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Geographic Information System Software Features

GIS Software Case Study

Maptitude is one of the most popular GIS software packages, and has extensive functionality. A list of typical GIS capabilities is presented below, and these are available in Maptitude:

Maps and Layers

• The Create-a-Map Wizard allows users to easily create presentation-ready maps using their own data or the default maps
• The Display Manager allows a map to be customised on-the-fly
• User-defined preferences for map units, left/right side-of-road routing, file permissions, geocoding parameters, and many other settings
• Toolbox and mouse-based map navigation is supported and includes panning, zooming, and magnifying
• Map bookmark management allows the retrieval of custom map views
• Multi-layer map feature query tools allow direct interrogation of spatial locations
• A map librarian/manager allows the organisation of various saved maps and comes with a library of pre-styled demographic maps 
• Geographic database layering controls allow customisation of layer visibility and drawing order
• Multiple maps can be open simultaneously, and can be duplicated, combined, synchronised, tiled, cascaded, and minimised/maximised
• There is explicit map scale control including undo
• Layer autoscaling allows customisation of the scale at which layers are visible
• An interactive map overview window provides perspective as you work and the ability to zoom anywhere in the study region

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Visualisation

• Extensive layer style control includes font/style/opacity settings for points/lines/areas/labels/legends/drawings; point and area styles can use most image formats and their resolution can be controlled via scaling
• Thematic visualisations include colour, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes
• A drawing toolbox is provided, the drawing items are customisable, and there is a selection of north-oriented arrows
• Each map has an editable legend that automatically lists displayed features and has a live scale bar
• Stand-alone charting capabilities include pie, bar, line, area, scatter, radar, histogram, box plot, and function charts
• Advanced text label placement and management tools include live label manipulation en-masse or individually, automated positioning, callouts/rotation, font control, multi-line, framing, hiding, styling, prioritising, stretching, spacing, autoscaling, and additional text manipulation settings
• Maps and graphics can be copy/pasted or saved as pictures/bitmaps (with optional quality/resolution settings) for insertion into MS Office and other external applications
• Printing to any printer/paper size is supported, with a wide variety of spatial print options including using fixed scale, with actual point sizes, and as pre-rendered images
• Report/layout creation can utilise settings for snap grids, rulers, paper size/orientation, dimensions, margins, alignment, print options, automated district printing, and a variety of other graphics software oriented options
• Map interaction can be recorded to video
• Layer style/label/autoscale override is provided through the Feature Display tool
• Cartographic colouring uses Brelaz's Dsatur algorithm to assign colours that ensure that no two adjacent regions have the same colour