Comments on: Manifold GIS Systems: Software Review https://gisgeography.com/manifold-gis-systems/ Geographic Information Systems Sun, 03 Aug 2025 12:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: GISGeography https://gisgeography.com/manifold-gis-systems/#comment-241789 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 11:37:19 +0000 https://gisgeography.com/?p=21792#comment-241789 In reply to Dionne Chad Inocian.

The cost is $95 for a fully-paid license, and not just a lease or subscription.

]]> By: Dionne Chad Inocian https://gisgeography.com/manifold-gis-systems/#comment-241765 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 01:58:13 +0000 https://gisgeography.com/?p=21792#comment-241765 How much does this cost?

]]> By: John Sperr https://gisgeography.com/manifold-gis-systems/#comment-146448 Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:23:31 +0000 https://gisgeography.com/?p=21792#comment-146448 Manifold 9 is a single desktop application. There are no separate stand-alone object library or Internet Map Server programs. If your time is worth anything to you, you will recover the $95 purchase price on the first day of the first job you use it for. It is wickedly fast and has never crashed on me. Download it, unzip it, and run it — all in under 5 minutes. It is a perpetual license — periodic upgrades are free and there are no annual maintenance costs. Development is ongoing with stable, thoroughly tested, cutting edge builds issued every few weeks. Manifold Viewer is a read only version of Manifold 9. In my office I work with 16 technicians and 10 engineers. I can develop an application on my paid copy that the rest of the office can use with Viewer. Viewer opens, pans, queries, analyzes and does everything else using the same power and speed of the Manifold parallel gpu and cpu dispatch engines as my licensed copy. If you are a programmer or developer, you can take advantage of the powerful .NET interface and scripting to build sophisticated applications that extend the capabilities with the built in SQL, C#, and V8 engines. If your needs are less demanding, the clean and intuitive interface will get you smart results quickly without endless button pushing, form filling, or searching help. Watch it contour a 14 GB grid file in 11 seconds. Visit the forum where very technically savvy people reach out and help others and post novel ideas for using the software or SQL code for tricky problems. Try it for a week using some of the demo projects and add it to your toolbox.

]]> By: Hugo https://gisgeography.com/manifold-gis-systems/#comment-125666 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 03:09:42 +0000 https://gisgeography.com/?p=21792#comment-125666 It’s one of the most stable and reliable GIS software available right now. I’ve been using it for 15 years as my main GIS system, since version 5, and it covers a great amount of vector and raster analysis. With every new built, manifold 9 is becoming at least as complete as version 8. The stability and speed of a pure parallel architecture simply have no match in any other GIS suite available. The useful help manual, the videos in the YouTube channel and the info shared in the official forum contribute for an easy start. The reduced price (a bargain!) just makes manifold yet more appealing.

]]> By: Elio Spinello https://gisgeography.com/manifold-gis-systems/#comment-99893 Sat, 20 Jun 2020 19:34:17 +0000 https://gisgeography.com/?p=21792#comment-99893 The Manifold viewer is the full-featured Manifold GIS Version 9 program but without the ability to save a project file. Evaluating the program can be done using the free “viewer”. Unfortunately, calling it a “viewer” makes it sound more like a simple, limited function program, which it is not

]]> By: Lionel https://gisgeography.com/manifold-gis-systems/#comment-76317 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:07:19 +0000 https://gisgeography.com/?p=21792#comment-76317 Not fair: Manifold’s last version can be tested with the Manifold viewer.. so you have full functionnalities but with no save mode.

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