Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Yes. Maptitude is designed to let you display, edit, and map your own data. 

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.

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 25 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.
• Additional data for Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are available. Contact Caliper sales for the availability of other international data.

Click here for more information on data included with Maptitude.

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. 

Yes. Most Macs purchased in the last several years will have an Intel CPU, and you can use virtualization software such as VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop to run Windows, or indeed you can also boot up your machine natively in Windows using Apple's Boot Camp software. Any of these solutions works very well for running Maptitude.

With any of these options you would need to have a Microsoft Windows license. Apple's Boot Camp is free with the Mac OS, but VMWare and Parallels are commercial products.

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.

Yes, Maptitude can display TIFF, GeoTIFF, PNG, 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 MSR Maps toolbox that lets you download imagery for any area of the United States with the click of a button. The Google Earth toolbox lets you use Google Earth images with your maps or add your maps to Google Earth.

"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).

Yes. Maptitude 2012 includes a 2011 NAVTEQ map with street data that contains information on one-way streets and travel time allowing you to find shortest and fastest routes. Maptitude also solves "traveling salesman" problems allowing you to find efficient routes among many stops.

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, GIG, TIFF, EMF, or PNG files. 

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.

There are also a number of on-line training materials including a number of Flash video lessons for common Maptitude tasks. 

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. There are also a number of on-line training materials including a number of Flash video lessons for common Maptitude tasks.