Useful (and free) data for Toucan Navigate

Our main objective with Toucan Navigate is to help people create meaningful maps very quickly. If you're looking for readily-available datasets, try these two web sites. Both provide useful and free data that can be downloaded and displayed in Toucan Navigate. Once downloaded, with just a few mouse clicks you can start viewing them over the roads maps and satellite imagery from Virtual Earth. You can also edit these datasets to fit your specific needs.

• GPS Data Team. This website has a large selection of POI (Points of Interest) from many countries. The image below shows Wal-Mart stores in the U.S, which were downloaded from their bulk download page. You will need to choose one of the .csv formats available and add a header row (Name, Longitude, Latitude).

• ESRI. ESRI offers free map data from the Census Bureau, which are very useful. You will find water bodies, census tracks and many other GIS files compatible with Toucan Navigate. ESRI also provides a simple way to download World Baseline Data in .shp format.

Download Toucan Navigate and start mapping your data now.

Free stuff: Toucan FileFinder for Groove

Not only free, but useful too! We've created a small utility program to help you find files in Groove files tools.

Download Now

Watch the tutorial video - Many thanks to Viral Tarpara at Microsoft for the tip-off about Jing!

Toucan Navigate 3.0.3 now available

The new release of Toucan Navigate 2007 is up. This release has some significant improvements to the Virtual Earth tile renderer, making for cleaner maps. We've also tidied up the UI and fixed a lot of bugs. You can download it from here

Toucan Navigate 2007 WebCast

October 18th, we're running a webcast in association with the Microsoft Virtual Earth team. We'll be talking about how Toucan Navigate 2007 integrates with Virtual Earth to make it easy to assemble maps from data in Excel spreadsheets, Groove Forms and SQL Server. We'll also be highlighting the options that using a web/desktop hybrid application offers over straight web applications.

If your work has a geographic element, and you need to work in a team with people who may be in different offices, or no office at all, or even different companies, then we believe we've got something interesting to offer.

Sign up here: Virtual Earth and Toucan Navigate for Offline Mapping & Collaboration

Bambuco Desktop 1.3 download ready

Bambuco Desktop is now available for download and to buy. This version incorporates the MapPoint address lookup engine directly and has a licensing application bundled with it. This version will run for for sixty days before requiring you to buy a full license, and each day is limited to twenty successful script runs.

You can find out more about Bambuco here, or visit the support forum here.

Support Forums address changes

I've wanted to update our support forums for a while now - mainly to make it easier to find things, to make them accessible via an RSS reader and to reduce the burden of spam administration that the old forums required. To that end, I've created a new set of support forums and set them to be the default destinations for support from the product pages. For now, they are at this address: http://infopatternslicensing.com/forums/. Once I'm happy that they're working as desired, I'll remove the old forums and redirect the existing web links to point to the new ones.

GPSTray updated

We're releasing updates and full versions of all our software this month, and first off the block is GPSTray. This application connects to your GPS and lets you use a Bambuco script to send your GPS location to Groove, SQL Server or to anywhere else.

If you've bought Toucan Navigate, contact us and we'll send you a copy of the update.