Comments made by R2V users and leading trade journals
"R2V is a terrific program for mapping and
GIS specialists, and would be if it cost twice as much. I like
this program -- a lot." By David Byrnes,
CADLYST contributing editor, CADLYST, Dec. 1999, pp. 55.
"The most GIS-friendly product, R2V supports
and creates geo-referenced TIFF files with ARC/INFO world files.
Direct export of geo-referenced vector files in GIS formats as
well as the more usual AutoCAD DXF. Vectors match raster well.
Attribute labeling is by line ID rather than CAD layer. Many
contour lines can be labeled at once by drawing a line across
them, then specifying start and the contour interval. Good
polygon recognition. Little work needed on vectors brought into
ARC/INFO. It has more image processing functionality than any
other package." By Lee A. Graham, in
Modern-Day Magic, GIS World, July 1997, page 33.
"The original contract was for CDSM (Chief
Directorate of Surveys &
Mapping) in Cape Town South Africa. It was for 363 1:10000 contour
mapsheets and, thanks to the flexibility of the Able Software team in
enabling certain extra batch functions within R2V, we were able to
complete the task 6.5 weeks ahead of schedule. This upped the
credibility of Geograph, which has specialised in GIS data capture and
topology building since 1984, and as such on the 13th December 2004
Geograph was awarded a further 7 contracts requiring them to complete
981 1:10000 sheets before the end of February 2005. Geograph has set up
a project team that should complete this task by the end of January 2005
- which will be 1 month ahead of the required schedule.", Zoltan
Szecsei" <zoltans@geograph.co.za>
"R2V is the fastest and finest automatic
map vectorization software ever", Mr. Paul
Hastings, Director, Environment Information Center, Thailand
Environment Institute.
"R2V is incredibly easy to work with, it
vectorizes extremely quickly at extremely high quality",
Prof. Larry Poos, The Catholic University of America, Washington
DC.
"R2V does what it claims and more. Many
users will find the package to be a useful addition to their
mapping or GIS scheme.", GIS World,
August, 1995
"Able Software's customer support is
excellent.", Mr. Jim MacKay, Office of
Surface Mining Management, US Government
"Excellent product! Just like other
users, I was able to use it in less than 30 minutes. The editing
capabilities are much better than other GIS softwares that I know
of.", Dr. Madya Ruslan Rainis, Universiti
Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA
"R2V is the most advanced raster to vector
conversion program." C. J. Liu, Laboratory
of Geometronics, University of Kentucky.
"We are very happy with R2V and we have
completely changed our digitizing methods from tablet to scanner
and your software, with major productivity gains and high
accuracy. Keep developing it!", Dr. Tom Dargie, Mapping Consultant, United Kingdom
"It's been great to work with R2V software.
Able Software Corp.' after sales service is second to none. I
can't think of another company that has answered every one of my
e-mails with such efficiency." Mr. Trevor
Glass, ISCOR Steel Co., South Africa
"You really have the very best customer service of any software
developer I have EVER seen!", K. Brown, Utah Geological Survey
"Thank you for the quick response. Not
too many companies have the customer care that you guys have, you
should pride yourselves in that." S.D. Turcott, PAGENET, Plano, Texas
"I've only had the software for a few hours, but I can see its
going to speed up our process of nearshore bathymetric modeling by a factor of
about 100.", Dr. Graeme Rae, Surfline
A Partial Worldwide User List
 | A.A.N. (Spain) |
| ABB Power Plant Lab. (CT, USA) |
| Airbus |
| ALPS Mapping Co. (JAPAN) |
| Arcade Conseil (France) |
| Argonne National Lab. (IL, USA) |
| Arizona Geological Survey |
| ARZ Company (Italy) |
| Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) |
| ASI (IN) |
| AD Design Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan) |
| Agricultural Land Reform Office (Thailand) |
| Agricultural Univ. of Norway |
| Air Force (USA) |
| Alabama State Univ. (AL, USA) |
| Amerada Hess Corp. (TX, USA) |
| AMOCO (TX, USA) |
| Anglo Gold (NV, USA) |
| Aquaterra n.v. (Belgium) |
| ARCO International (TX, USA) |
| ArrayComm (CA, USA) |
| ArcGeo Information Systems (Slovakia Republic) |
| Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (Greece) |
| Arexs (Mexico) |
| Army Corps of Enginners (USA) |
| ASAA (Saudi Arabia) |
| ASAP Software Express Inc. (USA) |
| ASEAN Institute of Forest Management (Malaysia) |
| ATS Inc.(TX, USA) |
| Australian Army (Australia) |
| B.D. Machine (PA, USA) |
| Beijing Normal University (Beijing, China) |
| Ben Nederland BV (Netherland) |
| BFGOODRICH (USA) |
| BidAmerica (CA, USA) |
| BKS Survey Ltd. (UK) |
| Borealis Forestry and GIS Services (Canada) |
| Boston College, Dept. of Geology (USA) |
| Bucknell Univ. (PA, USA) |
| Bournemooth Univ. (UK) |
| CAADG Architects and Planning s.r.c (Slovakia Republic) |
| California State Univ. Northridge (USA) |
| CANBRA Telefonica S.A. (Brazil) |
| Cairo Univ. Geology Dept. (Egypt) |
| CATIE (Guatemala) |
| Carter & Burgess, Inc. (TX, USA) |
| Cayuga Community College (NY, USA) |
| Centro de Analises e Sistemas Navais (BRAZIL) |
| Centro Ricerche Fiat (Italy) |
| China Forestry Institute (Beijing, China) |
| Chiang Mai University (Thailand) |
| Chevron (TX, USA) |
| Civil Engineering, Univ. of Florida (USA) |
| City of Cookeville (TN, USA) |
| Clyde Consultants (Malaysia) |
| Center for Development of Advanced Computing (Pune,
India) |
| Center For Earth & Env. Science, SUNY (NY, USA) |
| Central CT State Univ. (CT, USA) |
| Census Mapping Project (NEPAL) |
| City of Ripon (WI, USA) |
| City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) |
| CNR-Geodinanmica Alpine E Quaternaria (Italy) |
| College De France (France) |
| Competitive Solutions Inc. (TX, USA) |
| Conservation International (Washington DC, USA) |
| Continental Hightech Services (France) |
| Cornell University (NY, USA) |
| ComputerLand of Wichita (WA,USA) |
| ComputaMaps (South Africa) |
| Condor Earth Tech. Inc. (CA, USA) |
| Coastal Studies Institute (LA, USA) |
| County of Ulster (NY, USA) |
| Current Software AS (Norway) |
| Cybersoft Inc. (CA, USA) |
| Daimler-Benz Aerospace (GERMANY) |
| Daisy´s REPRO (GERMANY) |
| DEIAGR Univ. of Bologna (Italy) |
| Dept. of Agriculture & Biosys., McGill Univ. (CANADA) |
| Dept. of Envrionement Protection, Commonwelth of
Pennsylvania (PA, USA) |
| DEP, McMurray District Mining Office (PA, USA) |
| Dept. Fish and Game, State of Alaska (USA) |
| DIGEOS (CA, USA) |
| DigiCart - Cartografia e Cons. Ltda (BRAZIL) |
| Dinwiddie Assoc. (CA, USA) |
| Department of Marine Resources, State of Maine (Maine,
USA) |
| The Department of Geography of Cambodia (Cambodia) |
| Dukan Corp. (MA, USA) |
| Duke Power Company (NC, USA) |
| Earth Information Systems Corp. (TX, USA) |
| Eastman Kodak Co. (NY, USA) |
| Ecology Center (MT, USA) |
| Ecomapa (Ecudor) |
| Ecosystem Conservation Society (Japan) |
| Edwards and Kelcey, Inc. (MA, USA) |
| eFloodzone.com (GA, USA) |
| EIASA, C.A. (Venezuela) |
| ERMAS Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia) |
| ESRI India |
| ESRI Thailand |
| ESRI Slovakia |
| Estonian Map Centre, Ltd. (ESTONIA) |
| Explorer Pipeline (OK, USA) |
| Falcon Consulting Services (USA) |
| Falconbridge Exploration Zimbabwe |
| Fay, Spofford & Thorndike (MA, USA) |
| Forest Management Institute (Malaysia) |
| Forest Technology Group (SC, USA) |
| G4C (Czech Republic) |
| Garrad Hassan (UK) |
| GAIA Consultants Inc. (Canada) |
| GAT Bangkudulis Petroleum Co. (Indonesia) |
| GEOIMAGE Pty Ltd. (Australia) |
| Geomatics (Argentina) |
| Geocadsys (Venezuela) |
| Geoanalysis (Chile) |
| GEOCONSEIL (Burkina Faso, West Africa) |
| Geographic Solutions Inc. (VA, USA) |
| Geografx (AZ, USA) |
| Geosolutions (Malaysia) |
| Geo. Info. Management System. (South Africa) |
| GEOID OEG (Austria) |
| GEOIMAGE Pty Ltd. (Australia) |
| GeoIntelligence (Taiwan) |
| Geological Survey of Sweden (Sweden) |
| Geological Survey of Israel |
| Geomax Information (CO, USA) |
| GEOMED (Venezuela) |
| Geoscape International (FL, USA) |
| GeoSpatial Systems Pvt. Ltd. (NEPAL) |
| Geotech Exploration Services, Inc (Calgary, Canada) |
| GeoVista (Sweden) |
| Georgetown Steel Corp. (USA) |
| Gippsland Forest Management Services(VIC, Australia) |
| GIS Center, Feng Chia University (Taiwan) |
| GIS & Cons. Service (INDIA) |
| Government of Canada, Parks Canada |
| Government of GUYANA |
| Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc. (FL, USA) |
| GTE Lab. (MA, USA) |
| Hampton Data Services (United Kingdom) |
| HI-TECH HOUSE (Syria) |
| HNIT-BALTIC Geo. (Lithuania) |
| Honngi Internatioal Ltd. (TAIWAN) |
| Hopewell Culture Nationasl Historical Park (OH, USA) |
| Hunter College, City University of New York (NYC, USA) |
| I.C.D. (CA, USA) |
| I-CUBED (CO, USA) |
| Idho State Univ. (USA) |
| IDDI (CA, USA) |
| Illinois State Univ. |
| Image Etc. (France) |
| IMA/GEO (France) |
| IMAGEM SENS. REMOTO (BRAZIL) |
| Information OSG Inc (Quebec, CANADA) |
| InfoGraph (Jordan) |
| Instituto de Engenharia, de Sistemas e Computadores
(Portugal) |
| Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales Ecologi. (Venezula) |
| Instituto Geologico (Brazil) |
| INTEL (USA) |
| International Paper Corp. (OR, USA) |
| Intersurv, Inc. (TX, USA) |
| ISA (FL, USA) |
| Iscor Head Office (South Africa) |
| Iscor, Geology Dept (South Africa) |
| ISI Satallite Navigation (USA) |
| ISLEM GIS Ltd. (TURKEY) |
| Istituto Per Lo Studio Delle, Metodologie Geofisiche
Ambientali (Italy) |
| ITS Servicios Tecnicos (VENEZUELA) |
| Iwahashi-shouten Co. Ltd. (Japan) |
| Jackson County, Mississipi (USA) |
| JS Knight (Singapore) |
| JWAC (VA, USA) |
| Kuwait University (Kuwait) |
| Kozo Keikaku Enginerring Inc. (Japan) |
| Kawasaki Geol. Eng. Co. Ltd (Japan) |
| Keck & Wood, Inc. (GA, USA) |
| Kutztown Univ. (PA, USA) |
| LandVest (NH, USA) |
| Loyola Enterprises Inc. (VA, USA) |
| Landsoft (Malaysia) |
| Lattice Research Corp. (Malaysia) |
| Lynx Information Systems (TX, USA) |
| Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd (Australia) |
| Lee County (Fort Myers, FL, USA) |
| Los Alamos National Lab. (NM, USA) |
| Louisiana State Univ., Louisiana Geological Survey |
| Mammoth Cave National Park (USA) |
| Map Net Inc. (Tokyo, JAPAN) |
| MapInfo (UK) |
| Marin Environmental, Inc. (CT, USA) |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| Mead Coated Board (AL, USA) |
| Mega Commercial Warehouse (CA, USA) |
| Metria (Sweden) |
| Midacomp Corp. (FL, USA) |
| Mineral Management Services, US Government |
| Ministry of Northern Dev. and Mines (Canada) |
| MIT (Massacusetts Institute of Technology) |
| MIT Haystack Observatory (MA, USA) |
| Moldova Ministry of Defense (Moldova) |
| Monmouth Press (Main, USA) |
| MOTORALA (IL, USA) |
| Mount St. Mary's College (CA, USA) |
| Mushkin Inc. (CO, USA) |
| Mr. H. SUZUKI (NAGOYA, JAPAN) |
| National Caving Assoc. (UK) |
| National Chiao Tung Univ. (Taiwan) |
| National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA, USA) |
| National Park Service (US Government) |
| National Univ. of Guatemala |
| Nuclear Mendoza S.E. (Argentina) |
| Natural Resources (Ottawa, CANADA) |
| Natural Resource Conservation Service (KS, USA) |
| Naval Oceanographic Office (CA, USA) |
| New Mexico University (NM, USA) |
| New York Univ., Medical Center (NY, USA) |
| NITT GIS Ltd. (India) |
| North Carelia Polytechnic (FINLAND) |
| NOAA (USA) |
| Northern Middlesex Council of Government (MA, USA) |
| North Carelia Polytechnic (FINLAND) |
| Univ. of Southhampton (UK) |
| NorthShore-Long Island Jewish Univ. Hospital (NY, USA) |
| Northwoods Software Development Inc (WI, USA) |
| Norges Geologiske Undersoekelse (Norway) |
| Norwegian People's Aid |
| Ocean Technologies (MS, USA) |
| Org. for Security and Co-op in Europe, Mission to Bosnia |
| Office of Surface Mining (US Government, KY, PA, OH, IL) |
| Oklahoma State University (OK, USA) |
| Pacific Computers (FL) |
| Pacific Map S.A. (Colombia) |
| PAGENET (USA) |
| PA Bureau of Mining and Reclamation (PA, USA) |
| Parsons Transportation Group (NY, USA) |
| PASCO Automated Mapping Technology (Tokyo, Japan) |
| PASCO International (Tokyo, JAPAN) |
| Paradigm Techology (Ireland) |
| Paradigm IT Pri. Ltd. (India) |
| Pasific Consultants International (Japan) |
| PCI Enterprises (Canada) |
| PCI Services (MA, USA) |
| PERWIT International (Canada) |
| Petroscan A.B. (Sweden) |
| Philippine-German Tech. Coop. Prog. (Philippine) |
| Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (MA, USA) |
| Planson Int'l Corp. (ME, USA) |
| Priest, Craven & Assoc. (NC, USA)) |
| Poseidon Geophysics (Pty) Ltd. (Botswana) |
| Posford Duvivier Ltd. (UK) |
| Princeton University (NJ, USA) |
| PROYECTO CATIE/CONAP (Guatemala) |
| PT. ENDAPROSINDO (Indonesia) |
| Pollution Control Department (Thailand) |
| Pond & Co. (GA, USA) |
| processremote.com (The Netherlands) |
| Radford Univ. (VA, USA) |
| RIO TINTO (Chile) |
| QBS Software Ltd. (UK) |
| QGIS (PTY) LTD. (NAMIBIA) |
| Quality Standards (Egypt) |
| Realworld Data, LLC (VA, USA) |
| RockWare, Inc. (CO, USA) |
| SamSung Office Computer Inc. (Korea) |
| San Francisco State Univ. (CA, USA) |
| San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Satellus AB (Sweden) |
| SEAMIC (Tanzania) |
| SERCOFITEC SRL (PERU) |
| Seton Company (PA, USA) |
| SITA (Societe Internationale De Telecommunications Aeronautiques, United Kingdom) |
| S K Design (KS, USA) |
| Slovenian Forestry Institute (Slovenia) |
| Space Imaging (CO, USA) |
| Sonartech Atlas Pty Ltd (Australia) |
| Software Factory International (Troy, NY, USA) |
| Southwest Texas State Univ. (Texas, USA) |
| Spatial Information Services Pty Ltd. (Australia) |
| SPOT Image Corp. (VA, USA) |
| State of Hawaii, Dept. of Trans.(USA) |
| State of Alaska (USA) |
| Stetson Engineers Inc. (CA, USA) |
| Stevenson Engineering Ltd. (Canada) |
| STN ATLAS Marine Electronics (GERMANY) |
| Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| Stone Webster Enginerring Corp. (Boston, USA) |
| Studio d'ingegneria (Switzerland) |
| Sugnet & Assoc. (CO, USA) |
| SUNY-ESF (State University of New York, USA) |
| SUNY at Cortland (NY, USA) |
| Super Full Tech. Co. Ltd. (Beijing/Hongkong, China) |
| Survey of Israel (ISRAEL) |
| Survair Int'l Ltd. West Indies |
| Synergist Technology Group Inc. (PA, USA) |
| Synmap International Chile, S.A. (CHILE) |
| Techni Graphics Systems, Inc. (CO, USA) |
| Sistemas De Informacion Geografica S.A. (Mexico) |
| Telinstrument Co. (Hong Kong) |
| TerraNOVA International (CA, USA) |
| Technology Planning and Management Corp (TPMC) |
| Texas Parks and Wildlife (Austin, Texas, USA) |
| Texas Tech Univ. (TX, USA) |
| Texaco Ltd. (UK) |
| Thailand Department of Mineral Resources (Thailand) |
| Thailand Environment Institute (Thailand) |
| The Cadmus Group, Inc. (MA, USA) |
| The Catholic University of America (Washington DC, USA) |
| The Institute di Chimica Agraria (Bologna, Italy) |
| The Mohegan Tribe (CT, USA) |
| The National Meseum of Denmark |
| The Nature Conservancy (VA, USA) |
| The Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology (Norway) |
| The Penn State Univ. (PA, USA) |
| The University of Auckland (New Zealand) |
| The Univ. of Arizona (USA) |
| The Univ. of Akron (OH, USA) |
| The Univ. of Georgia (GA, USA) |
| The Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) |
| Think Earth Science Ltd. (Japan) |
| Tim Tyler Surveying Inc. (AR, USA) |
| Total Information Solutions, Ltd (Cairo, Egypt) |
| Tractebel Energy Engineering (Belgium) |
| Trans Pacific Network Co. Ltd (Japan) |
| Traverse Land Info Systems (USA) |
| Tracasa (Spain) |
| TriPoint Global Communications (USA) |
| Tufts Univ. (MA, USA) |
| Tu Yuan Spatial Data Technology (Beijing, China) |
| Turkey Prime Ministery (Ankara, Turkey) |
| Volcanex
International Pty Ltd (Australia) |
| United States Geological Servey (Denver, US Government) |
| United States Geological Survey (Purto Rico, US) |
| United Nation, Cambodia Mine Action
Center (Cambodia, South East Asia) |
| Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark (DENMARK) |
| Univ. Autonoma, Mexico |
| Univ. of Bergen, Dept. of Geography (Norway) |
| Univ. of California at Berkeley (USA) |
| Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon |
| Univ. of Chihuahua ( Mexico) |
| Univ. of Chicago (USA) |
| Univ. DEGLI STUDI UDINE (ITALY) |
| Univ. of Georgia (GA, USA) |
| The Univ. of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Lab. |
| Univ. of N. Iowa, Environ. Programs |
| University of Kentucky, Forestry (Lexington, KY, USA) |
| Univ. of Kansas, Center for Research (KY, USA) |
| Univ. of Mass., Boston (MA, USA) |
| UMass, Amherst (MA, USA) |
| University Malaysia Sarawak (MALAYSIA) |
| Univ. of Miami (FL, USA) |
| Univ. of Minnesota (MN, USA) |
| Univ. of NC at Wilmington (USA) |
| Univ. of Nottingham (UK) |
| Univ. di Pisa (Italy) |
| Univ. of Puerto Rico |
| University of Roorkee (Roorkee, India) |
| Univ. Waterloo (CANADA) |
| Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia (CROATIA) |
| Universal Solutions, Inc. (MI, USA) |
| Universal Systems Inc (VA, USA) |
| Universal GeoSystems (CANADA) |
| Univ. of Nottingham (UK) |
| Univ. Sains Malaysia (MALAYSIA) |
| The University of the West Indies |
| Uppsala Univ. Dept of Archaeology (Sweden) |
| U.S. A |