Merrick & Company today announced the free download availability of
MARS® FreeView™, an intuitive, easy-to-use viewing application for LiDAR, high-resolution imagery and GIS datasets. About the app — Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS®) software is a stand-alone, Windows-based application specifically designed for processing, analyzing and managing terrain data. MARS® provides unparalleled application and visualization performance for massive LIDAR datasets and includes a modular tool suite that is used to manage field collection, data analysis, quality assurance, production, and client deliverable workflows. To download MARS® FreeView™ see here
Archives for January 25, 2007
MARS FreeView viewing application for LiDAR available
Merrick & Company today announced the free download availability of
MARS® FreeView™, an intuitive, easy-to-use viewing application for LiDAR, high-resolution imagery and GIS datasets. About the app — Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS®) software is a stand-alone, Windows-based application specifically designed for processing, analyzing and managing terrain data. MARS® provides unparalleled application and visualization performance for massive LIDAR datasets and includes a modular tool suite that is used to manage field collection, data analysis, quality assurance, production, and client deliverable workflows. To download MARS® FreeView™, please visit the following website:
http://www.merrick.com/servicelines/gis/mars/FreeView/MarsFreeViewSetup.exe
Conduit – Immersive 3D Viewing of Google Earth
TIGOR – 2006 First Edition TIGER/Line in ESRI Shapefile format!
Hey, its not free but its pretty cheap and may be of interest to you. Product details – TIGOR is an integrated data product that gives you all the layers of the 2006 First Edition TIGER/Line® in ESRI® Shapefile format! TIGOR is based on Census Bureau TIGER/Line® files; TIGER/Line® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Census Bureau. – See http://www.nextractor.com
Of note, beware of free Tiger data that may be for sale dirt cheap on commercial sites (like the data depot, etc…) as it likely may not be reformated and is freely available via ftp download from the US Census Bureau. If its not publicized as being in SHP format then you’ll likely simply get native TIGER files which require much effort to use in your GIS