spatial xl for mining

Product Site: www.SpatialXL.com

September 2011

by PrimeThought Software Solutions

Company site: www.PrimeThought.biz

VERSION 2 : NEW & UPDATED FEATURES

SpatialXL is an add-in to Microsoft Excel 2007/2010

SpatialXL is an add-in to

Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010

which gives Microsoft Excel

full mapping and graphics

capability, including the

ability to link spatial or

graphics elements back to

Excel or to other data

sources such as a database.

Supported Mining Formats

SpatialXL can read and display the following formats:

Shape files

Microstation DGN

AutoCAD DXF

AutoCAD DWG

SQL Server 2005/2008

Access Database

Oracle Spatial

Datamine

CSV

Gemcom Surpac

Excel spreadsheets

Bing

Images (TIFF, JPEG, BMP etc)

Any other OLE DB Source

Oracle Spatial

Any other OGC Compatible Source

Ability to extract geometries from data

such as lines, polygons etc and a query

builder to work with databases.

Save your work by simply saving the spreadsheet.

Displaying Data Formats together Whether you are loading

shape files

simultaneously with data

from a database and

displaying it over Bing,

you can display any

formats simultaneously

with any other formats in

SpatialXL. This example

shows SQL Server

database data together

with Gemcom Surpac,

together with DXF files

together with Shape files.

Thematic Colouring

Whether you are colouring by a text field, numeric range, or even using different images or

charts to display different thematic values, SpatialXL is excellent for hotspot reporting or general

indications of high and low values or types of data.

Borehole de-surveying

• Extract collars as points

• Add surveys

• Extract segments such as

lithologies

• Build surfaces from start

and end points or between

points.

NEW FEATURE

Contour a variable

Contour a variable as if it was a Z axis.

NEW FEATURE

Save to a database

• Save to the OGC Well Known Binary format in SQL Server or SpatialExtender and soon Oracle.

• Save to the OGC Well Known Text format in SQL Server or SpatialExtender and soon Oracle.

• Save to the

Microsoft SQL Server

native geometry format.

• Save to MineDB

(www.MineDB.biz)

geometry plus format.

MineDB allows

three dimensional data

and triangulated surfaces.

NEW FEATURE

Drawing and editing

2D or 3D drawing of points, lines, polygons, and text now in SpatialXL.

Also editing of surfaces now available with ability to delete facets or vertices or flip surfaces.

NEW FEATURE

Build walls and dumps NEW FEATURE

Input transforms

Input transformations such as scales, rotations,

shifts and even survey to Cartesian, will do an

on-the-fly transformation of your source data.

You can set up your own as well.

NEW FEATURE

Linking data between different data sources

Link spatial data to non-spatial

data in a spread sheet,

database or file by using a

particular column or columns

as the linking column.

You can aggregate, colour etc

by linked data and also find

data based on the linked

fields. You can even save

linked data back to the original

geometry data type, as long as

that type allows the additional

data.

Volume, Length and Area measurement

Volume, Length and area measurements are part of a simple data grid which you can paste into

Excel very simply. Measurements are done in accurate lengths no matter what the current

projection is with a measuring tool.

Drawing and Annotation

You can draw and annotate inside your spreadsheet and can also edit geometries if the right

settings are activated. Here is an example of adding a simple annotation layer.

Map Bookmarks

You can go back to previous view by simply saving a map bookmark, or multiple bookmarks in

your spreadsheet. When you send the spreadsheet to someone else, they can also view your

bookmarks and notes in Excel to see the map as you saw it.

Saving to original or other formats

You can edit and save

geometries and other

data in SpatialXL. You

can save a DXF file as a

shape file, or database

data to shape files for

instance. You can also

add columns to the data

with calculated fields

and save that back to

the original formats or

into a different format, as

long as the format allows

such data.

Using projections

All projections of the

Open Geospatial

Consortium are

included. You can

also specify your

own projection and

validate that.

Projection can also

be done on the fly,

converting layer

projections to the

scene projection.

Image handling

Images (TIFF, BMP, JPEG and others) can be placed using the World Coordinates accompanying

the image, even the transparency can be set for the image!

Original Colouring and CAD Text

For DGN and DWG files for instance, there is an original colouring in Microstation that SpatialXL

follows as much as

is possible.

You can still change the

colours by using thematics

etc, but when the changes

are removed, the geometries

will go back to the original

colouring.

Instead of only doing labels

based on attributes,

SpatialXL can also draw 2D and 3D text and place these as geometries.

Layer operations

Creating new layers with buffering data or selected data can also be done in SpatialXL. Here is

an example of creating a new layer from selected data.

Surface Building

Surface building from

points or from

selected lines can be

done in SpatialXL.

In this example we

built a surface from

line strings in a

DataMine file.

Contouring

Contouring is also a

feature in SpatialXL.

Sections

SpatialXL supports sections either at single or

regular intervals in any direction.

Section graphs are now available.

UPDATED FEATURE

Cut and Fill

Cut and fill

done with

perimeters and

a breakdown

into levels.

UPDATED FEATURE

Pricing

All pricing is currently under review and will change before end 2011, so please request quotes

or ask for extension on current quotes!

R7 500-00 or USD 990 per license for single user. R7 000-00 or USD 920 per license if 5 or more

licenses are bought in one order. Further discounts on bigger orders are available upon request.

First year maintenance, inclusive of bug fixes, e-mail support, new versions and other upgrades

included in initial purchase price.

Next year maintenance approximately 20% of original purchase price subject to annual

escalation of approximately 10% or CPI.

Training is available upon request.

Basic training costs in South Africa is R2 600-00 per delegate for the two day training course, if

training is held at client premises with user’s own machine. If less than 5 delegates, training will

be a one day training course.

COMING SOON: AN ON-LINE TRAINING COURSE

How to get and install SpatialXL

1. You can access the www.SpatialXL.com site to get to the right section of the main company

site as well.

2. Register or Log in to this website: www.PrimeThought.biz

2. Once logged in, go to the Downloads section and download SpatialXL. Please ensure that

you choose RSA if you are from South Africa for the optimum download speed.

3. Once you downloaded SpatialXL you run SpatialXL.exe (with the right privileges, please see

your IT section if you need assistance with this) and then this will install all prerequisites plus

SpatialXL inside Excel 2007 or 2010.

4. Please make sure that you have either Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010 installed prior to the

SpatialXL installation.

5. You must either purchase SpatialXL at this point or request an evaluation key from

ClientManager@PrimeThought.biz.

6. You then reference the relevant key in the Help/About button inside the SpatialXL ribbon in

Excel.

Thank you!

PrimeThought Software Solutions

Head Office: (046) 624 8654 Johannesburg Office: (011) 275 0172

Technical Support: 083 395 3484 Sales & Client Liaison: 072 049 8091

E-mail: ClientManager@PrimeThought.biz

www.PrimeThought.biz

www.SpatialXL.com