Introduction

As an experienced Maptitude user, you may have thought about how nice it would be to automate some task that you perform on a regular basis, so you could accomplish it by clicking a single button or choosing a single menu item. Perhaps you have thought about creating a custom application, one that has a subset of the capabilities of Maptitude, but organized and structured differently to appeal to a particular audience. You may also have thought about calling Maptitude from another programming environment, such as VBA on .NET, to provide mapping services to an application, such as finding an address or displaying a map around a location.

If you have had these thoughts, the GIS Developer’s Kit is for you. GISDK lets you customize and extend the capabilities of Maptitude in almost any way you like. There are four types of things you can do with GISDK:

• Create add-ins that extend the capabilities of Maptitude or that automate repeated operations
• Build custom applications that extend or replace the standard interface to provide customized program operation
• Access Maptitude from .NET to integrate it into a .NET desktop application
• Program Maptitude in Python 3
• Access Maptitude as a COM Object to add maps or transportation analysis functions to your own programs
• Access Mapttidue from R
• Integrate Maptitude and PostgreSQL

For more information, see:

About Add-Ins

About Custom Applications

GISDK System Requirements

Starting GISDK

Starting the GISDK Debugger

About integrating Maptitude with External Programs