Media Coverage
Press Releases
Professional Surveyor Magazine September 2004
PrimaCode Launches Transform for Windows
PrimaCode Technologies announces the release of Transform for Windows, a
product designed specifically to help land surveyors analyze and reproduce
prior surveys in a fraction of the time ordinarily necessary. To do this,
Transform uses a concurrent processing schema to perform least-squares
solutions on-the-fly. Transform generates a new solution and refreshes all
the associated display values every time the user modifies the relationship
of the coordinate systems being compared. This allows the user to quickly
determine which set of conditions will minimize the errors associated with
the monuments found on the ground and to identify which monuments are no
longer in their original and undisturbed locations. Transform also displays
a modified error ellipse or error radius for each transformed point and a
precision value for each transformation parameter, both of which have their
values tied to one of the four common statistical confidence levels (68%,
90%, 95%, 99%). The supplied error radii can be used to test for compliance
with positional tolerances and to check for blunders in classical
computations while the parameter precisions can be used to determine how
tight or loose the overall solution is. Most important, the final work
product is more defensible because the process of evaluating evidence is
more objective and the locations of lost and missing corners are the most
statistically probable locations. To see the many other features Transform
has to offer, visit www.primacode.com.
Point of Beginning Magazine August 2004
PrimaCode Technologies announced the release of Transform for Windows, a
product designed specifically to help land surveyors analyze and reproduce
prior surveys in a fraction of the time ordinarily necessary. To do this,
Transform uses a concurrent processing schema to perform least-squares
solutions on-the-fly. Transform generates a new solution and refreshes all
the associated display values every time the user modifies the relationship
of the coordinate systems being compared. This allows the user to quickly
determine which set of conditions will minimize the errors associated with
the monuments found on the ground and to identify which monuments are no
longer in their original and undisturbed locations.
Transform also displays a modified error ellipse or error radius for each
transformed point and a precision value for each transformation parameter,
both of which have their values tied to one of the four common statistical
confidence levels (68%, 90%, 95%, 99%). The supplied error radii can be used
to test for compliance with positional tolerances and to check for blunders
in classical computations while the parameter precisions can be used to
determine how tight or loose the overall solution is. Most important, the
final work product is more defensible because the process of evaluating
evidence is more objective and the locations of lost and missing corners are
the most statistically probable locations.
Magazine Reviews
American Surveyor Magazine Software Review - July/August Issue
Professional Surveyor Magazine Software Review - October 2004 Issue
Announcements
Calibrate made available to all free of charge
July 5, 2008 -- PrimaCode's Calibrate for Windows has
been converted to freeware. Now anyone can download and use the product free
of charge. As part of the conversion, the product also was changed to
support the International Foot, which had been requested by some users.
PrimaCode understands that this little utility program is not a must-have
item for most land surveyors, since electronic measuring devices only get
tested a few times a year and when they are, it isn't done using a
mathematical algorithm (e.g. Least Squares) capable of producing statistical
data on how the instrument is working and how to adjust it. Therefore,
PrimaCode has decided to put aside its plan to someday market this product
in favor of providing it free of charge.
Transform Gets Major Upgrade
July 26, 2010 -- PrimaCode releases a major upgrade to
Transform for Windows, its flagship product used to best-fit two and merge
two coordinates systems. This update incorporate a number of user
suggestions as well as cleaning up areas of concern identified through
technical support sessions with users.
Transform is a least-squares two dimensional conformal coordinate
transformation program designed specifically for use by land surveyors and
other measuring professionals. It provides an extremely intuitive and fast
means of best fitting any prior survey (such as highway layouts, subdivision
plans, deed plots, etc.) to a fixed coordinate system such as those
established by recent field surveys. Transform is also an extremely powerful
analytical tool for evaluating the monuments and measurements used to
describe a prior survey.
By allowing you to define the parameters of a transformation dynamically,
Transform is able to report analysis information concurrently with each user
input. As a result, you can instantly simulate any number of transformations
and view real-time statistics on associated matters such as positional
tolerance, meridian precision, unit length precision, blunder detection,
without getting bogged down in the setup and processing associated with such
solutions.
Given the fact that the identification and analysis of evidence is what
separates a professional land surveyor from a non-professional, Transform
provides you with tools that will help you become a better professional and
produce a more professional product. Transform does this by providing a
superior means of prospecting for lost or missing boundary markers, of
analyzing the reliability of the monuments found, to predict the precision
of relocated points, to reproduce the most probable meridian of a prior
survey and to correct for differences in unit length for prior surveys, just
to mention a few.
Transform also allows you to define any number of individual coordinate
systems in a single project, all of which can be transformed. The original
coordinates for each system are preserved and can be accessed at any time,
even after the system has been transformed. Of course, the transformed
coordinates are also always available. Moreover, you can add new points to
any coordinate system before or after coordinates are transformed and using
either the original or transformed coordinate values.
Transform was designed and optimized for use with the Windows XP family of
operating systems. As a Windows program, it presents the user with an
extremely intuitive graphical-user-interface which reduces training time for
experiences Windows users. Transform has also been thoroughly tested for use
on other popular Windows operating systems.
For more information, see the product page for
Transform for Windows.
