Thank
you for the info and advice! It sounds like Maptitude may be the best option
for us. And another Maptitude advantage (one that my boss appreciates very
much) is its price. It’s 1/3 of MapInfo’s price!
Thanks
again.
Minju
From: Hoskins, Richard E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005
2:28 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: [Maptitude] General
questions about Maptitude
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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