Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter: Thanks for the comprehensive response & I, for one, look forward to 4.5 release. Hope you enjoy my other response to Margie's question! Kevin Byrnes "Peter H. Van Demark" wrote: > Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Kevin: > > >We are all beginning to hear ESRI beat its drum about the "latest > >enhancement" of ArcView to be roled out as "ArcGIS 8.1". From a > >presentation I heard yesterday, I am more convinced than ever that > >Maptitude still represents superior value as a desktop GIS. > > That is good to hear! > > >While I'm not tempted at all by ESRI's "siren song", it might be useful > >for existing Maptitude customers to get a comparative chart of the > >expected functional capability of MT 4.5 vs. ArcGIS 8.1...for example, > >ArcGIS 8.1 apparently will finally be offering import/export of multiple > >(up to 40?) geographic formats...a feature of Maptitude for a number of > >years (but a format for format comparison would be useful). > > Once we are aware of the capabilities of ArcGIS 8.1 (or, more specifically, > ArcView 8.1), we could do a comparison. Any help you could offer would be > appreciated. > > >We keep getting from you these "snippet" insights to the improved features > >of the 4.5 product (and I know you don't want to promise something that > >you might not be able to deliver), but it would be nice to know what the > >whole package will offer... > > The Maptitude 4.5 capabilities are set, and the first incarnation of > Version 4.5 will be shipped very soon as Maptitude for Redistricting 4.5. A > quick summary (not complete): > > - File-Open: new file types, including reading Shapefile, MapInfo TAB, and > Oracle Spatial directly > > - Map-xxx Theme: Save and Load buttons for reusing theme settings (Margie's > ideas helped with this one) > > - Map-Map Coloring: new command that solves the four-color map problem > (based on one of our software developer's PhD dissertation) > > - Map-Feature Display: new command that manages assignment of style and > label settings to map features based on a code in a CCSTYLE field (no more > huge selection sets in .MAP files!) > > - Dataview-Table Structure: new command that displays the field name, type, > width, decimals and index flag for the current layer/dataview, which can be > saved into a table > > - Tools-Surface Analysis: new submenu with improved surface analysis, > including draping a map on a DEM and computing a shortest path over the > terrain (do I go over the mountain, or around it?); display done with > OpenGL (same for prism maps) > > - Tools-Locate-Index Locations: new command that creates Location indices, > an alternative to Streets files for locating addresses > > - Tools-Geographic Utilities-Rubbersheet: new command that rubbersheets a > geographic file, based on pairs of control points > > - Tools-Geographic Utilities-Clip by Area: new command that clips the > working layer based on some or all features in an area layer, with control > over how attributes are handled (like copying speed on a highway but > splitting the travel time) > > - Tools-Geographic Utilities-Merge Geography: new command that merges some > or all features in a layer into the (DBD) working layer, with control over > how attributes are handled (i.e., how to match up fields with different names) > > - New user's guide > > - New help format, using frames, links to web pages, a table of contents, > and an index integrated across sub-help files; those who have GISDK help > know what I mean > > >...and how "backward" compatible it will be (e.g. old add-ins which > >worked with 3.0 were rendered useless with the migration to MT 4.0). > > Remember, Version 3.x was for Windows 3.x, and Version 4.x is for Windows > 4.x (Win95) and above. That and other factors created a lot of changes in > the GISDK for Version 4.0. The number of changed GISDK functions (in terms > of breaking add-ins), going from Version 4.0 to Version 4.5, is quite small. > > Peter > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Van Demark > Director of GIS Products and Training Phone: 617-527-4700 > Caliper Corporation Fax: 617-527-5113 > 1172 Beacon Street E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Newton MA 02461-9926 Web site: http://www.caliper.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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