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Cave Survey Software

COMPASS Cave Survey Software is a complete system for mapping and visualizing underground cave systems. It is used by explorers, cartographers and even national park systems around the world.

For more information, please go to:

COMPASS Home Page.

Freeware Software Tools

Topo Grabber. TopoGrabber allows you to download from the internet any USGS topographic map free of charge. The maps can be any resolution including 30, 15 and 7.5 minute quadrangles. The maps can be any size, including huge maps that cover dozens of regular topographic quadrangles. The maps can be printed on single sheets of paper or on multiple sheets that can be taped together to create very large maps.

Windows Image Tracker. Windows Image Tracker (WIT) allows you to track any image on the internet over time. If the images are comes from web cam or any other source that changes over time, the images can be combined to create animations that show how the images. This is ideal for tracking weather radar, web cams, satellite images, seismograph data and many other things. The animations can be saved and play later, creating a permanent record of events. The are even tools for enhancing and editing images.

Terrain Modeling. Estierra is a complete terrain modeling software system. It converts Digital Elevation Model files into photo-realistic 3D terrain that can be viewed and manipulated in real-time. The terrain models can be overlaid with aerial photographs to give photo-realistic views of the land surface. They can also be overlaid with topographic maps to allow precise location of land marks and terrain features. This is similar to Google Earth, but the terrain models are higher resolution and narrowly focused on small areas.

Car-Buy-Rater. Car-Buy-Rater is a program for evaluating a used cars before you buy. It works by calculating the amount of useful life left in a vehicle and how much it costs per unit. That gives you a precise estimate of the value of the car and makes it easy to see which cars are the best value. Car-Buy-Rater can save you thousand of dollars on your next used car purchase by getting you the best deal. The program doesn't require "Blue Book" values, so it will work old cars as well as new ones.

Xedit. Xedit is an editor specifically designed for writing programs, but it’s also useful for writing any kind of text. Xedit is not a word processor and it does not have fancy word processing features. Instead, it concentrates on being fast, powerful and efficient. It makes an ideal replacement for Notepad.

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