TatukGIS fGIS

TatukGIS value-added partner, TatukGIS Consulting, announces the release of new fGIS, a customisation built upon the TatukGIS Editor product. The new fGIS is a multi-purpose, full-featured, GIS application. It provides a supported upgrade path for current users of fGIS. The new fGIS combines the application's already familiar features with the new features in the TatukGIS Editor, which is required to use fGIS.

As new features are added to the TatukGIS Editor, they will be made available in fGIS (including the upcoming full 3D rendering, second generation routing and geocoding, and orthophoto rectification). The new fGIS als will be extended with for example ArcView Xtools and a Parcel Document Manager that will be very useful for Land Records Management.

The new fGIS can be used to create rich, detailed maps using a multitude of vector and raster data layer types and to view and edit vector datasets stored in popular enterprise GIS database formats, including ESRI ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, Microsoft SQL Server Spatial, and PostGIS. The new fGIS supports almost 3,000 coordinate systems (including most US state coordinate systems), providing project-on-the-fly functionality for all data layers with defined coordinate systems. The interface is fully customisable by the end-user via a powerful scripting interface that uses Basic or Pascal syntax.

The new fGIS editing features include joining databases to vector layers for editing, clipping, merging, & buffering vector layers, generating sampling points, converting points to a polygon or line, splitting shapes, joining shapes, subtracting & drilling polygons, appending vector layers, updating shape measurement fields (such as acres or feet), snapping to features in a vector layer, "donut-hole" polygon creating, multi-part shape editing, topology correction for line or polygon layers, and more.

The new fGIS makes a great desktop GIS upgrade path for current users of the old fGIS, current users of ArcView 3.x (there are still a lot of you out there!), and current users of ArcGIS Desktop.