Golden Software's Didger 5 features advanced geo-referencing, digitising and co-ordinate conversion features suitable for any map maker, cartographer, oil and gas professional, geologist, or GIS analyst.
Didger solves the problem of combining data in numerous file formats and different coordinate systems, by providing extensive tools to transform GIS data on-the-fly into one cohesive co-ordinate system. It can precisely convert paper maps, graphs, aerial photographs, well logs, or any other plotted information into a versatile digital format that can be used with other mapping and engineering applications. Didger can create new maps from the ground up or edit existing maps, drawings, images, or data sets imported into it.
Didger 5 can now download online maps through WMS connectivity. This feature allows the user to create stunning base maps for their projects by downloading image layers from countless online web mapping servers (WMS). Didger now connects to online data sources, allows the user to pick the layers desired for download, and seamlessly integrates the images into existing projects.
Didger’s user interface has been totally redesigned to make it even easier and faster to use. Changes in properties can be seen immediately on the screen after they are made, the user can change the visibility of individual objects with the click of a button, and the enhanced Layer Manager allows all options to be quickly accessible. The user can customise the toolbars and menus, and choose from three different application appearances. The coordinate and projection system are now displayed in the status bar, so the user will quickly and always known what system they are digitizing in.
Didger has significantly extended its list of support file formats. Among many new file types, Didger 5 now imports and exports PDF and GeoPDF files, imports XSLX and XLSM files, exports SVG files, and exports to KML and KMZ files so the user can display projects in Google Earth.
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