What’s New in Maptitude 2024

Maptitude 2024: New Features Overview

Maptitude 2024 is a major release of Caliper Corporation’s popular Geographic Information
System (GIS) and mapping software. The 2024 version provides the most up-to-date and accurate
data available.

Maptitude 2024 provides the business value you expect when investing in mapping software.
Maptitude includes the latest streets, postal data, and demographics. Maptitude 2024 is the
fastest and most intuitive professional mapping application, with significant enhancements to
sales territory management, sharing, visualizations, and logistics/operations analytics.

Key Features of Maptitude 2024

1. Provides complete support for hierarchical sales territories, such as levels for territories-
districts-regions, with any number of levels in the hierarchy, with full undo and redo, whether
with overlapping or non-overlapping territories.
2. The most up-to-date geographic and demographic information available, including the latest
data and boundaries from the American Community Survey (ACS) and 2021 USA Census.
3. Maptitude Online allows you to easily share your desktop Maptitude data privately with your
team or publicly as a web app. Map background tiles are now provided for Belgium, Colombia,
Denmark, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, and Spain in addition to Australia,
Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland, UK, and
USA. Shared maps can also be enhanced with drawing and measuring tools.
4. Maptitude Online as a stand-alone SaaS application allows you to map your data using any
device or operating system. New features allow you to use drawing tools to interactively
measure features, to add shapes to maps, and to download demographics by shape as an
Excel report, and to add new thematics for cluster/bubble and density/hot-spot visualizations.
5. The enhancements to the Routing Deliveries & Pickups tool provide powerful new logistics
features for optimizing your delivery fleets. You can now balance routes on “cost”, in dollars
per mile and/or dollars per hour for breaks and/or wait times, and can specify the maximum
weight capacities for vehicles and the weight of the goods transported.
6. Interoperability with external data has been expanded with support for FlatGeobuf (an
optimized vector file format), new versions of PostgreSQL, and native export to ESRI File
Geodatabases (in addition to open and import).
7. Support for online geospatial web services allows you to compare your routes with those
calculated by Google, HERE, and Bing, and to geocode your locations using these services
plus what3words.
8. Python scripts can now be run in-process using the COM API on the Python side, and you
can set up your preferred Python distribution and environment directly within Maptitude, e.g.,
Anaconda base.

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 Maptitude can map your information whether you have data from Google Maps, from a Microsoft
mapping product such as MapPoint, or from Microsoft Office. You can analyze your information
using the intuitive Maptitude 2024 mapping wizards and export your results as attractive,
preformatted Excel or PDF reports, or upload them to Maptitude Online for public or private
sharing.

Maptitude delivers easy-to-use professional mapping tools and data at the unbeatable price of
only US$695 (or US$420 for Maptitude Online.) For pricing and ordering information, please visit
the Mapping Software Store, e-mail Maptitude Sales, or call US sales at +1 617-527-4700.

New Data
Maptitude 2024 comes standard with one detailed Country Package of your choice, and
additional Country Packages can be purchased separately. Each Country Package includes a
wealth of data unavailable in any other product, such as an up-to-date street layer with addresses
for pin-mapping (geocoding) and travel time information for computing routes and drive-time
rings. Features such as building footprints for many urban locations, railways, and named
landmarks are also built into the software. The comprehensive landmarks range from public
facilities to commercial buildings including businesses, restaurants, and retail stores, and include
addresses and phone numbers where available. Where available, postal data and detailed
demographics are shipped with the product.

As you switch between the countries you have purchased, Maptitude will seamlessly refresh the
interface with country-specific tools such as Create-A-Map Wizard and tools for finding, pin-
mapping, and routing. New Map Libraries allow you to easily create attractive geographic and
demographic maps while locating unlimited numbers of addresses and territory-based records.

The basic global map that is provided with every Maptitude license enables you to view your data
for anywhere on Earth, and it allows you to map your locations by coordinate, manually, or by any
populated place (village/town/city).

United States
New U.S. datasets provide access to the most up-to-date geographic information available.
Maptitude 2024 comes with October 2023 HERE® Map Content, which allows for accurate address
locating and street visualization, in addition to robust data that you can use to calculate
directions, drive-time rings, and drive-time territories. Speeds based on HERE Traffic Patterns are
included.

Other 2023 U.S. map layers from HERE include those for buildings, highways, railroads, and
landmarks. The Points of Interest layer contains over 3.8 million named public and business
locations.

Maptitude 2024 ships with the January 2024 ZIP Code update to ensure that you are using the
latest data. The 5-digit ZIP Code boundaries are a nationwide area database with ZIP Codes for all
50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the territories.

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 Other standard features of Maptitude 2024 are updated 3-digit ZIP Code areas and a point
database of ZIP Code points for the entire country. The ZIP Code area layers extend into non-
deliverable areas to provide complete coverage of the USA. The 3-digit and 5-digit ZIP Code
areas include updated counts of businesses by detailed industry type (retail, finance, etc.), along
with the number of employees working in each ZIP Code, and annual payroll figures. The ZIP
Codes are also classified by their updated rural-urban commuting characteristics and with the
numbers of hospitals, hospital beds, and healthcare providers. The HERE street layer indicates
whether a street permits cars, buses, deliveries, emergency vehicles, motorcycles, pedestrians,
taxis, through traffic, or trucks.

The US Census boundaries (e.g., Tracts, Places, Counties, MCDs, MSAs, States) and the 3- and 5-
digit ZIP code areas that come with Maptitude contain some or all of several demographic
profiles from a variety of data providers. These sources include the 2020 Census and the 2022
American Community Survey (ACS) to name a few. This data is available for the USA, Puerto Rico,
and the Territories. These layers include daytime population, and percent change (2021 to 2022)
in population, median income, and mean income. The ZIP Code, Tract, County, and State layers
also include updated buying power (disposable income for 2021) figures.

Personal income and change in personal income BEA data for 2022 are included for States and
Counties, and 2022 GDP (by total, goods, services, government, and by 2-digit NAICS code) and
change in GDP BEA data for 2022 are included for Counties. 2025 population projections for
Counties, States, and Tracts are included by age, race, gender, and ethnicity, and for population
by 5-year increment for 2025-2100.

The Demographic Map Librarian tool makes it easy to access a series of pre-defined thematic
and shaded maps of the updated data. There are also maps for the 2020 Tract layer with updated
banking compliance FFIEC data for 2023.

The Country Package updates under development are listed below:

Australia
• October 2023 HERE update with speeds based on noontime HERE Traffic Patterns
• Updated HERE postal boundaries and centroids
• 2021 Census Demographics

Brazil
• October 2023 HERE update with speeds based on noontime HERE Traffic Patterns
• Updated HERE postal boundaries and centroids

Canada
• October 2023 HERE update with speeds based on noontime HERE Traffic Patterns
• Updated 3-character postal Forward Sortation Area (FSA) boundaries and centroids (HERE)
• Updated 6-character postal point layer (HERE)
• New 6-character postal area layer (Caliper Created/Derived from HERE)
• 2023 Population estimates for Provinces
• 2021 Census Demographics

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• October 2023 HERE update with speeds based on noontime HERE Traffic Patterns
• Updated postal boundaries for the UK (HERE)
• Updated postal boundaries and postcode points for GB (Caliper)
• 2022 Estimated population by age and gender, UK
• 2021 Census Demographics

Mexico
• October 2023 HERE update with speeds based on noontime HERE Traffic Patterns
• Updated HERE postal boundaries and centroids

New Zealand
• October 2023 HERE update with speeds based on noontime HERE Traffic Patterns
• Updated HERE postal boundaries and centroids

Network Analysis, Directions, and Routing

Maptitude 2024 gives you powerful tools to model routes, to calculate the distances and travel
times between locations, and to display and analyze service provision over the road network.

Routing & Directions Manager

The Tools>Routing & Directions> Routing & Directions Manager now:

• Supports custom route colors

• A new Options>General setting in the Routing & Directions Manager allows you to compare
your route with that calculated by web services such as Google, HERE, and Bing.

Routing Deliveries and Pickups

The Tools>Routing & Directions>Routing Deliveries & Pickups tool now:

• Allows sorting by route attributes of the route list displayed in the Manager
• Uniquely identifies each vehicle in the Manager by appending a sequential number to
duplicate vehicle names
• Allows time windows to span across midnight
• Allows depots to be identified using either a string column, e.g., "name", or a numeric
column, e.g., "ID"
• Allows renaming of the “Schedule Title” in the Options settings
• Allows routes to be balanced on “cost”, which is defined by the user in dollars per mile and/or
dollars per hour for breaks and/or wait time
• Provides improved route balancing that better respects tight constraints
• Allows specifying of a “Weight per Unit” in the Stops tab, and the specifying of a "Max
Weight" in the vehicle table, thus handling trucks that have maximum weight capacities
• Provides an Edit>Preferences>Routing setting to limit how long the tool will run before
providing a result
• Allows routes to have transparent styles
• Allows the Move Stop tool to move stops within a route, in addition to between routes
• Allows an itinerary to be copied to allow exploration of what if scenarios
• Allows depots to have zero vehicles

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Distance and Travel-Time Tables Tool
Maptitude 2024 makes it easy to identify alternative service suppliers, backup field
representatives, and closest locations. The distance and drive-time tool creates an Excel table that
lists the costs of travel between any number of origins and destinations, allowing you to easily
sort the data to identify the closest locations.

The Tools>Routing & Directions>Distance and Travel Time Tables tool now:
• Can output all origin and destination attribute columns along with the calculated distances
and travel times

New Database Functionality

New capabilities for geographic databases have been introduced.

• A copy button for File>Properties>Properties>Data from allows the copying of the data
source information or path
• Speed improvements when operating on a large number of tables
• A new editing tool Tools>Editing>Line Simplify/Smooth Toolbar allows for batch
smoothing and simplifying of line features

Before Smoothing After Smoothing

Locating Data
The geocoding tools use the updated street and postal data, making location matching results
more accurate than in previous versions of Maptitude.

• A new Tools>Locate>Locate by Web Service tool allows you to geocode your locations
using services such as Google, HERE, Bing, and what3words
• The what3words web service is supported for geocoding using this grid-based system via
Tools>Web Services Licenses
• The Click Coordinate Add-In now:
o Has a redesigned interface
o Allows the copying of coordinates
o Supports the what3words web service

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 Improved Create-a-Map Wizard
Create-a-Map Wizard is now more robust and easier to use:

• The maps have been updated with the latest geography

Creating Selections and Formulas

Condition building tools improvements:

• The Selection>Toolbar>
Options>Optional
Tools>Show running total
fields is now faster

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Analysis Tools
Completely new and innovative analytics have been added to Maptitude 2024:

• The Map>New Territory Layer Wizard and the Map>Territory Manager Toolbar:
o Allows choice of separate county and state columns when using County as the geography
layer, and when creating territories from a table
o Provides complete support for hierarchical territories, with any number of levels in the
hierarchy, with full undo and redo, whether with overlapping or non-overlapping
territories

• The Tools>Analysis>Facility Location tool:

o Automatically creates a color theme showing the color-coded assignment of clients to
each facility

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 Output Improvements
In Maptitude 2024:

• Added support for longer field names in demographic overlay reports

New Documentation
Maptitude continues to provide numerous ways to get you started with the software. The online
Learning Portal has been updated, and new and revised tutorials are incorporated into the
Maptitude Help.

In addition, a variety of comprehensive learning materials (including videos and live or pre-
recorded training webinars) are available on the Caliper Corporation website. The training videos
run in all browsers, with playback settings, as Vimeo and YouTube videos.

The Maptitude Help (Help>Maptitude Help) can be viewed within a web browser and has a
modern browser-based interface. The GISDK Help (Help>GISDK Help) is available online. The
Maptitude Online Help is available online.

Maptitude 2024 includes a Windows Microsoft Office style question mark icon on most windows.
Clicking this will take you to the relevant section of the Help. You can also hover over any menu
item and click F1 to access the updated Help. In addition, several message windows in Maptitude
link directly to the relevant Learning Portal article.

System and Interface

Maptitude 2024 supports the latest Windows operating systems, file types, and common design
elements.

• The Edit>Preferences>System>Language>Translate Interface option now supports full

interface translation into Korean.
• Maptitude checks on startup if the Microsoft System component WebView2 is installed and
prompts to download it if not.

New File Import Support

• FlatGeobuf (*.FGB)
• PostgreSQL newer than version 10

New File Export Support

• FlatGeobuf (*.FGB)
• PostgreSQL newer than version 10
• ESRI File Geodatabase (*.GDB)
• GeoJson (*.GEOJSON; *.JSON) faster field name processing

New Native File Support

• FlatGeobuf (*.FGB)
• PostgreSQL newer than version 10
• Drag-drop (*.XML) files (that are not GDAL imagery) to open them in a browser control window

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Maptitude Online
Maptitude Online is both a map sharing add-in for desktop Maptitude and a stand-alone
mapping application.

Online Sharing
As a sharing add-in, maps and reports are created and uploaded using desktop Maptitude. Once
uploaded, you can use the maps with the full functionality of the SaaS. New capabilities are listed
below.

• Upload up to 10 layers
• Access the redesigned “Upload Map to Maptitude Online” window
• Upload Map>Thematic Mapping>Pattern themes
• Access drawing and measuring tools in shared maps
• Upload your maps when you have a Country Package for Belgium, Colombia, Denmark,
Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, or Spain, in addition to Australia, Austria,
Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland, UK, and USA

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Desktop Maptitude is not required to use Maptitude Online. Directly from your browser you can
upload Excel or CSV tables and map the data using the Create-a-Map-Wizard. The maps can be
shared online publicly or privately. New capabilities are listed below.

• Map any number of charts in a Chart Theme

• Modify maps (hide, delete, or add layers/spreadsheets, selections, themes, styles, labels, or
analytics)
• Use drawing tools to measure features, to add shapes to maps, and to download
demographics by shape as an Excel report
• Create thematic visualizations for cluster/bubble and density/hot-spot themes

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APIs
The GISDK APIs make it easy to add mapping functionality to any Windows desktop application
written in Python, C#, or any .NET programming language.

Code examples and the user documentation for the Maptitude API have been updated for
Maptitude 2024 and are included under Help>GISDK Help.

The following functions and code have been added or modified:

• Python scripts can be run in-process using COM API on the Python side
• Setup your preferred Python distribution and environment, e.g., Anaconda base, via
Tools>GISDK Developer’s Kit>Register Embedded Python…
• caliperpy can be installed via "pip", the Python package manager
• PowerShell 7 is installed with Maptitude, can be changed via
Edit>Preferences…>PowerShell Engine, is used to register Python, is required to work
through the Help>GISDK Help Python examples, and is needed to use
File>Export>Geography…>Esri File Geodatabase
• The Routing API creates a drawing/annotation for routes
• The CreateObject("WebServiceGeocode") API supports online geocoding via several web
services, including Bing, Google, HERE, and what3words

GISDK Functions
Please see the “Listing of GISDK Functions” topic in the Online Help to view a full list of GISDK
functions that were added, changed, or replaced in Maptitude 2024. Highlights of the GISDK
changes:

• SampleArea() supports a new option for "Shape" which is "Fill"

• SaveSampleToImage() saves a sample to an image file
• Throw() supports a second, optional argument, for error type

About Caliper
Caliper Corporation develops state-of-the-art Geographic Information System (GIS) software.
With a focus on usability, Maptitude is designed to be the most cost-effective
professional mapping software product on the market. Maptitude enables organizations to
leverage their location-based data to improve decision making and planning while minimizing
expenditure through competitively priced solutions.

Caliper is a privately held corporation and is a leading developer of mapping,

redistricting, transportation, traffic simulation, and GIS software.

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