Maptitude 5.0 is Now Shipping

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) - Caliper Corporation is now shipping the latest version of Maptitude, the world's most capable and affordable mapping software. This next generation of Maptitude, the award winning GIS desktop software, continues to provide easy-to-use yet powerful mapping tools. Maptitude 5 remains the most competitively priced, full-featured GIS/mapping software available.

Maptitude 5 has many new features that greatly enhance ease-of-use. These include the most powerful mapping wizard in any professional mapping product, with start-to-finish assistance for locating, thematically displaying, geographically analyzing, and mapping data. The Display Manager toolbox  allows for the viewing and control of the style, visibility, and label settings for all of the layers, selection sets, and feature display settings in a map.

Maptitude 5 has new travel-based tools that allow the creation of bands based on distance, time, or other costs along street lines, plus the ability to assign roads to zones or districts based on proximity to point locations such as stores.

New analysis methods include desire lines to illustrate the flow of people or goods from point-to-point, the ability to build lines from groups of points, and a facility location tool based on the weighted centroids of customers, for example.

Other new features include comprehensive undo and redo for geographic and tabular editing, more flexible legends, improved thematic mapping, a geocoding tool for cities in the US and internationally, and file format support for ESRI personal geodatabases, MS Access, Excel 2007, JPEG 2000 images, and Google Earth.

Maptitude 5 expands the astonishing amount of included data. The software now ships with 2007 Streets, October 2007 ZIP Code points and areas, MCDs and SMCDs, world landmarks, updated world places, and July 2006 tract, county, and state level population estimates.

Maptitude 5 is .NET enabled, allowing scripting in any .NET capable language. The Maptitude GISDK language now supports object-oriented programming, making it easier than ever to program Maptitude extensions and add-ins with re-usable GISDK classes.

The maps in Maptitude 5 provide presentation quality and user-friendly graphics right from the start, with enhanced default styles, map overview windows, and new line styles.

Maptitude 5 is available for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Vista, and is compatible with a wide range of other GIS and database software.

About Caliper:
Caliper Corporation is a leading developer of packaged and custom GIS, mapping, and transportation planning software products, including Maptitude, TransCAD, and TransModeler. Caliper GIS mapping software is used by more than 70,000 users in over 70 countries.