The author was one of my Maptitude students once upon a time. As I recall I never got Epitools to work. The description is a way overstated. For Crimestat, it uses shape files. Lately since Maptitude does not require a full import of a shape file to view it, its pretty easy/quick to go back and forth. However most of the routines really just need a dbf file to do the work, so going back and forth can be no more than linking Crimestat results to a Maptitude map. The results will be polygon maps which are shape files which Maptitude reads. All is in long/lat. For SaTScan, data input is a dbf or excel. The output is a file that can be linked to a Maptitude layer. Maptitude will produce the census tract (or whatever polygon is using) centroid. SaTScan will find areas of high or low rates for anything, not just disease if one can provide population data and "cases." What would really be useful is a link to some stat package like SAS, SPSS or Stata, or R. R is free and has many spatial analysis programs. The stat package does not need to be incorporated into the Maptitude GUI. Seems there ought to be a way to link the Maptitude .bin file to a stat package. Dick H ________________________ Forward or reply from: Dick Hoskins EMS/Trauma WA DOH, Olympia (360) 236-2873 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moshe Haspel Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Maptitude] Has anyone used Epitools? Folks, I saw a listing for a utility called EpiTools on the Directions Magazine website: [Epitools ver 1.0 is a free (other than $10.00 for shipping and handling) GISDK Add-In tool for Maptitude GIS. This tool will allow access to commonly used epidemiological, statistical, crime, and mapping software while running Maptitude. The user can toggle between programs, sharing files while performing analysis of complex epidemiological problems.] (http://www.directionsmag.com/files/index.php/view/528 <http://www.directionsmag.com/files/index.php/view/528> ) Sounds useful! Only... the link to this utility is broken and there is no whois listing for the company (geohca.com). Does anyone know anything about this utility? Absent the utility, does anyone have any tips for streamlining I/O with Crimestat? (Dick, I noticed that you wrote one of the case studies in the manual.)
