NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS
- Caliper Corporation is pleased to announce four new demonstration web
mapping sites that have been developed using
Maptitude for the Web and
TransCAD for the Web. These web mapping
software packages enable organizations to add fully interactive maps to a
web site, and allow application developers to quickly customize web mapping
applications with Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), VBScript, and HTML.
More information about Caliper GIS software, mapping software and
transportation planning software can be found
here.
Maptitude for the Web is
geared towards sales territory and demographic analysis, and offers services
for finding the nearest location. TransCAD for the Web is geared towards
transportation applications, and includes functions for spatial correlation
analysis, transportation planning, travel demand modeling, and routing.
The web mapping service at (http://www.caliper.com/mapservice)
lets you create a customized report of the demographic characteristics
around any location in the United States. The data used for this example
service are from the Caliper Census 2000 Block Group Data CD. You can choose
a location anywhere in the United States, draw a circle around it, then give
your e-mail address for sending the report. The mapping server computes the
demographic characteristics for the circle, centered on the desired
location, and produces a PDF report with thematic maps and tables. When the
report is ready, the mapping server notifies you by e-mail, and you can
download the report. You can customize this service to provide analysis of
your own demographic and sales data by geographic location. Contact Caliper
at (info@caliper.com) for more information.
The custom web mapping site at (http://www.caliper.com/selectzipcodes)
was developed with Maptitude for the Web. It demonstrates how this web
mapping software can be used for sales district analysis. You can select one
or more ZIP Codes on the map and get cumulative demographic information
about those ZIP Codes. The map and the reports could be customized to
include locations, color themes and chart themes that show demographics and
sales data by ZIP Codes, your sales districts, or any other areas of
interest.
The web mapping application at (http://www.caliper.com/countytocounty)
was created immediately after the Census Bureau released the Census 2000
County-To-County Worker Flow Files, using the desire line web mapping
template shipped with TransCAD for the Web. Desire lines are lines that
illustrate on a map the flows of people or goods between points, such as the
centers of counties, based on the values from an origin/destination matrix.
By clicking on a county, you can see on the map and in a table the number of
workers 16 years old and over who commute to work into or out of that
county. The counts give the number of workers traveling within or between
counties in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, plus travel to
workplaces outside the U.S., such as Puerto Rico or a foreign country. The
width of a desire line indicates the number of workers, and in a pair of
desire lines the outbound line is to the right. Only flows of 50 workers or
more in or out of a county are currently shown, to reduce clutter.
The web mapping site at (http://www.caliper.com/newton)
is an example of how interactive maps can be used to find a wealth of
information about a city or town, organized by location. This particular web
mapping site, powered by Maptitude for the Web, reports information about
Newton, MA. You can quickly switch between many different views of the same
location. The Points of Interest maps contain public and private points of
interest including parks, schools, churches, dining, lodging, and retail
stores. The Population maps contain demographic data for blocks and block
groups from the 2000 Census, including age, race, income, and education. The
Parcels maps contain aerial photography, parcels, school districts, and
voting districts. The maps include school walking distance data that were
computed with TransCAD and topography that was computed with Maptitude. The
data have been assembled from a variety of sources, including the local
Chamber of Commerce.
Caliper Corporation is a leading developer of Geographic Information System
products, and is committed to providing the GIS marketplace with powerful
software coupled with abundant geographic data at an affordable price.