Product Site: www.SpatialXL.com September 201 2011 1 by PrimeThought Software Solutions Company site: www.PrimeThought.biz
VERSION 2 : NEW & UPDA UPDATED TED FEATURES FEATURES
SpatialXL is an add-in to Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 SpatialXL is an add-in to Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010 which gives Microsoft Excel full mapping and graphics capability,, including the capability ability to link spatial or graphics elements back to Excel or to other data sources such as a database.
Supported Mining Formats SpatialXL can read and display the following formats:
Shape files
Gemcom Surpac
Microstation DGN
Excel spreadsheets
AutoCAD DXF
Bing
AutoCAD DWG
Images (TIFF, JPEG, BMP etc)
SQL Server 2005/2008 Access Database
Any other OLE DB Source Oracle Spatial
Oracle Spatial
Datamine
Ability to extract geometries from data
CSV
such as lines, polygons etc and a query
Any other OGC Compatible Source
builder to work with databases.
Save your work by simply saving the spreadsheet.
Displaying Data Formats together Whether you are loading shape files simultaneously with data from a database and displaying it over Bing, you can display any formats simultaneously with any other formats in SpatialXL. This example shows SQL Server database data together with Gemcom Surpac, together with DXF files together with Shape files.
Thematic Colouring Whether you are colouring by a text field, numeric range, or even using different images or charts to display different thematic values, SpatialXL is excellent for hotspot reporting or ge neral indications of high and low values or types of data.
Borehole de-surveying •
Extract collars as points
• Add surveys •
Extract segments such as lithologies
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Build surfaces from start and end points or between points.
NEW FEATURE
Contour a variable Contour a variable as if it was a Z axis.
NEW FEATURE
Save to a database
NEW FEATURE
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Save to the OGC Well Known Binary format in SQL Server or SpatialExtender and soon Oracle.
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Save to the OGC Well Known Text format in SQL Server or SpatialExtender and soon Oracle.
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Save to the Microsoft SQL Server native geometry format.
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Save to MineDB (www.MineDB.biz) geometry plus format. MineDB allows three dimensional data and triangulated surfaces.
Drawing and editing
NEW FEATURE
2D or 3D drawing of points, lines, polygons, and text now in SpatialXL. Also editing of surfaces now available with ability to delete facets or vertices or flip surfaces.
Build walls and dumps
NEW FEATURE
Input transforms
Input transformations such as scales, rotations, shifts and even survey to Cartesian, will do an on-the-fly transformation of your source data. You can set up your own as well.
NEW FEATURE
Linking data between different data sources Link spatial data to non-spatial data in a spread sheet, database or file by using a particular column or columns as the linking column. You can aggregate, colour etc by linked data and also find data based on the linked fields. You can even save linked data back to the original geometry data type, as long as that type allows the additional data.
Volume, Length and Area measurement Volume, Length and area measurements are part of a simple data grid which you can paste into Excel very simply. Measurements are done in accurate lengths no matter what the current projection is with a measuring tool.
Drawing and Annotation You can draw and annotate inside your spreadsheet and can also edit geometries if the right settings are activated. Here is an example of adding a simple annotation layer.
Map Bookmarks You can go back to previous view by simply saving a map bookmark, or multiple bookmarks in your spreadsheet. When you send the spreadsheet to someone else, they can also view your bookmarks and notes in Excel to see the map as you saw it.
Saving to original or other formats You can edit and save geometries and other data in SpatialXL. You can save a DXF file as a shape file, or database data to shape files for instance. You can also add columns to the data with calculated fields and save that back to the original formats or into a different format, as long as the format allows such data.
Using projections All projections of the Open Geospatial Consortium are included. You can also specify your own projection and validate that.
Projection can also be done on the fly, converting layer projections to the scene projection.
Image handling Images (TIFF, BMP, JPEG and others) can be placed using the World Coordinates accompanying the image, even the transparency can be set for the image!
Original Colouring and CAD Text For DGN and DWG files for instance, there is an original colouring in Microstation that SpatialXL follows as much as is possible.
You can still change the colours by using thematics etc, but when the changes are removed, the geometries will go back to the original colouring.
Instead of only doing labels based on attributes, SpatialXL can also draw 2D and 3D text and place these as geometries.
Layer operations Creating new layers with buffering data or selected data can also be done in SpatialXL. Here is an example of creating a new layer from selected data.
Surface Building Surface building from points or from selected lines can be done in SpatialXL.
In this example we built a surface from line strings in a DataMine file.
Contouring Contouring is also a feature in SpatialXL.
Sections SpatialXL supports sections either at single or regular intervals in any direction.
Section graphs are now available.
UPDATED FEATURE
Cut and Fill
UPDATED FEATURE
Cut and fill done with perimeters and a breakdown into levels.
Pricing All pricing is currently under review and will change before end 2011, so please request quotes or ask for extension on current quotes! R7 500-00 or USD 990 per license for single user. R7 000-00 or USD 920 per license if 5 or more licenses are bought in one order. Further discounts on bigger orders are available upon request. First year maintenance, inclusive of bug fixes, e-mail support, new versions and other upgrades included in initial purchase price. Next year maintenance approximately 20% of original purchase price subject to annual escalation of approximately 10% or CPI. Training is available upon request. Basic training costs in South Africa is R2 600-00 per delegate for the two day training course, if training is held at client premises with user’s own machine. If less than 5 delegates, training will be a one day training course. COMING SOON: AN ON-LINE TRAINING COURSE
How to get and install SpatialXL 1. You can access the www.SpatialXL.com site to get to the right section of the main company site as well. 2. Register or Log in to this website: www.PrimeThought.biz 2. Once logged in, go to the Downloads section and download SpatialXL. Please ensure that you choose RSA if you are from South Africa for the optimum download speed. 3. Once you downloaded SpatialXL you run SpatialXL.exe (with the right privileges, please see your IT section if you need assistance with this) and then this will install all prerequisites plus SpatialXL inside Excel 2007 or 2010. 4. Please make sure that you have either Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010 installed prior to the SpatialXL installation. 5. You must either purchase SpatialXL at this point or request an evaluation key from
[email protected]. 6. You then reference the relevant key in the Help/About button inside the SpatialXL ribbon in Excel.
Thank you! PrimeThought Software Solutions
Head Office: (046) 624 8654 Johannesburg Office: (011) 275 0172 Technical Support: 083 395 3484 Sales & Client Liaison: 072 049 8091 E-mail:
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