Free geographic downloads

Imports gridded data into Microsoft MapPoint, to produce attractive data maps that resemble contour maps. Input data consists of a value that is defined for various (gridded) geographic coordinates. Common text output formats such as CSV are supported.Can handle imperfect data, holes, re-gridding, etc. Can be used to import such attributes as pollution data, seismic hazard, geological information, customer/population distribution, etc.Data can be interpolated to different grid spacings if required. Polygon optimization algorithms reduce the drawing time, as well as GridImp's cpu & memory requirements.Various text formats supported using space, tab, or comma separators with both Unix and DOS/Windows newline conventions. Data coordinates can be longitude,latitude coordinates; custom linear coordinates; or UK Ordnance Survey Grid References.GridImp can add data to an existing map or template; allowing it to be used with such products as the Single State Mapper or other MapPoint add-ins.Predefined or user-defined color schemes can be used. These can include transparent 'gaps' as well as attractive color gradations.Version 2.3 adds: Support for Windows Vista (32 bit).Version v2.2 adds: Support for Microsoft MapPoint 2006.Version v2.0 adds: Support for Ordnance Survey Grid References; Support for custom linear grids; support for existing map files; ability to force MapPoint garbage collection for large maps (reduces MapPoint's memory requirements, and increases speed).Requires: Microsoft MapPoint v2002,2004, or 2006. Both MapPoint Europe and North America are supported.
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Geo data international world wide with towns, town quarters and postal codes. Georeferences as UTM- and geographic coordinates (WGS84, ETRS89) and elevations. Suitable for branch searches, periphery searches and distance computations. These countries are available: Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Ex Yugoslavia, Canada, Croatia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldavia, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, Vatican, White Russia, USA, Australia, Cyprus and many more. The download contains a test composition of data cutouts of a lot of countries in different file formates and the exact data description. Here the available data fields of the tables are specified: National identification of the country, local identification for the place within the country, postal zip code, town name, town quarter name, local administrative identification (municipality key), geographical longitude and geographical latitude in degree and deg/min/sec notation, UTM easting and UTM northing on the natural and an uniformal meridian strip, Ground elevation over the sea level, 4 hierarchical administrative units, which are superordinate the place. First the data base tables are present in a standard file format (dBase, ASCII / OEM character set). They can be imported directly into MS-EXCEL, MS-ACCESS and in Borlands dBase. In addition the data base tables can be converted with the downloadable freeware program CONVERT into different data formats with the necessary characteristics, selections and sort sequences. For example you can convert the data into the SDF format (Simple Document Format) or into the CSV format (Comma Separated Value) using character sets ASCII / OEM or ANSI / WINDOWS or direct in MySQL.
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TRANSDAT Geosoftware executes coordinate transformations and geodetic datum shifts between many coordinate and reference systems of Germany, Europe, America, Australasia and world-wide, at high precision and high speed: 1.The current and many historical coordinate and reference systems of all countries of the European Union (EU) including the eastern extensions from 2004 and 2007 and the systems of the European non-EU countries. 2. The US and Canadian State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCS) on NAD27 and NAD83 and other coordinate and reference systems of the North American continent. 3. The coordinate and reference systems of the Australasian continent. 4. Many coordinate and reference systems of the countries of other continents. 5. World-wide NTv2 grid file supported coordinate transformations. 6. All world-wide coordinate and reference systems in current use. 7. The German coordinate and reference systems of the old and new federal states, the 40 Prussian Soldner Land Registers, the German ‘Lagestatus’, and exact reference systems of the German federal states. You will find a complete list of the coordinate and reference systems supported by the program on the internet or after downloading the free test version of the program. The NTv2 standard with national grid files is world-wide full supported. Apart from the given world-wide and state-specific systems, your own personal coordinate systems and geodetic reference systems can be defined with Helmert (Bursa / Wolf, ISO19111) or Molodenski parameters. Calculations can be performed with coordinates entered directly, loaded from files in various formats (Text, CSV, SDF, dBase, ArcShape and ArcGenerate), or passed via batch processing. ArcShape files can be viewed with the program-internal Shape Viewer. A programmable GPS interface makes it possible to read coordinates into a notebook computer from a low-cost GPS antenna. The program can be run on a network, in which case clients are installed automatically.
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IPSearchLight (www.ipsearchlight.com) for ASP.NET gives you real-time feedback on the geographic location of website visitors by their IP address alone. The technology is completely unintrusive, yet can often track a person's location to a few miles radius on the planet.

Some potential uses:
- Localization of website language, content and currency.
- Targeted advertising.
- Preventing credit card fraud.
- Geographically profiling email recipients.
- Geographic profiling of e-commerce purchasing behavior.

IPSearchLight for ASP.NET benefits from 1 click integration with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2002/2003 toolbox. It is packaged as a web control and can be implemented with minimal code overhead.
Quickstart:
IPSearchLight is most easily installed by using the installer executable, which can be downloaded from www.ipsearchlight.com.

Choose the directory you wish to install to (the given directory is recommended) and the installer will begin to extract and copy the database and other files:

The Installer will then automatically install IPSearchLight to the Microsoft Visual Studio Toolbox.



To use IPSearchLight, drag the WebControl onto your ASPX page from the Toolbox.

The component's properties are visible in the properties dialog window. The component will automatically detect each website visitor's location and IP address. Properties including longitude, latitude, state, country and postal (zip) code are then programatically accessible (See the examples section for more information).

You will need to acquire a Trial or Full License Key from www.ipsearchlight.com (it will run only 3 times without it).The license file should be placed in your website as follows: "{root}/bin/IPSearchLight.GeoLocator.lic" .

Your Trial License will expire after 30 days.
If you find that the data responses you're getting out of the IPSearchLight component are not sufficiently accurate, there are several upgrade options available.
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TRANSDAT Geosoftware executes coordinate transformations and geodetic datum shifts between lots of coordinate and reference systems of Germany, Europe, America, Australia and world wide. The NTv2 standard with national grid files is supported.
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IPSearchLight ASP.Net WebControl tracks website visitors' geographic location including country, region, city, postal code, latitude and longitude. The technology is non-invasive and undetectable. Installs directly into your Visual Studio Toolbox.
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AvisMap GIS Engine is a comprehensive SDK for the development of custom GIS applications and solutions. This SDK provides several ActiveX (OCX) controls which support Visual Basic, C#, Delphi, Visual C++ and other ActiveX compatible language.
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Geo data international world wide with towns, town quarters and postal codes. Georeferences as UTM- and geographic coordinates (WGS84) and elevations. Suitable for branch searches, periphery searches and distance computations. dBase, CSV, SDF, SQL.
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