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Can I see my customers and prospects on the map?
Yes. Maptitude includes state-of-the-art
geocoding tools to let you pin-map your data using address, ZIP Code,
city, state, or other information in your database. In most cases, you
don't need to copy or import your data - Maptitude can create a file
containing the location of points on the map and link this file directly
to your existing database.
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Can I get my own
data into Maptitude?
Yes. Maptitude
is designed to let you display, edit, and map your own data.
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How do I get my data
into Maptitude?
The Create-a-Map Wizard
gives you start-to-finish assistance for getting your data into
Maptitude. With just a few clicks you can locate, analyze, and map your
data. Maptitude can work with your Excel, Access, dBASE, and other data
sources.
Maptitude
also makes it easy to use your geographic data. Maptitude
supports direct access for ESRI Shapefiles, MapInfo TAB
files, and Oracle Spatial tables. Additional import support is
included for other GIS and CAD packages including ArcView, Atlas
GIS, AutoCAD DXF, MapInfo MIF, and TIGER/Line.
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What data are
included with Maptitude?
Included in Maptitude
are:
- Nationwide
boundaries with 2000 Census demographic,
economic, housing, and social data items for all of the
following: states, counties, county
subdivisions, populated places, ZIP Code
Tabulation Areas, census tracts, and Metropolitan Statistical
Areas
- A
comprehensive street database for the entire US, including
over 37 million street segments with names and address ranges
where available.
- Geographic
files of the following: landmarks, water areas, highways,
railroads, major cities, and over 150,000 populated places
across the US.
- Worldwide
data.
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Click here
for more information on data included with Maptitude.
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Can I use Maptitude
data with other programs?
The data that come with Maptitude are
restricted by license for use only with the Maptitude software. However,
any files that you create are yours to use in any way you like.
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Can I customize
an application or integrate Maptitude into my application?
Yes. The Maptitude
Geographic Information System Development Kit (GISDK) is a
full-featured macro-programming and application development language
that lets you automate repetitive tasks or create custom
applications.
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Does Maptitude
support satellite and aerial images?
Yes, Maptitude can
display TIFF, GeoTIFF,
JPEG/World, JPEG 2000, MrSID, SPOTView, Orthophoto, and ECW image files.
After you display an image, you can use the geographic editing tools
to trace new map layers. Maptitude also
includes the TerraServer-USA toolbox that lets you download imagery
for any area of the United States with the click of a button. The
GoogleEarth toolbox lets you use GoogleEarth images with your maps
or add your maps to GoogleEarth.
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Can I distribute
maps I make with Maptitude? Can I put them on a web site?
There are certain restrictions on publishing
maps that make use of Caliper copyrighted data sets. A
separate web license is required for
publishing maps that make use of these data sets on the web. If you use
only your data sets there are no restrictions on publication. For
additional information about putting your maps on the web, read about
Maptitude for the Web or
contact Caliper Corporation directly
(email:
info@caliper.com, telephone 617-527-4700).
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Can Maptitude tell
me how to get from one place to another?
Yes, but a few cautions are in order. The
Maptitude Street file does not contain information on one-way
streets, overpasses or underpasses, travel speeds, highway dividers
and medians, or lots of other factors that affect the way you might
choose to travel from one place to another. As a result, you may
find that some routes aren't practical, or you may want to edit the
street file in some areas to make it more accurate. On the other
hand, if you want to route between cities along the major highways
of the US, the Caliper Major Roads file included
with Maptitude will do a very good job of finding the shortest
or fastest route and giving you driving directions.
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Can I use Maptitude
maps with my word processor or spreadsheet?
Yes. Maptitude supports OLE 2.0, which lets
you link or embed maps in your spreadsheets, word processing documents,
or drawing or desktop publishing files. You can also copy maps to other
applications using the Windows clipboard or by saving maps as Windows
bitmap, JPEG, or PNG files.
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How do I learn to
use Maptitude?
Maptitude is very easy
to learn and use. It uses a standard Windows interface, with menus,
toolbars, and on-line help, so it will seem familiar to you.
Create-A-Map Wizard dialog box will ask just a few questions, then
create a map at any scale from all the countries of the world to streets
around a U.S. address, landmark, or intersection.
The User's
Guide includes a Quick Start tutorial that walks you through the
major features of the software. Each of the chapters in the
User's Guide contains a series of 60-Second Tutorials that give
you the opportunity to practice each command on our sample data.
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Is training
available?
Caliper
offers
Maptitude
training courses
throughout the year. Whether you are a new user, or an experienced
user of earlier versions of Maptitude, these training sessions
will help you learn to use Maptitude more effectively and
productively.
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