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Middle East map viewer and geographic feature finder for Arabic and non-Arabic speakers.
Based on a tip, an intelligence analyst seeks a place that sounds like ‘sama’ or ‘samwa.’” Typing “sama” into the Basis Technology GeoScope® returns four possible matches and their locations on a map of Iraq. One of the four is in an area of interest. A few more clicks centers the map on the town and brings up additional area information.
GeoScope is a high-performance, interactive utility designed to support the work of geospatial intelligence in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East.
In addition to features present in conventional map viewers, GeoScope’s patent-pending phonic search technology locates cities, towns and geographic features from names entered in Arabic script or in “approximate English.”
GeoScope comes with a sample collection of high-resolution maps in which geographic features are captioned in Arabic script. Its database (gazetteer) of major geographic features in Iraq renders names authoritatively in Arabic script.
Features
- Zoom in on locations by typing approximate phonetic spelling of place names.
- Click anywhere on the high-resolution GeoScope map — up to 100 megapixels — to get longitude and latitude coordinates of any point
- Go to any longitude and latitude to see identified geographic features.
- Loaded with extensive linguistic knowledge of Arabic- and Farsi (Persian)-naming conventions for geographic features.
- Display geographic data as vocalized Arabic script, unvocalized Arabic script, or Romanized in the Board of Geographic Names (BGN) or draft Intelligence Community (IC) transliteration standards.
- Import user-scanned maps into GeoScope. Orient GeoScope on any map simply by pointing and clicking on latitude/longitude intersection points.
- Encrypt a map to protect intellectual property rights
- System requirements: Windows XP
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