Maptitude for Redistricting
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Maptitude for Redistricting City/County Edition

Maptitude for Redistricting City/County Edition is a special edition of Caliper Corporation's Maptitude Geographic Information System software that includes everything you need to build and analyze redistricting plans and update precinct boundaries. As you assign area features to a district or precinct, the boundaries are redrawn and selected attributes are automatically summarized to reflect the district’s characteristics.

Maptitude is a full-featured Geographic Information System that has set new standards for performance and value. Designed for Windows 2000 and XP, it provides a complete set of desktop mapping and spatial analysis functions. Maptitude is conveniently packaged with nationwide geographic data sets including streets with address information, and states, counties, census tracts, and other census boundaries with over 600 demographic variables.

Maptitude for Redistricting City/County Edition includes all of the features and data provided with Maptitude plus a custom menu system and redistricting toolbox that let you:

• Create a new plan from a map, a template, or an existing plan. Include multiple levels of geography, designate the control field, ideal value, and summary fields, and set other plan properties including plan type, creation date, and password protection.
• Include some or all race categories and adjusted and unadjusted data in the same plan; one button toggle between field sets lets you display only the data you want.
• Add areas to a target district using feature selection tools. Select by pointing, by dragging a circle, by defining the corners of a polygon (lassoing), and by attribute values. Select features in any geographic layer, such as census blocks, voting districts, towns, or school districts. As you add areas to a district, both the district boundaries and data table are updated to reflect changes in the current plan.
• Display attributes for any layer using labels or color, pattern, dot-density, scaled-symbol or chart themes. Since the district boundaries are instantly updated, you do not have to use a color theme to show district boundaries. Display summary information in a table that contains the district identifier, control field totals, deviation from the ideal value, and the totals and percentages for summary fields.
• Lock districts, and keep communities of interest together.
• Compute measures of compactness, and check for completeness and contiguity. Zoom to unassigned polygons or discontiguous portions of a district. Verify the integrity of a plan.
• Export a plan to standard equivalency file formats that can be read by other redistricting software and the Department of Justice. Import and merge plans created by Maptitude for Redistricting or other redistricting software.
  Capture the current status of a plan as a snapshot. Each plan can have one or more snapshots organized by date and time under the same plan name. Return to any snapshot, and use it as a departure point in the evolution of the plan or as the starting point for a new plan.
• Print a completed plan using page layouts that combine maps, data tables, and charts. The standard report library includes population summary, error check, political subdivision splits, incumbents, plan statistics, plan components, plan comparison reports, and more. Create custom reports and add them to the report menu. 

Maptitude for Redistricting Key Features:
• Create districts using any level of geography • Compute control field totals and deviations • Select any number of summary data fields, and compute totals and percents • Display the plan as district boundaries or a thematic map • Display the plan statistics  in a scrollable data window • Print standard and user-defined reports • Save plans in an Internet-compatible format	• Export the plan to an equivalency file in dBASE and other industry-standard formats • Import plans from other GIS formats • Merge sub-plans • Compute measures of compactness • Verify completeness and district contiguity, and zoom to problem areas • Update historic election results to new political boundaries

Customized Redistricting Data CD

Maptitude for Redistricting City/County Edition includes a Redistricting Data CD customized for your jurisdiction. The sidebar lists the geographic data included.

Redistricting Data CD:
•	Blocks	•	Water Blocks	•	Block Groups
•	Voting Districts (VTDs)	•	Tracts	•	Counties
•	MCDs	•	Places	•	Indian Reservations
•	Congressional Districts	•	State Senate Districts	•	State House Districts
•	Urbanized Areas	•	School Districts	•	ZIP Codes
•	Landmark Areas	•	Streets with Address Ranges	•	Detailed Demographic Data
• All TIGER/LineTM Segments with Right and Left Census Codes

Easy to Learn and Use

Maptitude for Redistricting City/County Edition includes on-line help and detailed manuals packed with step-by-step instructions and tutorials. The Plan Manager leads you through the process of creating your first plan and speeds the creation of all additional plans. Other wizards help you create maps, display data using meaningful themes, and geocode information based on street address. Caliper Corporation offers hands-on training at your site or at our training facility in Newton, MA.

Complete Enterprise Solution

The Maptitude for Redistricting Plan Manager makes it easy to manage thousands of plans stored on a computer network. You can quickly find a plan by type, creator, date, key word etc. The Plan Manager provides several levels of security and lets you distribute plans for viewing, and perform other plan management functions across the enterprise. Data and plans can be stored on individual machines or on one central server with access controlled by both Maptitude for Redistricting and the network administration software.

Publish Your Plans on the Internet

Maptitude for Redistricting lets you save your plans (maps, data tables, charts, layouts, and reports) as JPEG and HTML files for static Web publishing. Caliper Corporation’s Maptitude for the WebTM Software makes it easy to publish your plans as interactive mapping applications on the Web. For example, a user can locate their address on the map, pan and zoom, query the district assignments, and display tables of data from their browser.

Works with Other GIS Software

Map ArcView Shape, MapInfo Tab, and Oracle Spatial files without conversion. Export plans (geography and data) to these other formats for use with your existing software.

Other Redistricting Services

Caliper provides consulting services, training, software customization, web design, telephone support, on-site support, and priority support on a time and materials basis. For more information, contact Howard Simkowitz, Director, Government Services, hsimkowitz@caliper.com.

Pricing and Ordering

Maptitude for Redistricting City/County Edition, including a redistricting data CD and one year of annual maintenance (software upgrades and data updates), costs $3,500. Call Caliper at 617-527-4700 to place your order, or download the Maptitude for Redistricting order form and fax it to 617-527-5113.

System Requirements:

• Personal Computer Running Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
• 128MB RAM
• Disk space varies by state (200MB-1GB)