Thanks Bob..from the manual sections that you quoted, it sounds to me that
one could create multiple selection set data files of businesses in different
areas (e.g. all business listings in different counties without limitation)
and export those files to use in Maptitude. Of course the data may
be somewhat dated and not be the "best & most current" list possible
(that is if one wanted to spend extra for downloaded updates).
Can you perform any of the following selections:
- select by SIC code?
- select by yellow page heading?
- select by county (FIPS) geography?
Kevin Byrnes
jw&a wrote:
Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html> -----Original Message-----
> Bob:
> Thanks for joining in the discussion my listserve query about business
> databases has generated. I am curious if XMap is one of the DeLorme
> products you are using and, if so, what your experiecne has been with
> its "alleged" record export capability. Is this one record at a time,
> multiple records or what?
> Thanks,
> Kevin Byrnesi have XMap because it sounded nifty, but i haven't actually used it. i want
to put some data into the program so that generic users in the office can
find it without asking me to make a map...unlike other delorme products, XMap comes with a real user manual. according
to the manual, under the "exporting data" heading, item 3 "... if you want
to limit which records of the dataset are displayed in the table, select one
of the options from the table display drop-down." item 5 gives the file
format options as dataset (.dds) and text (.txt).on "downloading additional data" it says you can go online to download
"additional data for your XMap Business datasets. Acxiom, DeLorme's current
DataPlus provider, offers comprehensive consumer, business, property, and
telephone data that you can download for a fee." note: you must agree to
terms and set up an account, which could take up to 3 days.on a page about how to search for business listings it says there is a field
that "indicates whether or not the person/business has requested that they
not be solicited""if more than 500 listings are found in the search, you can click the "more"
icon to display the additional listings. note: clicking the more icon
replaces the current listings with the additional listings. if you want ot
copy the current search results to the XData tab as a dataset, be sure to do
so before clicking the more icon."it says that XMap works with GPS too. i'll have to look at it again.
bob
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