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Advanced geometry tools

New in V10

A set of tools to edit and transform polylines, polygons, and other spatial geometries

Create new shapes from existing elements, generate polygons from points, and simplify complex features.

Advanced functions like Convex Hull, Envelope, and Triangulation offer additional ways to restructure and analyze your data.

Editions: Professional
Polyline tools<span style='font-size: 1rem;'> - <a href='polyline-tools/' class='app_color_link'>More info ></a></span>

Polyline tools

 New in V10

A powerful set of tools for editing and transforming polylines. Whether you need to compound new lines from anothers, reduce complexity using simplification, or create new linear geometries from points, these tools will help your workflow.

Polygon tools<span style='font-size: 1rem;'> - <a href='polygon-tools/' class='app_color_link'>More info ></a></span>

Polygon tools

 New in V10

A set of polygon tools designed to simplify and enhance your spatial editing tasks. Generating polygons from point sets, merging adjacent polygons, or creating polygons from intersecting lines.

Geometry editing tools<span style='font-size: 1rem;'> - <a href='geometry-editing-tools/' class='app_color_link'>More info ></a></span>

Geometry editing tools

 New in V10

A wide range of functions to edit, reshape, and analyze spatial geometries. Tools such as Convex Hull, Envelope, or Triangulation. Additional capabilities like Simplify reduce complexity in shapes or Vertex extraction are available.

frequently asked questions
  • Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and higher
  • 1024 x 768 VGA graphics, or higher
  • 1 GHZ 32-bit or 64-bit processor, or faster
  • 1 GB RAM or more (4GB recommended)
  • 2 GB free disk space, or more
  • Microsoft .NET 4.5 (installer included)
  • Windows Installer 3.1 or later
Spatial files
  • Esri Shape file - (SHP)
  • Google Earth file - (KML, KMZ)
  • OpenStreetMap file - (OSM, PBF, OSC) (1)
  • LiDAR file - (LAS, LAZ)
  • GPS exchange format file - (GPX)
  • Esri ASCII Grid file - (ASC, ASCII) (1)
  • ASCII text file - (ASC, CSV, NEZ, TXT, XYZ, UPT)
  • SQLite file - (SQLITE, DB)
  • GeoPackage file - (GPKG)
  • GML file - (GML, GZ, XML)
  • Autodesk SDF file - (SDF) (3)
  • MicroStation v.7 file - (DGN) (2)
  • AutoCAD DXF file - (DXF) (2)
  • Esri ArcInfo export file (ASCII) - (E00) (1) (2)
  • MapInfo file - (TAB) (2)
  • MapInfo interchange format file - (MIF/MID) (2)
  • GeoJSON file - (GEO.JSON)
  • LandXML file - (XML)

Spatial raster files
  • Variable resolution Raster image file - (Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF/COG TIFF) (1) (4)

Spatial data servers and Geo-databases
  • Esri Geodatabase File - (GDB) (1)
  • PostGIS database
  • Microsoft SQL Server Spatial database
  • MySQL database (1) (3)

Image map servers
  • WMS/OGC API Maps Web Map Services (4)
  • WMTS/OGC API Tiles Web Map Tile Services (4)
  • XYZ/TMS Tile Map Services (4)

Other spatial data sources
  • Open Database Connectivity ODBC (1)
  • WFS/OGC API Features data store (1)

(1) Read-only
(2) OGR data source
(3) FDO provider
(4) Background Maps technology

Note: certain data Providers are only valid for some Editions of the application
  • Spatial Manager applications are updated and released every 3 or 4 months