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TatukGIS Viewer… a great viewer

So far it is one of the best (if not the best) CAD / GIS data viewers that I have seen, free and practical. Tatuk is a product line  which logo (2) born in Poland, just a few days ago the 2 version of tatukGIS Viewer was announced.

The other viewers

If we evaluate the free programs of other brands, provided to see data we will find at least one of the following aspects:

  • Do not open projects such as: ArcView 3x apr, ArcGIS mxd
  • The MapInfo map.
  • Do not load microsoft V8 files
  • No kml file formats
  • They display some formats only by importing them
  • You can not save layer settings as styles
  • Can not save as project

Tatukgis

What data does TatukGIS Viewer read

When you look at the functionality and ability to interact with other formats, you can see that the viewer is almost TatukGIS Editor, without the editing capabilities, analysis and some reading formats like FME and OGR. Perhaps for this reason, it goes beyond what the viewers of other programs do that specialize almost in their own formats and with a focus of just View and print.

Vector formats and common CAD -DGN V8 (la mayoria It does not)
-DWG 2000 (here if you are wrong)
-DXF ASCII and binary
-GPX
-WFS
GIS Formats -E00 ASCII and binary
-GML
-LAND XML
-MID / MIF / TAB / MAP (Mapinfo)
-SHP
-GML
-JSON
-KML
-Open Street Map
Databases -ESRI personal data base
-Geomedia SQL Access Warehouse
-SQL BLOB (Simple Features)
-SQL Normalized (Simple Features)
-TatukGIS SQL binary
Raster Formats -Muuuchos, included:
WMS, MrSID, BIL / SPOT, IMG, ECWP server based, ADF.
Projects you read -ArcView 3x
-ArcExplorer
-ArcGIS (there is A converter)
-Mapinfo
-TatukGIS

What attractive features does it have

Very clean interface, With side panels to the right in the style manifold which includes selected object properties, project layers, and a minimap; below you can load the attribute tables in attractive tabs. They can all be dragged as floating windows or moved freely.

Loading layers.  The layers are loaded, it recognizes in a wonderful way the projection of many CAD / GIS formats, and Tatukgis reprojects on the fly in the viewfinder projection. It supports display, transparency, hierarchy, cache and rendering scales. You can also make groups of layers.

Styles to layers.  You can apply theming to layers, both for line type, fill, fill pattern, bar graphs, pie, etc. These layer properties can be saved with an .ini extension to apply to others.

Tags. In the layer properties you can apply labels with very attractive styles that can be static or dynamic to the display so that they move so that while the layer is visible they can be seen. Includes HTML rendering.

Help. It allows choosing an attribute of the table that is displayed when hovering the mouse over the object (hints) and it also displays hyperlinks if they exist in the tabular data.

Tatukgis Measurement. Has measure tools (no snap) of rectangles, circle, path, polygon, orthogonal rectangle. Right-clicking allows you to copy the coordinate to the clipboard.

Language and style. With a simple click you can choose the language among which is Spanish, and also the interface style.

Print.  It has a practical functionality to print, even to export to pdf.

Speed. All this does, with a very surprising agility, I have loaded 14 orthophotos ecw, 16 maps dgn, connected to an ArcView apr with 11 layers and from an Acer Aspire One ... panea very well.Tatukgis

Tabular data. The display of tables is very interesting, in the style UDig handles tabs that are added with a simple click from project layers. The spatial properties of the objects such as area and length are displayed, one of the interesting aspects is that the objects can be touched individually and choose the option that they are not visible even if the layer is. There are also a number of filtering processes, individual and group selection.

Save project.  The project can be saved, in the style of an mxd / apr with extension .ttkgp to be able to open it again, however simple it may seem, it can be deployed by TatukGIS Inernet Server as an ASP.NET service.

Conclusion

It definitely replaces what any free brand viewer does, at a very efficient deployment speed. The best, the interaction with formats, standards and projects of popular programs (ESRI, OpenGIS, Bentley, MapInfo, Google Earth). Not bad for free.

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Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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4 Comments

  1. I'm scared a project of some plots i toi assiendo in tatukgis i kisiera to know kom akomodar label inside the boxes that are supposed k are the plots i ps if you can tell me tool use
    Thank you
    I appreciate it

  2. My dear and esteemed chairman of the board of directors of the followers and syndicalists of the blog Geofumadas. In response to your interesting question, I have the honor to reply in all honesty of the case

    No.

    Hehe The ear is worth the ear. Maybe you will gradually include the theme.
    Not that I do not want, is that not being applied now makes it theoretical and somewhat empty.

  3. Hello Smoked elder of the Kingdom ...

    It strikes me that from your space on the web dedicated to geographic information technologies and their applications in topography, cadastre and derivatives do not address applications of such utility for these jobs such as TELEDETECTION. Do not you use Remote Sensing in cadastre?

    A slap on the wrist from the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Followers of the Web ...

  4. … Under the table… how I would like to understand the meaning of that in your context.

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