This latest release of Maptitude, the award winning GIS desktop
software, continues to provide easy-to-use yet powerful mapping tools.
Maptitude 4.7 remains the most competitively priced, full featured
GIS/mapping software available. Maptitude 4.7 provides extensive new
functionality and enhancements:
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Mapping |
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Set custom autoscale settings for labels |
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Autoscale individual selection sets to hide and show selected
features at different scales |
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Analysis |
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Create density grids so that you can analyze point data on a
regular grid such as customer concentrations, crime hot spots, or
disease outbreaks (below left) |
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Identify trade areas with the facility locator |
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Quickly create temporary features and generate bands about them
for more rapid analysis of locations |
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Compute adjacency of areas to explore market expansion, plan
evacuations, or track disease outbreaks (below right) |
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Reports |
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A
new interface for report production allows on-the-fly creation of
single page print-outs of districts or market areas using several
customizable templates. |
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Editing |
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Add or split area features using features in a line layer |
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Batch edit multiple layers with the Multi Clipper to create sets
of geographic files for an area of interest |
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Tables |
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Zoom to a map location from a dataview |
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Tag cells in a table with data from features up to 4,000 miles
away (previously 500 mile threshold) |
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Create temporary summary statistics tables |
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Transpose rows and columns |
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Create custom field formats that include text, use foreign
currency symbols, or swap comma and period placement |
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File Formats |
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Import TIGER/Line 2002 and 2003 files |
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Open JPEG/World (.JPW) files as image layers in a map |
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Open ArcView 3.x Project (.APR) files with their theme (layer)
settings |
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Open ArcView 3.x Legend (.AVL) files with their display settings |
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Layouts |
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Resize layout contents automatically when the layout size changes |
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Place items in a layout at either the map or frame aspect
ratio |
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Redraw maps in layout for a more precise view |
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International |
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Create location indexes for up to one million features |
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Use new datum conversions for Canada, Great Britain, Ireland,
Australia, and New Zealand |
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Use the new 2-arc-minute world Digital Elevation Model (DEM) layer
that provides for improved global 3D analysis |
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Integration |
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With the flexible and powerful programming language (GISDK) that is
included with Maptitude you can call GISDK functions and macros from
another application, written in another programming language.
Maptitude can be accessed from a Windows .NET
application or as a COM Object. |
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New U.S. Data |
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Streets
2003 is based on 2003 TIGER/Line files from
the U.S. Census with additional improvements by Caliper |
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2003
County Areas with 2002 and 2003 population estimates |
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2004
5-digit ZIP Code point locations including P.O. Boxes,
companies and buildings |
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3- and 5-
digit ZIP Code boundaries (July
2000) |
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Major
roads with travel time and speed data for accurate routing |
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2004
Metro/Micropolitan Statistical Components and Areas |
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2000
Metropolitan Area Central Cities |
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2000 Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Areas |
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2000 Consolidated
Cities |
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Indian Reservations |
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2000 New England
County Metropolitan Areas |
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2004 New England
City and Town Areas/Components |
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U.S. Time Zones |
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U.S. 30-second
Digital Elevation Model |