You will find Maptitude easy to learn, well-documented & responsive
tech support. Higher value, & comparable map quality to MapInfo.
Maptitude also directly reads any ODBC compliant data file, like
Access, Excel and many others, so as long as you have appropriate
geographic identifiers in the the oterh files, you should be able to
map them with little difficulty.
One of the few cartographic techniques that Maptitude cannot perform is
a flow map (such as commuter flows, migrant flows, imports &
exports, etc). This mapping function requires matrix math that
Maptitude cannot handle (but it's big brother Transcad can). Mapinfo
does it with freehand objects, I'm told.
Another benefit of Maptitude is the large bundled census data set that
comes with the package for the enitre USA & the World. Along with
its built-in geocoder capability, ability to build data layers from
Census Bureau TIGER/Line updates....you can't beat the price.
Kevin Byrnes
gibsoncalendar wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm writing to ask questions about Maptitude. As you'll see, I'm
fairly new to GIS software and would be grateful for feedback from
Maptitude users about its ease of use, functions, and drawbacks.
My office works with local government on public programming and
economic development. We would like to be able to generate maps of
demographic information for counties and cities. That is, we need to
be able to customize maps by adding our own layers of data. I've seen
samples of maps made from Maptitude, so I know that Maptitude is able
to do this, but I'm confused about whether I would need add-in
programs to produce such high-quality maps (for example, a 3-D map of
a neighborhood with bar graphs of housing values for each street).
Also, would you say that Maptitude is easy to learn? Is it easy to
import data from Microsoft Excel and Access? Are you satisfied with
the image quality? Lastly, how would you say Maptitude compares with
other GIS software like MapInfo? I've heard that MapInfo provides
"higher-end capabilities," but to be honest, I'm not sure that I see
any difference in Maptitude's maps and MapInfo's maps. I'm also
wondering whether MapInfo, because it directly interfaces with MS
Excel and Access, would be easier to use?
Again, I'd be grateful for any information.
Thank you!
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