What's New in MapViewer 6?
New Map Types
MapViewer 6 introduces three new types of
thematic maps - Gradient Map, Dorling Cartogram, and Territory Map.
Gradient Map
MapViewer 6 incorporates the gridding capabilities from Surfer to
interpolate between discrete measurements. The result is displayed as a
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Dorling
Cartogram
Cartograms represent data values by changing the size of the associated
area object. The Dorling cartogram replaces the original shape with a
circle. Cartograms are particularly useful when there is an inverse
relationship between area and the data value. They emphasize the areas
with the greater data values. |
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Territory
Map
This type of map groups objects into territories. The grouping can be
done automatically on an MxN grid, or you can manually assign objects to
territories. All objects in a territory are displayed with the same
drawing style. The Territory Manager displays a variety of statistical
measurements of the related data values for each territory. |
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Export to HTML
Many customers have expressed an interest
in exporting maps to HTML to publish on their web site. Now, with
MapViewer 6, it's not only possible, it's simple to use! Choose HTML as
the export type from the File | Export command and MapViewer saves the map
as a JPG image and creates the complete HTML code to display the image.
Starting with MapViewer 5, map objects had a
hyperlink attribute and the View | Hyperlink tool within MapViewer could be
used to follow the link. These active hyperlinks are preserved when
exporting to HTML and now, in MapViewer 6, the link names can have an
abbreviation that is displayed instead of the full URL. The following map of
Congressional Districts in Alabama was created using MapViewer 6 and has
working links to the representative's home pages.
US Street Address Geocoding
MapViewer 6 contains the street location
and address information from the United States 2000 Census TIGER/Line
files. The geocoding function uses this street information to convert your
street addresses into Latitude/Longitude coordinates, suitable for
creating a pin map. The street files can also be loaded as a base map, for
a complete solution.
Thiessen Polygons / Delaunay
Triangulation
Thiessen Polygons and Delaunay
Triangulation are two complementary ways of creating area objects from a
set of points.
Delaunay Triangulation creates trianglular
area objects with the vertices at three of the point objects. Thiessen
Polygons are created by connecting perpendicular bisectors of the sides the
the Delaunay triangles.
Thiessen Polygons have the characteristic
that there is one area object per point and all the space within that area
is closer to it's associated point than to any other point. They are a way
of showing individual areas of influence around each of a set of points
and can be a powerful analytical and visualization tool.
New Boundary Creation &
Editing Tools
The strong set of object creation and
editing tools in MapViewer is now more powerful than ever.
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Convex hull
Create a convex hull that surrounds a set of point, line, and/or area
objects. This is handy for Surfer users to create a boundary file for
blanking a grid to the extent of the input data. |
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Intersection
points
Create point objects where line and/or area objects intersect.
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Enclose
Create area objects in regions enclosed by the boundaries of selected
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Divide area
Divide an area to create two areas with a shared border. |
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Difference
of area
Create areas for regions where selected objects do not intersect.
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Curve to
points
Convert a curve object into a set of point objects, one for each vertex
in the curve. |
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Points to
curve
Convert a set of point objects into a curve. |
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Curve to
area with shared border
Convert a curve object into an area object by connecting with a nearby
area to create a shared border. |
Legend Enhancements
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versions of MapViewer, legend entries for map types with classes always
showed the numeric range for each class. Now, in MapViewer 6, classes
can be given names and those names can optionally be shown in the legend
rather than the numeric values. There are also options to show the
number of objects that occurred in each class and to arrange the legend
entries into multiple columns. |
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Additional New Features
- Many new line styles and fill patterns have been added.
- The Property Inspector allows quick and easy access to change the
properties of simple objects.
- Customize the toolbars, menus, and window layouts according to your
preference.
- Export georeferenced bitmaps at any resolution while maintaining
spatial referencing.
- Enhanced query capabilities, including a query history, give you
more control than ever.
- Automatically reposition overlapping point and text objects.
- New and improved analysis tools, including shortest path and
bordering neighbor tools, plus several more.
- Export a bitmap representation of your map to industy-standard PDF
and EPS formats.
- Create Data function to count the number of point objects that are
located within an area object or to count the number of occurences of a
data value.
- Save and load class settings for easy reuse.
- Pin map classification can now be based on string variables.
- Set the map scale using a representative fraction (1:24000) and show
the representative fraction in the scale bar.
- Sort objects by their linked data values.
- Classes are now available with flow maps.
- And many more!
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