News & Events

SoftWright LLC is pleased to announce that the 2011 U.S. NLCD data set is now available for use with our Terrain Analysis Package (TAP™) software.  National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD2011) is a 16-class land cover classification scheme that has been applied consistently across the conterminous United States at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. […]

SoftWright has always participated in key industry trade shows and 2014 is no different.  It is a great opportunity to personally meet new and existing TAP™ customers and exchange ideas on the features and functionality of TAP™.  We will be exhibiting at the AGL (Above Ground Level) Conference at National Harbor, MD, which is an […]

SoftWright is pleased to announce the release of Terrain Analysis Package (TAP™) version 6.2.  TAP™ 6.2 features an all-new calculation engine that drastically improves execution speed.  Study execution times in benchmark cases were reduced by 80%.  Combining TAP™ 6.2 with solid state drive data storage reduced study times by 98%.  This is great news for […]

We are happy to announce that we are now offering our latest topographical and land use data on solid state external hard drives.  Solid state drives (SSDs) provide faster data access and significant time savings compared to rotating media hard disk drives (HDDs).  This is great news for customers interested in reducing the time it […]

SoftWright has always participated in key industry trade shows and 2014 will be no different.  It is a great opportunity to personally meet new and existing TAP™ customers and exchange ideas on the features and functionality of TAP™.  We will be exhibiting at the APCO Annual Conference and Expo, which will feature exhibit hall days […]

The IWCE’s Virtual Tradeshow is a one-day, interactive event where communications technology professionals and key vendors come together to address today’s most critical questions. You can visit us in our SoftWright Virtual Trade Show Booth to collect our latest product information as well as chat with us in real time.  Click here to preview the […]

We have always had full-featured, free demo software available for download from our website.  In order to help existing customers and new users just evaluating TAP, we have created a new Demo Quick Tour.  Admittedly, at over 80 pages, the tour may not seem “Quick”, but there are many screen captures and step-by-step instructions that […]

TAP6.1 release 2515 (and later), with a maintenance subscription of 01 August 2013 (and later) and valid Land Use Module license, now supports the National Land Cover Database 2006 land use data. The previous TAP land use / land cover (LULC) data is circa 1992 and has a spatial resolution of 200 meters. National Land […]

Beginning August 12, 2013, the latest 1/3 Sec (~10m) resolution elevation data in FLT format is now available from SoftWright.  The data may be purchased for the entire U.S., by state, or by square degree.  This data set supercedes the previous 1 second (~30m) resolution FLT data and is recommended for all TAP applications.

For our TAP 5 customers, we hope that you continue to use your TAP™ software productively; however, your software is likely over 10 years old and soon will no longer be supported by SoftWright.  Many of the third party components required for your software to operate are no longer available and SoftWright has no capacity […]