Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
And of course, it looks like Larry has done it right too, so maybe Caliper
could just buy the code from ?!
~ D
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Hoskins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 8:13 AM
To: Maptitude
Subject: RE: [Maptitude] Theme style sheets
Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
opps, almost took the bait myself (the beginner's project) ... nope. Not me.
TO do this "right" would mean having access to Maptitude code otherwise one
would be re-inventing a large part of a previous wheel. Hope Caliper is
really listening. I am not aware that ArcView has this , MI does. In my
opinion Maptitude makes better maps than anyone, or I seem to get what I
want faster, but the drawback is not having a thematic style sheet.
Dick H
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Manire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 8:00 AM
To: Maptitude
Subject: RE: [Maptitude] Theme style sheets
Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
>Come on you GISDK programmers, bite the bait, won't take real experts like
>YOU to turn this one out...! Think how cool everyone will think, excuse me,
>know you are, after you pull this one off. And on top of that because it
>will be so clearly written and documented it will give us GISDK beginners a
>wonderful lesson on proper programming techniques.
>Lets get the specs right:
>Develop a style sheet for thematic maps
>1. can be assigned a unique name
>2. User can set number of categories
>3. User can set the size and number of the divisions using the ones
> available in Mapt or manually.
>4. User can set the colors
>5. User can apply the thematic style sheet on any map layer.
>6. One applied the resulting map can be changed and the style sheet saved
>under a new name.
I agree this would be a wonderful enhancement to Maptitude and that's
probably where it will have to come from. I wrote a theme wizard in the DK
for iSITE that does all of the above and more, and found out the hard way
the effort needed to make it fully functional, solid and bulletproof (over
100 hours!).
A small addin less bulletproof addin that just allows you to save current
theme settings in a text file under a name and then apply them to a new
map/layer would probably take a couple of days to do well.
It would be a great learning project for a beginning DK programmer!
Larry Manire
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