Maptitude for Redistricting has many new capabilities and
enhancements:
Enhanced Redistricting Capabilities
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Fast access to the redistricting Plan Manager: The
Plan Manager now opens automatically when the
software starts
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Quickly open recent plans using the Recent Files
menu
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Import and export Excel files (XLSX) even when
Microsoft Office is not installed
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Speed improvements provide faster access to maps,
routes, drive-time rings, and geographic analysis.
Maptitude for Redistricting provides significant
speedups in map display with faster drawing of
styles, filters, layers, and labels
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Choose the transparency of the "border style" Color
Theme on District layer
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Double-click the Color Theme style dialog box ranges
to edit styles
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Load a "border style"
color theme on District layers and Census geography
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The "Allow overlapping labels" option now uses Smart
Alignment, maximizing the number of features labeled
by trying alternate locations to reduce the
conflicts between labels
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Expanded file import support for Google Earth
Documents (KML/KMZ) attribute data fields, Microsoft
Streets & Trips (EST) and Microsoft AutoRoute (AXE)
files, MapPoint Map files (PTM, EST, AXE) icon
styles and colors
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Access to aerial, road, terrain, and hybrid map
layers (including OpenStreetMap, USGS Topographic
Maps, and USGS Aerial Imagery) that can serve as
distinctive backgrounds to your maps
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Support for the latest MrSID libraries (version 8.5)
Professional Reports Detailing the Impacts of Plan Boundaries
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Updated report style for all redistricting reports
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New Partisan Competitiveness Reports (partisan data
not included):
- Efficiency Gap: The efficiency gap is
a measure of partisan symmetry, introduced by
Stephanopoulos and McGhee. They proposed this
measure, which is a single percentage for
district plan, as a practical legal test for
Political Gerrymandering cases.
- Declination: The declination is a measure of
partisan asymmetry, introduced Warrington. He
proposed this measure, which is a single value
for a district plan, as a practical legal test
for Political Gerrymandering cases.
- Mean-Median Difference: The Mean-Median
Difference is a measure of partisan asymmetry,
introduced by Wang, who observed that this
simple and old statistical measure of “skewness”
could be useful when analyzing partisan
gerrymandering.
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New Measures of Compactness
- Minimum Convex Figure Test: The Area/Convex
Hull test computes the ratio the district area
to the area of the convex hull of the district
(minimum convex polygon which completely
contains the district).
- Cut Edges Test: The Cut Edges test counts
the number of edges removed (“cut”) from the
adjacency (dual) graph of the base layer to
define the districting plan.
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Integrated Report Designer facilitates report
customization without additional software
New and Updated Data
- American Community Survey (ACS) data from 2011-2016 for Block Group geography and larger
Enhanced Analysis Tools
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Ability to link to external data and update your map
without having to reimport your table from scratch
makes updating polling place locations and incumbent
locations simple
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Shapefile layer attribute tables can be edited via
Dataview-Modify Table
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Distance and Travel Time Tables tool makes it easy
to identify closest locations to polling places or
incumbent offices within your thresholds
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Improved routing tools which let you control speeds
by road category, export to PDF, and much more
facilitate route creating when planning meetings
with stakeholders
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Enhanced drive time rings that can be concentric,
cumulative, have multiple origins, and can produce
reports via a single click provide smart analysis
about areas surrounding important locations in your
plan
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A circle/radius drawing tool and a line drawing
tool, each auto-labeled with distance
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) humanitarian symbols
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The Formula dialog box supports the batch summing
and multiplication of multiple fields
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The Formula dialog box and Selection Toolbox support
the "matches" operation
