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The Intelligent Mapping Solution for Business, Government, and Education. Increase Your Maptitude SM Maptitude ® Geographic Information System software is the intelligent mapping solution for business, government, and education. Maptitude provides ways for you to use the maps you create to analyze and understand how geography affects you and your business. With Maptitude you can: Create beautiful, informative map displays Enhance reports and presentations with maps that clearly illustrate your message Find geographic patterns that cannot be seen in database tables and spreadsheets Answer geographic questions that impact your operations Share geographic data with your workgroup, department, or organization Maptitude is a powerful combination of software and geographic data that provides everything you need to realize the benefits of desktop mapping and spatial analysis with a single, easy-to-use package. Maptitude has the richest feature set and highest performance of any mapping system, and it provides many new and enhanced tools that make it easier for you to create and edit maps, analyze geographic data, and connect to corporate data resources. In addition, Maptitude gives you the maps and U.S. Census demographic data you need, plus special functions to allow you to tie in the data you use every day in your work. With Maptitude you can visualize data in new and different ways, unearth geographic patterns in your data, and convey that information in a straightforward manner. Features: • MapWizard ® thematic mapping technology • Locating (Geocoding) by address, ZIP/Postal Code, and more • Maps at any scale • Feature selection/ geographic queries • GPS interface • Customizable maps • Statistics • Shortest/fastest paths and drive-time rings • OLE support Built-in database engine • Page layouts • Buffer, territory, area of influence, density grid, facility location, desire line, shortest- path, drive-time zone, and overlay tools • Surface analysis and 3-D mapping tools • Native support for popular GIS files including Oracle Tables, Esri Shapefiles, and MapInfo TAB files • Support for images including ECW, GeoTIFF, Google Earth, JPEG, MrSID, orthophoto, SPOTView, and TIFF Programming language Data Included: (with U.S. version) • Streets with address ranges and travel times States, counties, county subdivisions, places, ZIP Codes, MSAs, and Census tracts with 2010 Census and 2016 ACS demographic data Highways and railroads • Rivers and water areas • Landmarks • Extensive world geography

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The IntelligentMappingSolution forBusiness,Government,and Education.

Increase Your MaptitudeSM

Maptitude® Geographic InformationSystem software is the intelligent mappingsolution for business, government, andeducation. Maptitude provides ways foryou to use the maps you create to analyzeand understand how geography affects youand your business. With Maptitude youcan:

■ Create beautiful, informative mapdisplays

■ Enhance reports and presentations withmaps that clearly illustrate your message

■ Find geographic patterns that cannot beseen in database tables and spreadsheets

■ Answer geographic questions that impactyour operations

■ Share geographic data with yourworkgroup, department, or organization

Maptitude is a powerful combination ofsoftware and geographic data that provideseverything you need to realize the benefitsof desktop mapping and spatial analysiswith a single, easy-to-use package.Maptitude has the richest feature set andhighest performance of any mappingsystem, and it provides many new andenhanced tools that make it easier for youto create and edit maps, analyzegeographic data, and connect to corporatedata resources. In addition, Maptitudegives you the maps and U.S. Censusdemographic data you need, plus specialfunctions to allow you to tie in the datayou use every day in your work. WithMaptitude you can visualize data in newand different ways, unearth geographicpatterns in your data, and convey thatinformation in a straightforward manner.

Features:• MapWizard® thematic

mapping technology

• Locating (Geocoding)by address, ZIP/PostalCode, and more

• Maps at any scale

• Feature selection/geographic queries

• GPS interface

• Customizable maps

• Statistics

• Shortest/fastest pathsand drive-time rings

• OLE support

• Built-in database engine

• Page layouts

• Buffer, territory, areaof influence, densitygrid, facility location,desire line, shortest-path, drive-time zone,and overlay tools

• Surface analysis and3-D mapping tools

• Native support forpopular GIS filesincluding OracleTables, Esri Shapefiles,and MapInfo TAB files

• Support for imagesincluding ECW,GeoTIFF, GoogleEarth, JPEG, MrSID,orthophoto,SPOTView, and TIFF

• Programming language

Data Included:(with U.S. version)

• Streets with addressranges and traveltimes

• States, counties,county subdivisions,places, ZIP Codes,MSAs, and Censustracts with 2010Census and 2016 ACSdemographic data

• Highways and railroads

• Rivers and water areas

• Landmarks

• Extensive worldgeography

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Map Creation: Maptitude is the best softwarefor making maps. Maptitude brings data tolife with maps that impress and inform.Answer a few simple questions and Create-a-Map WizardTM makes a map at any scale fromall the countries of the world to streets arounda U.S. address, landmark, or intersection.

Maptitude provides astonishing flexibilityand power so you can enhance andcustomize maps in numerous ways. With afew clicks of the mouse, MapWizardautomatic mapping technology helps youcreate color and pattern maps, dot-densitymaps, scaled-symbol maps, and maps withintegrated pie or bar charts. You can choosefrom a wide selection of colors, patterns, andsymbols to enhance your presentation, anduse editing and drawing tools to customizemaps to match your needs.

Maptitude also provides a map library thatcontains pre-designed maps listed by category.These include thematic maps of the Censusprofile data by Tract, County, and State, plusattractive default maps for the United Statesand the world. The Map Librarian lets youopen one or more of these maps for a chosen

location, allowing you to quickly analyze U.S.Census data for your area of interest. Inaddition, you can create map libraries toorganize your own maps.

Tables: Maptitude lets you see the attributedata associated with map features inspreadsheet-like tables from which you caneasily edit values, calculate new variables, orcompute statistics. You can also click on mapfeatures to see the information associatedwith them. You can also “tag” features, suchas customers, with the distance to or thename of the nearest feature in another maplayer, such as stores.

Output: Page layout tools help you designand create professional presentations thatcombine the results of your analyses into asingle powerful display. With OLE, you cancopy and paste maps, charts, figures, andlayouts into documents, spreadsheets, andpresentation software. You can print yourmaps and layouts on any printer or plotter,or save them to vector or raster formats. Youcan also save your work in a variety offormats, including HTML, JPEG, TIFF, EMF,and PNG files for use on a web page.

The Easiest Way to Make MapsQuickly create attractive, informative, and insightful maps

Mapping Features:• Color, pattern, bar

and pie chart,scaled-symbol, dot-density, contour,and 3-D prismthematic mapping

• Map locator

• Display managerfor customizing thestyle, visibility, andlabels of mapcontents

• Autoscaling oflayers and labels

• 100s of point styles,line styles, and areafills

• Interstate, U.S.highway, all 50state, and manyinternationalhighway shields

• Freehand mapannotation tools

• North arrows andscale bars

• Pie, bar, line, area,function, andscatter charts

• Formula fields andcoded fields

• Metadata support

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Map Your Own DataTake a unified look at all of your data sources

Direct Data Access for:

Maptitude lets you create maps using yourown data. Whether you store your data inExcel worksheets, Access tables, dBASE files,or any ODBC-compliant data source such asOracle or SQL Server, Maptitude can workwith your data. Create-a-Map Wizard givesyou start-to-finish assistance for locating,analyzing, and mapping your data. You canalso use the powerful database capabilities ofMaptitude to join your data to a map layer.You can then use your data to create themes,add labels, or perform geographic analysis.

Another way to use your data withMaptitude is to locate your information on amap by locating a point feature for everyrecord in your table. This pin mapping, orgeocoding, allows you to see the distributionof your customers, facilities, and otherresources. Maptitude has built-in, powerfuland versatile geocoding tools, offering sixmethods for locating your data on a map.

Maptitude also supports over 50 file typesand more than 100 GIS and CAD fileformats allowing you to easily migrate yourexisting geographic data. You can map EsriShapefiles, Microsoft MapPoint PTM files,MapInfo TAB files, and Oracle Spatial tablesdirectly, or use the built-in translators toimport geographic data from a variety ofother software packages and public sources.This extensive library of importers andexporters is one of the largest in the industryand comes at no additional charge.

You can also use raster images such as satelliteor aerial photographs directly in your maps.Maptitude includes toolboxes for quicklyaccessing on-line images from OpenGISWeb Map Services and Google Earth. Theseimages can be used as a means of referenceor in conjunction with the map editing toolsto create or edit geographic files.

Finally, a built-in interface to GPS deviceslets you track and record your location, andbuild geographic databases as you work.With a GPS and a laptop, users in the fieldcan create accurate geographic files of publicutilities, corporate facilities, geographicfeatures, and more.

•Comma-delimited text •dBASE/FoxPro/X-base •Esri ArcView 3.x Project

and Legend •Esri Personal Geodatabase •Esri Shapefile •Fixed-format text •Google KML and KMZ

•GPS Playback •MapInfo TAB •Metadata •Microsoft Access and Excel •Oracle tables •Oracle Version 7 (Spatial

Data Option) and Version 8i(Oracle Spatial) files

•All ODBC sources (such asAccess, DB2, Informix,Ingres, InterBase, NetWareSQL, Paradox, Progress, SQLBase, SQL Server, Sybase)

•Raster image files: ECW,GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, JPEG2000, MrSID, Orthophoto,SPOTView, and TIFF

Compatible with Esri, MapInfo, MapPoint, and Oracle Spatial

Import/Export Support for (Partial List): •AutoCAD •Digital Elevation Models •Digital Line Graph •Enhanced Metafile •Esri Export •Esri Ungenerate •ETAK MapBase

•Google Earth •HTML •Intergraph Design •Interim Terrain Data •MapInfo Interchange •MapPoint PTM •Portable Network Graphics

•Spatial Data Transfer Standard •Strategic Mapping Boundary •TIGER/Line •USGS Land Use and Land

Cover •Windows Bitmap •Windows Media Video

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Geographic Analysis ToolsUnearth the trends and information hidden in your data

One of the best reasons to use a GIS is tounearth and analyze the geographiccomponents of your data. You can createbuffers (rings) around map features, createterritories, define areas of influence, findshortest paths, create density grids, and muchmore. Maptitude also makes it easy to overlayand aggregate data and calculate statistics.

Ask and Answer Geographic Questions: Whereare areas with the highest population density?How many people live within one, two, andthree miles of this site? How many customersare more than 30 minutes from a store? Whatis the shortest route between delivery points?Maptitude answers these and many othertypes of questions. Maptitude lets youunderstand trends, evaluate sites, and defineoptimal routes. You can integrate Censusstatistics with your own data to identifygeographic characteristics that impact you andyour operations. You will be amazed at howquickly you can enhance your decisionmaking using this easy-to-use GIS tool.

Buffers: You can automatically create ringsaround any number of map features andthen analyze the characteristics of those areas.Find out how many customers live within acertain distance of a store, compute thedemographic characteristics around potentialstore sites, analyze the neighborhoods mostaffected by noise pollution from a highway,or determine accessibility to facilities.

Areas of Influence: You can determine theareas closest to each of your facilities bybuilding areas of influence, then estimate theattributes within each area to determineareas that are under- or over-served.

Territories: Maptitude lets you merge smallerareas into territories and compute the attributesfor each one. For example, you can groupZIP Codes or states together to create salesterritories. Your territories can also overlap.

Desire Lines: You can illustrate the flow ofpeople or goods from point to point based onvalues in a dataview. For example, you couldshow the number of customers traveling to astore from their home ZIP Codes.

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GeographicAnalysis Features:

•Measure areas anddistances

•Create buffers bysize, by value, orbased on drive timeor distance

•Create territories

•Locate facilities anddetermine serviceareas

•Create areas ofinfluence/catchmentareas

•Create density grids

•Find best routes

•Identify efficentfacility locations

•Create desire lines

•Aggregate anddisaggregateattribute data

•Create 3-D maps,contours, viewsheds,and shortest pathsover terrain

•Compute adjacency

•Create lines fromgroups of points

•Create areas fromline features or linesfrom area features

•Filter features bycondition, by value,by location, ormanually

•Generate statistics(count, sum, mean,minimum,maximum, andstandard deviation)

•Partition networks

Density Grids: Maptitude lets you visualizepoint data by transforming the points into aregular grid. This makes it easy to identifycustomer concentrations or crime hot spots.In addition, the grid can be weighted basedon a value you choose. For example, youcould analyze the pattern of clients around astore and weight them by the cost of theirpurchases, or find all retail employers andweight them by the number of jobs.

Network Partitions and Network Bands: Youcan divide streets into territories based onproximity to points, such as drive times tostores or walking distance to schools. You canalso create rings based on drive time ordistance.

Routes: Maptitude identifies routes betweenpoints and generates driving directions. Whena trip involves several stops, Maptitude caneven help you decide the best order in whichto visit them.

Facility Location: Maptitude can locate one ormore facilities from a set of candiatelocations so as to provide the highest level ofservice.

Surface Analysis: With Maptitude, you cananalyze and display surfaces on a two-dimensional map or as a 3-D map. You cancreate contour maps of elevations anddetermine the viewshed for any location,either at ground level or at a particularheight. You can also create surfaces thatrepresent data values, such as measures of airpollution or radon, over a geographic region.

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A World of Data on Your DesktopGet started right away with the extensive data included with Maptitude

The United States Country Package includes the followingnationwide boundary files with 2010 Census data describingpopulation, age, and households, and 2016 AmericanCommunity Survey data describing income, ethnicity, race,ancestry, education, employment, nativity, language spoken,marital status, and housing units:

• Census Tracts

• Census Places (Cities)

• Counties

• County Subdivisions (MCD/CCD)

• Indian Reservations

• MSAs

• States

• 3- and 5-Digit ZIP Codes

Also included are the following nationwide datasets (Oct. 2017):

• Building footprints (where available)• Streets for the entire United States (and territories)• Highways including U.S., State, and County Highways and Ferry

Routes• Landmark Areas including airports, cemeteries, golf courses,

military facilities, national and state parks, and shopping areas• Points of interest including airports, border crossings, business

facilities, hospitals, hotels, museums, parks, restaurants, retailstores, schools, and transportation facilities

• Populated Places• Railroads• Rivers and Water Areas• Time Zones

Unlike other mapping and GIS packagesthat require users to purchase dataseparately, Maptitude includes extensivegeographic and demographic data so thatyou can get started as soon as you installthe software. Data are provided in acompact geographic data format thatreduces data storage requirements andnetwork traffic.

Maptitude includes a basic global map andships with one detailed Country Packageof your choice. Each Country Packageincludes a wealth of data unavailable inany other product, including an up-to-date street layer with addresses for pin-mapping (geocoding) and travel timeinformation for computing routes anddrive-time rings. Also included arepolitical boundaries, postal layers (whereavailable), building footprints for manyurban locations, railroads, andcomprehensive named landmarks thatrange from public facilities to commercialbuildings including shops, restaurants, andretail stores. Many Country Packages alsoinclude detailed demographic data thatyou can use to determine thecharacteristics of your own territories,trade areas, or markets.

U.S. Country Package Highlights:

Argentina, Australia*, Bolivia, Brazil*, Canada*, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France*, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy*, Mexico,Netherlands, New Zealand*, Peru, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom*

Other available Country Packages:

*Includes demographic data

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Application Development PlatformLeverage the power of Maptitude in your own applications

Maptitude includes the GeographicInformation System Developer’s Kit(GISDK). GISDK gives you the tools thatyou need to create a wide variety ofproducts for delivering mapping andgeographic analysis capabilities to yourcustomers. Over 850 functions can be calledfrom Caliper Script, a completeprogramming language for designing menusand dialog boxes (including toolbars andtoolboxes) and for writing macros. TheCaliper Script code is stored in resource filesthat you can edit with your favorite texteditor. With GISDK you can:

■ Create add-ins that extend the standardinterface to provide new capabilities or thatautomate repeated operations

■ Build custom applications that focus theuser on the capabilities needed for aparticular purpose by extending orreplacing the standard Maptitude interface

■ Access Maptitude from .NET to integrateit into a .NET desktop application

■ Access Maptitude as a COM Object toadd maps or analysis functions to your ownprograms

GISDK contains both a debugger and acompiler.

Add-Ins: Add-ins are macros or dialog boxesthat are launched within Maptitude. You cancreate add-ins to provide end users witheasier access to existing software functions; toadd new capabilities to the GIS engine; or tocreate hooks to your own applications. Add-ins can be freely distributed to anyMaptitude user without restriction.

The simplest add-ins are macros that runwhen they are selected by the user. Asophisticated add-in can display dialog boxesthat let the user choose the settings oroptions to use when the macro is executed.The most flexible and powerful add-ins arecustom toolboxes that provide users withpush-button access to tools that you haveprogrammed. These toolboxes look like thestandard toolboxes used in all Windowsapplications.

Custom Applications: GISDK lets you createa mapping application program with acustom user interface to appeal to aparticular audience. You design the menus,toolbars, toolboxes and dialog boxes, andprogram the application to respond to useractions in any way you want. You can evencreate applications that are dynamic and thatadapt to the capabilities and authorizationlevel of the user.

Custom applications are executed like otherWindows programs. Add your own programicon to any program group and double-clickto launch your application.

Accessing Maptitude from .NET or as a COMObject: GISDK allows you to call mappingfunctions and macros from anotherapplication, written in another programminglanguage. The .NET classes included withMaptitude allow you to access the GISDKenvironment from a Windows desktopapplication (Windows Forms) written in any.NET language. GISDK also allows you tocall GISDK functions and macros fromanother application using COM. Maptitudecan provide map, data, and geographicanalysis services when accessed as a COMObject. You write your application in aprogramming language that can make COMcalls, and when you need map services youcall the Maptitude object to supply thoseservices. If, instead, what you need is a webserver application, you should use Maptitudefor the Web. Contact Caliper or visit ourweb site for more information.

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©2018 Caliper Corporation. Caliper, Maptitude, MapWizard, and TransCAD are registered trademarks, and Create-a-Map Wizard, “Increase Your Maptitude,” GISDK, Caliper Script, Maptitude for Redistricting, and Maptitude for the Web are trademarks of Caliper Corporation.All other brand, product, or corporate names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Maptitude Applications:

• Accessibility Analysis

• Banking

• Business

• Cartography

• Choropleth Mapping

• Client Management

• Community Planning

• Crime Analysis

• Customer Mapping

• Data Publishing

• Decision Support Systems

• Demographics

• Drive-Time Rings

• Drive-Time Zones

• Education

• Emergency Response

• Energy Mapping

• Engineering

• Environmental Management

• Excel Mapping

• Facilities Management

• Franchise Planning

• GPS Mapping

Maptitude User ServicesCaliper provides a comprehensive programof technical support, training, and consultingservices to ensure the success of yourMaptitude applications. Caliper offers hands-on training classes for Maptitude inclassroom settings, or on site at your location.Our training can be customized for yourspecific needs and user group.

Maptitude includes comprehensivedocumentation with backgroundinformation, step-by-step instructions, and aseries of hands-on tutorials that let you tryout features. A help system, tooltips, andother on-screen visual cues also makeMaptitude easy to learn and use. In addition,video tutorials and webinars are availabe onour website.

Caliper offers a full range of GISimplementation services. Our GISprofessionals will assist you in assessing datarequirements, database strategy and design,database development, and analyticalmodeling. Caliper also provides customapplication and turnkey system developmentservices, including web site creation.

About CaliperCaliper Corporation is the technology leaderin the development of GeographicInformation System software applications.Tens of thousands of successful individualsand organizations around the world useCaliper GIS software products to enhancetheir operations. For more information onour complete range of GIS softwareproducts, data, and technical services, pleasevisit our web site, WWW.CALIPER.COM.

System Requirements:

• Personal computer running 32- or 64-BIT Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, or Vista

• DVD-ROM drive or an Internet connection for download• 4 GB RAM (8GB RAM provides optimal performance for users with very

large data files)• 10 GB hard disk space for program files plus and the United States

Country Package (varies by Package)

• Health Care

• Heat Mapping

• Insurance Underwriting

• Land Use

• Law Enforcement

• Market Research

• Marketing

• Planning

• Public Health

• Public Safety

• Public Works

• Real Estate

• Redistricting

• Regulatory Compliance

• Retail Management

• Route Planning

• Sales Analysis

• Site Selection

• Street Mapping

• Surface Analysis

• Telecommunication

• Territory Mapping

• Utilities