Welcome to MineCap

This product is made to interactively digitize information on a map and produce vector data. It is assumed that the map has already been scanned. The image must be a TIFF file and may be in color, grey scale or binary. The image serves as a background image for the interactive digitizing.

MineCap is a general digitizing tool that is configurable. The user can define the topics and attributes to be digitized. The topics can be generalized into point objects (trig points), curve objects (roads), region objects (lakes). A special topics is text objects. To a topic there may be a set of attributes, also known as associated information to an object. The user can interactively add attribute values. Both the digitized vector objects and their associated attributes will be exported to standard formats know by GIS systems.

What can you do with MineCap

With MineCap you can digitize objects on top of a scanned raster image. The raster image can be a TIFF file in color, grey scale or binary. The TIFF file may be georeferenced or not. To georeference a scanned map, Geofoto Scandinavia offers the product GeoRef for this purpose. If it is not georeferenced, the exported coordinates will be in raster units, otherwise the supplied transformation file (TFW) will be used to produce world coordinates.

A key feature of MineCap is that it is configurable. By this we mean that the topics and associated attributes can be defined by the user. No programming is required. Example of topics are roads, rivers, museums, trigonometric points, properties, lakes, etc. To a topic a defined set of attributes can be associated. The attributes can be text or numbers. The user can supply values to the attributes interactively. An examples of a topic with associated information can be a property with the attributes owner, property id, property address, etc.

There are generally different types of topics: points (trigonometric point), curves (roads), regions (lakes) and texts. An attribute can also be of different types like text string, integer number, real number, lists and boolean. Topics can be defined in a hierarchical structure. This can be a useful way to organize the different topics when there are many of them. An example is if there are many types of roads. The topic road can have sub topics like local road, high way, private road, etc.

Another feature of MineCap is that the graphically appearance of digitized objects can be configured. User defined bitmaps and vector graphics can be used for point objects. Different colors and line styles are available for curve objects and the fill pattern and color can be defined for regions. The fill pattern can be any user defined bitmap image.

MineCap can handle multiple georeferenced TIFF files and load these together. Digitized information will be captured with world coordinates and exported as one connected object independent of map sheet borders. The export format supported is MID/MIF format.