Manifold

Manifold is professional GIS software. See wikipedia:Manifold System.

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Manifold works using a project file (*.map) that contains all data ( raster text vector ) wich is a powerful sql engine. Manifold developper don't support OSM directly, some manifold user offer to the community two plug in ( dll driver and script file ) for access to OSM server (raster vector) to download .

Feature

• script in many languages : vbscript is use for vector , C# is use for tile raster graphic plug in
• support many gis database :postgis, MySQL
• support import/export popular gis format : mapinfo ,shapefile

Download

Binary packages are available for Micosoft Window only.Manifold don't use publicity and focus in user feedback so there is no demo available ; you have to pay and ask return money before the end of the limited time period you have full acces to manifold functionnalities.

manifold /ozi/osm

To use oziexplorer with osm , manifold could import osm maps and export them to ecw format without need to have gis knowledge about porjection. The ecw file could be use in oziexplorer as a background for oziexplorer (dsktop) and oziexplorer CE (mobile). The import of OSM map could be done after a manifold user jkelly post the plug in in the manifold forum. His implementation support mapnik, Osmarender and cloudMade's cycle map tiles. The plug in have been update here to support better raster servers.

An other use of manifld could be the export road in kml format and then import them in oziexploer that could be export in a plt format compatible with oziexplorer CE. Using vector data could be achieve using a script post by sknox in manifold forum. this script need a boundingBox before download the OSM xml data . The script become compatible with the last OSM API version 0.6

See oziexplorer article to learn step to use manifold/oziexplorer/OSM. Manifold avoid the use of low level technology ( shell command and install many perl libraries) .