What's New in Maptitude for Redistricting

Maptitude for Redistricting Version 6.0 has many new capabilities and enhancements:

• Version Control (NEW): When you turn on Version Control and close the plan, the current state of the plan is saved in a Zip archive. The version number is incremented from the last version and saved in a list with a time and date stamp and a user’s name. You can enter an unlimited amount of text that is saved in a text file along with the current state of the plan. A new version can be created while the plan is open, as well.
• Plan Thumbnails (NEW): The Plan Manager displays a bitmap image of the highlighted plan in the lists of Plans, Templates, and Plan Sets.
• More Options for Working with Districts: It's easier to ever to identify completed and incomplete districts. Automatically shade locked and completed districts with a user-defined pattern and color. Display a list of all districts not marked as finished; you can automatically zoom to each district.
• Improved Labels: If any part of a district, no matter how small, is displayed on the map, the district label is also displayed.
• Improved Redistricting Toolbox and Redistricting Menu: The Redistricting toolbox has been redesigned and reorganized to make it more intuitive. It also includes a new button to swap the target and source districts. The Redistricting menu has been expanded and reordered to better follow your work flow.
• Select by Line Tool (NEW): You can now select features to add to a target district by drawing a line through them.
• Improved Display Options: You can define the color, pattern, and transparency applied to areas selected to be added to a district.
• Automatic Handling of Unassigned Features (NEW): Any unassigned area that is completely surrounded by the same district can automatically be assigned to that district.
• Improved! Report Interface: The Reports dialog box is now a toolbox and stays open between running reports. Furthermore, you can enter a partial report name to filter the reports listed in the Reports toolbox.
• Report sets (NEW): Crate report sets that include one or more reports for automatic batch printing or file creation. You specify the settings for each report when creating the report set. You can specify the same report multiple times, but with different settings, change the order the reports are printed, and add or remove reports in the report set.
• Additional Measures of Compactness (NEW): The Measures of Compactness report now includes a Length-Width measure of compactness.
• Improved Color Themes: You can change the field on a saved color theme.
• Publish to HTML (NEW): You can automatically publish the Plan Map and Districts Dataview to an HTML page.
• Email Plans (NEW): You can automatically create an email with a Zip archive of the plan files, an image of the plan map, and an equivalency file of the plan as attachments.

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