We talked about Dapple from Geosoft in an earlier blog post, but we failed to also mention that you can actually download an ArcGIS plug-in of the viewer. These software plug-ins enable you to use ArcGIS to view Geosoft file formats and download geoscience data from a DAP server (from within ArcGIS). The files are free to download and distribute.

Download from here

Says Geosoft:

"The Geosoft Plug-in for ArcGIS is an extension to the ArcGIS desktop software that provides data retrieval using DAP and also support for reading Geosoft file formats. The plug-in enables users to view Geosoft grid files as a raster layer inside ArcMap. The plug-in also enables users to view Geosoft Maps as layers.

The Geosoft plug-ins now use Dapple, a globe explorer, to find, view, and extract data from a variety of data servers. You can use internal servers as well as public servers including DAP servers, WMS servers, ArcIMS servers, and Tile Servers.

Along with enhanced Area-of-Interest searches using the globe, new capabilities include a WEB spatial data search engine for locating available public data, and a text search to narrow searches to topics of interest."

After installing the plug-in I searched for, and downloaded a TMI grid for South Australia in no time at all...Pretty handy.

Labels: Data, Geosoft