Hi Richards,
Thanks for the tip. However I never use raster files for
overlays/geo-crosstabs. Regards, Rudy B.

On Mar 31, 2005 5:01 PM, Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> I can tell you about the raster conversion stuff. If I need to do overlays
> at a state-wide scale, several areas within a state,  then you cannot do it
> with raster files, because you loose geographic resolution if you do the
> whole state or you have to do one region at a time. One problem I had was to
> do this kind of overlay with hundreds of regions over the census data (at
> the same time) . With vector overlay this is quite easy and the variance of
> the result is constant. Maptitude has several functions for overlay which
> really cannot be done in raster-vector overlay operations. With raster
> overlay one will get a different variance for each geographic scale. If you
> are doing spatial modeling this is .... not good. 
>   
> Dick Hoskins 
> WA State DOH 
> Olympia, WA 
>  
>  
>  
>  ________________________________
>  From: Aniruddha Banerjee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Maptitude] attaching block group
> 
>  
> The edit-fill feature is the most powerful feature a GIS software can
> have. E.g. one can find the number of points (e.g. bars) within a
> block, or block plus 1 mile buffer, etc. Try doing that in any other
> software. Other software require vector-raster conversion before one
> can 'edit-fill-aggregate; by-mile etc' queries. Regards, Rudy B.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:06:49 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Amazingly I find many reasonably experienced Maptitude users who do not
> > know about it. 
> >  
> > Dick.  
> >  
> > Both the Tag and the Aggregate functions are buried in to the Edit/Fill
> > menu, and available only when a table  is active.  
> >  
> > However, they are not mere EDIT type of functions.  They are powerful
> tools
> > that can perform very specific geographic Analysis, and I think  they
> > deserve a more visible location in the Maptitude interface.  They may well
> > be included under Tools / Geographic Analysis.  
> >  
> > At any rate, I think this is one of the very few points in which the
> > Maptitude interface is not as intuitive as new users would like it to be.
> >  
> > Cheers
> >  
> > Armando
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: RE: [Maptitude] attaching block group
> > From: "Hoskins, Richard E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, March 29, 2005 2:10 pm
> > To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
> > 
> > The "tag" feature is one of the best features in Maptitude. I use it
> > practically every day. Other software usually requires several steps to do
> > the same thing. Amazingly I find many reasonably experienced Maptitude
> users
> > who do not know about it. 
> >  
> > Dick H 
> > ________________________________
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:43 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [Maptitude] attaching block group
> > 
> > 
> > In the maptitude Help look for fill / tagging.
> >  
> > You will get precise isntructions on how to attach data from one layer to
> > records in another layer.
> >  
> > Cheers
> >  
> > Armando
> >  
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [Maptitude] attaching block group
> > From: "Mark Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Mon, March 28, 2005 4:46 pm
> > To: [email protected]
> > 
> > I have a large geo. file of demographic data by block group and 
> > another large geo. file of customer data.  I would like to attach a 
> > block group id to each record in my customer file.  Can I do this with 
> > an overlay?  Anyone know how?  
> > thx,
> > mark
> > 
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