| Maptitude | |
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| • | About Maptitude |
| • | Map Creation |
| • | Map Your Own Data |
| • | Data Access |
| • | Geographic Analysis |
| • | Included Data |
| • | Development Platform |
| • | Applications |
| • | Requirements |
| New Features | |
| • | FAQs |
| • | Pricing & Ordering |
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New Features in Maptitude Version 5.0 |
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This next generation of Maptitude, the award winning GIS desktop software, continues to provide easy-to-use yet powerful mapping tools. Maptitude 5.0 remains the most competitively priced, full-featured GIS/mapping product available.
Improved Create-a-Map
Wizard Click here to see a short example
New
Display Manager
toolbox
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See the
entire contents of a map
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Hide or
show layers
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Hide or
show selection sets
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Change
the style of a layer, selection set, feature display setting, or
theme item
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Change
the label of a layer, selection set, or feature display setting
Enhanced Default maps
World, state, and local maps that you
create with Maptitude 5.0 include a map locator, many new line
styles, and feature display options, to provide you with even
more attractive and user-friendly maps right from the start.

| • | Network Bands: Create bands based on distance, time, or other impedance factors along a line layer. |
| • | Network partitioning: Divide line layers into zones or districts based on proximity to points on the network, such as walking distances to schools or response times to fire stations. |
| • | Desire Lines: Illustrate the flow of people or goods from point to point based on values in a dataview. |
| • | Connect Points: Build lines from groups of points, created with a GPS receiver or any other methods, as either geographic files or annotations. |
| • | Facility location with weighted centroids: Locate a circular service area that encompasses a set of points and weight the center location by any field in the point layer. |

| • | Native support for Excel 2007 (.xls/.xlsx/.xlsb/.xlsm); MS Access Table (.mdb/.accdb); Geodatabase (.mdb); JPEG 2000 Image (.jp2) |
| • | Export GoogleEarth/KML/KMZ |
| • | Import Digital Elevation Model (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2, .flt) files; TIGER/Line 2006 |
| • | Export ESRI Project (.prj); HTML |
| • | Masks: Create masks that hide features outside of your area of interest. |
| • | Magnifier tool: Move the cursor over a map to see portions of the map displayed with all of the settings appropriate for the magnified scale. |
| • | Multi-Layer Info and Multi-Layer Area Info tools: Display information on more than one layer in a map. |
| • | Pan Map toolbox: Pan the map with the Pan Map toolbox or by using your mouse scroll wheel. |
| • | Map synchronization: Synchronize two or more maps so that when the scale of one changes, all synchronized maps update automatically to the new scale. |
| • | New Image Librarian: Control multiple image layers as a single layer in a map. |
| • | Video tools for WMV creation: Create Windows Media Video (.WMV) files of all changes that you make to the active map window. |
| • | Improved line editing: In addition to treating overlapping lines as over/underpasses, you can now choose whether to automatically intersect overlapping lines. |
| • | Improved legends: Control the number of columns in a legend and the order of items within the columns. |
| • | Improved Bookmarks (formerly Markers): Quickly access frequently used bookmarks; Export and import to share with other users |
| • | Improved image layer controls: Adjust the contrast of image layers; Save TerraServer-USA images as TIFFs; Register JPEG, JPEG 2000, and MrSID images. |
| • | New Google Earth toolbox: Synchronize the scales of Maptitude and Google Earth maps; Add your maps to Google Earth; Add black-and-white Google Earth images to your Maptitude map. |
| • | Copy and paste cells: Copy the values in one or more cells and paste them into other cells |
| • | New frequency analysis commands: Group records in a table that have duplicate values in a particular field into a new table with unique values, counts, and aggregate values; or tag records in a table with the count of records with duplicate values for a particular field |
| • | New Field Sets: Name specific groups of fields so you can quickly focus on those fields in a dataview or Info window. |
| • | New Selection options: Create multiple selection sets at once based on the list of values in a field; Create a selection set of all of the records highlighted in a dataview. |
| • | Enhanced legibility: Shade every other row in a dataview; Identify coded fields with a symbol |
| • | Dockable toolbars: Choose whether toolbars are floating or docked; Resize floating toolbars; Dock toolbars on any side. |
| • | Accelerator keys: Use standard command shortcuts such as Ctrl-S for Save or Ctrl-P for Print. |
| • | New layout buttons: Use new shortcut buttons for changing the size of layouts, turning on rulers, turning on the grid, and displaying paper cut lines. |
| • | Improved COM support |
| • | New class resources for defining objects |
| • | 32 new documented functions |
| • | Hover-over variable values in the debugger |
| • | Display option arrays in the debugger |
| • | Updated 2007 Streets |
| • | Updated October 2007 ZIP Code Points and Areas |
| • | Updated Telephone Exchanges |
| • | Now Includes MCDs and SMCDs with Census Demographic Profile Data |
| • | Updated World Gazetteer |
| • | New World Landmarks |
| • | July 2006 tract, county, and state level population estimates |