Re: [Maptitude] maptitude tutorial?

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:38:48 -0800


Great Rudy but  you've probably never tried to be get overly artistic with maybe a fancy artistic border or columns of text with various font type/sizes in one text box. I've used Maptitude since 1994 too and graphic publishing has never been Maptitude's strong point. The ability of insert text and have control of the it's arrangement with out having to touch every text bock and arranging them. Not to mentiong spell checking, Adobe and Corel have built in spell checking and the standard word processing capabilties of justifing text or inserting other graphic images. That's not to say that you can't create a fancy quality looking layout in Maptiude, if all you include is a map a couple of charts and a very simple title using standard fonts.  I've plotted some sweet color areal maps on ANSI D and ANSI E size paper and the quality look great. The point of this discussion (I believe) is that there is no way that you could produce a national geographic looking map using ONLY Maptitude.

Given whatever short comings Maptitude may have, I'm still a loyal user and truely believe it to be one of the best GIS tools available for the money.

regards,

Viktor Keenan de la Hoz - Senior GIS Technician
City of Phoenix - Street Transportation Department
Design and Construction Management Division


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I have produced maps in paper size A0 and A1 (charts) with superb quality graphics with Maptitude since 1994!!! -Rudy.
On 1/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dick Hoskins wrote:

> In my view there are 4 kinds of maps that can be made with a GIS. 1)
> publishable maps, that is, ones that will show up in print on the wall
> or in journals, reports 2) maps for use in electronic media, including
> web pages.  3)  Maps to be used in Power Point presentations  4)
> analysis maps - those that use used by researchers who can deal with
> heavy visual information load and are totally familiar with everything
> that went into its construction.  Each one has dramatically different
> requirements.

I think that's a big point that a lot of GIS software companies don't
really appreciate. Probably 95% of my fall into your first category
(published maps), and most of my difficulties with Maptitude arise
with issues of making things attractive.

This is especially the case when I'm making maps for large sizes.
Maptitude is useless for large sized published maps (mainly due to
lack of any WYSIWYG functionality in the editor -- 100 point text
just doesn't work in a mapper window. Conversely, symbols that can't
be made to scale when zooming don't work on E sized layouts either,
not to mention legends.

Hopefully future versions of Maptitude will allow some control over
the scalebar in the legend, will allow scaling of legend symbols
independent of map windows, will allow the addition of arbitrary
verbage, and will allow a layer to appear on the map more than once.

It would also make my life 10,000% easier if there were ways to
specify locations on layouts like in most graphical programs
(including Mapinfo), by typing measurements into boxes.

Oh, and transparency that works with Acrobat.

Bob

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