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Using Your Data: Advanced Topics

Maptitude includes many tools to simplify using your data on a map. There are, however, some special cases, when the standard tools for mapping your data may be insufficient:

Create-a-Map Wizard (described in Creating a Map) is designed to join your data to map features that are part of your Country Package and map the results. For example, Create-a-Map Wizard can aggregate your sales data by postal code, state/province, or country and automatically create a thematic map of the results. But if you have created your own geographic files, such as sales territories or school districts, and you want to attach your data to those files, it will be necessary for you to manually join your data to the layer.
The Find and Locate commands (described in Moving Around a Map and Geocoding: Locating Your Data on a Map respectively) can automatically find and geocode your data to the street level with the street file provided in your Country Package. If, however, you have your own custom layer on which you want to find locations, you will need to create a Location index to use with it.

This appendix describes how to use your data in a Maptitude map when these circumstances apply.

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