Monday, February 22, 2010

GPS Information Tracking Lite V2

GPS information Tracker is free software, let's we able to communicate with NMEA GPS protocal standard. All information track strings come from GGA sentence in NMEA protocal.



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Friday, February 19, 2010

Universal Maps Downloader

Universal Maps Downloader is a tool that help you to get small tile images from Google Maps, Yahoo maps, MicroSoft Virtual Earth maps, OpenStreet Maps. All downloaded small images are saved on the disk. You can view downloaded maps by Maps Viewer Or you can combine them into a big BMP map by Maps Combiner.


Note: The downloaded images are only for your personal purpose, non-commercial use.

It is a shareware, for trial version, you can not download high precision images.

See the screenshot. It is very easy to use.

1, Enter a task name, such like "Mytask.umd". All task files are saved as *.umd.
If you want to continue a old task, click button "Open task... ".


2, Select Maps type. There are 9 types of maps, see the followed picture:



3, Drag the trackbar to define the zoom level. The zoom level defines the image precision. For trial version, the max zoom level is 12, so you can not download high precision images.


4, There are 4 parameters (Left Longitude, Right Longitude, Top Latitude, Bottom Latitude) to define the area scope of images that you want to download.

Left Longitude: -180<180,><180,><90,for><90,for>Convert 'Degrees,Minutes,Seconds' to 'Degrees'...".

5, Select a path to save the project and downloaded images

6, Define how many threads you want to start to download at the same time. The max threads number is 8.

7, Then click button "Start", OK, start downloading now ... !

When downloading, the log window will display the downloading process. When finished, the log will be saved to a file.

After downloading, there will be a file named as *.ftl, if there are some files failed or missed, you can re-download them: menu "tools"->"re-download failed files".


How to view downloaded maps?

You can view downloaded maps without combining them into one big BMP.
We provide a tool to view the images, you can run it from menu "Tools"->"Map Viewer".

Then open a task from menu "File"->"Open task..." to view the map.

How to combine small images into one big map?


After downloading, all small images are saved on your disk. Then you can combine them into one big image map.

We provide a tool : Combiner.exe. You can run it from menu "Tools"->"Map Combiner".


The output big image is in BMP format. You can convert it to other format by yourself using some image tools such like PhotoShop.


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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

WinTopo Portable V.3.4.1.0

WinTopo Portable V3.4.1.0 download

WinTopo is a high quality software application for converting TIF, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP files and scanned images into useful vector files suitable for CAD, GIS and CNC applications. The professional version is for people who want more processing options and finer control over the vectorisation process. WinTopo Pro includes many options for pre-processing the raster image to get the optimum vectorisation result. It also benefits from a more advanced vectorisation engine which has resulted from our many years of expertise in programming, engineering and image processing.

Features:
» One Touch Vectorisation, fully automated for ease of use
» Many fine-tuning options for the experienced user
» Based on established research findings on raster vectorisation
» Enhanced with the very latest research findings to give you the best possible results
» Arc recognition. Smooth arcs are fitted to the curved parts of the image
» WinTopo Pro vectorises colour images into colour CAD drawings
» Powerful Georeference feature ensures that your vectors will be scaled, rotated, translated and deskewed to the correct coordinates ready for your CAD/GIS/CNC system
» Digitising and Vector Editing
» You can assign Levels to the vectors ready for output to a 3D CAD/GIS system
» Many image pre-processing functions to help you get the best from your images
» Process large images in minutes or seconds