GIS Module

• Standard GIS functionality (Zoom, Pan, Save/store projects, labelling and classification/description of objects).
• Load and display any number of map layers in many different formats:

vector formats such as ArcView shape files, ArcInfo coverages, DXF, Dwg, Dgn, MIF;
image formats: Tif, ArcInfo-Grid, Gif, Jpg, MrSID.

• Graphic choice of area of interest for spatial queries and analyses.
• On the fly projection of sites into the spatial reference system of visible layers.
• Because BioOffice uses the ESRI projection engine, a vast number of universally used cartographic projections and spatial reference systems are available.
• Creation of distribution maps, grid based maps, line maps and spatial frequency maps via mouse click. Distribution maps for species, taxonomic entities or freely definable queries made easy.
• Export of query results into ESRI shapefile format.
• Import of information from geographic layers in data base attributes (e.g. for each site the geological unit can be determined on a map and transferred into data base fields).
• “Point-in-polygon” functions and spatial frequency maps as well a calculation of the number of objects in each polygon of a layer.
• Import of site coordinates from ESRI shapefiles.
• Coordinate import from Garmin GPS devices.