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Track: New Technology and Technology Integration
Cheryl Mauer
MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98109
Telephone: 206-283-8802 x294
Fax: 206-283-6310
E-mail: cmauer@statsci.com
Shuming Bao
A Complement to ArcView in Spatial Data Analysis and Presentation: An Integration of Axum with ArcView
Defining Issue: This paper provides an introduction to the analysis of spatial data with ArcView and Axum. Axum, an object-oriented software product from MathSoft, is a powerful technical graphics and data analysis package for Windows. GIS Solution: Axum is designed for scientists, engineers, and anyone else who needs to create publication-quality technical graphs and perform sophisticated data analysis. Axum combines the ease of use of the best-selling PC business graphics packages with powerful features such as eighty two-dimensional and three-dimensional technical plot types, 3-D contour plotting, linear and nonlinear curve fitting, and data analysis capabilities. With an interface developed for ArcView and Axum, the analytical functions and graphics capabilities in Axum are integrated with spatial visual techniques in ArcView. This paper will show how the two packages complement each other to provide an efficient approach for analyzing spatial data sets. Methodology: The conversation between Axum and
ArcView is established through an S+API linkage. The user can launch or close an Axum session from ArcView. Users can export selected records and variables from ArcView to an Axum datasheet. Users can also access an Axum datasheet directly from ArcView such as plotting a map with residual or fitted value using data from Axum in ArcView, adding a table from an Axum datasheet, or adding an event theme from an Axum datasheet. Software: The application was written using Avenue.
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