Maptitude is excellent for doing geographic analysis projects looking at: where existing customers are and new ones might be (including using the built-in demographic data); identifying hot-spots, patterns and trends that can't be seen in Excel. It is really helpful with network design tasks - which sites are best: centers of gravity; visualizing size of flows between distribution centers; allocating volume to different depots.

Maptitude offers a diverse array of analytical tools at an affordable price. It is a comprehensive and the most affordable GIS software available on the market. Maptitude is a standalone product and comes fully loaded. Apart from the standard analytical tools, Maptitude offers extensive capabilities for analyzing competing businesses in a particular neighborhood using adjacency tools. It also performs route analysis to determine driving directions or delivery routes that minimize logistics costs.

I've had the good fortune, or misfortune, to use quite a few GIS software packages over the past few years and can assure you that Maptitude is streets ahead when it comes to ease-of-use. The trick with any GIS is to understand the terminology, and Maptitude communicates it's functionality through a common-sense menu structure. The result is that a new user is up and running with an extensive range of capabilities within a very short time." "The package offers ease of use, an extensive range of functions and capabilities, and a wealth of data. In fact, if I purchased the data separately, from any of multiple sources, the cost for data and restructuring would be over $20,000.

So how did my experience of Maptitude turn out – well it’s fantastic. I have achieved everything I wanted to be able to do, and more, regarding analyzing business data for all sorts of industries.

As far as ease of use goes Maptitude takes the prize, Maptitude is definitely easer to use right out-of-the-box and the learning curve for advanced functions is shorter than with MapInfo. As for presentations, Maptitude takes the prize again over MapInfo. The folks at Caliper took great pains and effort to make a GIS software application that is as user friendly as possible. They took the cartographic prep-work out of the equation, so that the user can spend less time trying to make the map look pretty and can focus on doing the actual analysis and presentation. A few years back I did a cost comparison analysis of Maptitude vs. MapInfo and the result was a difference of over $20,000, I imagine this figure has only gone up since than. This took into account not just the cost of software but the cost of the data included with Maptitude that you have to purchase separately from MapInfo. Although in my current position, I'm not overly concerned with current economic or demographic statistics. I have used demographic and economic statistics from MapInfo vendors and Caliper’s data sets are more complete and better organized. Both Maptitude and MapInfo offer some nice thematic mapping wizards that utilize very nice color gradients but given a choice, the Maptitude wizards are easier to select from and the legends are easier to customize than MapInfo.

Maptitude has extensive functionality...and a significantly flatter learning curve than other GIS software.... You get a fully functional GIS and extensive data for 1/3 the price of other GIS products.

Maptitude is easy to learn. The included geospatial functionality will serve most analyst needs. And the package is available at a price point that will not provide a barrier.

Maptitude has lots and lots of formats to import from or export to.

The Maptitude 2014 demographics provide significant added value not available from other sources, revealing new information such as how many adolescents are likely to use a health program.

If you're looking for data visualization and geographic analysis, Maptitude is your best bet.

I have been extremely happy with the purchase of Maptitude. I must admit, I was a little skeptical at first when comparing Maptitude to MapInfo due to the large price difference. But after researching both platforms I felt that Maptitude's functionality gave us the most bang for the buck. Creating maps is very easy, not only because the user's guide that comes with the software is helpful, but the training offered is top notch. I was able to receive one on one training without leaving the office. My training sessions were also available via download to reference when ever I needed. All in all we couldn't be happier with our purchase.

Maptitude includes more features and data than most other products and is arguably the least expensive, yet serious, mapping tool available for Windows users. At only US$695 it is priced well below its more expensive competitors.

GISDK is its own separate language. It's pretty straight forward and the documentation is good. I coded up a proto-type map server (based on their example) that locates a customer by address and produces reports about the services we offer in that area, e.g. their recycling day/trash pickup day.

Caliper offers Maptitude...as one of the cheapest and easiest-to-use desktop GIS software products available. Maptitude includes a lot of compact, compressed GIS data on CD ROM; a powerful geocoder; and interactive editing and topology maintenance tools. The GIS SDK (software development kit) allows users to customise and add their own applications. GIS SDK routines are accessible via OLE automation with Windows development products, setting up a pathway for users to implement a Web server.

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