Maptitude for Great Britain 5.0 is Now Shipping

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) - Caliper Corporation is now shipping the latest version of Maptitude® for Great Britain, the most capable and affordable mapping software for the UK. Maptitude is used to display and analyze location-based information and has applications in sectors including sales and marketing, banking and financial services, real estate and appraisal, retail site selection, insurance, emergency services, and public health. Maptitude is a powerful geographic information system (GIS) for all types of spatial data.

Maptitude for Great Britain 5 features unparalleled capabilities for site evaluation, pin mapping, demographic analysis, and myriad GIS applications in business, government, and education. This new version incorporates powerful new tools that locate and analyze data to produce high quality maps. In only a few clicks Maptitude produces attractive visualizations of corporate data that show the patterns and trends and how they are influenced by a wealth of economic, demographic and geographic data.

Maptitude for Great Britain 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.

GIS enhancements include improvements to the powerful UK pin-mapping tools that support higher match rates. Other new features include comprehensive undo and redo for geographic and tabular editing, a map display manager, more flexible legends, improved thematic mapping, and native support for Esri personal geodatabases, MS Access, Excel 2007, and Google Earth.

Maptitude for Great Britain 5 expands the astonishing amount of included data. The software now ships with European administrative boundaries, the latest UK postal points and areas (Areas, Sectors, Districts), updated London and national layers that include roads and administrative boundaries, world landmarks, and updated world places. For the full list of included data please visit the Caliper web site.

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

Maptitude for Great Britain 5 is available for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7, and is compatible with a wide range of other GIS and database software.

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.

For more information, please contact Stewart Berry at 1-617-527-4700 or by email at stewart@caliper.com.