2002:67 New Features

Native Microsoft Windows Desktop.

Windows Desktop.

X Desktop.

Direct Use of JPEG2000 Wavelet Compressed Rasters.

What Is It?

Wavelet Compression at No Additional Cost!

TNT�s JPEG2000 Support.

� Direct, transparent, efficient use.

� Convert to or from other formats by import and export.

� Handle any giant raster size as limited only by operating system.

� Use for lossy or lossless compression.

� Choose the level of lossy compression to meet any needed quality.

� Specify the size of the lossy compressed file.

� See none of the 8 by 8 pixel artifacts produced by JPEG.

Native Mac OS X Implementation.

Introduction.

TNT�s Mac OS X Support.

� Provides Aqua windows, which appear and operate as native windows.

� Each TNT window is separate on the Mac desktop.

� Add functionality using SML (only Mac OS X product with a rich geospatial scripting language).

� Use TNTsdk to extend/add processes.

� Float a concurrent user to a Mac (or Windows, LINUX, or UNIX).

� Install floating license manager on a Mac.

� Fast, compatible, and identical in geodata file structure with TNT products on Windows,
LINUX, or UNIX.

Advanced Cartographic Features.

Label Placement and Adjustment.

Automatic Polygon Label and Leader Placement.

� Uses improved label placement for polygons in the Editor.

� Moves label too large for polygon to adjacent polygon and inserts leader lines.

� Preview before saving and interactively change type size, font, �

Interactive Polygon Label Editing.

� Automatically pan view to center on every label for inspection and revision.

� Select any label, and drag it to new a location to resolve collisions.

� Leader lines are automatically revised as label is dragged.

� Leader lines can be interactively edited (start point, end point, multipart, �)

� Change individual label�s text style, color, size, angle, �

� Use more than 1 line of text.

Automatic Line Label Placement.

� Connect multiple line elements based on a common attribute and place 1 label.

� Specify if line label should be above, below, or centered on the line.

� Specify if the label should fit the line exactly, along a spline, or a tangent line.

� Clip out the line under the label or run the line through the label.

� Select any line label and slide it along the line to reposition (e.g. along a river).

Expanded Text Control.

� Justify text blocks to fill the full line width.

� Break or wrap text at a space, tab, or hyphen.

� Set the "clip" distance for masking out a label box in percent.

� Set the angle of italic text in degrees + or - from the vertical.

� Increase the stroke width of bold text in percent.

� Specify the width of the outline used for outlined text in percent.

� Design drop shadows for text at any angle and offset.

� Define the width of an underline and its offset in percent.

Legend Design Tools.

� Select and insert a representative sample of an element rendered by a CartoScript into the LegendView or into a legend group in your map layout.

� Move inserted legend samples anywhere vertically among those already present.

� Add a text label for the each selected/inserted CartoScript legend sample.

� Position the text label for each legend sample independently from the sample�s position.

� Additional CartoScript parameters are provided to improve how samples are rendered in legends.

Building Landscapes for TNTsim3D.

� Use table editor to create a relational table of Points Of Interest (POIs) to pin map.

� Import POIs from point elements selected by any method from a vector object.

� Import POIs from a TNT relational table structure.

� Use TNT point styles to define appearance of POIs.

� Preview the composite view being composed for a texture.

� Add multiple texture layers for interactive selection in a simulation.

Publish Geosimulations FREE with TNTsim3D.

� Open and maintain multiple simultaneous views (pilot, map, left, right, nadir/zenith, fixed points of interest, �)

� Review many properties of simulation while flying using new Readouts dialog.

� Readout ground map coordinates and distance to the surface for any position of the mouse on any view in real time.

� Select map projection, units, and other selectable options for position reports.

� Change vertical exaggeration during a simulation.

� Mark a Point Of Interest (POI), or target point, on a surface in any view with the mouse.

� Open a view fixed on each marked POI, or target.

� Select a different texture layer for each view.

� Select the terrain layer and its associated color map as a texture.

� Define a top and bottom texture for a surface (image if viewed downward and a geologic map if viewed from below).

� Offset textures vertically using the same surface and move between them.

� Change the texture layer for a view during a simulation.

� View billboard symbols and stalks defined by tables created in Landscape Builder.

� Billboards (pin maps) appear in styles specified within TNTmips objects.

� Billboard symbols can be mounted on stalks to raise them out of texture clutter.

� Stalks can extend up or down from the surface.

� Stalk segment�s length, line width, and color (e.g., geologic core segments) are controlled by line styles in POI tables.

� Start TNTsim3D from a command line so that other programs can start the simulation.

� Use command line arguments to control startup of the simulation.

Integrate TNTatlas and TNTsim3D.

Creating Geospatial Layers.

Multiple/Iterative Polygon Fitting.

� Select an attribute or computed field (string or numeric) to automatically fit polygons to each cluster of points associated with each string or range of values in the selected field.

� Write these sequences of multiple polygons with attributes to a single CAD or vector object or to sequentially automatically named CAD or vector objects, one for each cluster.

� Use this new operation to convert huge collections of georeferenced records into spatial form with aggregate location and area properties.

Buffer Zone Additions.

� Use a View window to preview vector object and buffer results before saving.

� Select elements for buffering using this View window and queries using the Layer Control window.

� Fine tune by keeping the previous run�s buffer results open in this View window, adjust your buffer parameters, and preview the new buffers for comparison.

� Separate buffer zones by attributes for any attribute (not just key fields) for any element type.

� Save buffers and attributes as a CAD object (V6.60 supported only vector object).

� Choose to process each element type as None, All, or Selected using any TNT selection method.

� Specify buffer distances as All Same or By Script to assign different buffer distances to different elements.

� Access to transfer attributes to buffers is easier to locate.

� Algorithm has been recoded to resolve small artifacts produced in special cases.

Multiple/Iterative Buffer Zones.

� Select an attribute or computed field (string or numeric) to automatically create polygons for each element associated with each string or range of values in the selected field.

� Write these sequences of multiple polygons with attributes to a single CAD or vector object or to sequentially automatically named CAD or vector objects, one for each string or range of values.

� Use this new operation to convert huge collections of georeferenced records into spatial form with aggregate location and area properties.

Import/Export.

� Export vector objects to SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphics) file.

� Export ("print") a layout to SVG file.

� Import and export TIFF and GeoTiff files of more than 3 bands.

� Modifications to import new variants of images stuck into the HDF container.

Miscellaneous.

System Level Improvements.

� Faster rendering of layers from objects containing many labels.

� Use the Select Attributes dialog to select any attribute to select the elements to draw for a layer (only key fields could be selected in V6.60).

SML for Windows and X.

� A suite of classes is available for creating Graphical User Interfaces.

TNTclient (HTML version).

� Adjustable line drawing/measurement tools (e.g., drag/insert new nodes to reshape).

� Rotate/toggle through modes (layers, legend, measurements, �) with a single icon.

� Improved design for customization (virtually every component can be turned off).

� Drawing tools and tab panels not used are not transferred to end user.

� Full localization/language support.

TNTbrowser (HTML version).

� Locally store layout and legend images to accelerate initial startup.

� Customize the embedded homepage.

� Windows installer provided when downloaded.

� Supports remote geodata entry previously only available in the TNTclient.

� Now uses same code base as TNTclient.