Surface Analysis:
With Maptitude, you can analyze and display surfaces on a two-dimensional map or as a 3D map. You can create contour maps of elevations and then determine the viewshed for any location, either at ground level or at a particular height. For example, you can find areas of weak service from a transmission tower. You can also create surfaces that represent data values, such as measures of air pollution or levels of radon gas, over a geographic region.

Routes:
Maptitude identifies routes between points and generates driving directions. When a trip involves several stops, Maptitude can even help you decide the best order in which to visit them. Most importantly, Maptitude lets you decide what type of route you want the shortest, fastest, or a route that satisfies certain restrictions you need to consider, based on the available data.

Network Bands:
In addition to the circular bands described above, you can create bands that are based on an impedance attribute along streets or other lines. Network bands are useful, for example, for identifying the area around one or more origins that can be covered within a certain amount of time or is within a particular walking/driving distance. For example, you could create bands based on driving distance to your stores to identify areas that are not well served.

Network Partitioning:
You can partition streets or other line networks into zones or districts, so that each link is assigned to the closest or least cost service location based on an impedance attribute such as time or distance. For example, you can divide the streets in a city so that each is assigned to the fire station that can provide the fastest response time, or determine which streets are within the maximum walk distances around elementary schools.

Adjacency Tools:
With Maptitude you can identify the neighbors of an area of interest and create bands of adjacent neighbors. Use these tools for topological querying, exploring market expansion, planning evacuations, or tracking disease outbreaks.

Desire Lines:
You can illustrate the flow of people or goods from point to point based on values in a dataview. For example, if you had a table with the number of customers in each ZIP Code who shop at your retail stores, you can show the number of customers traveling to each store with desire lines.

Trade Areas and Site Location:
You can determine a circular service area that encompasses a set of points. You can also choose whether to weight the center location by a field in your point layer. For example, if you are considering relocating a store, you can create a trade area around your customers and weight the center by their sales volume to determine a new candidate location.

In addition, you can:

• Measure areas and distances
• Aggregate and disaggregate attribute data
• Create areas from line features or lines from area features
• Select features by pointing, radius, polygon, condition, value, or location
• Generate statistics (count, sum, mean, minimum, maximum, & standard deviation)

Application Development Platform

Maptitude includes the Geographic Information System Developers Kit (GISDK™). GISDK gives you the tools that you need to create a wide variety of products for delivering mapping and geographic analysis capabilities to your customers. Over 850 functions can be called from Caliper Script, a complete programming language for designing menus and dialog boxes (including toolbars and toolboxes) and for writing macros. The Caliper Script code is stored in resource files that you can edit with your favorite text editor. With GISDK you can:

• Create add-ins that extend the standard interface to provide new capabilities or that automate repeated operations
• Build custom applications that focus the user on the capabilities needed for a particular purpose by extending or replacing the standard Maptitude interface
• Access Maptitude from .NET to integrate it into a .NET desktop application
• Access Maptitude as a COM Object to add maps or analysis functions to your own programs

GISDK contains both a debugger and a compiler.

Add-Ins: Add-ins are macros or dialog boxes that are launched within Maptitude. You can create add-ins to provide end-users with easier access to existing software functions; to add new capabilities to the GIS engine; or to create hooks to your own applications. Add-ins can be freely distributed to any Maptitude user without restriction.

The simplest add-ins are macros that run when they are selected by the user. A sophisticated add-in can display dialog boxes that let the user choose the settings or options to use when the macro is executed. The most flexible and powerful add-ins are custom toolboxes that provide users with push-button access to tools that you have programmed. These toolboxes look like the standard toolboxes used in all Windows applications.

Custom Applications: GISDK lets you create a mapping application program with a custom user interface. You design the menus, toolbars, toolboxes and dialog boxes, and program the application to respond to user actions in any way you want.

You can organize and structure your custom applications to appeal to a particular audience. You can create applications that are dynamic and that adapt to the capabilities and authorization level of the user.

Custom applications are executed like other Windows programs. Add your own program icon to any program group and double click to launch your application.

Accessing Maptitude from .NET or as a COM Object: GISDK allows you to call mapping functions and macros from another application, written in another programming language. The .NET classes included with Maptitude allow you to access the GISDK environment from a Windows desktop application (Windows Forms) written in any .NET language. GISDK also allows you to call GISDK functions and macros from another application using COM. Maptitude can provide map, data, and geographic analysis services when accessed as a COM Object. You write your application in a programming language that can make COM calls, and when you need map services you call the Maptitude object to supply those services.

If, instead, what you need is a web server application, you should use Maptitude for the Web. Contact Caliper or visit our web site for more information.

Maptitude User Services

Caliper provides a comprehensive program of technical support, training, and consulting services to ensure the success of your Maptitude applications.Maptitude includes comprehensive documentation with background information, step-by-step instructions, and a series of hands-on tutorials that let you try out features. On-line help with tooltips and other on-screen visual cues also make Maptitude easy to learn and use.

Caliper offers a full range of GIS implementation services. Our GIS professionals will assist you in assessing data requirements, database strategy and design, database development, and analytical modeling. Caliper also provides custom application and turnkey system development services, including web site creation.