Caliper Releases a Major New Version of Maptitude Powered by NAVTEQ^® Map Data

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) - Caliper Corporation is now shipping a major new version of Maptitude^®, its popular, powerful, and affordable mapping software.

Maptitude 6.0, the next generation of Caliper’s award-winning Geographic Information System (GIS), provides easy-to-use yet powerful mapping tools and comes with up-to-date geographic data. Maptitude provides all the features that organizations need in order to take advantage of spatially-referenced data and to visualize information effectively through the power of maps.

Maptitude 6 is a cost-effective, comprehensive solution, shipping with all the tools and data required to explore and analyze geographic markets. Maptitude provides up-to-date, accurate map data from NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data.  Also included is the Caliper 2010 third-quarter ZIP Code update as well as new U.S. Census boundaries that have been refreshed to reflect newer definitions where available.  Maptitude provides unlimited address geocoding/postal pin-mapping, territory mapping, and drive time analysis.

Maptitude 6 makes it easier than ever to create high-quality maps and incorporate them into other documents.  Users have complete control over the way their maps look and can customize them in any way that they require.

Maptitude enables direct utilization of corporate data via extensive file format support, which includes Microsoft^® formats (Excel^®, Access^®, SQL Server^®), ORACLE^® Spatial, and many other popular data and GIS formats.

For more information, contact Caliper Sales (sales@caliper.com, 617-527-4700).

About Caliper

Caliper is a leading developer of mapping, redistricting, transportation, and GIS software, including Maptitude, Maptitude for Redistricting, TransCAD^®, and TransModeler^®. Caliper software is used by more than 75,000 users in over 70 countries.