RE: [Maptitude] Question about the lurking legend

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:21:35 -0700

sorry folks - this went to the wrong email, anyway, you might(hopefully)  be interested ... I use ArcGIS some because NIH is providing some nice extensions to do cancer surveillance related procedures (that would take me years to render in GISDK) but the vast majority of operations I routinely need (buffering, area overlay , making districts, tagging, etc is far more operationally complex than in Maptitude. TO make a buffer around a site, count the points (deaths) calculate the population, then calculate a rate is 20-25 steps. In Maptitude it is 5 or 6. Also ArcGIS still does not have a facile areal interpolation routine without using spatial analyst, and you can then do only one variable at a time.
 
Dick H  

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hoskins, Richard E. (DOH)
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Maptitude] Question about the lurking legend

I am looking at the spatial determinants of low birth weight in the
urban counties of W Washington. We have superb birth certificate data
which I have geocoded. I am particularly interested in finding clusters
of LBW with SaTScan (www.satscan.org) and then comparing the SES of the
clusters with RR > 1 with those < 1. So far there are no surprises RR>1
are way poorer, more minorities, etc. All the usual stuff. But the
result is valuable in that we need to know exactly where the big
problems are for developing interventions. Of course LBW is distributed
through out the area, but it does cluster in 4 or 5 areas. I have not
compared these areas to the location of WIC clinics. One thing I am
interested in is developing a disparity index that works for our state.
So I am looking at clustering techniques (Fastclus in SAS, k-means) and
seeing what I come up with. ESRI gave me their Tapestry, market
segmentation data to play with. It is usually horribly expensive so out
of the reach of public health practitioners. When I finally got the
details from them about how they developed their categories (65 of
them!) I realized that they are not state specific enough to be useful.
Low SES in WA is different than low SES in NY, especially in urban
settings. I think I can develop a spate specific index which others can
do as well from census data, land value assessments, etc..

Dick H

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com] On
Behalf Of Susan Kinne
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com
Subject: [Maptitude] Question about the lurking legend

When I do a quick-and-dirty copy and paste of a map into a Word file, I
end up with two legends--one where I left it, attached to the map, and
the other in the opposite upper corner. I can't figure how to get rid
of the extra legend (nor have I figured out exactly how to open the
legend in a separate window when I detach it from the map).

Help would be appreciated. I can't find anything about this in the
manual.

Susan Kinne

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