New Delhi: The National Informatics Centre has released version 2.0 of state-of-the-art Geographic Information System (GIS) Software called GISNIC.
The Software is capable of permeating spatial thinking into the natural thought process at all levels, and can also make attribute data, such as socio-economic, geographic, natural resources etc. on a common base.
The Software in its current form is designed to provide the User with a set of tools for retrieval, transformation and analysis of both spatial and non-spatial data. Thus enabling the User to manipulate and manage co-ordinate (locational) and attribute (thematic) data.
The features of the Software include:
- transform co-ordinates between two projections.
- capable of changing coordinates using transform.
- capable of performing geographic analysis such as Union, Intersection, Clip etc.
- powerful scripting language for customization.
- library of spatial databases, national, state and district boundaries, tallukas, towns etc.