Maptitude Tech Tips

If you already have a territory map that you wish to add to, skip to Step 5.

1. Choose File>New Map, choose Territories from the radio list, and click Next>.
2. Choose Interactively from areas in a map and click Next>.
3. For Geography layer, choose 5-Digit ZIP Code and for Geography Field choose ZIP.
4. Add any tracking fields you wish and click Finish. Save the Territory Layer in a suitable location.
5. In the Territory Manager, click .
6. In the Enter a Condition box, type: “ZIP between 02100 and 02210” and click OK.
7. The ZIP Codes in the given range will be highlighted. If you are happy with the selection click to add them to a territory. If you would like to try a different range, click and repeat steps 5-6 with a different range.

1. Download the data from the Caliper Store. NOTE, you must have Maptitude in order to download the layers.
2. Once the files are downloaded, click OK, and then click the Install button. Follow the prompts to install the layer.
3. To add the AADT layer to a Maptitude map, open the map, click on the Standard toolbar, and click Add Layer in the Layers dialog box.
4. Browse for the folder where the downloaded data are located (e.g., c:\ccdata\USA 2018 Traffic Count Layer\). Choose the data layer and click Open in the File Open dialog box. Maptitude adds the Average Daily Traffic layer to the map.
5. Optionally, you may want to hide the streets and/or highway layers. Close the layers dialog box to see the layers on the map.

The AADT layer comes with a default size theme suitable for nationwide mapping. However, you can create a new size theme that better displays traffic counts for a zoomed in area.

1. Use the Find or Zoom tools to display your area of interest on the map.
2. Click next to the Highway/Freeway and/or Street layer to hide them on the map.
3. Make Average Daily Traffic the working layer
4. Choose Map-Thematic Mapping-Size or click on the Standard Toolbar to open the Size Theme dialog box and click Remove.
5. Choose Map-Thematic Mapping-Size or click on the Standard Toolbar to open the Size Theme dialog box again.
6. Choose AADT from the scroll list and click Apply. This will reapply the size theme, but it will be calibrated to the data range of the current visible window.
7. If you would like to make the maximum width larger, change the value in the High Value Size edit box and click Apply again. (e.g., Change it from 8 to 16 to make the lines twice as wide.)
8. Click OK when you are done adjusting the sizes.
9. If the labels are not visible, right-click on the Average Daily Traffic layer in the Display Manager and choose Show Labels.
10. If you would like to modify the labels, click next to the Average Daily Traffic layer to open the Labels dialog box.
11. You can change the position, font, size, and style of the traffic count labels on the Labels tab. You can change the background to a frame, shadow, or different halo on the Background tab. Click OK when you are done.

1. Download the data from the Caliper Store. NOTE, you must have Maptitude and a US or Canada Country Package in order to download the layers.
2. Once the files are downloaded, click OK, and then click the Install button. Follow the prompts to install the layer. The default save location is c:\ccdata. We recommend saving to this location
3. To add the layer to a Maptitude map, open the map, click on the Standard toolbar, and click Add Layer in the Layers dialog box.
4. Browse for the folder where the downloaded data are located (e.g., c:\ccdata\) and find "ntHighwayExit.cdf" (ntCanadaHighwayExit.cdf for users with the Canada country Package) from this folder and click Open in the File Open dialog box.
5. Maptitude adds the "Highway Exit" layer to the map. Close the Layers dialog box to see the layer on the map.

1. Download the data from the Caliper Store. NOTE, you must have Maptitude in order to download the layers.
   
2. Once the files are downloaded, click OK, and then click the Install button. Follow the prompts to install the layers.
3. To add one or more of the layers to a Maptitude map, open the map, click on the Standard toolbar, and click Add Layer in the Layers dialog box.
   
4. Browse for the folder where the downloaded data are located (e.g., c:\ccdata\Healthcare 2018\). Choose one or more of the healthcare data layers and click Open in the File Open dialog box.
   
5. Maptitude adds the layer(s) to the map. Close the layers dialog box to see the layers on the map. Note, you may have to zoom in or turn off autoscaling if your map scale is outside of the autoscale settings for the layer(s) you chose. You can turn off autoscaling in the Display Manager by right-clicking on a layer and choosing Show Layer or by clicking the red magnifying glass icon next to the layer.
   

1. Download the data from the Caliper Store. NOTE, you must have Maptitude and a 2018 US, Australia, Canada, or UK Country Package in order to download the layers.
2. Once the files are downloaded, click OK, and then click the Install button. Follow the prompts to install the layers.
3. To add one or more of the layers to a Maptitude map, open the map, click on the Standard toolbar, and click Add Layer in the Layers dialog box.
4. Browse for the folder where the downloaded data are located (e.g., c:\ccdata\). Choose one or more of the POI data layers and click Open in the File Open dialog box.
5. Maptitude adds the layer(s) to the map. Close the layers dialog box to see the layers on the map. Note, you may have to zoom in or turn off autoscaling if your map scale is outside of the autoscale settings for the layer(s) you chose. You can turn off autoscaling in the Display Manager by right-clicking on a layer and choosing Show Layer or by clicking the red magnifying glass icon next to the layer.

1. Download the data from the Caliper Store. NOTE, you must have Maptitude and a US, Australia, Canada, or UK Country Package in order to download the layers.
2. Once the files are downloaded, click OK, and then click the Install button. Follow the prompts to install the layers.
3. To add one or more of the layers to a Maptitude map, open the map, click on the Standard toolbar, and click Add Layer in the Layers dialog box.
4. Browse for the folder where the downloaded data are located (e.g., c:\ccdata\USA 2018 Business Location Layers\). Within this folder will be several subfolders by category (e.g., Automotive, Grocery, Restaurant). Choose one or more of the POI data layers from these folders, and click Open in the File Open dialog box.
5. Maptitude adds the layer(s) to the map. Close the layers dialog box to see the layers on the map. Note, you may have to zoom in or turn off autoscaling if your map scale is outside of the autoscale settings for the layer(s) you chose. You can turn off autoscaling in the Display Manager by right-clicking on a layer and choosing Show Layer or by clicking the red magnifying glass icon next to the layer.

For additional help with the Business Layers please see: https://www.caliper.com/pdfs/caliper-business-data-2018.pdf

The first step to tagging is to create columns to populate. These can be added as blank columns in your spreadsheet before you import or added to the data in the map. Below are the steps to add the columns in Maptitude:

1. Right click on the layer name that represents your locations and choose New Dataview.
2. Choose Dataview>Table>Modify.
3. Click Add Field four times to add 4 new fields/columns to your data.
4. Click "Field_1" that you added in the Field Name column and rename the field "Near AADT". Rename the other three fields that you created "High AADT", "Total AADT" and "Dist to N AADT" (this will be the distance to the nearest AADT). Your field names can be different if you like, but these will be used for describing the steps in this exercise.
5. Choose Integer (4 bytes) from the drop-down list in the Type column for the first three fields, and choose Real (8 bytes) for the "Dist to N AADT" field.
6. Click OK and Yes to confirm. The fields have now been added to your Dataview. Scroll the Dataview to the far right so that you can see the headings for the new fields.

Tagging with the nearest traffic count:

1. Right-click on the "Near AADT" field heading and choose Fill to display the Fill dialog box.
2. Choose the Tag option from the radio list.
3. Choose Average Daily Traffic from the Using Layer drop-down list, All Features from the Selection Set drop-down list, and AADT from the Tag With drop-down list.
4. Click OK. Maptitude fills the field with the traffic count for the nearest link.

Tagging with the highest traffic count within a radius:

1. Right-click on the "High AADT" field heading and choose Fill to display the Fill dialog box.
2. Choose the Aggregate option from the radio list to display the Aggregate Data dialog box.
3. Choose Average Daily Traffic from the Layer drop-down list and All Features from the Include drop-down list.
4. Enter a buffer size (this can be any distance and units you want).
5. Choose High Value of from the Fill With drop-down list and choose AADT from the second drop-down list.
6. Click OK and click OK again. Maptitude fills the field with the highest traffic count within the buffer radius that you chose.

Tagging with the Total AADT within a radius:

1. Right-click on the "Total AADT" field heading and choose Fill to display the Fill dialog box.
2. Choose the Aggregate option from the radio list to display the Aggregate Data dialog box.
3. Choose Average Daily Traffic from the Layer drop-down list and All Features from the Include drop-down list.
4. Enter a buffer size (this can be any distance and units you want).
5. Choose Total from the Fill With drop-down list and choose AADT from the second drop-down list.
6. Click OK and click OK again. Maptitude fills the field with the total traffic count within the buffer radius that you chose.

Tagging with the distance to the nearest traffic count:

1. Right-click on the "Dist to N AADT" field heading and choose Fill to display the Fill dialog box.
2. Choose the Tag option from the radio list.
3. Choose Average Daily Traffic from the Using Layer drop-down list, All Features from the Selection Set drop-down list, and Distance to Feature from the Tag With drop-down list.
4. Click OK. Maptitude fills the field with the distance to the nearest link. This value will be reported in the default units for Maptitude (found on the System tab when you choose Edit>Preferences).

1. Open a map that contains your territory layer and the new ZIP Code layer.
2. Click in the Territory Manager and choose Check for Errors.
3. Click Yes in the Confirm dialog box. If the ZIP Codes cause the territory boundaries to change, Maptitude displays the Rebuild Territories dialog box.
4. If you want to adjust your territory boundaries to match the new ZIP Codes, choose the first option in the radio list (Update the territory boundaries based on the current assignments) and click OK.
5. If you want to keep your territory boundaries and update the list of ZIP Codes in each territory, choose the second option in the radio list (Keep the territory boundaries and update assignments to match) and click OK.
6. Choose whether or not to create an archive of your territory layer in the Confirm dialog box. Maptitude updates the territories based on the latest ZIP Codes.

1. Use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general- purpose map of your area of interest.
2. Choose File > Open and change the type of file to Microsoft Streets & Trips/ AutoRoute File (*.est,*.axe).
3. Browse for the file that contains your waypoints and click Open.
4. Make sure the box for Route Waypoints, along with any other features you would like to open, is checked.
5. Click OK and choose a folder. The waypoints will be added to the map as a new layer
6. Choose Tools > Routing & Directions > Routing Manager.
7. Click in the Routing Manager, choose Route Waypoints from the Layer drop-down list, All Features from the Features drop-down list, and ListPosition from the Order by drop-down list. Click OK when you are done. This will add your waypoint locations to the Routing Manager.
8. The tools in the Routing Manager allow you to choose your start and stop locations, set the itinerary, and adjust your route preferences. For more details on using the Routing Manager please see this video on our website. Once the settings are complete, click Get Directions to create route that visits the stops in your selected order. To visit the stops using the shortest or fastest route choose Optimize.

1. Open or create a map that contains a point layer of the features with which you want to create the drive-time rings. (You can use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a point layer from your own data or use the selection tools to choose features in any point layer.)
2. Choose Tools>Routing & Directions>Drive-Time Rings to display the Drive-Time Rings toolbox.
3. Click in the Drive-Time Rings toolbox.
4. Choose the point layer to use from the Layer drop-down list.
5. Choose whether to use all features or a selection set from the Using drop-down list.
6. Specify the number and size of the rings to create.
7. Check the Separate Rings box and choose the field in the point layer to use to name the rings from the Ring Names from drop-down list.
8. Click in the Drive-Time Rings toolbox. Maptitude generates the rings, makes the rings the working layer, and displays them with a color theme using the name field you chose in the previous step.
9. Click on the Standard toolbar. Maptitude generates a demographic report and opens it in Excel. Click the Overlay tab to see the worksheet with income, population, household, and other demographics.

1. Choose File>New Map and use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a point layer from your data.
2. When Create-a-Map Wizard prompts you to import or link data, choose Link data to map it and choose a field that contains unique IDs for each record from the ID Field drop-down list.
3. Continue through Create-a-Map Wizard, choosing any theme or analysis options along the way.
4. Maptitude creates a point layer from your data and displays a report with the results. Click OK to close the report and see the point layer on a map.
5. Choose File>Save Workspace As and save your map and any other open windows to a folder on your computer.
6. When you next update your data file (e.g., update sales information, add or remove customers), open your saved workspace in Maptitude and choose Map>Update Linked Records. Maptitude updates the map with the new data. If your map contains any themes, the themes will now be based on the new data. Any records that were added will be added as new points on the map. Any records that were deleted will no longer appear as points on the map.

1. Choose Map-Demographic Map Librarian.
2. Choose a map category from the first scroll list. For example, choose County Demographic & Social Profile. The second scroll list updates to show the available maps for the category you chose.
3. Choose one or more of the maps. For example, click on Population and Ctrl-click on Population - Per Square Mile to open those two demographic maps.
4. Finally, choose the location you want to see. Choose Other Location... from the third scroll list and click OK.
5. Choose U.S. State from the scroll list, enter the two letter abbreviation for your home state in the edit box, and click OK.
6. Choose Window-Tile Vertically or Window-Tile Horizontally to see the two maps side by side.
7. Choose Map-Synchronize and click OK to synchronize the two maps.
8. Click on the Tools toolbar and click and drag on one of the maps to recenter it. Both maps update to the new location.
9. Choose File-Close All to close the maps.

1. Choose File-New Map and create a new General Purpose map of your area of interest.
2. Make the layer on which you want to create the thematic map the working layer. You can do this by right-clicking on the layer in the Display Manager and choosing Make Working Layer.
3. Choose Map-Thematic Mapping-Color or click on the Standard toolbar to display the Color Theme dialog box.
4. Click on the Field drop-down list and type hher. This filters the list of fields by householder fields.
5. Choose one of the Income fields. MapWizard fills in all of the other settings in the dialog box.
6. Click OK.

1. Download the data from the Caliper Store. NOTE, you must have Maptitude in order to download the layers.
   
2. Once the files are downloaded, click OK, and then click the Install button. Follow the prompts to install the layers.
3. To add one or more of the layers to a Maptitude map, open the map, click on the Standard toolbar, and click Add Layer in the Layers dialog box.
   
4. Browse for the folder where the downloaded data are located (e.g., c:\ccdata\plss\). Choose one or more of the data layers and click Open in the File Open dialog box.
   
5. Maptitude adds the layer(s) to the map. Close the layers dialog box to see the layers on the map. Note, you may have to zoom in or turn off autoscaling if your map scale is outside of the autoscale settings for the layer(s) you chose. You can turn off autoscaling in the Display Manager by right-clicking on a layer and choosing Show Layer or by clicking the red magnifying glass icon next to the layer.
   

1. Choose File > Open and open the table or spreadsheet that contains the data you want to locate. At a minimum, your table should contain fields with the city and country that each record is in. Optionally, your table should have a field with the province/state so that, for example, Maptitude can differentiate between Portland, Maine, USA and Portland, Oregon, USA.
2. Choose Tools > Locate > Locate by World City.
3. Choose the field in your table that contains the city name from the City Field drop-down list.
4. Choose the field in your table that contains the country name or abbreviation (e.g., Denmark, DK, or DNK) from the Country Field drop-down list.
5. Optionally, choose the field in your table that contains the province/state from the Province/State Field drop-down list.
6. Click OK.
7. Enter a name for the new layer and click Save. Maptitude locates the records in your table and displays a report with the location results.
8. Click OK.

To zoom the map to a country or city:

1. If you are mapping a location for which you do not have a Maptitude Country Package, choose Map > Imagery and choose one of the image layers available (not the US specific USGS ones).
2. Choose Edit-Find to display the Find tool.
3. Choose to find a World City or World Country on the left of the window and enter text as prompted.
4. Click OK. The map is zoomed to your area of interest.

The steps below show how to create a density map of the concentration of physicians, but you can use any point layer (such as customers or crime locations) as the basis for your map in step 5.

1. Download the free healthcare data layers.
2. Use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map any U.S. county (e.g., Los Angeles CA, Cook IL, Harris TX).
3. Click on the Standard toolbar and add the Physician layer (ccPhysician.cdf) that you downloaded in step 1 to your map.
4. Choose Tools-Analysis-Density/Heat Layer or click on the Standard toolbar.
5. Choose Physician from the Layer drop-down list and choose Visible Features from the Set drop-down list. (Note: You are going to create a heat map showing the density of all physicians in the county. If you wanted, you could focus on a subset of the physicians by using a selection set such as just the physicians whose primary field is geriatrics or orthopedics.)
6. Enter 2 in the Radius edit box (to assess the density of physicians within 2 miles of all locations in the grid) and make sure the Theme box is checked.
7. Enter a name for the density grid layer, such as "Physician Density," in the Layer Name edit box.
8. Click OK, enter a name for the file, and click Save.
9. Maptitude computes the density grid and adds it to the map. Areas with high concentrations of doctors are shown in darker green. You may want to hide the Physician layer to better see the density grid.

1. Download the free healthcare data layers.
2. Use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map of the area you wish to study.
3. Click on the Standard toolbar and add one or more of the healthcare layers you downloaded in step 1 to your map.
4. Click on the Drawing toolbar and click on the map at the location you want to study.
5. Enter a radius and click OK. Maptitude draws a circle of the specified radius on the map centered at the point where you clicked.
6. Right-click on the circle you created and choose Export to Excel.
7. Enter a name for the file and click Save. Maptitude creates an Excel workbook file with one sheet for each of the layers you added to the map. For example, there may be a Hospital sheet that lists all of the hospitals within the radius you specified, a Physician sheet that lists all of the physicians within the radius you specified, etc. There will also be a sheet of Census overlay information that includes the population, income, and other demographics for the population within the radius you drew.

1. Choose File-Open and choose MapPoint Map File (*.ptm) as the file type.
2. Open a MapPoint file with territories such as the sample that shipped with MapPoint (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft MapPoint 2013\Samples\Typical US Marketing Areas by County.ptm)
3. Follow the import prompts. When you reach the Territory Wizard step, click Next. If you have territories based on counties, you will be able to choose both the county field and the state field.
4. Follow the prompts and Maptitude creates your county-based territory layer.
5. In the Territory Manager you can highlight one or more territories and right-click on them to choose Export Territories to Excel. Maptitude creates Excel sheets that list the base geography for each territory as well as the demographics for each territory

1. Open a map that contains either a point layer with origin and destination selection sets or two point layers, such as a customer layer and a store layer. 
2. In Maptitude choose Tools-Routing & Directions-Distance and Travel Time Tables.
3. In the Origin frame, choose the layer that contains the origins, whether to use all features or a selection set, and the field that contains the names of the origins.
4. In the Destination frame, choose the layer that contains the destinations, whether to use all features or a selection set, and the field that contains the names of the destinations.
5. Choose whether to base your tables on the drive-time or distance from the Using drop-down list.
6. Choose whether to output the results as a matrix or a table from the Output radio list and check the box if you want to see the results in Excel.
7. Click OK.
8. Enter a name for the table that you are creating and click Save. Maptitude calculates the time/distance between the origins and destinations and displays the results.

1. Your CSV file needs to have column headings. If these are missing you can add the first row of column names in an application such as Excel. Alternatively, you can open the CSV file in Maptitude and use the Dataview-Modify Table command.
2. In Maptitude choose File-New, choose Map, and click OK.
3. Choose Map of My Own Data
4. Click Next and browse to your CSV file, making sure to specify CSV (Comma- or Tab-delimited Text) as the file type.
5. Choose your Longitude and Latitude fields when prompted.
6. Choose to Locate the records in your file by coordinates.
7. Follow the remaining prompts until you are finished. Maptitude geocodes your points based on the coordinate data and displays a map of the locations.

1. Open a map that contains a point layer from which you want to build the catchment areas.
2. Make the Street layer the working layer.
3. Choose Tools-Routing-Network Partitioning.
4. Choose the point layer to use from the Layer drop-down list and choose whether to use all features or a selection set from the Using drop-down list.
5. Choose Travel Time from the Minimizing drop-down list and enter a maximum time to consider in the Maximum Time edit box.
6. Click the Options tab and check only the Create Zone Layer box.
7. Click OK. Maptitude displays the Output File Settings dialog box.
8. Enter a name for the new catchment area layer in the Short File Name column of the grid view.
9. Click OK. Maptitude uses drive-time information on the street layer to build catchment areas around the point features.

1. Open a map and make the point layer from which you want to build the catchment areas the working layer.
2. Choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Areas of Influence.
3. Choose whether to build the areas around all features or a selection set from the Around drop-down list.
4. Enter a name for the new catchment area layer in the Layer Name edit box.
5. If you want, you can associate the name of the point features with the areas by choosing a field that contains the names from the drop-down list.
6. If you want to calculate demographics for the catchment areas check the Calculate Demographics box.
7. Click OK, enter a name for the new geographic file, and click Save. Maptitude creates a circular area layer encompassing the points and divided into straight-line catchment areas.

1. Start Maptitude and choose Edit- Preferences.
2. Click the Routing tab.
3. Change the value in the Minimum Band Time box to a value less than five.
4. Click OK when you are done. Now when you use the Drive-Time Rings toolbox you can enter values less than 5 minutes.

1. Use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a map that contains a point layer of the features you want to analyze.
2. Right-click on the Census Tract layer in the Display Manager and choose New Dataview.
3. Choose Dataview-Summary Statistics. You can then copy the Sum value for your chosen variable (e.g., Population, Households, etc.).
4. Use Excel or the Windows Calculator and multiply the value you copied by 0.80. Copy this value.
5. In Maptitude, close the statistics Dataview. Make your point layer of locations the working layer by choosing it in the in the drop-down in the Standard toolbar. You may need to first make the layer visible depending on the map scale.
6. Choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Buffers.
7. If you are examining a filtered set of features from your point layer (e.g., a store brand from the point landmark layer), choose the set to use from the Buffers Around drop-down list, otherwise choose All Features from the drop-down list.
8. Choose Build to Value from the Method radio list.
9. Paste the value you calculated in step 4 into the Values edit box.
10. Choose Census Tract from the Layer drop-down list.
11. Choose the field you used in step 3 from the Field field drop-down list.
12. Make sure the Separate Buffers box is NOT checked.
13. Click OK. Maptitude creates a buffer around your locations that contains the target value that you chose.

Maptitude doesn't have a specific Import tool for GTFS data, but you can use a download of a GTFS archive to construct a map layer of the route.

1: Download the GTFS archive and extract its contents to any suitable folder.

2: Map all of the point locations in the file shapes.txt file you extracted:

• Start with any map of the general area.
• Choose File-Open and browse for and open the shapes.txt file in a new dataview.
• Choose Tools-Locate-Locate by Coordinate to plot the route points on the map using the longitude and latitude fields in the text file for the X and Y fields.

3: Connect the points into their respective routes by doing the following:

• Choose Tools-Geographic Utilities-Connect Points.
• Choose the To New Layer option.
• In the "First group points having the same value as" section, choose shape id from the Field drop-down list.
• In the "Then connect based on the order of" section, choose shape_pt_sequence from the Field drop-down list.
• Click OK. Maptitude connects all the various points into their respective routes.
  

4: Color-code the routes

• Hide the point layer of shape points you created in step 2 and make the new Lines layer you created in step 3 the working layer.
• Choose Map-Color Theme.
• Choose ID from the Field drop-down list.
• Choose List of Values from the Method drop-down list.
• Click OK.

The best animated GIF will be comprised of maps that are all the same size, so when possible work from just one map to create your animated GIF file.

1. Create a thematic map that illustrates the first period in your time series.
2. To properly compare data from different time periods, you will want to use the same theme settings for each map in the series. In the respective theme dialog boxes, click the Save button, enter a name for a Settings file, and click Save. Enter a name for the theme and click OK.
3. Choose Tools>Create Animated GIF to display the Animated GIF toolbox.
4. Enter a frame rate, in hundredths of a second, in the Delay box (e.g., Enter 200 to have the first frame in your GIF play for 2 seconds).
5. Click in the Animated GIF toolbox to add the first frame to the GIF.
6. Change your map to show a theme of the next time period. You can click the Load button in the theme dialog box and apply the saved theme settings from the setting file that you saved in step 2 (this will ensure that your color theme uses the same colors and breaks or your scaled-symbol theme uses the same sizes to represent equal values), then repeat steps 4 and 5.
7. Continue adding frames for the remaining time periods.
8. Click in the Animated GIF toolbox, enter a file name, and click Save.

1. Start Maptitude and choose Edit-Preferences.
2. Click the Routing tab.
3. For drive-time rings you can change the minimum and maximum distance and time thresholds and the maximum number of bands. For routing, you can change the maximum number of stops/waypoints.
4. Click OK when you are done.

1. Create a Territory Layer that is based on ZIP Codes and launch the Territory Manager.
2. Choose to create a new territory or modify an existing territory with the Territory drop-down list in the Territory Manager.
3. Choose County from the Geogpraphy drop-down list if you want to choose all of the ZIP Codes in a county, or choose State from the Geography drop-down list to choose all of the ZIP Codes in a state.
4. Use the Select by Pointing tool in the Territory Manager and click on a county/state that you want to include in a territory. Maptitude finds all of the ZIP Codes in the feature you chose and highlights them.
5. Click on more counties/states to add them to the territory. You can also choose ZIP Code again from the Geography drop-down list to revert to modifying the individual ZIP Codes in the territory.
6. Click to save the changes to the territory.

1. Open a map and click to open the Routing Manager.
2. Click to display the Route Options dialog box.
3. Click the Driving Speeds tab and use the sliders to adjust the speeds for different classes of roads.
4. Click the Itinerary tab and set the time to start and end driving. You can also choose to allow the end time to have some flexibility.
5. Click OK to close the Route Options dialog box.
6. Enter addresses for the stops, click and click on stops on the map, or click and choose features in a point layer as the stops.
7. Right-click on one of the stops in the Routing Manager and choose Schedule Stop to display the Stop Schedule dialog box where you can enter a duration time for the stop, a time by which to arrive, or a time to depart. Click OK when you are done.
8. Now that you have set your routing and scheduling options, click Get Directions or Optimize to generate a route using your options.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map and click OK to launch Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose Territories and click Next to launch the Territory Wizard.
3. Choose From my territory table and follow the prompts. When you are finished, Maptitude creates a map that shows your territory layer.
4. Highlight one or more of your territories in the Territory Manager.
5. Right-click and choose Export Territories List to Excel. Maptitude creates an Excel worksheet with your territory definitions.
   Note: There is also an Export Territories to Excel command that will export the definitions as well as geographic and demographic reports, each as a separate sheet in the Excel workbook.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK to start Create-a-Map Wizard and create a General Purpose map of your area of interest.
2. ChooseMap-Layers and click Add Layer to add the Physician layer (ccPhysician.cdf) to the map.
3. Make the Physician layer the working layer by choosing it from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar.
4. Choose Map-Color Theme to display the Color Theme dialog box.
5. Choose [Medicare Payments] from the Field drop-down list, choose Equal Number of Features from the Method drop-down list, choose 10 from the # Classes drop-down list, and click OK. Maptitude creates 10 equal size groups and displays them as a color theme on the map.
6. Choose Selection-Select by Theme, then click OK and then Yes. Your thematic data classification has been converted to selection filters.
7. You can now use the filters to analyze the data and you can, for example, hide and show physicians based on their Medicare payments using the Display Manager.

Each record in the healthcare layers has up to 15 taxonomy codes for services provided. Therefore, to filter the records, you will need to create a filter that checks each of the taxonomy fields for the value of interest to you.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK to start Create-a-Map Wizard and create a General Purpose map of your area of interest.
2. Choose Map-Layers and click Add Layer to add the healthcare layer you want to analyze.
   
3. Make the healthcare layer the working layer by choosing it from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar.
   
4. Choose Dataview-Formula Fields to display the Formula dialog box. Use the Formula Builder to create an expression for each of the taxonomy fields for the code that interests you. For example, to use anesthesiologists (207L00000X) from the physician layer, create the following formula:
   if ( [Taxonomy 1] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 2] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 3] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 4] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 5] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 6] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 7] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 8] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 9] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 10] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 11] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 12] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 13] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 14] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 15] = "207L00000X") then 1 else 0
   
5. Choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Click Buffers Toolbox to display the Click Buffers toolbox.
   
6. Use the Add Temporary Points tool to add one or more points about which you want to study and then click Create Buffers in the toolbox.
   
7. Choose to create buffers around All Features from the Buffers Around drop-down list.
   
8. Type a name for the new map layer in the Create Layer edit box.
   
9. Check Build to Value, choose the source layer (e.g., Physicians) from the Layer drop-down list, and choose the formula field you created above from the Field drop-down list.
   
10. Enter the target values you want, separated by spaces or commas (e.g., 10, 50), in the Values edit box.
    
11. Check Separate Buffers to have each feature have its own separate buffers.
    
12. Click OK. Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box. Type a file name for the new geographic file, and click Save.
    
13. Maptitude creates a new layer containing the buffers and adds the new layer to the map.

Each record in the healthcare layers has up to 15 taxonomy codes for services provided. Therefore, to filter the records, you will need to create a filter that checks each of the taxonomy fields for the value of interest to you.

1. Open a map that contains the healthcare layer (hospitals, clinics, physicians) whose features you want to filter and make the layer the working layer in the map.
2. Choose Selection>Select by Condition to display the Select by Condition dialog box.
3. Use the Condition Builder to create a filter that checks each of the taxonomy fields for the code that interests you. For example, to filter anesthesiologists (207L00000X) from the physician layer, create the following formula:
   [Taxonomy 1] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 2] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 3] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 4] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 5] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 6] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 7] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 8] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 9] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 10] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 11] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 12] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 13] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 14] = "207L00000X" or [Taxonomy 15] = "207L00000X"
   You can also copy this formula, paste it into the Select by Condition dialog box and edit the code values.
4. Type a name for the set in the Set Name box and click OK.
5. Maptitude highlights the selected features on the map. To hide the features that are not part of the filtered set, choose Selection>Settings, highlight the layer at the top of the scroll list, click Status to change its status to "invisible," and click Close. Only the filtered features will be displayed on the map.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the Map of my own data option.
3. Browse for the Excel file containing your data. Your spreadsheet must contain a field with the radius to use for each record. Choose the sheet in the Excel workbook that contains your data and has address fields. Click OK.
4. Click Next when Create-a-Map Wizard shows the fields to be used to map your data.
5. In the "Type of Map" scroll list, choose the first option to Locate records in your data by Address, ZIP Code or City and click Finish.
6. Enter a name for the new layer that contains your data and click Save. Maptitude locates your data on a map.
7. Make sure that the layer you just located is the working layer and choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Buffers or click on the Standard toolbar.
8. Choose the Variable Size method, choose the field containing the radius to use from the Sizes drop-down list, and click OK.
   
9. Enter a name for the new layer that will contain the variable size rings and click Save. Maptitude creates the rings and displays them on the map.

1. Connect the GPS to the computer.
2. Verify the GPS device connection port using Windows Device Manager.
3. Verify the GPS device output port using an application such as Franson GPS Gate (unaffiliated with Caliper Corporation).
4. Open Maptitude and open or create a map.
5. Choose Tools>Geographic Utilities>GPS>Read GPS Data.
6. Choose GPS Device on the Settings tab of the GPS Setup dialog box.
7. Click the Options tab and choose the port and other settings.
8. Click OK. The GPS toolbox should open on your screen and begin to show information from your GPS device. This may take several minutes to get a proper signal.

The GPS information can be shown directly on the screen for immediate reference or saved to a file for future use. It can also be used to collect positions for a geographic file.

1. Create one or more maps to use on your large size map layout. Here are some tips to consider for maps that you plan to print at large sizes:
   • When printing a large map in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), labels, line widths, and point symbols will be enlarge proportionately. For example a 10pt label may 40pt or more and a 3pt wide line may be 12pt or more on your printed map. You may want to reduce the sizes of these items so they will not appear too large on the printed layout.
   • When printing a large map using the 'Use actual point sizes' option, a 10pt label will still be 10pt and a 3pt wide line will still be 3pt in the printed map, regardless of what size the map is. If you are enlarging the map, however, there will be room for more labels to display than in the original map window. You should right-click on any map that uses this option, choose Properties, check the Always redraw map box, and click OK. This will let you see on the layout exactly how the map will print, including which features will be labeled.
   • If you will be placing several maps in WYSIWYG mode, you may want to make the window sizes proportional to how they will appear in the layout so that labels, line widths, and point symbols will be similar in the maps. This is not necessary if you will be 'Use actual point sizes' option.
   • If you intend to print a map at a fixed scale (e.g., 1 inch = 500 miles), make all the changes to your map, then zoom out to show the entire region you want to display, then set the scale to the fixed scale you want. This will ensure that your map is centered correctly on the printed page.
2. Click , choose Layout from the list, and click OK.
3. Click and choose a large-format printer and large page size (e.g., ARCH E, C0, A1). Alternatively, you can choose any page size and enter multiple page dimensions in the Pages Across and/or Pages Down spinners.
4. Click OK.
5. Click and drag a rectangle on the layout where you want a map to be located.
   
6. Choose the map you want to place.
7. Make choices as follows.

   To do this...	Do this...	What will happen:
   Place the map in WYSIWYG mode	Uncheck the Use actual point sizes and Print at fixed scale boxes	The printed map will be an exact match of the one in the original map window. The scale of the map will change and the size of labels, line widths, and point symbols change depending on whether the map is larger or smaller than the original map window.
   Show the same geographic region in the printed map but preserve the size of labels, line widths, and point symbols	Check the Use actual point sizes box and uncheck the Print at Fixed Scale box.	The printed map will show the same region and the scale will be larger or smaller depending on whether the map is larger or smaller than the original map window. The point size of labels, line widths, and point features, however, will remain the point size specified in the map window regardless of the size on the page. More or fewer labels may be visible on the printed page than in your original map window depending on whether the map is placed larger or smaller.
   Print the map at the same scale as the map window	Check the Print at fixed scale box	The map will be placed in the layout at the same scale specified in the map. If the printed map is smaller than the original map window, less area will be visible. If the map is larger, then more area will be visible.
   Have the map fill the area you dragged on the layout	Uncheck the Keep map’s aspect ratio box.	The printed map will fill the rectangle you dragged and display more than the region shown in the original map window.
   Keep the aspect ratio of the layout map the same as in the map window	Check the Keep map’s aspect ratio box.	The map will be displayed as large as it can to fit in the rectangle you dragged while showing just the geographic area visible in the original map window.

8. Click OK.
9. Right-click on the map and choose Properties. You can change the style of the map border or add a shadow (the default is a ¼ point black border). You can also choose to have the map always redraw (this takes more time to display but is preferable when you are using the 'Use actual point sizes' option). Click OK when you are done.
10. Add any additional maps to the layout, use the Text tool to add a title or other text, and use the Image tool to add a logo or other image.
11. Use the Pointer tool to move or resize items. Shift-click on several items with the Pointer tool and use the alignment buttons to arrange the items on the layout page.
12. Click when you are done.

1. Install the Nearby Features Tool Add-In
2. Create a map that contains the the point layers you want to study, such as your stores and your competitors. For example, you could use the Jack-in-the-Box and Subway locations in Las Vegas, which can be downloaded separately from unaffiliated 3rd party sites such as here. Use the Selection Toolbox tools if necessary to select several locations.
3. Choose Tools-Add Ins-Nearby Features.
4. Choose the Origin and the Nearby Features layers. For example, you could choose the Jack-in-the-Box locations as the "Origin" layer and Subway locations as the "Nearby Features" layer to identify the Subway restaurants near each Jack-in-the-Box.
5. Choose a field (such as ID, name, address, etc.) to identify each of the origins and nearby features from the respective Name drop-down lists.
   
6. Check the Calculate Distance checkbox, and enter a value (e.g., 2 miles) for the "that are within" option.
7. Click OK. Maptitude creates a table showing, for each of your origins, each nearby feature withing the distance you specified and its distance away. 

1. Go to the "Map Data Downloads" section of the Caliper Free Utilities and Data page.
2. If you have MapPoint Europe then choose to download the Europe MegaFile. If you have MapPoint North America then choose the North America MegaFile. Unzip the PTM file and save it to a folder on your computer.
3. In Maptitude 2015, choose File-Open, choose MapPoint Map File as the file type, and browse to the MegaFile PTM you unzipped.
4. Choose one or more layers to import in the Import MapPoint Data window.
5. Click OK and follow the prompts.

1. Open a table or spreadsheet containing the data you want to locate on a map.
2. Choose Tools-Locate-Locate Wizard to open the Locate Wizard dialog box.
3. Enter a name for the new point layer you will create in the Name edit box.
4. Choose whether to locate all records or a selection set from the Records drop-down list.
5. Verify that Maptitude has correctly chosen the ID and address fields in the other drop-down lists.
6. Check the boxes next to the methods you want to use. Maptitude will attempt to locate the records with the first checked method and then attempt to locate records it could not find with each successive chosen method. For example, in the United States country package you can choose as follows (in decreasing order of accuracy):
   

   By Address and ZIP Code	Locates records where the number, street, and ZIP Code in your data exactly match those in the Maptitude street file
   By Address and Nearby ZIP Code	Locates records looking for a number and street match in a nearby ZIP Code to the one specified in your data
   By Address and City/State	Locates records looking for a number and street match anywhere in the city specified in your data
   Scattered within the ZIP Code	Locates the records centered or scattered within the ZIP Code specified in your data
   Scattered within the City	Locates the records centered or scattered near the city center specified in your data

7. Click OK. Maptitude will attempt to locate each record using the most precise method possible from the ones you chose.
8. Maptitude reports the number of records located using each method. Click OK to close the report.

1. Use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map of whatever country package you have installed.
2. Make the state/province/region or similar layer the working layer by choosing it from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar or by right-clicking on the layer in the Display Manager and choosing Make Working Layer.
3. Choose Map-Scaled Symbol Theme or click  on the Selection Toolbar to open the Select by Condition dialog box.
4. Choose a population field from the Choose a Field scroll list. If no population field is present, choose the AREA field.
5. Click OK. Maptitude adds a bubble theme to the map.
6. Choose Map-Scaled Symbol Theme or click  on the Selection Toolbar to again open the Select by Condition dialog box.
7. Type 50 in the High Value Size edit box to make the bubbles larger.
8. Click the Style tab and choose a different color for the bubble.
9. Click OK. Maptitude updates the bubble theme with your changes.

1. Use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map of your area of interest.
2. If the landmark layer is not visible, use the Display Manager to make it visible.
3. Make the Landmark layer the working layer by choosing it from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar or by right-clicking on the Landmark layer in the Display Manager and choosing Make Working Layer.
4. Choose Selection-Select by Condition to open the Select by Condition dialog box.
5. Type Lower(Name) contains "abc" where "abc" is the lower case name of the business you want to map. (e.g., Lower(Name) contains "home depot" or Lower(Name) contains "lowe's".)
6. Check the Select from visible features only box if you want to limit the selection to your area of interest or leave it unchecked to select every business in the country.
7. Click OK. Maptitude filters the landmark layer and creates a selection set of the businesses you chose. If you chose to select from the visible features only, you may need to refresh the map.
8. Open a dataview of the landmark layer and choose the selection set that you created from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar to see the filtered results. If necessary, you may need to remove some filtered results from the selection set by clicking on the symbol in the left column. Alternatively, you can filter the results some more using the Name or Type field. (For example, you could remove Lowe's Supermarkets from your results by again selecting by condition and using the formula Type <> "Grocery Store" and choosing the Subset method or by using the formula Name contains "Supermarket" and choosing the Remove from set method.
9. Close the dataview when you are done.
10. Click on the Selection toolbar to hide features that are not part of the selection set.

1. Go to http://www.nrel.gov/gis/data_wind.html and click one of the ZIP file links for a state-level 50m resolution shapefile.
2. Once the file is downloaded, open the ZIP file and extract its contents to a folder on your computer.
3. In Maptitude, use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map of the state you chose in step 2.
4. Choose Map-Layers, click Add Layer, and change the file type from  Geographic File (*.cdf;*.dbd) to Esri Shapefile (*.shp).
5. Browse for the folder where you extracted the Shapefile, choose the Shapefile, and click Open.
6. Click OK.
7. Choose Map-Color Theme or click .
8. Choose WPC from the Field drop-down list and click OK. Maptitude creates a color theme displaying the Wind Power Classification where 0 is poor and 7 is superb. You may want to change the style for the layer to have no border to better see the theme. You may also want to move the layer up in the drawing order so that it does not obscure other map layers.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the Map of my own data option.
3. Browse for the Excel file containing your data. Choose the sheet in the Excel workbook that contains your data and has address fields. Click OK.
4. Follow the prompts for locating your data by address. Maptitude creates a map of your data.
5. If the point Landmark layer is not visible, click the symbol next to the Landmark layer in the Display Manager until it is visible () and make the Landmark layer the working layer.
6. Choose Selection-Select by Condition. Use the Condition Builder to select the type of businesses that you want to count. (e.g., To count the number of banks near your located addresses, choose "Type" from the Field List drop-down list, "=" from the Operator drop-down list, and "Bank" from the Values of Type drop-down list.)
7. Make the layer that contains your data points the working layer and choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Overlay or click on the Standard toolbar.
8. Enter a distance in the Buffer Size box, choose the Landmark layer from the Layer drop-down list, choose the selection set that contains the records you chose in step 6 from the Include drop-down list, check the Count the Number of Features box and click OK.
   
9. Enter a name for the table to store the overlay results and click Save. For each record in your layer, Maptitude counts the number of landmarks in the selection set that are within the buffer distance and displays a dataview with the results. The [n Landmark] field contains the count of features.
10. Make the map the active window and make your layer the working layer.
11. Choose Map-Scaled-Symbol Theme to display the Scaled-Symbol Theme dialog box. Choose the [n Landmark] field to map and click OK. Maptitude adds the theme to the map so you can see which of your facilities have many nearby competitors and which have very few.

1. Choose File-New and use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a new General Purpose Map of your area of interest.
2. Choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Click Buffers Toolbox to display the Click Buffers toolbox.
3. Click to activate the Add Temporary Areas tool, and add areas to the map by clicking at each corner of an area, and double-clicking to close it. The first and last points of an area will connect automatically.
4. Click to display the Save As dialog box, choose a folder, type a file name, and click Save. The temporary features are saved with their current style, and Maptitude adds the geographic file as a map layer.
5. Choose Tools-Geographic Utilities-Mask to display the Create a Mask dialog box.
6. Click OK.
7. Maptitude adds the mask to the map. To partially display the masked portions, click to activate the Pointer tool, double-click the mask, change the fill opacity to a value less than 100, and click OK. Ctrl-click on the mask to remove the highlight from the mask.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the General Purpose Map option.
3. Choose United States from the scroll list and click Finish.
4. If the County layer is not visible, use the Display Manager to make it visible and make the County layer the working layer.
5. Choose Map-Color Theme or click .
6. Choose Formula from the bottom of the Field drop-down list.
7. Create the following formula with the Formula Builder or by typing in the formula box:
   ( [20 Population] - Population ) / Population * 100
8. Type "% Change in Population" for the field name and click OK to return to the Color Theme dialog box.
9. Choose Equal Number of Features from the Method drop-down list, check the Break at box and click OK. Maptitude creates a color theme on the County layer. Counties with negative population growth are shown with varying intensities of one color and counties with positive population growth are shown with varying intensities of another color. Darker colors indicate counties with the greatest increases or decreases in population.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the Map of my own data option.
3. Browse for the Excel file containing your data. Choose the sheet in the Excel workbook that contains your data and has fields such as address and postal code. Click OK.
4. Follow the prompts for locating your data by address. Maptitude creates a map of your data.
5. In the Display Manager click on the point layer style icon for your new layer.
6. Choose Color Image from the Type radio button.
7. Choose the image file by either typing the full path of the file in the File edit box or clicking and browsing for the image file.
8. Change the symbol size using the Size drop-down list.
9. If you want to prevent labels from overlapping any point features, check the Prevent overlapping labels box.
10. Click OK. Maptitude draws the point layer with the new style settings.

1. Choose File-New and use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map for your area of interest.
2. If the ZIP Code layer is not visible, use the Display Manager to make it visible and make it the working layer.
3. Choose Map-Color Theme or click .
4. Choose Formula from the bottom of the Field drop-down list.
5. Click Sum Fields. In the Filter box type age. Highlight the four fields covering the ages from 10 to 34 years old, and click Add>>.
6. Click OK to close the Choose Formula Fields dialog box and click OK again in the Sum Fields dialog box.
7. In the Formula Fields drop-down, type Millennials.
8. Click OK to close the Formula dialog box and click OK again in the Color Theme dialog box. Maptitude creates a theme of the Millennial population by ZIP Code.

1. Choose File-New and use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map for your area of interest.
2. Choose Tools-Routing-Network Bands or click  to display the Network Bands toolbox.
3. Click  in the Network Bands toolbox to activate the Click Origin Points tool.
4. Click on on the map. Maptitude places symbols at each of the clicked points.
5. In the Network Bands toolbox choose to create, for example, 3 bands of 5 minutes.
6. Click  in the Network Bands Toolbox to display the Network Bands Configuration dialog box and click Aggregation.
7. Change the aggregation methods for those fields you want to be shown in the report as follows:
   Click on the field in the Fields list; check one or more desired aggregation options; and type a name for each field in the Field Name box. (TIP: You can highlight more than one field at a time and then check a box to apply the aggregation method to all of the fields at once.)
8. When you are finished making changes in the Overlay Attributes dialog box, click OK to close the Overlay Attributes dialog box, and click OK again to close the Network Bands Configuration dialog box.
9. Click  in the Network Bands toolbox. Maptitude creates the bands and adds them to the map along with a color theme to illustrate the driving distances. Any portion of the map that is not covered by a band is greater than the travel-time you chose from the clicked locations.
10. To create a report with the map and demographics, click  in the Network Bands Toolbox. Maptitude generates the report and displays it in a new window. The report includes the demographic fields you specified for aggregating.

1. Choose File-New and use Create-a-Map Wizard to create a general purpose map for your area of interest.
2. Choose Tools-Routing-Network Bands or click to display the Network Bands toolbox.
3. Click in the Network Bands toolbox to activate the Click Origin Points tool.
4. Click on on the map. Maptitude places symbols at each of the clicked points.
5. In the Network Bands toolbox choose to create, for example, 3 bands of 5 minutes.
6. Click in the Network Bands toolbox. Maptitude creates the bands and adds them to the map along with a color theme to illustrate the driving distances. Any portion of the map that is not covered by a band is greater than the travel-time you chose from the clicked locations.
7. If you want to compute the demographics for the network bands, click in the Network Bands Toolbox. Maptitude calculates the overlay and displays the results in a dataview.
8. If you want to create a report with the map and demographics, click  in the Network Bands Toolbox. Maptitude generates the report and displays it in a new window. You can customize a report with your company name by choosing Edit-Preferences and making changes on the Reporting tab.

1. Choose the point layer from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar.
2. Choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Weighted Center to display the Weighted Center dialog box.
3. Choose to use All Features or a selection set from the Selection Set drop-down list.
4. From the Weighting Field drop-down list choose one of the point layer fields to place the facility at the weighted center of the locations of the set of points
5. Choose how to save the results from the Save Results As drop-down list
6. Click OK. Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box. Type a file name for the new geographic file, and click Save.
7. Maptitude creates new layers containing the weighted center and service area and adds the new layers to the map.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the Map of my own data option.
3. Browse for the Excel file containing your data. Choose the sheet in the Excel workbook that contains your data and has fields such as address and postal code. Click OK.
4. Follow the prompts for locating your data by address. Maptitude creates a map of your data.
5. Choose the layer to use in creating the bands from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar.
6. Choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Bands or click on the Standard toolbar to display the Bands dialog box.
7. Choose to create bands around All Features from the Bands Around drop-down list.
8. Type a name for the new map layer in the Create Layer edit box.
9. Check Build to Value, choose the source layer and field from the drop-down lists. This is usually the default overlay layer, and a field such as Population.
10. Type in the target values you want, separated by spaces or commas (e.g. 1000, 2000 people). 
11. Check Separate Bands to have each feature have its own separate bands. You can choose a field to name the bands from the Band Names From drop-down list. 
12. Click OK. Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box. Type a file name for the new geographic file, and click Save.
13. Maptitude creates a new layer containing the bands and adds the new layer to the map.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the Map of my own data option.
3. Browse for the Excel file containing your data. Choose the sheet in the Excel workbook that contains your data and has fields such as address and postal code. Click OK.
4. Follow the prompts for locating your data by address until you reach the Type of Analysis step in the Create-a-Map Wizard.
5. Choose the Density option. Click Next and follow the prompts. Maptitude creates a map of your data.
6. Choose the Density of Your Data layer from the drop-down list on the toolbar at the top of the Maptitude screen to specify the working layer.
7. In the Display Manager turn off the layer Your Data by clicking on the green check.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and create a General Purpose map of your study area.
2. Choose a working map layer such as US Census Tracts.  You can do this by right-clicking on the layer in the Display Manager and selecting Make Working Layer. If this choice is disabled first choose Show Layer.
3. Choose Map-Color Theme or click on the Standard toolbar to display the Color Theme dialog box.
4. Choose a field from the drop-down list, or choose Formula at the end of the list to create a formula field. MapWizard fills in all the other settings in the dialog box.
5. Click OK.

1. Open a table of the records that you want to locate, or choose a working map layer that has unfound records.
2. Choose Tools-Locate-Locate by Postal/ZIP Code
3. Choose whether to locate all records or a selection set filter (such as "Address Not Found").
4. Choose a field that has unique IDs for each record.
5. Choose the field that contains the ZIP/Postal Codes. If the ZIP/Postal Code field contains more than just the postal code (for example, street address and postal code, or city, state, and postal code), Maptitude will pick out the postal code automatically and ignore the rest of the information.
6. Choose how to place the records. You can choose to place each record centered at or around the matching post office/point location, or to locate each record scattered within the corresponding postal area. Keep in mind the following:
   • If your database has records that share a common postal code, spreading them out lets you see each individual point on the map.
   • If your selection is a filter on P.O. Box locations, centering them will place your records at the corresponding postal point location
   • If you choose to locate records centered or scattered around the Postal/ZIP Code point, you will typically get a higher match rate because there are more points than areas due to PO Boxes and unique postal codes for certain businesses and other facilities such as colleges and military bases.
7. Click OK. If Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box, type a file name for the layer to store the new points, and click Save.

Maptitude locates the records and displays a message summarizing the results. Maptitude also displays the locations in a point layer on a map, and creates a new selection set filter called "Postal/ZIP Codes Not Found" for any records that could not be located. If you used the Scattered Evenly inside the area option, you can repeat the above steps and choose one of the other methods to locate the additional Postal/ZIP Codes. 

1. Open a table of the records that you want to locate, or choose the working map layer that has unfound records.
2. Choose Tools-Locate-Locate by Address.
3. Choose whether to locate all records or a selection set filter (such as "Address Not Found") from the By Locating drop-down list.
4. Choose from the various matching options below:

• If you want to try different postal/ZIP Codes:
  Sometimes ZIP Codes have changed or there are mistakes in the data so you can click the Postal Codes tab and click the Use Postal Codes Near the One in the Postal Code Field radio button to try alternate postal codes.
• If you want to ignore, or there are missing, postal codes:
  You can supply a list of postal codes to try, or indicate the city and state whose ZIP/Postal Codes are to be tried. Choose None from the Postal Code drop-down list, click the Postal Codes tab, click the Use Postal Codes in this List or Use Postal Codes For radio buttons, and fill in the necessary information.
• If you want to change the rating for matching records:
  You can set the rating necessary to declare a match to be higher or lower than the normal setting. Click the Addresses tab and make a choice from the Matching Method drop-down list.
• If you want to choose when the match is uncertain:
  If there are several possible places to locate a record, you can review the list and make a choice. Click the Ask If Uncertain radio button, and Maptitude will display the Choose a Matching Record dialog box when a choice is necessary.
• If you want to report how each record was matched:
  Maptitude can save the standardized version of the addresses and the results of the match in a report file. Click the Addresses tab, check Save Standardization Output, and type a file name.

5. Click OK. If Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box, type a file name for the layer to store the new points, and click Save.

Maptitude locates the records and displays a message summarizing the results. Maptitude also displays the locations in a point layer on a map, and creates a new selection set filter called "Address Not Found" for any records that could not be located. You can repeat the above steps by choosing a different method to locate additional addresses. 

If some addresses still were not found after trying all of the Locate by Address options, use one of the other Locate commands. You can locate your records manually By Pointing, By Postal Code, and By City.

1. Show your data attached/joined to boundaries (e.g. Postal/ZIP Codes) on a map. (You can also choose to make your prism map using any of the included data.)
2. In the Display Manager (Map-Display Manager), right click on your area layer and choose Make Working Layer.
3. Choose Map-Prism Map to display the Prism Map Properties dialog box.
4. Choose a data field from the Field drop-down list.
5. Chose whether to map All Features, only Visible Features, or a filtered set of areas from the Selection drop-down list.
6. Click the Styles tab to display the Styles page.
7. Choose Color Ramp, then choose a starting and ending color, or click <<Previous Set or Next Set>>  to browse through the available color ramps.
8. Click OK.

1. Locate your point locations (e.g. addresses) on a map as a new layer.
2. In the Display Manager (Map-Display Manager), right-click on the area layer you want to tag. This is often a postal layer such as "5-Digit ZIP Code" in the USA. Choose New Dataview from the menu.
3. Choose Dataview-Modify Table. (Your area layer will need to be in a writable location. You cannot modify a read-only layer.)
4. Click Add Field in the Modify Table window. Type a name for the new field by replacing the default "Field_1" text; change the Type to be Character (if you will be tagging with text data such as a name). You may also want to change the width depending on the information you will be tagging. Click OK.
5. Scroll to the right of the dataview and highlight your new field by clicking on the field name.
6. Choose Edit-Fill from the menu to display the Fill dialog box and choose the Tag option.
7. Choose your point layer (e.g., stores) from the Using layer drop-down list and choose whether to use All Features in your point layer or only a selection set from the Selection Set drop-down list.
8. Choose the field from your point layer (e.g., store name) to use to tag each area from the Tag with drop-down list.
9. Click OK. Maptitude fills the field you highlighted with data from the chosen field in the point layer. (e.g., each ZIP Code now has the name of the nearest store in this field.)
10. Close the Dataview window.
11. To display your area layer shaded with colors based upon the closest point location, choose Map-Color Theme; choose your tagged field for Field; and choose List of Values for the Method. Click OK.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK to display the Maptitude Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the General Purpose Map option, choose Postal/ZIP Code from the scroll list, type a postal/ZIP Code in the Name box, and click Finish.
3. Choose Street from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar to make Street the working layer.
4. Choose Tools-Routing-Shortest Path or click on the Standard toolbar to display the Routing toolbox.
5. Choose Length from the Minimize drop-down list.
6. Click Options to display the Shortest Path Options dialog box, choose Selection from the Selection Set drop-down list, and click OK.
7. Click , then click on the map for your starting location and again for your final destination. Maptitude displays the shortest distance route between the two locations where you clicked.
8. Click . Maptitude clears the route.

1. Use the Map Librarian to open one or more maps. (Choose Tools-Map Librarian then choose a Map Category and the Map(s) you Want. Click OK. If prompted type a location to zoom to and click OK. Maptitude opens the chosen map.)
2. Choose File-New, choose Map from the list of file types, and click OK. Maptitude displays the Create-a-Map Wizard dialog box.
3. Choose Map of My Own Data from the radio list and click Next. Maptitude displays the Choose the File that Contains Your Data dialog box. 
4. Make sure that Excel Worksheet is the file type, browse for an Excel file that has Longitude and Latitude fields with values, and click Open.
5. When prompted, choose the Excel sheet that contains your data and click OK. 
6. Maptitude finds the mappable fields in your data. Make sure the X Coordinate/Longitude and Y Coordinate/Latitude fields are correct. Click Next.
7. Check the box to Add your data to existing map and choose your map.
8. Choose the Locate records in your file by coordinates option. Click Finish.
9. Type a name for the new layer file and click Save.
10. Maptitude uses the coordinate data in your table to create a new point layer of your locations. A dialog box is displayed reporting how many records were located. Click OK.

1. From the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar choose the area layer whose features you want to select to create territories.
2. Choose the selection set to use from the drop-down list on the Selection toolbar.
3. To set the behavior of the selection tools, click to display the Selection Options dialog box and choose how to handle features that are already in other selection sets as follows:
   

   Choose this...	To do this...
   Do not select features already included in other sets	To prevent selected features from being selected
   Remove features from any other sets	To add features already in other selection sets and remove them from any other selection sets
   Allow sets to overlap	To add features to the selection set without regard to other selection sets

   Click OK to close the Selection Options dialog box.
4. Choose the field to total from the Field drop-down list on the Selection toolbar.
5. Click on one of the selection tools (pointing, rectangle, circle, or shape) to activate it.
6. Click on feature(s) in the map to add features to your selection set. Maptitude selects the features, highlights the result on the map, and updates the Selection toolbar with the number of selected features and the total value of the selected features for the field you chose in step 4.
7. If you are using Select by Pointing, you can click on a selected feature to remove it from the selection set.

You can rename selection sets and change styles as well as perform many other actions to customize your territories. You can also use the Create Districts command to create a new area layer based on the selection sets.

1. Open or create a map with at least one point layer and, if necessary, create a selection set for the point layer you will use.
2. Choose Tools-Geographic Utilities-Create Vector Grid.
3. In the Create Vector Grid dialog box, choose the Area for the grid type, choose the Cover the map window with cells of fixed size method, and type 1 in both the X and Y Grid Spacing edit boxes.
4. Click OK. Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box. Choose a folder, type a file name for the new grid layer, and click Save.
   Maptitude creates an area grid using your map units (miles, kilometers, etc.) and adds it to the map.
5. Choose the new grid layer from the drop-down list on the Standard toolbar.
6. Choose Tools-Geographic Analysis-Overlay to display the Overlay dialog box.
7. Choose the point layer from the Layer drop-down list and, if necessary, a selection set from the Include drop-down list.
8. Check the Count the Number of Features box and click OK. Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box. Choose a folder, type a file name for the overlay data table, and click Save.

Maptitude creates a table with the overlay data, joins it to the grid layer, and displays the joined view in a dataview. The [N layer_name] field contains the count of point features in each grid cell. You can add a color theme using the count field in the grid layer to see the overlay results on the map. You may need to change the drawing order or apply transparency to the theme styles ensure that no layers are obscured.

1. Open a Dataview of the layer for which you are working by right clicking on the layer in the Display Manager and choosing New Dataview.
2. While holding down the shift- key, click on column headings in the order you want them displayed in the map. The columns will become highlighted as you click on them.
3. Click on the Chart Theme button on the Standard Toolbar. Maptitude computes the theme for the chosen fields.  
4. A new map window is displayed. You will see pie charts, which are the default chart theme type.
5. To change to bar charts, click on the Chart Theme button on the Main Toolbar, and choose a type of bar chart. 
6. Click OK, and the map will draw with bar charts, the bars being in your chosen order.  

To use the theme in another map, make the layer the working layer in the other map, click the Chart Theme button on the Standard Toolbar, and click Load. Maptitude displays the Load Area Chart Theme dialog box. Click the From Workspace radio button, choose the chart theme to copy, and click OK twice to close both dialog boxes.

1. Open a map to which you want to add layers.
2. Choose Map-Layers from the menu, and then choose Add Layer.
3. Browse to the c:\ccdata\ folder (the default location Maptitude uses to install layer files) and choose Geographic File as the file type.
4. Choose one or more geographic files such as ccCBSA.Cdf which contains US Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs); or ccZIP5Pt.Cdf for ZIP Code points; or ccZIP3.Cdf for 3-Digit ZIP Code areas.
5. Click Open. Map layers in the geographic files are added to the layers in the map.
6. Click Close. Maptitude draws the map with the new layers. The layer list in the Display Manager is updated to include the added layers. If you save the workspace, the new layers will automatically be included in the map the next time you open the workspace.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the General Purpose Map option. If you have the U.S. Country Package, choose U.S. County as the area to display, type "Monroe FL" in the Name box and click Finish.
3. In the Display Manager, expand the Landmark Area item, and then expand the Feature Display item beneath it.
4. Click on the National Park style sample.
5. Choose the Image... from the bottom of the Fill Style drop-down list.
6. Browse for the Wooded_Swamp.png file and click Open.
7. In the Image Fill Style Settings dialog box change the size to be 25% and click OK to return to the Style dialog box.
8. Click OK. Maptitude displays then Everglades National Park with the wooded swamp image.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map from the New File dialog box, and click OK. This brings you to the Create-a-Map Wizard.
2. Choose the Map of my own data option.
3. Browse for the Excel file containing your data. Choose the sheet in the Excel workbook that contains your data and has fields such as ZIP Code, State, or Country. Click OK.
4. Click Next until you reach the Type of Map step in the Create-a-Map Wizard.
5. Choose the Show ZIP Code (or State, Country, etc.) boundaries option and click Next.
6. Choose Chart Theme for the theme type and choose one or more fields. Click Next and click Finish. Maptitude creates a map of your data.
7. Double click the Theme branch for the working layer in the Display Manager.
8. Change the Chart Type to a vertical or horizontal bar chart and click OK.

1. Choose File-New, choose Map, then choose General Purpose Map and follow the prompts to map your area of interest.
2. Choose File-Save As, or click the right mouse button on the map window and choose Save As. Maptitude displays the Save As dialog box.
3. Choose Enhanced Metafile from the Files of Type drop-down list, type a new name for the file, and click Save.
4. Once you have inserted your EMF into an Office Document such as a PowerPoint slide, you can follow the steps in the following link to ungroup your vector map features:
   http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/group-or-ungroup-shapes-pictures-or-other-objects-in-powerpoint-2007-HA010201377.aspx

1. Make the point layer that contains the data you want to map the working layer.
2. Choose Map-Pattern Theme from the menu; choose the Field you want displayed in the legend; choose List of Values as the method, choose a number of classes, and click the Style tab. Click << Previous on the style tab to list the alphabetical class.
3. Click OK. Each location is represented as a letter in the map, which is also  listed in the legend with the corresponding feature name/identifier.