RE: [Maptitude] Cutting a small area, applying map librarian results, exporting to ESRI

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:09:51 -0700

Selection Sets will help you do everyting you want...specifically Select by Condition....If you go through the manual section on Selection Sets you can do everyting you just stated in a matter of minutes....display only those selected and export only those selected....shouldn't need to use clip to do any of the operations listed here...hope this gets you started...Dave

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of caldvdsf
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Maptitude] Cutting a small area, applying map librarian results, exporting to ESRI

Hi,
I've been marginally successful creating a map of just the state of
MA. This should be so easy (i.e., MapWizard should just leave out
the other states if you select "state", MA). However, I've learned
from the UG that I need to select and clip the layer and open the new
map (Lots of trouble if you as me). OK, so I did it. Great.

First issue is that I clipped the State High layer so I just got the
whole state outline. Ok, so I go back to the map of the US, select
all the counties one by one and clip them out as one layer. Again,
way more work than it needs to be. There must be a shortcut. All
the reading in the manual is not helping me much.

Now I want to see some demographic info on my map. For example,
Med_HH_Income. I found that the Map Librarian gives me the best data
representation down the tract level. However, no matter what I do,
it opens the information in a new window, when I want to open it in
my fance new map of MA. It is set to "Current Map Window"
under "Choose A Marker" however, it always opens up a new map window
called "The United States". This is extremely frustrating.

Finally, I want to export just the demographic layer as ESRI Shape
file (which I've done, but not successful using the splendid
MapLibrarian TRACT data, which is much more detailed than the Census
2000 layer).

I also tried to clip from the Tract map that is created without
success, as I still don't really understand all the nuances of
selecting. (I live with the manual on my desk at all times, BTW).

I've been using this for about a year now, and I still don't
understand why some operations in this program are counter-intuitive.
Thanks for any help and insights.
Todd

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