Josh:

>Given multiple polylines, which may follow the same paths for part or all
>of their lengths (think bus routes), how would you go about automating the
>display so that you can print a map that shows all routes at the same
>time?  I know TransCAD is advertised to be able to do this.  Can Maptitude?

TransCAD has several data structures for transportation applications that
Maptitude does not have, including route systems. At
(http://www.caliper.com/TransCAD/Mapping.htm) is an example; see the bottom
center map labelled "Display transit routes side-by-side over the links
that they traverse."

A route system is a set of routes, where each route is a list of line
segments and the direction of travel on those segments. While based on a
line layer, a route system acts as its own layer, and you can set its
style, including offsetting routes so you can see them all. A route can
even double back or loop around on itself, and still be shown properly.

A route system can be saved as a line geographic file and displayed in
Maptitude, but Maptitude does not know how to offset coincident lines,
because offsetting is based on knowing what routes go each way on each line
segment. If you really want this capability, buy Base TransCAD
(http://www.caliper.com/tcprice.htm).

Peter

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Fellow Maptituders,

I have uploaded a new utility to Directions Magazine called "Recolor Theme." If
you like using color ramps other than the ones included in Maptitude (especially
Cynthia Brewer's most excellent ColorBrewer schemes), but are tired of typing
RGB values, you should give this a try.

The "Recolor Theme" add-in permits experimentation with different color schemes
for a Maptitude color theme map, much the way that ColorBrewer.org permits
exploration in the single sample map online. ColorBrewer(tm) colors are
built-in; one may import a custom palette (such as the "Sample Khakis" palette
included in the package) or modify the code to add custom schemes permanently.

The program is free and open-source, released under GPLv3. ColorBrewer Colors
are Copyright (c) 2002 Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower, and The Pennsylvania State
University and incorporated under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.

download at http://www.directionsmag.com/files/index.php/view/797

I'm pretty sure that you can solve the problem with Maptitude, but there is an
alternative way by using Google Maps geocoding. I've done some time ago 15.000
addresses geocoding using an Excel VBA macro which enable us to geocode a list
of addresses. Since I don't live in US, a street layer ready for geocoding is
not a easy thing to find and maintein.

Here is some urls where you can find some of these spreadsheets:
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/excel-geocoding-tool-v2/
http://freegeographytools.com/2007/another-free-excel-geocoder
http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2007/11/12/geocoding-in-excel-using-google-\
maps-api/

I'm not sure which one I used, but they all use a similar process to retrieve
the geocoded data.

Once you have the addresses and coords in a spreasheet, you can import it to
Maptitude as a point layer.

If you decide to use this process, be sure to read the Google restrictions for
free geocoding. They're about how many address you can geocode per day and how
fast you can send a requisition for geocode each one. There is a FAQ at the
Google page in which you register to get a developer key.  In my case, I adapted
the VBA code to provide some lag between requests.

Best regards,
Marcelo Luna
Civil Engineer, M.Sc.
TransCAD 4.5 user

--- In Maptitude@yahoogroups.com, "Keith" <keith63fl@...> wrote:
>
> I made a tiny bit of progress with this on my own. I created a new map (no
points selected, just a map) of the US with Map Wizard. I looked at the layers
and found Streets (which references ccStreet.cdf). I figured out that the script
wanted the name of the "Streets" map layer (this seems somewhat obvious in
retrospect, but in the moment--at least for a Maptitude newbie--it's not at all
obvious). So I replaced "Hartford Streets" with "Streets". "Streets" is the
exact name of the street layer in my map. And when I run the script I get the
message:
>
> "Invalid row Handle:      1. Click OK to continue
>
> Reference info: locate, 1052,0."
>
> Note: the formatting, including that odd space after "Invalid row handle", is
the message appears.
>
> This, by the way, is the same message I used to get with the Hartford sample.
I had copied-and-pasted the sample from Help (shown below, modified only to
reference Streets instead of Hartford Streets) and ALWAYS got this or another
error (the nature of which I can't recall right now). I talked to Peter and he
sent me a copy of the .rsc file for Hartford which worked. I just now went back
to his copy, which I see has no line feeds between lines. I replaced "Hartford
Streets" with "Streets" in his copy--and I get the same error.
>
> A copy of the script/macro (with linefeeds) follows. Note that the
Customer.dbf file and the Map with the street layer are open when I run this.
>
>
> // Locate using a Streets layer
>
> // Open customer.dbf and the Hartford.cdf street layer in the Tutorial folder
>
> Macro "Test GISDK Locate View"
>
>      shared d_strictness
>
>      d_strictness = 3
>
>
>       view_set = "CUSTOMER|"
>
>      options = { {"ViewSet" , view_set},
>
>                {"ID", "ID"},
>
>                {"Address", "ADDRESS"},
>
>                {"PostalCode" , "ZIP"},
>
>                {"StreetLayer" , "Streets"},
>
>                {"OutputDatabase", "C:\\temp\\SelectionCustomers.dbd"},
>
>                {"OutputLayer", "Located Customers"},
>
>                {"OutputStandard", "C:\\temp\\SelectionStd.bin"},
>
>                {"AddressRules", "caliper.rul"},
>
>                {"CityRules", "cityzip.rul"}}
>
>      ShowArray(options)
>
>      SetAlternateInterface("geocode")
>
>      error_msg = RunMacro("GISDK Locate View", options)
>
>      Return(error_msg)
>
> endMacro
>

I made a tiny bit of progress with this on my own. I created a new map (no
points selected, just a map) of the US with Map Wizard. I looked at the layers
and found Streets (which references ccStreet.cdf). I figured out that the script
wanted the name of the "Streets" map layer (this seems somewhat obvious in
retrospect, but in the moment--at least for a Maptitude newbie--it's not at all
obvious). So I replaced "Hartford Streets" with "Streets". "Streets" is the
exact name of the street layer in my map. And when I run the script I get the
message:

"Invalid row Handle:      1. Click OK to continue

Reference info: locate, 1052,0."

Note: the formatting, including that odd space after "Invalid row handle", is
the message appears.

This, by the way, is the same message I used to get with the Hartford sample. I
had copied-and-pasted the sample from Help (shown below, modified only to
reference Streets instead of Hartford Streets) and ALWAYS got this or another
error (the nature of which I can't recall right now). I talked to Peter and he
sent me a copy of the .rsc file for Hartford which worked. I just now went back
to his copy, which I see has no line feeds between lines. I replaced "Hartford
Streets" with "Streets" in his copy--and I get the same error.

A copy of the script/macro (with linefeeds) follows. Note that the Customer.dbf
file and the Map with the street layer are open when I run this.


// Locate using a Streets layer

// Open customer.dbf and the Hartford.cdf street layer in the Tutorial folder

Macro "Test GISDK Locate View"

      shared d_strictness

      d_strictness = 3


       view_set = "CUSTOMER|"

      options = { {"ViewSet" , view_set},

                {"ID", "ID"},

                {"Address", "ADDRESS"},

                {"PostalCode" , "ZIP"},

                {"StreetLayer" , "Streets"},

                {"OutputDatabase", "C:\\temp\\SelectionCustomers.dbd"},

                {"OutputLayer", "Located Customers"},

                {"OutputStandard", "C:\\temp\\SelectionStd.bin"},

                {"AddressRules", "caliper.rul"},

                {"CityRules", "cityzip.rul"}}

      ShowArray(options)

      SetAlternateInterface("geocode")

      error_msg = RunMacro("GISDK Locate View", options)

      Return(error_msg)

endMacro

I'm new to Maptitude and to this group. I have what should be a fairly simple
task for Maptitude: given a list of addresses, mark the points on a map
(preferrably with labels) and save to a JPG file. I've looked at the
documentation, I tried the "LocateView" sample (which gave me fits at first, but
finally got it to work), so I have a very basic sense of what to do. But the
all-important details are eluding me.

For example, the LocateView sample uses "HartFordMaps.cdf". That's great if all
your points are in Hartford. But I need to map points anywhere in the U.S. I
assumed there was some kind of "US Streets.CDF" but I can't find one. I tried
supplying a the US Map, and got an error.

It seems like this should be a LOT easier than it is. I've been programming most
of my life, and can figure out most things on my own--but this is just too
foreign (GIS is not my forte) and too sparsely documented for me to get a grip
on.

I can't be the first person doing this relatively simple and common task. Can
anyone point me to a script that does this? Or at least give me some handle on
how to approach it?

Thanks.

I will double check permissions, but I should have full admin.
Its Win XP Pro.  I have run it on this computer for quite a few
years, installed a new drive a few months back, and am just
getting to installing it.



On Tue Aug 18 20:41:53 CDT 2009, Moshe Haspel <mhaspel@...>
wrote:

> I can't be certain, but it sounds like a permissions issue. Have
> you checked whether the "current user" has write permission to
> the directory in question? If that doesn't help, you might let
> the list know what OS you are running (and if you are running
> Vista, whether you did a clean install or an upgrade). I think
> there was some earlier discussion on the list about older
> versions of Maptitude not being fully Vista compliant. Running XP
> myself, I can't offer any first-hand insight. To be fair to
> Caliper, 4.8 was released well before Vista; it's not their fault
> if a new OS breaks their software.
>
>
>
> In Maptitude@yahoogroups.com, "pjfromny" <pam@...> wrote:
>>
>> I recently had to reinstall Maptitude 4.8.  When I try to run
>> it, I get an error message as follows:
>>
>> Cannot open file %CURRENTUSER%/Local
>> Settings/Temp/CALIPER/~ilgekq.dbd
>>
>> I can either retry or cancel; retry just produces the same
>> message endlessly.  Cancel results in an error message with same
>> file reference, and Reference Info: dberr, 1; click okay to
>> continue.  The next error box has the same file name and the
>> message "could not initialize (file name).
>>
>> I checked and the directory is there.
>>
>> The file name changes each time I attempt to open it.
>>
>> Anyone know how to resolve this?
>>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

I can't be certain, but it sounds like a permissions issue. Have you checked
whether the "current user" has write permission to the directory in question?

If that doesn't help, you might let the list know what OS you are running (and
if you are running Vista, whether you did a clean install or an upgrade). I
think there was some earlier discussion on the list about older versions of
Maptitude not being fully Vista compliant. Running XP myself, I can't offer any
first-hand insight.

To be fair to Caliper, 4.8 was released well before Vista; it's not their fault
if a new OS breaks their software.



In Maptitude@yahoogroups.com, "pjfromny" <pam@...> wrote:
>
> I recently had to reinstall Maptitude 4.8.  When I try to run it, I get an
error message as follows:
>
> Cannot open file %CURRENTUSER%/Local Settings/Temp/CALIPER/~ilgekq.dbd
>
> I can either retry or cancel; retry just produces the same message endlessly. 
Cancel results in an error message with same file reference, and Reference Info:
dberr, 1; click okay to continue.  The next error box has the same file name and
the message "could not initialize (file name).
>
> I checked and the directory is there.
>
> The file name changes each time I attempt to open it.
>
> Anyone know how to resolve this?
>

I recently had to reinstall Maptitude 4.8.  When I try to run it, I get an error
message as follows:

Cannot open file %CURRENTUSER%/Local Settings/Temp/CALIPER/~ilgekq.dbd

I can either retry or cancel; retry just produces the same message endlessly. 
Cancel results in an error message with same file reference, and Reference Info:
dberr, 1; click okay to continue.  The next error box has the same file name and
the message "could not initialize (file name).

I checked and the directory is there.

The file name changes each time I attempt to open it.

Anyone know how to resolve this?

Hi,
I saw in a message from 2005, someone asking whether you could use GISDK to
export to a .mif file.  At that time the answer was no.  Does anyone know if
this has changed?  Thanks

Dan

Is there a free font out there that is, say, black with while outline that could
be used in Maptitude? Sort of to give the halo text effect used in some GIS
programs?

(Then, choice of serif, san-serif, fixed width...)

TIA

Your ID field needs to be formatted as numeric, and should not contain any
strings.

Maptitude won't read most IDs from my excel doc. It's only selecting zip codes
and amounts. What am I doing wrong???

Hi,

I am trying to create tables that has all 66,273 tracts and 32369 ZCTA5 areas
for the whole USA with percent area overlap and IDs from underlying ZCTA and
tracts. I don't need the map but just the tables.

e.g.

Table 1 may look like the following:

ZCTA5_ID, tract 1 name, %, tract 2 name, % and so on...
94704  ,   0600112345, 60%, 0600112346, 23%, ...

Same for tracts in Table 2
TractID, ZCTA 1 name, %, ZCTA 2 name, % and so on...
0600112345 ,  94704, 85%, 94705, 11%, ...


Is it possible? (I tried the Tools--> Merge Geography command but it is crashing
due to memory problems; however state by state it works)



Thank you,

Rudy Banerjee

Maptutude 5.0
TransCAD 4.8

Hi All,

I was able to accomplish what I wanted using the export function with centroids,
then using the theme function and bitmaps.  The good thing about this is that I
could do this more than once if I were to have say 3 statistics--by converting
labels to text, I'm able to move things around.  SO, all in all, it was a good
exercise

Thanks to everyone who commented to me!

BoB Malin

Hi,

You can use bar charts (one variable bar chart using the pie-chart).
The pie chart looks like a graduated circle but allows only a single
color (as Dr. Hoskins has indicated). Below that you can use the
standard theme to fill the polygons...

Rudy B.

Maptitude 5.0

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Hoskins, Richard E. (DOH)
<richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov> wrote:
> I have had good luck with using two layers of the same geography and then
> coloring a theme for one variable and using hatched transparent polygons on
> top of it.
>
> Also you can use as your second layer a set of centroids overlayed over the
> polygons and make your second thematic map with the centroids. See
> attachment. (I will not be getting any calls from the Swiss Mapping Agency)
> Size of the squares is set in the style feature in the thematic mapping
> wizard by hand. There is a scaled symbol theme capability but I don't think
> it can be colored.
>
> Maptitude has a bar chart feature that you could use to represent the two
> rates, and this works provided you do not have too many areas that would
> result in a very crowed map with bar charts.
>
>
> ________________________
> Forward or reply from:
> Dick Hoskins
> EMS/Trauma
> WA DOH, Olympia
> (360) 236-2873
> richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov
> _________________________
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Maptitude@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Maptitude@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of henryinma
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:27 AM
> To: Maptitude@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Maptitude] Double Themed Maps
>
> Hi All,
>
> We just got out copies of Maptitude installed and I'm trying to duplicate
> some maps an intern made in another software this past summer (or tyring to
> come close to it).
>
> I work in the health industry and the state of MA is divided up into 28
> areas called community health network areas, or CHNA's. I was able to get
> the shape files I needed and created the maps, and I wanted to apply two
> separate statistics (rates)on the same map. I was able to create a color
> theme for the first statistic, (data ranges from .80 to 1.66 so I used 4
> ranges/colors..no problem). Where I'm getting stuck is trying to create a
> second colored theme. THe intern used colored dots (again 4 ranges/colored
> dots to represent rates from .64 to 1.2) dots centered in the area. In other
> words, the colored map represented one statistic, and the colored circle
> represented another.
>
> Is there a way within maptitude to create a colored symbol on top of an
> existing colored theme? Does this require creating and merging separate
> maps, or something special, or, is this not possible in the software.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Malin
>
>

--
Aniruddha Banerjee, Ph.D.

Hi,

You can use bar charts (one variable bar chart using the pie-chart).
The pie chart looks like a graduated circle but allows only a single
color (as Dr. Hoskins has indicated). Below that you can use the
standard theme to fill the polygons...

Rudy B.

Maptitude 5.0

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Hoskins, Richard E.  (DOH)
<richard.hoskins@...> wrote:
> I have had good luck with using two layers of the same geography and then
> coloring a theme for one variable and using hatched transparent polygons on
> top of it.
>
> Also you can use as your second layer a set of centroids overlayed over the
> polygons and make your second thematic map with the centroids. See
> attachment. (I will not be getting any calls from the Swiss Mapping Agency)
> Size of the squares is set in the style feature in the thematic mapping
> wizard by hand. There is a scaled symbol theme capability but I don't think
> it can be colored.
>
> Maptitude has a bar chart feature that you could use to represent the two
> rates, and this works provided you do not have too many areas that would
> result in a very crowed map with bar charts.
>
>
> ________________________
> Forward or reply from:
> Dick Hoskins
> EMS/Trauma
> WA DOH, Olympia
> (360) 236-2873
> richard.hoskins@...
> _________________________
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Maptitude@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Maptitude@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of henryinma
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:27 AM
> To: Maptitude@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Maptitude] Double Themed Maps
>
> Hi All,
>
> We just got out copies of Maptitude installed and I'm trying to duplicate
> some maps an intern made in another software this past summer (or tyring to
> come close to it).
>
> I work in the health industry and the state of MA is divided up into 28
> areas called community health network areas, or CHNA's. I was able to get
> the shape files I needed and created the maps, and I wanted to apply two
> separate statistics (rates)on the same map. I was able to create a color
> theme for the first statistic, (data ranges from .80 to 1.66 so I used 4
> ranges/colors..no problem). Where I'm getting stuck is trying to create a
> second colored theme. THe intern used colored dots (again 4 ranges/colored
> dots to represent rates from .64 to 1.2) dots centered in the area. In other
> words, the colored map represented one statistic, and the colored circle
> represented another.
>
> Is there a way within maptitude to create a colored symbol on top of an
> existing colored theme? Does this require creating and merging separate
> maps, or something special, or, is this not possible in the software.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Malin
>
>



--
Aniruddha Banerjee, Ph.D.

Hi All,

We just got out copies of Maptitude installed and I'm trying to duplicate some
maps an intern made in another software this past summer (or tyring to come
close to it).

I work in the health industry and the state of MA is divided up into 28 areas
called community health network areas, or CHNA's.  I was able to get the shape
files I needed and created the maps, and I wanted to apply two separate
statistics (rates)on the same map.  I was able to create a color theme for the
first statistic, (data ranges from .80 to 1.66 so I used 4 ranges/colors..no
problem).  Where I'm getting stuck is trying to create a second colored theme. 
THe intern used colored dots (again 4 ranges/colored dots to represent rates
from .64 to 1.2) dots centered in the area. In other words, the colored map
represented one statistic, and the colored circle represented another.

Is there a way within maptitude to create a colored symbol on top of an existing
colored theme?  Does this require creating and merging separate maps, or
something special, or, is this not possible in the software.

Thanks

Bob Malin