PowerMapper

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Developer(s) Electrum Operating system Microsoft Windows License EULA		Stable release 5.6 / Nov 18, 2011 Type Web crawler
Website http://www.powermapper.com/

PowerMapper is a web crawler that automatically creates a site map of a website using thumbnails of each web page. A number of map styles are available, although the cheaper Standard edition has fewer styles than the Professional edition.

Map styles

Site maps can be displayed in a number of different map styles which arrange sites into a tree structure. Some styles display thumbnails for each page, others use text-only presentation. Map styles include:

Electrum - a simple thumbnail map style

Electrum 2.0 - a variation of the Electrum style that works better on larger sites

Isometric - a thumbnail map style using a pseudo-3D isometric projection

Page Cloud - a thumbnail map style with pages clustered into 3D clouds

Skyscrapers - an abstract representation of pages that looks like city blocks

Thumbtree - a hierarchical thumbnail map style

Table Map - a plain text list of pages in a table

Table of Contents - a plain text list of pages

Tree View - an expanding table of contents

Site maps can also be exported in XML sitemaps format for use by the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines.

Reviews

The product received positive reviews in InfoWorld for the 1.0 release in 1997, and subsequent reviews for the 4.0 release in Microsoft Technet Magazine and WebsiteTips.com were also favorable.

A list of problems commonly encountered by users is provided by the vendor in the PowerMapper FAQ.

Licensing

PowerMapper is commercial licensed software which uses serial numbers to prevent unlicensed usage. Standard licensing is per-user, but pooled floating licences are also available at extra cost.

References

PowerMapper Wikipedia

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