Manifold Reviews and details

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• Jpeg to ECW

  Manifold v9 is much more reasonable and highly capable for dealing with merging image files and exportation to ecw. It is even better than that route in leaving it in the manifold project format. IYKYK. Manifold.net. Source: 10 months ago

• Low/no code web map builders?

  Low cost: Manifold. There's a new web/map server that's now part of the GIS for Universal and above editions, $195. If you have a Windows machine that has an externally visible IP (static IP on Internet, or visible IP in your internal network), just install the 31 MB download for Manifold, create the map you want in the usual desktop way, and then it can automatically serve that in a WYSIWYG way using a default... Source: 11 months ago

• I found something even more useless than a "999999" error

  Only if you use lower quality software. Some software, including some GIS software, you can use every day, all day for 20 years and not expect to see a crash, not even once, no matter how complex the task. PostgreSQL is like that and for desktop GIS software, Manifold. Source: about 1 year ago

• Merging two different DEMs

  An easy way is to use Manifold. The Merge Images dialog which merges any stack of rasters will merge two different DEMS in a couple of clicks. The dialog's page has links to detailed examples and a video showing how to merge DEMs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Need to join raster and vector data

  Manifold Release 9 - it has a Join dialog that makes this trivial for almost any size data set. Takes a few clicks and less than a minute. Here's an illustrated, step-by-step example with an example video here. Source: about 1 year ago

• Completing a table with automatically created + populated rows in ArcPro ModelBuilder?

  There are plenty of SQL options in GIS. I used Manifold Release 9 for the above because it has an exceptionally handy SQL in a desktop package, and there is an SQL for ArcGIS Pro version of it for Pro. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do you keep track of useful datasets?

  I use the GIS itself to track such data sets, as a personal information manager. I use Manifold, which has very strong ability to work with tables, such as selection, ability to launch an app against a reference in a table, etc. That lets me search and organize using a variety of attributes. For interoperability, I can export the table to any common format, like SQLite or whatever. Source: about 1 year ago

• Merging/appending larger csv file to polygons

  If you're not hung up about doing it "within" Pro but just want to leave your data in the GDB (if your Pro data is in a file geodatabase), you can also do it in Manifold, which uses Esri code to connect to geodatabases. You can use real SQL or the point-and-click Join dialog. There are dozens of step by step videos and examples showing how to use the Join dialog. Using that dialog it's really hard to screw up... Source: about 1 year ago

• Mapping a boundary based on bearings and distances

  Traverses in Manifold. You can use the free Manifold Viewer to do the same thing. Manifold's traverses capability lets you work with traverses interactively, seeing how changes you make alter the shape of the parcel you're building. That helps avoid errors and cuts some of the mystery out of the process. It will also allow you to create parcels from a traverse file or list of instructions (the way most... Source: about 1 year ago

• Go home ArcPro, you need a nap

  Manifold Release 9. It's famous for never crashing. You really can expect to run it for many years every day without seeing a crash. Source: about 1 year ago

• Quick, easy way to convert a string of zipcodes to a map of zipcode areas including borders?

  I prefer Manifold, which is $145 to own forever. It is more modern (fully parallel, for example) than either Pro or Q, with more power for larger data sets. Some people say it is easier to learn, but I think that comes down to your willingness to read documentation and watch videos. If you can do that, all three are about the same: steep learning curve in the beginning. All three packages have thousands of... Source: about 1 year ago

• Unable to Georeference a .tiff file (Historical Aerial Imagery)

  Use Manifold. Georeferencing in Manifold is lots easier with less to go wrong. There are videos on that linked page that do an apples to apples comparison to the Esri ArcUser example for how to georeference a drone photo in ArcGIS Pro. Source: about 1 year ago

• Alternatives to "Near" tool that might be a bit faster?

  For work like this you can use PostgreSQL/PostGIS or some other spatial SQL tool. I prefer Manifold because it's only 30MB and often quicker for relatively small data like this and it has good parallelization in its spatial SQL. I can either do it brute force and know it won't crash, or I can write a spatial SQL query that takes advantage of what I know about my data and my goals (same for PostgreSQL/PostGIS, of... Source: about 1 year ago

• Trying to teach an old dog a new trick.

  Manifold is much faster than either Arc or Q, both with creating DEMs from LiDAR and also doing contours. Published LiDAR data tends to be bigger data, and it's vector data, not a DEM, so creating a DEM from published LiDAR data is not something to take for granted. Manifold is so fast that even if all you want is LiDAR data for a 100 acre parcel it's no big deal to get a whole county's worth and work with that... Source: about 1 year ago

• Would a gaming GPU (3080ti) work just as well for GIS, if it was a workstation video card with the same amount of RAM?

  Not so. Manifold uses massively parallel GPU throughout for computation and processing. It was designed from the ground up to do both CPU parallelism and GPU parallelism everywhere, including within SQL. Source: about 1 year ago

• Elevation Data for Large Number of Points

  For example, here's a step by step illustrated example how to do exactly what you want in Manifold. You can do exactly the same thing in the free Viewer. Source: about 1 year ago

• Large datasets causing spatial join errors in ArcGIS?

  Use Manifold, which has a very easy to use join dialog that works with larger data sets (the data you're using is tiny for Manifold). You can also do this in the free Viewer to verify, for free, this does what you want. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best practices for quick visualisation of large raster datasets

  Sounds like you're tied to Pro. If not, just store your raster data as GeoTiffs and visualize it with Manifold. Even better, store it as a native Manifold .map project: Manifold will open a project with 500 gigabytes worth of TIFF images in 1/2 second and display a map window with all those images in another 1/2 second, panning and zooming instantly. Source: over 1 year ago

• visibility analysis

  Use Manifold. It can do visibility/viewshed analysis with huge terrain elevation data and still run very fast (it's parallel). The free Viewer does the same thing and is also parallel. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there an easy way to create a simple map from coordinates (Latitude/Longitude)?

  There are a few avenues for this, though the animation of the 'phone' moving may be tricky. For quick learning of what GIS is, download Manifold Viewer (from manifold.net) It is free, runs on windows and you can quickly figure out the latitude/longitude points, lines, areas part of it. This will help educate. I don't have a solution for showing the movement of these entities. good luck. Source: over 1 year ago

• Help! Stumped on editing

  Precise details of how you do the above depends on how you want attributes to be treated and the tool you are using. I did the above illustrations with Manifold using the point and click Select and Transform panes. You can do those directly in Pro using the SQL for ArcGIS Pro addin, either using point and click panes or using SQL. Source: over 1 year ago