Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Reinaldo:
>When Mapt 4.5 will be released? If I am not wrong the latest version is
>4.2 So it wil go from 4.21, 4.22... N! all the way to 4.5?
Version 4.2 was an evolutionary release, but Version 4.5, which will be
next, will add significant new capabilities, based on what has been added
to TransCAD 4.0.
>(4) I mean to be able to import a big table with a lot of fields named:
>Field1,
>Field2... etc. and to be able to use another table where this list is a
>column and
>the second one contains the verbouse description of a FieldN for each one
>of them.
>This is the must common way in which our census data come. Unfortunately
>there are
>no Tiger Files in Brazil...
Dictionary files can have a field description, which is shown as balloon
help when you leave the cursor over a column heading in a dataview.
Dictionary files are basically comma-delimited tables with two header
lines. You could edit off the header lines and save the result as a .TXT
file, open it into a dataview, join the table you describe, hide that
table's name field and move its description field into the right position,
and save the result back to a comma-delimited file. Put the header lines
back on, and you should have your descriptions. Read up on dictionary files
to see how they are structured.
For (5), Kjartan has a favorite trick: if you have some items at the bottom
of the list that you want at the top, choose all the other items and move
them down!
>(7) Well, I just miss this option in Maptitude. It will come with version 4.5?
No; that is part of a whole set of capabilities that are in the
transportation part of TransCAD.
>(9) That is really good news! But there is a small bug, if you tag areas
>with points,
>and there is an area without any point, instead of leaving the field
>blank, it will
>take the nearest point value (nearest to the poplygon centroid). If there
>is one
>point inside the area even if it is far from the centroid the correct
>result is
>displayed.
We are reviewing our spatial operations. For example, I would like a
one-step process to summarize points by area. If you know of a good listing
of spatial operations, I would appreciate learning where to find it.
>15) I wish to set in Preferences the diameter of the zoom window (in
>meters, miles
>or whatever) when using the Find Tool. We could not find till today which
>is the
>criteria Mapt use for that, sometimes is big sometimes is small, I guess
>it depends
>on the size of the Geographic Object that is shown.
Right: the bounding box of the area or line feature, with a margin, or
about a half mile around a point feature. Remember that, if what you are
finding is in the current window, you can turn off zooming to the map
feature. There could be a preference for the distance around a point.
Peter
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