The Easiest Way to Make Maps

Quickly create attractive, informative, and insightful maps

Map Creation: Maptitude is the best software for making maps. Maptitude brings data to life with maps that impress and inform. Answer a few simple questions and Create-a-Map Wizard makes a map at any scale from all the countries of the world to streets around a U.S. address, landmark, or intersection.

Maptitude provides astonishing flexibility and power so you can enhance and customize maps in numerous ways. With a few clicks of the mouse, MapWizard automatic mapping technology helps you create color and pattern maps, dot-density maps, scaled-symbol maps, and maps with integrated pie or bar charts. You can choose from a wide selection of colors, patterns, and symbols to enhance your presentation, and use editing and drawing tools to customize maps to match your needs.

Maptitude also provides a map library that contains over 100 pre-designed maps listed by category. These include thematic maps of the 2000 Census profile data by Tract, County, and State, plus attractive default maps for the United States and the world. The Map Librarian lets you open one or more of these maps for a chosen location, allowing you to quickly analyze U.S. Census data for your area of interest. In addition, you can create map libraries to organize your own maps.

Tables: Maptitude lets you see the attribute data associated with map features in spreadsheet-like table from which you can easily edit values, calculate new variables, or compute statistics. You can also click on map features to see the information associated with them. You can also "tag" features, such as customers, with the distance to or the name of the nearest feature in another map layer, such as stores.

Databases: Maptitude implements a professional strength relational database. Attribute data may be freely joined to and detached from geographic layers and tables. Relational data manipulation is integrated with robust and powerful geoprocessing for spatial queries, polygon overlay, and multi-band buffering. This is supported seamlessly so that data are moved easily to and from relational tables and geographic databases.

Output: Page layout tools help you design and create professional presentations that combine the results of your analyses into a single powerful display. With OLE, you can copy and paste maps, charts, figures, and layouts into documents, spreadsheets, and presentation software. You can print your maps and layouts on any printer or plotter, or save them to vector or raster formats. You can also save your work in a variety of formats, including HTML, JPEG, and PNG files for use on a web page.