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Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html

Map[titude will allow a one-to-many join if you have a layer to begin with that has all the points in your data. But in order to prepare that point coverage you will need to identify all the unique points in your data, requires using SAS or similar and set up a label for them in your point coverage and in your data. Each unique combination of long/lat will need a unique identifier.

However, I think you should do all the calculations in SAS (SPSS)

If your data looks like this and is contained in a file mydata.sd2

long lat var1 var2 .... varn

Where there may be duplicates of long, lat or

libname input "c:\temp\" ;  * location of the data mydata.sd2 ;

proc freq data=input.mydata; tables long*lat/out=input.mapt;
run;
 
This will produce a file mapt.sd2 in the director referred to in libname which will have the following
structure: (you will need to convert the SAS file into something Mapt can use, dbf or Excel.
 
obs long lat count percent
 
obs is the observation number, and count is the number of records that shared a common long & lat.
 
So when you take this files into Maptitude you can use a graduated point symbol to display the number of records at each point. If you are using something other than SAS, likely you can get the idea here and translate.


Richard Hoskins
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Subject: [Maptitude] Thematic Mapping Question
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Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html

I have a file that involves multiple observations (records) at common
locations.  Is there a technique in Maptitude for displaying each unique
location and the number of records which share that common location?
As an example, suppose a file of residential addresses included multiple
residents from many different apt. bldgs. as well as lots of records for
single-family homes. The desired map would be the point locations of all
the unique addresses and either:

   * a label representing the number of records for each unique location
     or
   * a thematic symbol at each location representing a range in the
     number of records (e.g. 1, 2-5, 6-10, etc.)

I'd appreciate any ideas anyone might have on how to approach this
problem.

Thanks
Kevin Byrnes, Demographer
Virginia Dept. for the Aging




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