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New Features in Maptitude

Home > Maptitude > New Features > Version 4.7

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:


Mapping
Set custom autoscale settings for labels
Autoscale individual selection sets to hide and show selected features at different scales

Analysis
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)
Identify trade areas with the facility locator
Quickly create temporary features and generate bands about them for more rapid analysis of locations
Compute adjacency of areas to explore market expansion, plan evacuations, or track disease outbreaks (below right)

    


Reports
  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.
 


Editing
Add or split area features using features in a line layer
Batch edit multiple layers with the Multi Clipper to create sets of geographic files for an area of interest

Tables
Zoom to a map location from a dataview
Tag cells in a table with data from features up to 4,000 miles away (previously 500 mile threshold)
Create temporary summary statistics tables
Transpose rows and columns
Create custom field formats that include text, use foreign currency symbols, or swap comma and period placement

 


File Formats
Import TIGER/Line 2002 and 2003 files
Open JPEG/World (.JPW) files as image layers in a map
Open ArcView 3.x Project (.APR) files with their theme (layer) settings
Open ArcView 3.x Legend (.AVL) files with their display settings

Layouts
Resize layout contents automatically when the layout size changes
Place items in a layout at either the map or frame aspect ratio
Redraw maps in layout for a more precise view

International
Create location indexes for up to one million features
Use new datum conversions for Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand
Use the new 2-arc-minute world Digital Elevation Model (DEM) layer that provides for improved global 3D analysis

Integration
  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.

New U.S. Data
Streets 2003 is based on 2003 TIGER/Line files from the U.S. Census with additional improvements by Caliper
2003 County Areas with 2002 and 2003 population estimates
2004 5-digit ZIP Code point locations including P.O. Boxes, companies and buildings
3- and 5- digit ZIP Code boundaries (July 2000)
Major roads with travel time and speed data for accurate routing
2004 Metro/Micropolitan Statistical Components and Areas
2000 Metropolitan Area Central Cities
2000 Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas
2000 Consolidated Cities
Indian Reservations
2000 New England County Metropolitan Areas
2004 New England City and Town Areas/Components
U.S. Time Zones
U.S. 30-second Digital Elevation Model

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Click here to see features that were new to Version 4.6.