RE: [Maptitude] General questions about Maptitude

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:27:34 -0800

Something else you must be aware of with regard to getting Maptitude into your shop. The 800 KG Gorilla in the GIS world is ESRI which is used a lot in government, in fact a de facto standard. Maptitude can read ESRI files and produce them. Several folks in my agency (WA State Dept of Health) use ESRI products, and sometimes pushed to use ESRI products. Again, using Maptitude you can read ESRI files and share your Maptitude files with ESRI GIS users. You can read MapInfo files too. 
 
 BTW, there are more Maptitude GIS licenses in DOH than any other GIS software. The reason is all the items Kevin referred to. Something else too, you can go a long ways towards training yourself with the Maptitude manual.
 
Dick H

From: Kevin Byrnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Maptitude] General questions about Maptitude

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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