Maptitude Help / Managing Geographic Files

Managing Geographic Files

Maptitude includes dozens of geographic files, as well as tools for managing these files and the geographic files you create yourself. The Maptitude geographic utility tools enable you to:

Copy, rename, archive, and restore geographic files
Create and use metadata
Import and export geographic files among many CAD, desktop mapping, and geographic information system (GIS) software packages
Export to Excel
Create mask files that hide portions of the map
Clip geographic files so that they contain just a particular region
Merge geographic files
Create lines from a series of points such as GPS input
Convert points to areas
Convert lines to areas and areas to lines
Create grids
Color a map
Use other coordinate systems and datums
Adjust geographic files by rubbersheeting
Create a Line of Sight Layer

This chapter describes all of these Maptitude tools. For details on editing geographic files and creating new ones from scratch, see Creating and Editing Geographic Files.