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Stereo Viewing: Overlay Your Geodata in Google Earth

9 May 2012

You and all your associates can view and interpret any geospatial materials in color stereo in Google Earth. Simply convert your image, map, vector, CAD, shape, and other digital materials of any size to Google Earth tilesets in TNTmips. The low-cost TriDef 3D Windows application (www.tridef.com) renders your overlays and the Google Earth imagery in color stereo.

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Add Bing Maps Image and/or Roads

3 May 2012
TNT 2011

A new Quick Guide has been posted showing how you can directly add the Microsoft Bing Maps reference layer to your TNTmips view selecting from aerial, roads, or combined styles.
What Adding Microsoft's Bing Maps to View Gives You
- Provides detailed global image and / or road reference themes
- Add to any view using any CRS and any zoom level
- Use as reference layer in the Editor to create or update elements

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Learning Geospatial Analysis On Your Own

27 April 2012
TNT 2012

67 tutorial booklets with step-by-step procedures are available. These 12- to 72-page PDF booklets are available for download and are installed for direct access as part of your TNT product. This is a total of approximately 1800 color pages exceeding the materials in at least two textbooks.

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Geomedia Publishing: Use Legend to Query Elements by Style

18 April 2012
TNT 2012

When you create a geomashup with KML overlays, you can choose to include a legend for any KML layers that have points, lines, or polygons with different styles based on their attributes. Each legend entry has a checkbox that can be used to show or hide all of the map elements in that category independently from the other element categories. You can therefore use these legend controls to peform simple interactive queries by showing only map elements with particular attribute-based styles. This selectivity allows you to examine the spatial distribution of selected map features independently and to compare those distributions to map data in other layers.

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Tilesets: Scaling Map Elements for Geometric Structures

11 April 2012
TNT 2012

A geometric tileset can be used on a website to present styled map data in Google Maps for any size area. Successive Google Maps zoom levels differ in map scale by a factor of 2, so a geometric tileset may present map data over a very large range of map scales. Careful design is required to set the display styles in the TNT vector object you plan to convert into a geometric tileset so that the tileset's graphic elements are appropriately styled over its full range of map scales.

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Tilesets: Styling Map Elements for Geometric Structures

6 April 2012
TNT 2012

MicroImages' KML and SVG geometric tilesets are tiled structures that are created by TNTmips to present map data in a web browser in styled geometric form for any size area over a range of Google Maps zoom levels. The Export Geometric Tileset process, which creates these tilesets, renders geometric elements from a source vector object into KML or SVG tiles using the display style settings stored with that source object. The tiles for each zoom level are independently rendered directly from the source vector object at the map scale corresponding to that Google Maps zoom level.

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Geomedia Publishing: Legends for Geomashup KML Layers

3 April 2012
TNT 2012

Google Maps geomashups that you create in the Assemble Geomashup process in TNTmips can include KML overlays that you have created from a TNT vector object. When you create a geomashup with KML overlays, you can choose to include a legend for any KML layer or layers that have map elements (points, lines, or polygons) with different styles based on their attributes. The resulting legend is part of the geomashup layer controls and shows a style sample for each unique category as well as the corresponding attribute value.

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Geomedia Publishing: DataTip Design for Google Maps/Earth Info Windows

28 March 2012
TNT 2012

When you render a TNT vector object to a KML file or KML geometric tileset, the attribute information you have set up for the DataTip for the vector elements is automatically transferred to each corresponding KML map feature. When the KML data is used as an overlay in Google Maps or Google Earth, this attribute information is shown in Google's info window by left-clicking on a map feature. You can vary the design of the DataTip in the source vector object to control the way in which the attribute information is shown in Google's info window.

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Tilesets: Export Geometric Structures

21 March 2012
TNT 2012

The Export Geometric Tileset process in TNTmips Pro (Tileset / Export Geometric) converts a styled vector object into a geometric tileset with your choice of either the SVG geometric or KML geometric tileset structure. These tiled structures allow you to present styled geometric data on the web for any size area and at different resolutions over a range of zoom levels. (See the Tileset Technical Guides entitled SVG Geometric Structure and Geometric KML Structure for descriptions and illustrations of these products.) Modern web browsers support the display of the geometric data in these tilesets and automatically apply enhancements such as antialiasing to provide a high-quality rendering of your map data.

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Tilesets: Geometric KML Structure

15 March 2012
TNT 2012

MicroImages' KML geometric tilesets allow you to present large vector map data on the web in Google Maps and in 3D in the Google Earth browser plug-in. KML geometric tilesets use a tiled form of the Google Earth KML file format to store vector graphics and associated attribute information that can be presented on the web at different resolutions over a range of zoom levels. Because of this tiled, multiresolution structure, only a few tiles with a limited number of elements are needed for any particular view, allowing this limited data to be processed and rendered efficiently by the web browser.

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