Hello all, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to draw a border around the outermost elements of a geographically contiguous selection set... Speficially,...
Hi Dan, You can create a boundary around features by using the Tools>Geographic Analysis>Merge by Value commands. 1/ Create a new field in the attribute table...
Sometimes Zip Codes cross county boundaries. I need to make a table of the zip codes that cross county boundaries that indicates the counties that Zip Code is...
Hi Dick, can you use a finer geographic resolution file such as census tracts? Add three new fields to the census tract attributes - "zip codes", "counties",...
Dick, I don't have an answer, but a question for you - how long have you been using Maptitude, and how did you get started with it? John If you always do what...
... Hi Dick, I can only think of a way to do it in DK code as follows: SetSelectInclusion('Intersecting') Loop thru the zip codes areas with a While loop, and...
Hi Dick. How about this? 1) Create Centroids for the zips 1.a Create field CountiyID and tag it with the Ids of counties 1b. Create a formula field ID *...
I have two replies that I am working through about how to detect Zips that cross county boundaries, I'll summarize the result. I am fiddling with it now....
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Feb 26, 2009 5:35 pm
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... The latest issue of Cartographica from the Canadian Cartographic Association (Vol 43, #4, Winter 2008) has an article by Martin A. Andresen and Patricia L....
Likely no one is interested in how I came to be with Maptitude except John, so hit the delete key. John, Since v 3, I think 1994. I took a course from Gerry...
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Feb 26, 2009 11:22 pm
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Dick, Some of us are interested indeed! In fact, Gerard Ruston was my PhD advisor @ lowa and his specialty in location models introduced all his students to...
Since two people have told their "how I came to Maptitude" stories, I'll tell mine! I started doing "GIS" with the Calform/Symap/Symvu products from the...
I might be missing something, but it seems like there's an easy solution to the cross-county zip issue: 1) Use the County layer to split the zip code layer. 2)...
I started working with mapping in 1982 when the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed a mainframe mapping program. The project...
An apology - sort of . . . . . . . . My intention was to send my question to Dick. In other groups I belong to, hitting "Reply" will send the message to the...
I see that there are some geezers out there in Maptitude Land, I am a pre-baby boomer. My dissertation - which was done on a line printer, and was 6000 punched...
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Feb 27, 2009 4:33 pm
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Perhaps others in the list have had direct experience & can comment further on whether this is a valuable add-on idea... We are intigued with the distribution...
CrimeStat is at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CRIMESTAT/ This is really a very nice spatial stats package which is free. It uses and produces .shp files. I have...
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Feb 27, 2009 5:25 pm
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Hi Group: We greatly value your input, especially in conjunction with our other channels of user feedback (such as support & training.) Based on these comments...
Here is a suggestion for your thematic mapping: http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer_intro.html It would be really, really useful to have...
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Mar 2, 2009 8:09 pm
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That's good to know, Stewart. I do hope you'll also consider modifying Maptitude's license policy to permit installation on a single user's laptop as well as...
Yes please do that. No way am I going to convince my budget people to buy me an extra copy for a laptop. It just will not happen. Dick ...
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Mar 2, 2009 8:27 pm
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Better yet: why not add a dongle to all licenses, like Caliper is doing for MT4W ? I would happily pay a little more (to cover the cost of a dongle hardware) ...
Caliper should take this thread as sing of how happy we are of paying for a Maptitude license. The discussion is not flamewar : We are just looking at better...
Correct me if I am wrong. A dongle itself costs a few hundred dollars. Do you want Caliper to increase the price? Yanping Zhang Senior Transportation...
Hi folks. What can I say? It is part of the discipline of having a low cost product that some difficult decisions must be made. Having considered most of...
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