For those of you who have been waiting in the wings for 1.2, that wait is now over! ClueTrust is pleased to announce the general availability of Cartographica 1.2, GIS for Mac OS X. We've got a ton of new and updated features, which we've been talking about on this blog for the past few weeks during our formal beta process. Follow the link for more information. We're happy with where we are now with 1.2, but that doesn't mean that we're going to stop here. We have big plans for the summer for Cartographica and Cartographica …

ClueTrust is readying the next major version of Cartographica—the Macintosh GIS would like to invite everyone to participate in the beta process. We have reached the point where all the features are in and we believe the product to be stable and within a few weeks of final release. In commemoration of this, we are inviting anyone who has previously tried Cartographica to give the beta a try, extending the trial period for an additional 30 days. If you have a current key (either because you are a paid user, or you are within your original 30-day trial period …

Today at AAG 2010, ClueTrust is pleased to announce the next evolution in our GIS for Mac OS X, Cartographica. We've on target for a release in May, about a year after our 1.0 release. There's a lot of new features we can talk about and some surprises that we'll wait until release day to discuss. If you like Cartographica now, we're certain that you're going to find the improvements amazing. We've been working diligently to improve every aspect of the program, using the latest technologies in Apple's Mac OS X ("Snow Leopard") to make the program smarter, faster …

At AAG 2010, ClueTrust today announced the first mobile member of the Cartographica family of products. Get your GIS data out on the road with you! Cartographica Mobile is a revolutionary app for a two revolutionary devices. In the past, most geospatial data input, access, and maintenance was done with dedicated GIS terminals or not done at all. However, until now there's been no way to get access to all that data held captive by your GIS servers without spending a fortune on a dedicated device or dragging around a laptop. Today, ClueTrust makes access to your geospatial data as …

A new map feature put out by the census bureau allows users to track how well Americans are doing at returning their 2010 census forms The map is designed to track the percent of households that have returned their census forms through the mail. Users can search the map by typing the zip code, name, or state of their community and then see how well their community is doing. It seems that one idea behind the map is to create a bit of national competition that will hopefully drive up the response rate of the national survey. At the time …

Thanks to all who provided feedback, bug reports, and testing, we now have version 1.1.4 available. Mostly it contains bug fixes, with a few polishes and one additional feature, the incorporation of the page orientation into the print window for quick printing from Map documents.

I am a frequent driver between Bloomington, Indiana and Lexington, Kentucky. In the past I have taken a route that was suggested by both logic and my GPS unit. However, recently a friend suggested that I try a different route to get home because it was faster, and a more relaxing drive. In order to determine which trip was more efficient I used my GPS unit to track my trip to see which one was better. In order to determine which trip was better I used Cartographica's GPS import ability to map my two trips and to conduct some basic …

Certainly has been quite a bit longer than I expected to take between reports about Cartographica 1.2's ongoing development. However,we've been continuing to move forward rapidly on some infrastructure changes and new features for 1.2. Check out our latest moves after the link. Here are some more highlights of what you'll see in version 1.2: Significantly improved Adobe Illustrator output We know a lot of customers on the Mac are looking for more control over the output and especially ways to integrate maps from Cartographica into their production workflows. We're going to be delivering a lot …

The 2010 Winter Olympics are underway in Vancouver, British Columbia!!! In honor of the games, this post is dedicated to mapping the city of Vancouver and several important Olympic sites. For this post data were obtained from the City of Vancouver's Data Catalogue, which has a lot of really interesting data about the city. Included within this data are several files that show important Olympic sites, as well as data about rapid transit systems and road closures. Vancouver is a coastal city that is a very popular tourist destination. Known for both its natural and man-made beauty it is home …

As of the release of 1.1.3 last week, we're running full speed to version 1.2, and now I can tell you a bit of what's going on with it. The target release timeframe for 1.2 is mid-April of 2010. We have been planning 1.2 for quite some time and are working towards that plan even as we speak. Key areas of concentration are: File Formats We know there's always need to bring in files from many different places, and we've been spending the last few weeks beefing up our file format handling (and the testing …

We are happy to announce that version 1.1.2 of Cartographica is now shipping. It can be downloaded from the Cartographica Download page, and release notes are available as well. Most of the changes are stability and performance fixes, with some additional UI changes to make the Map Layout system easier to use. Thank you to those who participated in the testing for this version. Enjoy!

This morning, I had a request from a user to be able to send Point features from a layer in a Cartographica map document to a GPS. Although Cartographica is able to import data directly from GPS devices, we don't currently have a built-in method to export layer data to GPS devices. However, as with the complex label question, we can solve this one reasonably well using AppleScript. This article describes how we did this and give the AppleScript for doing it. For those unfamiliar with AppleScript, we had some more in-depth commentary on it in our Advanced label techniques …

We're adding a new feature to the Cartographica blog starting today. Previously, all articles have contained only text. Now, some of them will also contain video entries. We hope that you find them enjoyable and entertaining. Today, we've added a screencast showing how Rick created his Al`Qaida map

We've just implemented some new features to the UI in Cartographica's Map Layout intended to make it easier to work with it, especially for first-time users. The features include placing a toolbar on the top of the window (user-configurable, of course) and introducing the ability to "draw" a new item onto the Map Layout by clicking and dragging. More details in this article, including the beta link. We've just implemented some new features to the UI in Cartographica's Map Layout intended to make it easier to work with it, especially for first-time users. The features include placing a toolbar on …

We are pleased to announce general availability of Cartographica version 1.1.1. This bug fix release contains important performance and stability enhancements and a small number of new features. We would like to extend a special thanks to those folks who helped us test the software before general release. More details on the changes in the main article. Features and UI changes for 1.1.1 Add Australian Datum specifications to EPSG and datum databases Add Australian grids and projections Add support for AGD66 and AGD84 translations Add support for overriding default character sets on vector file load Update …

Lets pretend that we are housing developers looking to develop land in a historic downtown neighborhood. We have identified a parcel of land in a prime location and we want to propose a plan for development on the land. We want to show our investors what we have planned by locating the parcels using Cartographica, and then importing those parcels into Google Earth so that we can show the investors a 3D mock up of the planned development. We can combine Cartographica, Google Earth, and Google Sketch up, to make this happen. In our hypothetical scenario there is one problem …

ClueTrust is happy to announce that Cartographica 1.1 is now shipping! There are improvements throughout the software, and if you haven't had a chance to take a look since 1.0 (or before), it's worth taking a another look. To make this easy, we've re-enabled keys for everyone who has tried Cartographica in the past (even if you don't get our emails), so go on over to our lost key page and request a replacement key if yours has expired already. These new keys last until October 15th, 2009. Among the big changes are support for very large images …

ClueTrust is happy to announce that version 1.1 of Cartographica has finally reached beta phase. This means that all significant features are in the product, and it is ready for feedback and testing by users at large. As part of the beta program, we've reactivated keys for everyone who has signed up to try Cartographica in the past and we hope that everyone will take advantage of the opportunity to try out our new features and changes. We believe this is a great step forward for Cartographica and GIS on the Macintosh. After the release of 1.1, we …

It's been a really exciting week here at Apple's WWDC! There's a lot of information now available from the Keynote of the conference which is public, and there was a lot more disclosed in sessions that we can't talk about. However, the most important pieces of user news are that Snow Leopard will be available in September for $29 (USD) as an upgrade to Leopard, and that Snow Leopard will not support the PowerPC processor-based Macintoshes. This has very important implications for Cartographica—specifically, we will be discontinuing new feature support of 10.5, and thus the PowerPC, in new …

Well, general writing on the site has slowed to a crawl as we've been working hard to enhance Cartographica, our Macintosh GIS, for those people participating in the preview release. Today we announce the availability of Preview Release 2, the second release to the public of Cartographica. There's more detail on what we've changed and what we're working on by following the link. We've been pretty busy for the last few weeks stomping out bugs and adding features in some important areas with some concentration on data generation. Details of many of these changes are in the release notes and …