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DESCRIPTION
The CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct their Cmaps in their personal computer, share them on servers (CmapServers) anywhere on the Internet, link their Cmaps to other Cmaps on servers, automatically create web pages of their concept maps on servers, edit their maps synchronously (at the same time) with other users on the Internet, and search the web for information relevant to a concept map.
The CmapTools client is free for use by anybody, whether its use is commercial or non-commercial. In particular, schools and universities are encouraged to download it and install it in as many computers as desired, and students and teachers may make copies of it and install it at home. (Commercial companies that install their own CmapServer do need to get a separate license for a CmapTools client that will talk to the commercial version of the CmapServer).
WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.03: - The new short URL format provides at least two benefits over the previous URL format, which produced URLs that were quite a bit longer than the new ones:
- The new URLs will fit more easily into an email message.
- The URL now contains the name of the resource to which it refers.
- Fixed selection problem on Mac OS X when right-clicking.
- Now CmapTools provides support to iWork'09 file formats.
- Fixed a bug where Cmaptools was unable to export a Cmap as web page; a Cmap that was created manually as CXL and then imported into Cmaptools.
- Fixed a bug where an error message appeared in the internet browser when you tried to view a manually created CXL Cmap as web page.
- Fixed a bug where annotations, created in a Cmap using Cmaptools v5.0 Beta14, did not appear when the same Cmap was opened using Cmaptools v4.18.
- Both the Web Search and Concept Suggester now make use of the "language" property of the Concept Map (if the user has set it), and will try to
contextualize searches and suggestions in such language. For example: if the language property of the cmap is set to Spanish, the Web Search and Concept suggestions
are in Spanish too.
- Fixed a bug that happened after selecting all the concepts in a Cmap, then adding a shadow to them, they would gain a shadow but these shadows
would disappear when you added another concept, and selected "None" for shadow for that new concept and then double clicked to add yet another new concept.
- Fixed a bug where the font used changed after a symbol from the mathematical character set had been placed. For example typing "hello" +
"mathematical symbol" + "hello", would show the second hello in a times-like font, while the first hello would remain in the default Verdana.
- Now is available a CmapTools distribution for 64-bit architecture for Windows and Linux operating systems.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later, 256MB RAM
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| CmapTools User Reviews (6 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 15 2009 |
MERRIMAC Hitting the 'Download' button above actually (as of this post) redirects to a page that asks you to submit your contact info. Here are the actual download links (courtesy of Softpedia): http://cmapdownload.ihmc.us/installs/CmapTools/Mac/MacOSXCmapTools_v5.03_04-07-09.zip http://cmapdownload.ihmc.us/installs/CmapTools/Mac/Past%20Releases/MacOSXCmapTools_v4.18_06-09-08.zip
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 | May 13 2009 |
Well, that depends on your definition.
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| May 5 2008 |
TALLDWARF The reason why CMAP is so good and I am going back to it after trying out "mind mapping" software such as Novamind and other online tools such as mindomo.com is because it is true CONCEPT mapping. The difference is the ability to write on the arrows and have true links between items in different parts of the map. Other mind map programs are really a graphical version of a bullet point list and that is why they can be exported to a neat text version. CMAP is more than that. I "wanted" to use/like novamind but as a teacher I want more links between parts of the map and have useful text on those links.
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| Nov 9 2005 |
NEIL_M This program is free. For free, I'm willing to overlook a lot of the missing features and shortcomings. This pretty handy for what it is. I'm not understanding the other reviews.
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 | May 30 2005 |
SQUIRRELROBERT CmapTools 3.8 is essentially Inspiration Mind Map Software, but financed by DARPA and our friends at DOD. Have a look-see at their website: Back to CmapTools. You can make pretty diagrams easily, but that's about it. Export to text is supported, but the actual text document is unstructured. Inspiration lets one export as Word, Mellel, AppleWorks, etc, and preserves structure. Collaboration via internet is also supported, but this is not rocket science to implement. What you get for free (your tax dollars at work) here is a nice diagramming package and a lot of window decorations. It is like using Power Point to do engineering, a charge leveled at NASA by the Columbia investigation Board. Summary: CmapTools looks like a poorly copied version of Inspiration 7.6. Essentially, where are the justifications for the lofty claims made by the developers on their web site?
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| May 27 2009 |
MRGLSMRC so sorry you are angry at the way our govt. spends money. you would do better to post at a political board. your criticisms of this software, while possibly correct, are too vague to be useful to anybody but yourself. there are many possible competing applications and you also failed to explain clearly how you like them better except that they're made by private industry. i don't particularly care about your opinions of nasa either. your mind meanders from topic to topic so you need your medication. after you've recovered, you should actually try out the software that you say you're reviewing, i mean if you're not too busy writing about in generalities you could try using it. candidly i am not sure i like this software more than omnigraffle based on the web pages i've seen made in it. but i am impressed with the idea that it can be the front end of an apache server on one of my mac minis. i don't think the other software you mentioned could do this.
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| May 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS An excellent program belonging to the "Mind Map" family of software -- conceptually similar to Visio and Inspiration. Pros: Easy to use. Versatile. Free. Cross-platform compatability. Cons: Nothing substantial -- JVM performance penalty on program startup and when saving CMAPs. Few built-in node shapes (Can be imported from other sources). On Balance: A strong tool to visually represent information. It is especially useful for representing the intra and inter-relationships between concepts. | |
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