New Features in Maptitude 4.7

Mapping

• Set custom autoscale settings for labels
• Autoscale individual selection sets to hide and show selected features at different scales

Analysis

• Create density grids so that you can analyze point data on a regular grid such as customer concentrations, crime hot spots, or disease outbreaks (below left)
• Identify trade areas with the facility locator
• Quickly create temporary features and generate bands about them for more rapid analysis of locations
• Compute adjacency of areas to explore market expansion, plan evacuations, or track disease outbreaks (below right)

Reports

A new interface for report production allows on-the-fly creation of single page print-outs of districts or market areas using several customizable templates.

Editing

• Add or split area features using features in a line layer
• Batch edit multiple layers with the Multi Clipper to create sets of geographic files for an area of interest

Tables

• Zoom to a map location from a dataview
• Tag cells in a table with data from features up to 4,000 miles away (previously 500 mile threshold)
• Create temporary summary statistics tables
• Transpose rows and columns
• Create custom field formats that include text, use foreign currency symbols, or swap comma and period placement

File Formats

• Import TIGER/Line 2002 and 2003 files
• Open JPEG/World (.JPW) files as image layers in a map
• Open ArcView 3.x Project (.APR) files with their theme (layer) settings
• Open ArcView 3.x Legend (.AVL) files with their display settings

Layouts

• Resize layout contents automatically when the layout size changes
• Place items in a layout at either the map or frame aspect ratio
• Redraw maps in layout for a more precise view

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