What's New in Maptitude for Redistricting 2023

Maptitude for Redistricting 2023 includes several redistricting improvements, enhancements, and new features including:

• Updated the Plan Components (Short) Report to better support Block-Voting District-County hierarchy.
• The Map>Display Manager Toolbar now allows you to show or hide a theme by toggling visibility using the green check/red cross buttons, giving you the ability to easily switch between different thematic visualizations
• Labels now support the display of Emojis when using the Segoe UI Emoji font
• Drawing items now support the display of Emojis when using the Segoe UI Emoji font
• New capabilities for geographic databases have been introduced that support the display of Emojis when using the Segoe UI Emoji font
• Added Scatter Plots chart type, Dataview>Statistics>Scatter Plots, that allows you to visualize and test the strength of the relationship between two attributes along with the equation of the trendline and the regression constant
• File>Export>Image now defaults to the Portable Network Graphic file format instead of Windows Bitmap, encouraging smaller file sizes without a loss of resolution
• The support for Maptitude  for Redistricting on Intel chip Apple Macs with Windows has been extended to Apple Mac or Surface Pro ARM M1/M2 chips with Windows. Please contact Sales for the ARM enabled version.
• The Maptitude installer remembers your previously entered serial number.
• The support for 4K high resolution monitors has been improved with scaling of Wizard images, toolbar titles, and buttons.
• The support for Unicode has been implemented and the Edit>Preferences>System options for Code Page and Locale are used when converting strings in workspaces and tables to UTF-8.

New File Import Support

• GeoJson (*.GEOJSON; *.JSON) optional import in Open File window
• ESRI File Geodatabase (*.GDB) optional import in Open File window
• ESRI File Geodatabase (*.GDB) optional linking of line and node layers

New File Export Support

• Microsoft Excel (*.XLSX) support for date and time field types

New Native File Support

• GeoJson (*.GEOJSON; *.JSON) optional “Add to map” in File Open window

Maptitude for Redistricting also includes all of the new features in Maptitude 2023 and described in-depth in the New Features in Maptitude 2023 PDF.

Click here to see features that were new to Maptitude for Redistricting 2022