Maptitude

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Maptitude
Original author(s) Caliper Corporation
Developer(s) Caliper Corporation
Initial release1995;29 years ago (1995)
Stable release
2024 / March 5, 2024
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Available in English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
Type Mapping Software, GIS, GIS software
License Proprietary
Website Maptitude Mapping Software

Maptitude is a mapping software program, a mapping tool, and a Geographic Information System (GIS) created by Caliper Corporation that allows users to view, edit and integrate maps. The software is designed to allow the geographical visualization and analysis of either included data or custom external data. The primary user type is a business development professionals. The primary use type is for sales territory management.

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It encapsulates the core GIS functionality of the Caliper mapping software suite of products, and works with Microsoft Office, data mapping from various sources including Microsoft Excel, and includes a BASIC-like programming language (Caliper Script) within a development interface (GISDK) that allows automation of the Maptitude environment.

Maptitude geocodes addresses the geocode precision (the method used to locate the address) in a column in the attribute table. Maptitude provides route planning tools for route optimization that provide route directions for optimal routes for travel and deliveries by calculating the distance and the direction of single or multiple routes. Routes are optimized based on the shortest route, fastest route, ordered route, or other route types based on costs other than time or distance.

The Caliper technology is used in the following end-user desktop software:

Caliper technology is also used in the following web-based software:

The discontinued Maptitude used application source code that was edited using JavaScript, HTML, and ASP.NET. Application templates (Mapplications) were used to create a web application or service. The default templates included Ajax applications and mashups that used Google Maps via the Google Maps API. The product was replaced with the Maptitude Online SaaS.

Product history

The standard Maptitude product is typically released every year as both an upgrade and as a fully packaged product; the current version is Maptitude 2024. [3] Maptitude, which was first released as Maptitude 3.0 in 1995, [4] and numbered to agree with TransCAD 3.0, the first Microsoft Windows version of that software. The Community 2020 edition was released in 1997, [5] [6] [7] a product developed for the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Maptitude 4.0 was released later that same year (1997) [8] and subsequent versions included 2000 U.S. Census data and additional capabilities. [9] Version 5.0, was released on January 29, 2008. [10] The MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (MTPS) edition was released in 2008, [11] [12] a product developed for the U.S. Census Bureau. Version 6.0, was released in early 2011.

Maptitude 2012, Maptitude 2013, and Maptitude 2014 included updated maps, data, demographics, and features. For example, for the USA, the 2010 US Census Data, ACS demographics, and Nokia HERE Map data were all refreshed. Maptitude 2014 focused on improvements to output, with the inclusion of 3-D maps, reports, and live tiled imagery.

New versions have sometimes been released before the equivalent TransCAD releases, and have been identically numbered, but recent versions have always followed the release date of the TransCAD software. Maptitude 2012 represented a shift in the version numbering, from a sequential release value to a year number.

The software is available for Microsoft Windows.

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  2. ↑ "Maptitude Online SaaS Released for Sales and Marketing Business Development".
  3. ↑ "New Features in Maptitude 2021".
  4. ↑ Maptitude offers unbeatable mapping value for Windows (InfoWorld)
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  21. ↑ New Features in Maptitude 2014
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