This list of digital terrain
modeling programms supplements the "Technology" department article by
James Sipes in the December 1998 issue of Landscape Architecture.
Natural Scene
Designer!Mac/PowerMac $189.00
Natural Graphics
PO Box 1963,Rocklin,
CA 95677
Phone: 916-624-1436
FAX: (916) 624-1406
World Builder
v2.0 (Win NT/95) Yosemite Edition $995.00
Animatek
San Francisco
415-477-0610
www.animatek.com
Vista Pro - Macintosh/Windows
$69.95
Rom Tech (Virtual
Reality Laboratories, Inc.).
3534A Employ
San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401
Phone: (800)
829-VRLI
Bryce3 (Macintosh
&Windows) $179.00
Metatools
6303 Carpinteria
Avenue
Carpinteria,
CA 93013
Phone: 805-566-6200
http://www.metatools.com
3D Studio Max
-- $3495
Kinetix; San
Rafael, CA; 415-547-2000)
http://www.ktx.com/
MGE Modeler (MGM),
InRoads , SiteWorks
Intergraph Corporation,
Huntsville, AL, 800-345-4856, www.intergraph.com
LSS for Windows
v5 $ 1,000
McCarthy Taylor
Systems Ltd., Aerial View, Acorn House, Shab Hill, Birdlip,
Glos., GL4 8JX,
UK.
Tel +44 (0)
1452 864244
http://www.mccarthytaylor.demon.co.uk/index.htm
GWN-DTM
GWN Systems
Inc., 11133 - 124 Street, Suite 200, Edmonton, AB T5M 0J2,
Canada, Phone:
+1 (403) 452-0090, Fax: +1 (403) 453-5207, $3,500.00
QuickSURF for
AutoCAD $ 1,195.00, QuickSURF Windows Standalone $ 1,495.00
BOSS International
6612 Mineral
Point Rd.
Madison, Wisconsin
53705-4200
800-488-4775
www.bossintl.com
MICRODEM (Windows
NT or 95).
Oceanography
Department, U.S. Naval Academy
Public Domain
software
http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/microdemdown.htm
DLGV & DEM-3D
(Windows NT and 95)
U.S. Geological
Survey
Public Domain
software
http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/viewers/
NuGraf (Mac,
Win v3.1, 95 & NT, Unix) $495.00, PolyTrans $395.00
Okino Computer
Graphics, Inc
6271 Dorman
Road, Unit # 6.
Mississauga,
Ontario.
L4V 1H1, Canada.
www.okino.com/intro.htm
Phone: 1-905-672-9328
GEOsurf &
GEOsurf-LT
GEOPAK Corporation
North Miami
Beach, FL
888-GEOPAK1
www.geopak.com
MacRoad $4995.00
(Australian dollars), Landform
Creative Engineering
http://www.createng.com.au/MRDTM.html
World Construction
Set (Mac, Windows) $795.00
Questar Productions,
LLC
1058 WCR 23.5
Brighton, CO
80601
Phone: 303/659-4028
FAX: 303/659-4068
AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop $4,995, Civil Design $2,995, ProSurvey
Plus $995, AEC
Professional Suite $1,495, AutoCAD Map 2.0 or 3.0 $ 795
Autodesk Inc.
Henniker, NH
800-763-8337
www.autodesk.com
Virtual Terrain
Explorer (Win 95) $59.00
Altimap Software
Route 3 Box
382
Double Springs,
AL 35553
http://millennianet.com/altimap/index.htm
Relief! ($170),
Terrain View ($345), Terrain View Lite ($55)
Great Circle
40 Gleneagles
Terrace
Fendalton, Christchurch,
New Zealand
http://www.greatcircle.co.nz/index.htm
ArcView 3D Analyst
ESRI
380 New York
Street
Redlands, CA
92373-8100
909-793-2853
www.esri.com
Surface Modeling,
RoadCalc, Site Designer II ($995.00)
Eagle Point
Software, Dubuque, IA, 800-678-6565, www.eaglepoint.com
EasyTerrain,
Designer's WorkBench
Coryphaeus Software,
Inc., 4555 Lake Forest Dr., 600 Westlake Center,
Cincinnati,
OH 45242, Tel: 513.563.3099, Fax: 513.563.3094
http://www.coryphaeus.com
Visual Explorer98
$150, Visual Explorer (Mac & Windows 95/NT) Price $199
WoolleySoft
Ltd.
Cluanach, Auchtubhmor,
Balquhidder,
Lochearnhead,
Scotland FK19
8NZ
Tel/FAX +44
1877 384378
http://www.woolleysoft.co.uk/
TruFlite $ 295
Anthony J. Kehlhofer
641 N. California
Street
Burbank, CA
91505
voice: (818)-645-4477
http://www.truflite.com/
Tripod Data Systems
1853 SW Airport
Rd.
Corvallis, OR
97333
(541) 753-9322
http://www.tdsway.com/company/index.htm
Vista Pro 4.0
$69.95
RomTech, 2945
McMillan Ave., Ste. 128, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401,
800-829-8754;
805-781-2250, Fax: 805-781-2259, www.romt.com
Sources of Data
AND Mapping B.V.
-- manufactures vectorized digital road network databases
optimized for
route planning purposes. Scheidamsedijk 44, 3011 ED
Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, Tel.: +(31) 10-4333440
BLR Data, Inc.
-- BLR Data specializes in designing and developing advanced
GIS data sets.
www.blrdata.com
Chalke-Butte,
Inc. -- Provides 2- and 3-dimensional full-color shaded
relief maps
from digital elevation models. www.chalkbutte.com
ESRI, Inc. --
ESRI focuses on publishing two important types of data sets:
1) Data sets
that provide the basic data you need as a framework for
building your
GIS database. 2) Data sets that help people learn about GIS
and GIS data.
Selected ESRI Data Sets are available through ArcData Online.
http://www.esri.com
Geographic Data
Technology, Inc. -- Develops map databases for applications
such as site
selection, routing packages, and environmental mapping.
www.geographic.com
Horizons Technology,
Inc. -- Provides seamless, full color, georeferenced
USGS topographic
map datasets. www.horizons.com
Tele Atlas B.V.
--. Focuses on geographical databases for major European
regions. WWW.TELEATLAS.COM
VISTA Information
Solutions, Inc. -- VISTA is one of the nation's leading
suppliers of
environmental risk information and its databases are available
for ARC/INFO
users. www.vistainfo.com
ArcData Online
contains a diverse collection of world-wide data sets. It
includes data
from ESRI's ArcWorld, ArcAtlas: Our Earth, Digital Chart of
the World, GDT's
Dynamap/2000, HTI's Sure!MAPS RASTER, VISTA's
Environmental
Geographics, AND Mapping's European Road Network, and FEMA's
Q3 Flood Data.
www.esri.com
EROS Home Page
Mapping Home Page, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S.
Geological Survey,
URL:http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/content_whatsnew.html
Microsoft's
TerraServer (www.terraserver.microsoft.com)
The USGS's Earth
Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center,
http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/
U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS), http://nsdi.usgs.gov/nsdi/
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