Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Hi Richard,
1.
>I want a utility that will tell me what the adjacent polygons are for a
>polygon. For example, for Zip Code 98105, what are the Zips that share a
>boundary. And if it would be nice to know the distance between centroids
and
>the lengths of the shared boundaries (and a few dozen other things ...)
>>This is in TransCad and essential for stuff I do. Right now I have to use
>that scourge of GIS ... AV to get that info because someone out there wrote
>an Avenue script to do it.
This falls in the relatively easy category depending upon where we put the
output. If I compute the distances from the selected poly to the adjacent
ones and the shared boundary lengths, where do I put them, in a scroll list,
array, dbf? Also what are the "few dozen other things."
>2. It would be nice to be able to set the default directory in Mapt. Not
>clear they are going to do that in 4.5. One always starts in the Mapt
>directory and so on. A pain.
Not sure we have control over this...will check with Caliper on how to do
it.
>3. It would be nice to be able to save the settings for thematic maps in a
>template (like MapInfo) allows. As it is, one needs to go through the whole
>process of selecting color palette, ranges, etc for every map one makes.
Well, I've already done this as part of a "theme wizard" in iSite
(www.geonomicsinc.com). It understands the iSite layers, walks you through
creating themes and allows you to save them to a .txt file and reload them
anytime. Unfortunately it was a a huge amount of work to to write, and
would be quite a bit of work to make it generic, and, in any case, Geonomics
owns the code. I think we'll probably have to wait for Caliper on this one.
Larry Manire
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