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Manifold System Release 6.00 Professional Edition is the most comprehensive, the most powerful and the easiest to use GIS and mapping system ever created.  Nothing else, at any price, even comes close. 

Release 6.00 Professional includes a fabulous array of features while being easier to use and providing rock-solid reliability.  The new 6.00 release delivers hundreds of upgrades to the previous release and incorporates over 2500 suggestions made by Manifold users and GIS dealers through the world.   The program includes over a million and a half lines of code and has been thoroughly debugged in the hands of thousands of users in over 80 countries during an extensive 6.00 release campaign.  

Whether you are new to GIS or an expert with many years' experience, you'll be glad you found Manifold:

"This product is AWESOME. Not only does the price blow everything else away but it's capabilities are seemingly endless.

One program for all of your GIS needs -  Manifold System 6.00  is an integrated system that simultaneously works with vector drawings, satellite and aerial photos, other raster images, raster data, multichannel remote sensing images, 2D and 3D surfaces and terrain simulations, multilayered maps, user supplied or automatically generated labels and a vast range of database table formats.  Manifold does it all in one seamlessly integrated, high performance package.  Manifold 6.00 even includes a sophisticated, fast, powerful Internet map server that's built right into Manifold so you can publish your maps to the web for browsing by anyone.

Superior Microsoft Windows Compatibility - Designed for Windows XP Today !  - Manifold System Release 6.00 runs in Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT4.0, Windows ME, and Windows 98 and 98SE.  Manifold System Release 6.00 is the only professional GIS program that has achieved Microsoft's coveted "Designed for Windows XP" compatibility status with Windows XP. The manifold.net team works exclusively in Microsoft Windows operating systems, and Manifold System Release 6.00 Professional is the ninth major application created by manifold.net in a series of award-winning Windows applications.  Manifold is by far the "most Windows" GIS of any.  6.00 makes extensive use of Microsoft's own code to guarantee perfect compatibility with Microsoft standards such as ActiveX, OLE DB and ODBC, Microsoft Internet Information Server, COM, Visual Basic scripting, Microsoft Jscript (Javascript),  Microsoft XML and many others. Manifold's Internet Map Server automatically provides templates for both ASP and ASP.NET. The latest Manifold 6.00 release, Service Pack 2, uses Microsoft .NET Framework 1.10 for maximum compatibility with the latest Microsoft technologies.  If you know Windows, you will immediately recognize and feel familiar with Manifold's extensive use of standard Microsoft dialogs for common user tasks such as opening and saving files, choosing colors and other routine dialogs.  Some other GIS packages use proprietary languages for scripting - Manifold uses standard Microsoft languages built in.  

"Great Program! I am somewhat new to GIS programs, but having to use ArcView occasionally ( which is a pain in the neck, as far as I am concerned), I really appreciate the ease of use of Manifold." - User Comment

Import and use maps and data from over 80 different formats - Manifold System can read data from over 80 different vector, raster, terrain elevation and database formats including specialty formats such as grids and the very latest government formats such as HDF EOS used with ASTER Earth observation satellite data. Manifold reads all GIS industry standard formats, including government formats in which millions of free maps and databases are published for free download via Internet.  Read .shp, .mid/.mif, .e00, SDTS, TIGER/Line (through 2002), DLG, VMAP/VPF, NTF, TAB, DXF, TAIF, DGN, DEM, SDTS DEM, NITF, Space Shuttle SRTM  and dozens of other formats. This allows users to access terabytes of free GIS data by Internet directly from the source, and to use data from every GIS system known as well as from numerous specialty software packages.  Manifold System 6.00 exports to .shp, .mid/.mif, .dxf, mfd/mdb, SDTS and .e00 (Enterprise Edition required for .e00 export);  image formats such as .bmp, .ecw, .png, .gif, .jpg, .tga, .emf, .tif  and GeoTiff; .bil surface format; database table formats such as Access .mdb, Excel .xls, Paradox .db, Dbase .dbf, Lotus Wkx, HTML and ASCII text .csv formats as well as to any OLE DB or ODBC database or to database providers such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or MySQL if installed.

Detail (above right): The incredible detail of the VMAP 0, in VPF format, downloaded for free from the NIMA web site.  Islets off the coast of Finland.

Create and edit sophisticated maps - Manifold can create new maps from the ground up or edit any map, drawing, image, surface or data set imported into it.  Want a map of counties that shows your county and a few surrounding counties?  No problem! Open a regional map of counties and choose only the ones you want.  Manifold has extremely powerful, CAD-like editing capabilities for creating and editing detailed drawings.  Unlike an ordinary CAD editor like AutoCAD, Manifold always maintains correct geographic context plus a link to database information for objects in the drawing.

Unlimited Sized Projects with Unlimited Sized Images and Terrain Elevation Surfaces - Advanced memory management technology allows Manifold System to operate with no limit on the size of projects, no limit on the number of layers in maps and no limits on the size of images and surfaces.  

Remote sensing image processing -  Manifold includes sophisticated functions to combine data from multi-channel remote sensing image formats into synthetic RGB images, including a wide range of features for image enhancement using sophisticated algorithms.  

Image Fusion - Image fusion can produce images with vivid colors and high resolutions by combining  lower resolution color images and higher resolution panchromatic images.  Typical examples are:

• SPOT panchromatic image + Thematic Mapper multi-channel color image
• ETM panchromatic + Thematic Mapper color bands.
• IKONOS panchromatic + IKONOS color images.
• Satellite image + aerial photograph

Seamless, smooth data raster layers - Using surfaces, Manifold can plot data variables in seamless raster layers that are automatically colored by value. Show temperature distributions, chemical plumes, population densities or any other variables in combination with images or vector drawing layers.  Manifold can create smooth raster data layers from unsmooth point data sets by automatic Kriging interpolation in a simple Copy the points drawing and Paste as a surface user interface.

Illustration (left): The image at left shows a US map overlaid with a false color gradient with editing of raster and vector layers.  It shows image editing effects but also conveys the "smooth raster" appearance of many data rasters.

Illustration (left)  - 3D surface generated from DEM data overlaid with a color orthophoto image and a vector drawing layer showing an open space region in green.  Map layers such as drawings and images can be overlaid on 3D terrains for fabulous, synthetic views of your data.  The illustration at right shows a region in San Luis Obispo County, California, courtesy of Robert Heitzman.  3D surface generated from DEM data overlaid with a color orthophoto image and a vector drawing layer showing an open space region in green. 

Extraordinary Selection Capabilities - Manifold has the best selection commands and capabilities in GIS.  A variety of mouse-based, command-based, toolbar and language methods allow perfect selection with speed and power.  Unlike old-fashioned GIS packages, Manifold can actually transfer selections between images, surfaces and drawings within maps.  For example, select all pixels of temperature T in an raster temperature image and then automatically select all road lines in a drawings that fall within the selected pixel ranges.  Manifold provides saved selections and Boolean combinations between saved selections and the current selection, as well as Boolean selection combinations using mouse commands.  Manifold also supports Visual Studio style "smart mouse" auto-selection in drawings and programming forms.

Images above left: Manifold selection commands work in drawings, images and surfaces. The region in blue is subtracted from the selection in red to select only those pixels in red in the rightmost image. Image editing commands can then be restricted to operate only on selected pixels.

manifold.net recommends use of Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows XP or Windows 2000. Windows NT is also acceptable..