up files. The thumbnail shows how point-and-click menus make it easy to specify actions, such as registering an object on installation. |
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Topology Factory 41K |
(Optional purchase) Automatically
detect and repair 14 classes of common topological anomalies in maps. Fully interactive. Thumbnail shows part of Kosovo province in Serbia. |
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Business Tools Consoles 15K |
(Optional purchase)
Business-oriented capabilities presented using consoles and wizards to simplify tasks.
Includes Decision Support System console. Thumbnail shows the Territory Balancing wizard, where counties in the state of Georgia have been assigned to four territories so that the population of each territory is 25% of the total. Territories were built up around required centers. |
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3D View Studio 78K |
(Optional purchase) See map data
in 3D, including 3D terrain views for maps with elevation data. Perform sophisticated
analyses such as visibility zones from multiple points simultaneously, drainage paths,
lines of sight, intersections between multiple Z surfaces and more. Image shows zones that are visible from 100' above the terrain at either of the two marked locations on the map. (3D View Studio is simply beyond belief in the graphics capability it delivers. Browse the main 3D View Studio page for more screen shots.) |
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