I second that. In addition, something to note about Maptitude is its stability. If you make a wrong move in ArcGIS 9.1 it usually crashes. Now who would want that?
Rudy Banerjee Berkeley, CA On 2/2/07, Nick Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've had the good fortune, or misfortune to use quite a few GIS packages over the past few years and can assure you that Maptitude is streets ahead when it comes to ease of use. The trick with any GIS is understanding the terminology and Maptitude communicates it's functionality through a common-sense menu structure. The result is a new user is up and running with an extensie range of capabilities within a very short time. Nick Nicholas The Demographer's Workshop tel 9418-3393 mob 0404-097-269 web www.thedemographer.net.au ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Map Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* Saturday, February 03, 2007 1:55 AM *Subject:* Re: [Maptitude] New User Obviously on a Maptitude listserve, folks are going to recommend Maptitude. What's key is folks who are using or have used other GIS software, and still recommend Maptitude. I would count myself as one of those people, and I'm sure you will hear from several others who experience in various software packages. Maptitude has a great combination of ease of yse, price, and data that comes with the software. The manual is designed to speed up the learning curve. Back to price, not sure exactly what type of analysis you intend to do, but more than likely Maptitude will handle anything that the much costiler ESRI stuff can do. The fact that you are new to this work and appearantly want to teach yourself, makes Maptitude an excellent choice for mapping. *osuhdfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: I am a program evaluator who is new to mapping and GIS work. I would appreciate the thoughts of those who are more familiar with the Maptitude software. Would you suggest Maptitude 4.8 for someone who is new to this work. In other words, is it fairly "user friendly" for someone just starting out? I am mainly looking for a program that will allow me to work with locally-constructed databases available as Excel or Access files. Thank you. ------------------------------ Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=45083/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta> ------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.19/663 - Release Date: 01/02/2007 14:28
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