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Maptitude®
Version 5.0 New Features |
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This latest release of
Maptitude, the award winning GIS desktop software, continues to provide
easy-to-use yet powerful mapping tools. Maptitude 5.0
provides extensive new functionality and enhancements and remains the most competitively
priced, full featured GIS/mapping product
available.
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 New
Display Manager
toolbox
View and control the style, visibility,
and label settings for all of the layers, selection sets, and
feature display settings in a map. The Display
Manager lets you:
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See the
entire contents of a map
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Hide or
show layers
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Hide or
show selection sets
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Change
the style of a layer, selection set, feature display setting, or
theme item
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Change
the label of a layer, selection set, or feature display setting
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Enhanced Default maps
World, state, and local maps that you
create with Maptitude 5.0 include a map locator, many new line
styles, and feature display options, to provide you with even more
attractive and user-friendly maps right from the start.
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New geographic
analysis tools |
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Network Bands:
Create bands based on distance, time, or other impedance
factors along a line layer. |
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Network partitioning:
Divide line layers into
zones or districts based on proximity to points on the
network, such as walking distances to schools or response
times to fire stations. |
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Desire Lines: Illustrate
the flow of people or goods from point to point based on
values in a dataview. |
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Connect Points:
Build lines from groups of points, created with a GPS
receiver or any other methods, as either geographic files or
annotations. |
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Facility location
with weighted centroids: Locate a circular
service area that encompasses a set of points and weight the
center location by any field in the point layer. |
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New Undo
and Redo commands
Undo and redo geographic and tabular edits |
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New Locate by City
command
Locate your data anywhere
in the world using city, state/province, and country data
fields |
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New file format
support |
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Native support for Excel 2007 (.xls/.xlsx/.xlsb/.xlsm); MS
Access Table (.mdb/.accdb); Geodatabase (.mdb); JPEG 2000
Image (.jp2) |
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Export GoogleEarth/KML/KMZ |
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Import
Digital Elevation Model (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2, .flt) files;
TIGER/Line 2006 |
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Export
ESRI Project (.prj); HTML |
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New mapping tools
and features |
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Improved Find:
When there are multiple towns with the same name, choose
from a list of matching towns |
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Improved Locate by Postcode: Improved matching such
as
auto-correction of zeros |
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Masks: Create masks that
hide features outside of your area of interest. |
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Magnifier tool:
Move the cursor over a map to see portions of the map
displayed with all of the settings appropriate for the
magnified scale. |
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Multi-Layer Info and Multi-Layer Area Info tools:
Display information on more than one layer in a
map. |
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Pan Map toolbox: Pan the
map with the Pan Map toolbox or by using your mouse scroll
wheel. |
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Map synchronization:
Synchronize two or more maps so that when the scale of one
changes, all synchronized maps update automatically to the
new scale. |
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Video
tools for WMV creation: Create
Windows Media Video (.WMV) files of all changes that you
make to the active map window. |
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Improved line editing:
In addition to treating overlapping lines
as over/underpasses, you can now choose whether to
automatically intersect overlapping lines. |
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Improved legends:
Control the number of columns in a legend and the order of
items within the columns. |
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Improved Bookmarks (formerly Markers):
Quickly access
frequently used bookmarks; Export and import to share with
other users |
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Improved
image layer controls: Adjust the contrast of image
layers; Save TerraServer-USA images as TIFFs; Register JPEG,
JPEG 2000, and MrSID images. |
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New
Google Earth toolbox:
Synchronize the scales of Maptitude and Google Earth maps;
Add your maps to Google Earth; Add black-and-white Google
Earth images to your Maptitude map. |
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New dataview
features |
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Copy and paste cells: Copy
the values in one or more cells and paste them into other
cells |
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New
frequency analysis commands:
Group records in a table that have duplicate values
in a particular field into a new table with unique values,
counts, and aggregate values; or tag records in a table with
the count of records with duplicate values for a particular
field |
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New
Field Sets:
Name specific groups of
fields so you can quickly focus on those fields in a
dataview or Info window. |
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New Selection
options: Create multiple selection sets at once based
on the list of values in a field; Create
a selection set of all of the records highlighted in a
dataview. |
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Enhanced
legibility:
Shade every other row in a dataview;
Identify coded fields with a symbol |
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New interface |
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Dockable toolbars:
Choose whether toolbars are floating or docked; Resize
floating toolbars; Dock toolbars on any side. |
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Accelerator keys:
Use standard command
shortcuts such as Ctrl-S for Save or Ctrl-P for Print. |
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New layout
buttons: Use new shortcut
buttons for changing the size of layouts, turning on rulers,
turning on the grid, and displaying paper cut lines. |
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GISDK enhancements |
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Improved COM support |
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New class resources for defining objects |
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32 new documented functions |
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Hover-over variable values in the debugger |
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Display option arrays in the debugger |
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New and updated data |
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European Administrative Boundaries |
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Updated London layers |
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Updated Postal layers: Areas, Districts, Sectors, Points |
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Updated UK layers |
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Click
here to see features that were new to Version 4.8 |
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