I've actually confronted the folks at MapInfo with the question because I used t o be pretty chummy with some of the directors and VP's in my home town of Troy, NY. They argued that their data is cleaner and better, and they offer a broader selection of industry specific datasets. And they're right depending on the dataset. For example, the streets provided by Caliper are reprocessed tiger files and aren't street level accurate. I know because they don't line up very accurately with my street datasets, while the samples I recieved from MapInfo line up very well.
However in defense of Caliper , they're street files are geocodable and include street classifications. Where if you were to purchase the same level of street date from MapInfo; they would be a dumb line layer. Samples I was provided with were from a third party vendor and would have cost significanly more for a dataset for the entire U.S.. I tried to keep my comparison apples to apples, and pricing based on equal datasets. So my estimate actually didn't include every single dataset, because in some cases MapInfo only offered specific specialty datasets. For all intents and purposes, Calipers datasets are perfect for most general business applications. I'm only concerned with meter accuracies because I work in an engineering and survey level environement were sub-meter accuracy is important:: But for most business type analysis you're dealing with smaller scaled areas.
Viktor Keenan de la Hoz - Senior GIS Technician
City of Phoenix - Street Transportation Department
Design and Construction Management Division
(602) 534-0498
| Seymour Dupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/25/2004 10:37 AM
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I wonder what MapInfo would say if the quetion was put
to them?
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> A few years back I did a cost comparison analysis of
> Maptitude vs. MapInfo
> and the result was a difference of over $20,000,
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