>Please forgive my ignorance, but
>
>    Is Axwoman the PC version of Axman?
>    Is it now available? - I'd heard it was still in development..

To clear up for you and the rest of the mail base.  There are to my
limited knowledge
6 different PC versions of Axman and only one Mac version of the real Axman.

Axwoman is  I belive a extension for ArcView. Which should in theory
work on anything which
runs Arview ( PCs/Unix/Mac ). I've been told is has problems running
systems more than
256 lines. This is not a fault of the excellent programming but I
belive a limitation of the
underling Avenue scripting language.

Axman still only works on a Mac.  It does have all the facilities -
omnimode selection
scattergrams, all the standard syntactical measures, the expresso
calculator, guards for
the non creation of lines, unlinking,bridges and has been used for
very large systems. It's
been the back bone of the Space Syntax Lab/Ltd Consultancy work for
the last 15 years.

SSL also now use Ovation this is a stand alone program which can take
in GIS data and processes
it with jaw dropping speed. Ovation is a commercial program written
by me for exclusive
use by SSL which  I know is being used by a number of licensees  world wide.

Menada does syntactic analysis plus the new fractional analysis  is a
little hard to use for non computer users it assumes you have access
to either Axman or a GIS system to prepare the lines.  You
can draw in Meanda but I would not like to use it for heavy editing.
Meanda does work
on a PC and/or a Mac. for the latest version check out
http://www.ovinity.co.uk/GIS/
I've moved it there after being annoyed at the various academic
websites which tend to
'fade'  meanda from view.  The latest version has a simple DXF
version 13 importer so you could
in theory use any program which exports DXF.  It's free.

Georgia Tech have Spacialist - which is an extension for Microstation
which among
other things processes Axial Maps.  I'm not sure what the situation
about licensing is for
this contact John Peponis about this.

I belive there is a PC extension to Autocad.  Altough I have never used it and
can't find a suitable reference to the authors. ( perhaps they should
contact the
mail base).

There is the excellent AxWoman2.0 this is a Java based application so
should work on
any computer.  ( wonderful software but it is not confusingly an extension of
ArcView ).

I am hopeing soon to release WebMap. This is inspired by AxWoman2.0
but solves the
can't save in Java problem by having a central server ( rather like the way you
read mail on hotmail ).  Webmap should work on anything which can run Java 1.1
( ie Any Mac,PC or Sun + many more)

WebMap should hopefully replace Axman for the next 15 years
of research. This should include all the measures, new fractional
measures, omni-mode
selection scrattergrams, unlinking, a expressor replacement
calculator, unlimited
background pictures, better zooming.

it has be extended in
a number of new ways - observation layers( keeping your observation counts and
your axial maps together allowing you to change axial maps without
having to tediously
reapply the observations).
New superlinks replacing the old bridges and permit people to include
a tube/rail/bus
systems into syntatic pedestrian models. Unlimited numbers of columns
which will
be used by a new form of remote processing. This should permit
students and researchers
to have the latest access to new and novel forms of measures. For
example choice,
multi-radi intergration.

Importing and processing GIS/DXF/Axman information. Export of PDF format
documents for printing.

Finally webmap will hold a web based 'urban gallery'  this will
permit a researcher
to compare maps to others held in the database. While this is still a
research issue
it is hoped the outcome will be the ability to compare your urban map
with others
and see your city in relation to a database of cities world wide.

Webmap will be hosted by the Bartlett but will be freely available
over the web. One
of the exciting things is webmap solves the I would like to teach
with Axman but the
'computer people won't let me install software on their machines problem'. Now
any machine with a copy of Netscape or Explorer can have access. Some one has
even logged on with a web enabled mobile phone !

I'll make an announcement  when Webmap is ready. As you can imagine there
are a number of problems testing software which can be accessed from such
a wide variety of machines.

I feel webmap will be a suitable replacement as the 'PC version of Axman'.


sheep



>Dellé Odeleye
>Principal Planner (policy)
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>Minezaki
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><SPACESYNTAX
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>                     01/03/2002
>03:48
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>to
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>"spacesyntax@jiscm
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>Dear All,
>
>Since I don't have ability to write macros for ArcGIS 8.1, I am wondering
>if ArcGIS 8.1 extension (Spatial Analyst) has same analytical function as
>Axwoman for ArcView 3.x.  Or is there any way to convert ArcScript/Axwoman
>into ArcGIS8.1 macro?  Or should I stay with ArcView 3.x for space syntax
>analysis?  I appreciate your suggestions.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Wataru Minezaki
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