Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Someone was asking abotu creating layers on the fly with MFW. I have lost the
original message, could someone please repost?
Cheeers,
Armando Scalise
"Leore, Robert" wrote:
> Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
>
> I also started out as a Mapinfo user back in 1992 and used it almost
> exclusively for 5 years because it worked and it lacked an effective
> competitor. We had bought a copy of Maptitude v.3 when it first came out
> but found it too unstable to use as the primary GIS (e.g. it would regularly
> fail when printing). When we got Maptitude v.4, though, it was a completely
> different story. This was easily one of the best upgrades we have ever
> purchased and it supplanted MI almost immediately as my primary GIS.
> Maptitude does almost everything I want a GIS to do and when it can't I use
> TransCAD. It is the best GIS value out there by a country mile.
>
> Now I use MI once in a blue moon and feel no compelling reason to return.
> Mapinfo provided extremely reliable service for a time but product
> development has been very meagre after v.4. It needed a lot of improvements
> to bring it up to even basic standards (I still can't believe it lacks a
> proper scale bar integrated into the legend, and its thematic mapping is an
> outright joke), let alone push the envelope, but for some reason the
> developers stopped giving it the proper attention. Now I pity anyone who
> has to use the program especially for line coverages. I regularly try to
> convince others within my organisation who are still wedded to MI to make
> the switch but it has been difficult to move the rest of the group out of
> its inertia. They started out with MI and that is what they are using.
> Period. Even if a better, cheaper alternative exists.
>
> It seems irrational for people to hang onto something inferior but that's
> what happens when it is the first program to enter the desktop market. It's
> analogous to the QWERTY keyboard and other instances of "lock-in". That is
> the uphill battle facing Caliper in the future. It will take a prodigious
> effort to pull it off but I really hope they succeed.
>
> Bob Leore
>
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