The new way of mapping your data
Toucan Navigate 2007 blends MS Virtual Earth maps and imagery with GIS files and spreadsheets in a desktop application. Now you can easily integrate geo-spatial information with personal or business data, giving you a competitive advantage in an agile world.
- Use it to view your GIS files.
- Display spreadsheet data on a road or satellite view of the world.
- Share your maps with your teams.
- Broadcast your location and view the location of your team.
- Use it as a personal navigation assistant.
- Connect to your GPS.
- LInk it to MS Office Groove or SQL Server for a rich geo-collaboration experience.
Why is Toucan Navigate relevant?
- It's useful immediately for non-programmers. This application is for people like Adena.
"For those who fall closer to the "non-programmer" side, whenever a software vendor says, "With some customization you can add features you need," we squirm. Can we do that customization on our own? Do we need to call in a coder? Will we need to learn something new? Yikes! " (Adena Schutzberg, AllpointsBlog).
- It provides freedom, privacy and anonymity. In other words, you can continue to keep your data in your local drive or inside your firewall, you don't need to log on in order to access your data and you can work on or offline.
- It takes advantage of online maps and satellite images as well as internet services such as batch geocoding (i.e. generating locations from addresses).
- It takes advantage of the spreadsheet as a commonly-used method for entering and organizing data.
- It provides a simple way to view GIS files created by many organizations as overlays on the road maps or satellite images of Virtual Earth.
