MiraMon Desktop


It's the desktop application and the most powerful of them all allowing basic functionalities such as visualization, edition, query and print, exchanging formats through GDAL, but also many powerful applications in geometry and geodetic mapping, spatial analysis, remote sensing tools, and fully metadata documentation. It's a 32 and 64 bit application that can be executed on all Windows platforms, from version 95 to W11, developed entirely in ANSI C language.

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Formats

Raster

MiraMon native raster format (IMG) include bit, byte, integer, real, long, extracompressed or plain files, as well as RGB combinations of any of them. Together with IMG, it also considers BMP, JPEG, MrSID and JPEG2000 as native files with automatic metadata documentation.

MiraMon can work with any other raster format through GDAL libraries.

Vector

MiraMon native vector formats are topologically structured which means faster accessibility, connection to complex databases (DBF-native and any other through ODBC), accurate analysis, rich topological relationships (interconnected polygon groups, holes within polygons, juxtaposition of elements, etc.). MiraMon native vector formats are: PNT, ARC, NOD, POL and VEC (the simplest one, without topology). Together with those, you can directly use SHP, DXF, DGN, GPX and KML as native files, allowing 3D, multi-Z for each coordinate and automatic metadata documentation.

MiraMon can work with any other vector format through GDAL libraries.

Databases

Native format for databases is DBF, not limited in the number of fields, nor in the length of the text fields, nor in the characters to write the field names. MiraMon incorporates its own tool for managing and edit DBF tables: MiraDades (see more information)

It also reads and imports ESRI ArcSDE geodatabases (to MiraMon topologically structured vector files) preserving the Z for each coordinate, the attributes, the relational databases, etc.


Basic functionalities

Visualization

Complete visualization and simbolization of raster, vector and a combination of both, as well as with requests from OGC Layers (WMS, WMTS, WFS and WCS). It also allows 3D visualization perspectives.

Query

Perform queries by location (what's in here? what's this?) and by attributes (where is such thing? How many items meet these criteria?) on raster and vector layers, retrieving information directly from DBF or from a relational database through ODBC on MS-Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, etc. Any field of the database can be linked to an unlimited number of physical tables, views, or SQL queries. WMS layers can also be interrogated by location.

Any statistical summaries can be obtained from a query by attributes. You can choose interactively with the mouse clicking, transects, circles, polygons, etc., and combine these selections with queries by attributes to obtain new statistics. The selected objects in a query can be exported generating new specific raster or vector layers or can be used as new selector items against another layer.

Digitizing and topology

On-screen digitizing over raster, vector, OGC geoservers, etc. Generate new layers of points, arcs and polygons. Graphic objects from other layers can be copied directly (with or without their attributes) in the layer being digitized.

MiraMon has several editing vector tools for connecting vertices and segments (SNAP), partition, union, and elimination or displacement of vertices, and the possibility of changing the attributes with a simple click or dragging attributes from the legend.

It permits construction of a real topology on points, arcs and polygons layers that are saved as structured binary vector. While other software force the user to stop scanning whenever an intersection of lines is produced, MiraMon calculates these intersections on the fly and creates new nodes if necessary. It also allows, if desired, dynamic topological structure digitizing! Unrivaled for teaching and for generating rigorous layers, without errors, with greater ease than in any other program.

Different polygon limits in multiple layers can be defined in a single layer of arcs, drastically reducing the space in disk and contributing to the consistency of the database.

It has also advanced topology tools allowing the possibility of using tolerances: micropolygons elimination, shorten or lengthen arcs, pseudogeneralization of lines, removal of end nodes and arcs, etc.

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Metadata Management

Incorporates an important tool to completely document our layers. The Universal Metadata Manager, GeM+ (see more information), allows us to generate, edit and save metadata and relationships with other databases of a layer or, even, a cartographic series. The GeM+ follows the INSPIRE Directive and complies with the standards (ISO 19115, FGDC, etc.) so that it is possible to export in HTML or XML format (IDEC, ISO 19139). Unlike other simply documentary applications, GeM+ controls consistency, verifying the consistency of the data.

GPS

Data from the GPS receiver can be acquired in two major ways: in real time, acquiring, visualizing track and showing various parameters of the acquisition, or later connecting the GPS receiver to the computer.

Browse in real time with the GPS connected to the computer, allows to be located on maps in an opened session of MiraMon and draw a phenomenon while on the terrain. The other option allows loading and unloading items in the case of receivers such as Garmin GPS.

Print

High-quality maps of any size (A0, A1, etc) can be created interactively and easily while maintaining total and strict control of the map view (scale, extension, etc). Finished maps can be printed on paper, on Enhanced Metafiles (EMF), Windows Metafiles (WMF), high-resolution bitmaps (BMP, JPEG) or can be copied to the windows clipboard as an EMF or WMF formats so that maps can be added to a report. Once they are on the clipboard, they can be pasted perfectly into other applications (maintaining the original scale, colors and quality of the vectors and rasters). Once a map has been composed, it can be enlarged or reduced to fit any paper size.

Using the printing assistant, it is possible to quickly create maps with all the most common elements (graphic and numerical scale, north arrow, legend, date and time, etc). You can increase productivity if you have templates created in your own style. With advanced printing parameters and selecting personalized paper sizes for your computer, it is possible to create large wallmaps.


Advanced capabilities

Most of these tools work simultaneously with raster, vector and tabular data and ALL of them thoroughly care NODATA values.

Cartographic geometry and geodesy

Support and carry out conversions (of single coordinates or whole layers) between the most common cartographic projections, as well as datum transformations (Molodensky and Bursa-Wolf). It can also visualize the Cartesian coordinates of the projection (UTM X, Y, etc) and/or latitude/longitude coordinates, reference networks and tics. It is possible to personalize new projections and the most accurate geodesic aspects are respected thanks to its complete model.

Satellite images and aerial photographs can be converted into orthophotomaps using Digital Elevation Models and accurate algorithms by means of an easy-to-use interface. The resulting orthoimages displayed have a high degree of coincidence among themselves and with other graphic layers. It is ideal for time series studies based on old or recent aerial photographs or on satellite images. These algorithms are also used to geometrically correct digital maps scanned from paper originals.

Analytical tools

More than 100 tools, among them:

Remote sensing

Remote sensing is present in MiraMon since its beginning thus having dedicated tools: