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MFworks Tutorial – 01 MFworks

Posted on 2007-11-12 by

Revised on: 2015-10-02

These pages will explain how to do network analysis in raster GIS using MFworks as an example software. MFworks has evolved from MAPFactory, originally designed by C. Dana Tomlin, the father of map algebra. This is unmistakably seen in MFworks command procedures and scripting language. MFworks is thus the ideal companion for teaching and learning Tomlin’s principles of map algebra. MFWorks was featured in a very positive review in the June 2000 edition of GeoEurope as the only raster GIS truly capable of network analysis. I decided to put that statment to the test.

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Conducting network analysis in MFworks comprises iterative steps that lead to a functioning network. These steps will convert map layers with square cells into linear elements that are linked together as lines,

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Tags: browns pond, map algebra, mfworks, tomlin

MFworks Tutorial

Posted on 2001-05-12 by

This tutorial, developed in 2002, is a showcase on network analysis in MFworks, with step by step instructions and a summary of the theory behind it.

How to make a straight line square

Posted on 2000-09-01 by

Traditionally, network analysis, path finding and route planning have been the domain of graph theory and vector GIS, which is where most algorithms find their application. Contrary to such common wisdom, the research of this thesis for the Msc in GIS explores the topic of network analysis in raster GIS, using MFworks as example software.

Book Review: This is where raster GIS started…

Posted on 2000-03-19 by

Tomlin is a must to any academic student of GIS, since much or nearly all work on raster GIS springs off from Tomlin’s work….well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Tomlin sparked the scientific interest in it.