Map Your Own Data

Data Access: TransCAD lets you create maps using your own data. Whether you store your data in Excel worksheets, Access tables, dBASE files, or any ODBC compliant data source such as Oracle, or SQL Server, TransCAD can work with your data. Create-a-Map Wizard gives you start-to-finish assistance for locating (geocoding), geographically analyzing, and mapping your data. In a few easy steps, you can locate your customers, color code ZIP Codes with your sales data, build bands around your stores, and much more. (Show me more)

TransCAD supports over 50 file types and more than 100 GIS and CAD formats. You can map ESRI Shapefiles (see a short demo), MapInfo TAB files, and Oracle Spatial tables directly, or use the built-in translators to import geographic data from a variety of other software packages and public sources. This extensive library of importers and exporters (See the table below) is one of the largest in the industry and comes at no additional charge. This makes TransCAD the perfect choice for a new GIS purchase because you can work with your existing installation or easily migrate your data from your current GIS software products.

Geocoding: Another way to use your data with TransCAD is to locate your information on a map by locating a point feature for every record in your table. This pin mapping, or geocoding, allows you to see the distribution of your customers, facilities, or other resources. TransCAD has built-in, powerful and versatile geocoding tools, offering several different methods for locating your data on a map.

Raster Images: You can also use raster images such as satellite or aerial photographs directly in your maps. TransCAD includes toolboxes for quickly accessing on-line images from TerraServer-USA and Google Earth. These images can be used as a means of reference or in conjunction with the map editing tools to create or edit geographic files.

GPS: A built-in interface to Global Positioning System (GPS) devices lets you track and record your location, and build geographic databases as you work. With a GPS and a laptop, users in the field can create accurate geographic files of public utilities, corporate facilities, geographic features, and more.

File formats supported in TransCAD 5.0
Map, GIS, and CAD formats		Open () Import ()	Export
AutoCAD Drawing Exchange format files (version R14 and earlier)	.DXF
Caliper Compact Data Format files	.CDF
Caliper Standard Data Format files	.DBD
Digital Elevation Model files (USGS, NOAA, DTED, ESRI Binary)	.DEM;.G03;.G98; .DT0;.DT1;.DT2; .FLT		-
Digital Line Graph format files (USGS, NWI, NATSGO, STATSGO, SURGO)	.DLG;.OPT;.STD; .LGO;.LGS;.GRF; .0AF; .0SF;.ATT; .SYM		-
Digitizing tablets	Wintab compliant drivers		-
ESRI ArcMap Document (requires ArcMap to be installed)	.MXD	-
ESRI ArcView 3.x Project files and Legend Files	.APR; .AVL		-
ESRI Export format files	.E00		-
ESRI Personal Geodatabase files	.MDB		-
ESRI Shapefiles	.SHP
ESRI Ungenerate format files	.LIN;.PTS
ETAK MapBase format files	.MBS		-
Google Keyhole Markup Language Files	.KML;.KMZ	-
GPS playback data files	.GPS
GPS device serial port	NMEA 0183		-
Intergraph Design files (ISFF or V7)	.DGN		-
Interim Terrain Data (ITD)	.SLF		-
MapInfo Interchange Format files	.MIF
MapInfo TAB files	.TAB		-
Metadata (Federal Geographic Data Committee standard)	.MET
National Transportation Atlas Dataset (NTAD) format files	.PNT;.LNK;.NOD; .GEO;		-
ODBC database with coordinates for points files	ODBC (SQL etc.)		-
Oracle Version 7 (Spatial Data Option) files	SDO		-
Oracle Version 8i (and newer versions) Oracle Spatial databases	SDO
Ordnance Survey NTF format files	.NTF		-
Planning Interim Terrain Data (PITD)	.SLF		-
Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) files	.DDF		-
Strategic Mapping (Atlas) Boundary ASCII format files	.BNA
TIGER/Line files (TIGER 1990-2006, TIGER Compressed)	.F41;.F51;.F61; .BW1;.RT1;.ZIP; .TX1		-
U.S. Geological Survey Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) files	.GIR		-
Vector Product Format (VPF) files			-
Image (raster) formats		Open	Export
Bitmap (including True Color)	.BMP	-
Enhanced Compressed Wavelet	.ECW		-
Enhanced metafile	.EMF	-
GeoTIFF	.TIF		-
JPEG	.JPG;.JPEG
JPEG2000	.JP2		-
MrSID (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database)	.SID		-
MrSID Generation 3	.SID		-
Portable Network Graphics	.PNG	-
SPOT MetroView satellite images	.BIL;.TIF		-
SPOTView satellite images	.BIL;.TIF		-
TIFF	.TIF		-
U.S. Geological Survey digital rectified aerial photographs (Digital Orthophotos, including Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quad image format	DOQ;DOQQ		-
Database/table/spreadsheet formats		Open	Export
Caliper dataview	.DVW
Caliper fixed-format binary	.BIN
Comma-delimited text (read-only)	.CSV;.TXT
dBASE/FoxPro/X-base	.DBF
Fixed-format text	.ASC
HTML table	.HTM	-
Microsoft Access tables	.MDB;.ACCDB		-
Microsoft Excel (Worksheet, XML, Binary, Macros) (read-only)	.XLS;.XLSX; .XLSB;.XLSM
ODBC SQL Query (ODBCQ)	ODBCQ		-
ODBC table (ODBC)	ODBC (SQL,etc.)		-
Oracle tables	.NTF		-
Multimedia formats
Windows Media Video	.WMV
Caliper Slideshows (Can include .WAV; .AVI; .MOV; .MPG; .MPEG; .MP2; .MP3; .MPE; .ASF; .ASX; .WM; .WMA; .WMP; .WMX; .WMV; .WVX; .QT; .SND; .AU; .AIF)	.SLI
Image Servers supported by Maptitude 5.0
Google Earth satellite images
TerraServer-USA