Significant product features:

• Supports the leading GIS, CAD, and pixel formats: SHP, E00, MIF/MID, TAB, DXF, DGN, TIGER, GML, KML, VPF, GDF, SDTS, DLG, GPX, TIFF/ GeoTIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, BMP, BIL/SPOT, ECW, MrSID, IMG, CADRG, PixelStore v. 2, and DTM formats (ASCII GRID, FLOAT GRID, BT, DTED, ADF)
• Supports SQL-based vector layers: OPENGIS® Simple Features for SQL implementation, Geomedia® SQL Server & Access Warehouse, and the TatukGIS binary SQL format.
• Opens most ESRI ArcView®, ArcExplorer®, or MapInfo Professional® projects as well as TatukGIS project files
• A single visual layer/legend/property control for all aspects of the map appearance
• Topological operations, such as buffers, intersections, unions, etc.
• Joining to external SQL databases via ADO/ODBC or DBX
• R-Tree spatial indexing
• Querying based on the geometric relationships between shapes (DE-9IM Model)
• Advanced pixel layer operations, such as histograms equalizations, color coding, layer transparency, etc.
• Thematic mapping, custom rendering, scale control
• Pie and bar charts
• Advanced editing support
• Supports GPS devices, batch import/export to/from GPS devices using the GPX format
• Street address geocoding, address querying, address parsing, reverse geocoding
• Cost based optimal routing
• CGM and TrueType symbols for points and lines; CGM, TrueType, and WMF symbols for fills
• Advanced label placement, overlap avoidance, styles, fonts
• Universal support of language characters (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, etc.)
• Most projections, datums, ellipsoids
• Print, print preview, print to PDF file, print templates
• SHP file encryption feature to protect distributed data
• Help files with Visual Studio .NET Integration
• Free of all Dynamic Library Links and 3rd party libraries, resulting in user applications that are easy to install and uninstall
• VCL based applications compile into a single executable file
• Modern, free of software legacy limitations
• Small footprint and very fast; Efficiently handles very large SHP files (up to 2 Gigabytes!)
• Efficiently handles very large SHP files (up to 2 Gigabytes!)
• Support, upgrades, licensed user forum for first year at no additional charge
• 45 samples provided in VB6, VB.NET, C#, Delphi, C++ Builder