Maptitude Reviews

GIS software that matters.

The overal experience is very good, with the tools and features and plug-ins, the majority of logistics analysis projects can be executed.

Great GIS with affordable perpetual license, not bloated but you may miss features from ESRI

If you already know GIS you will find this easy to use. Interface is more like pre-Pro ArcMap but that's fine. I'm agnostic to ribbons vs. buttons. The point is to run the analysis. It hasn't crashed on me once.
Way fewer geoprocessing tools than you might be used to, so if you're doing very specialized work check the documentation.

Powerful, Versatile Mapping Tool

I have been using Maptitude for the last 7 years for healthcare consulting projects. We have purchased many licenses for our team. Caliper customer service is fantastic. I receive quick responses and clear answers to my questions.

Great Map Software

great - works perfectly for our needs. Building territories are simple and we just used the heat map functionality to adjust our service routes

Maptitude - Hands down best out of the gate geospatial platform

User for nearly two decades and it really gets the job done for me.

Best bang for buck in GIS is Maptitude

I attended 2 classes in Boston early in the stages of Maptitude. I had little field experience in GIS and the instructor helped me understand the power of Maptitude.

Most Powerful Mapping Tool in Our Arsenal

We have been using Maptitude to show retailers, dealers, and manufacturers their Total Available Markets based on our product forecasts. Once we load our forecasts, dealer locations, housing starts and other demographics, we are able to show where potential new business can be won. Maptitude has allowed us to better display our insights beyond the usual charts and tables.

Made for the Power User, Easy enough for an occasional user.

I love the product. When doing advanced mapping, Maptitude is the only way to go. They offer so many customizations you could not get from any online version. They are also dedicated to continually improving the product.

Data Analyst

It is an easy tool to work on. Staffings are wonderful; they are always going extra miles to provide supports as needed. Love it.

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great experience. amazing application and really helpful for making heat maps

Maptitude - the Value GIS

Great. I have recommended Maptitude to several people.

Affordable GIS Tool with most needed functionality

I am not a regular user of the tool. Currently I am on holiday in Madrid Spain.That is why I could not respond to your mail earlier.

Great data and mapping tool

great product, I highly would recommend.

Amazing product at a great value with even better customer service!

I am using the software to Map out where all of our dealership are located throughout the country while mapping out where our competitors are located in order to identify potential acquisition targets. The benefits have been providing invaluable insight to upper management regarding what kinds of opportunities are out there and consequently, giving the company a chance to grow via acquisitions.

Moreover, the additional features within Maptitude allows you to identify new areas of growth or new markets to enter given the plethora of demographic data it has embedded within the software. it shows population growth, income levels of population and so so much more. It really provides a high level overview for any user who wants to learn and find out anything about a particular area of the country.

Maptitude Makes a Visual Impact

Maptitude maps have been a key component to showing a huge cancer cluster around Fort Detrick with a graphic art picture image. The maps were shown by Senator Muse, D-MD and were instrumental in helping pass legislation for a cancer cluster investigation.

When I began using Maptitude I had no clue whatsoever about mapping. I remember my excitement when the first 67 data records popped up on the map. That was a moment of total joy to be able to achieve that since I had no background in mapping - just a strong desire.

I also use Maptitude in my current position to show areas of sales for our team.

Have used it for 22 years for hundreds of GIS projects

Maptitude is the BEST GIS software going, hands down

We use Maptitude to generate super-colorful and readable maps quickly, using lots of disparate data. It continues to exceed our expectations as to what it can do. It is our best investment--hands down--every year and was our smartest business decision to move away from ESRI ArcView to this product.

Maptitude - The Ultimate Geospatial Productivity Tool for Business

I've used almost every GIS ever made starting in the early 1990's. The big question when approaching an analysis has always been "is the result worth the effort?" The things that slow you down are usually 1)finding and loading data, 2)finding and running procedures that do what's needed, and 3)making maps that tell the story. I've been using Maptitude since it came out in 1995 and it's always been the best tool for all three of these tasks. All of the data needed for most business analysis come with the package. The functionality is extremely robust, especially for the price, including advanced features in their more expensive TransCAD. Maybe the most important strength is the ease of making great looking maps that meet the needs of any presenter or audience (thanks to the powerful automatic labeling features). Maps and tables can be printed directly from Maptitude, but they can also easily be transferred to Excel, Powerpoint, or desktop publishing software.

Like all GIS software packages, there is a learning curve for some functions. Joining data is fairly easy but the dialog boxes can get cluttered when multiple joins appear in the drop-down list with truncated descriptions or cryptic labeling such as :1, :2, :3. But the learning curve is MUCH less steep than ArcGIS or MapInfo, and the price difference is very large, especially considering the bundled data and advanced functionality.

Bottom line: given Maptitude, Excel, and Powerpoint, the average GIS user can almost always be confident that the effort will be worth the result.

Using Maptitude for Data

We have been able to make our data much more accessible to our clients by attaching our data to the Maptitude mapping program.

Absolutely the best GIS

I've been using Maptitude since the first beta version came out about 30 years ago. I had a project mapping toxic data points across the nation and maptitude was the only GIS that could handle it and it was, to tell the truth, the only one I could afford. Since then many companies have sent me GIS programs in an attempt to switch but none yet come even close to the power and ease of use of Maptitude. Absolutely the best.

Easy, powerful, and inexpensive.

A variety of graphic displays of geographic information.

Cost-effective GIS for business analysis

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: centres of gravity; visualising size of flows between distribution centres; allocating volume to different depots.

If you're coming to Maptitute from a GIS background, I think you'll be impressed with what you get for your money. If you're coming to it from MapPoint or you haven't used GIS before, then it can take some time and the right head to be able to use the package. Either way, you can ask for a free demo, so you can see what you're getting.

Best Value of GIS

So we needed a product that would allow us to map where our customers are located and be able to analyze demographics. Overall, considering this is a one time buy and not a SaaS, it has excellent value. The ability to overlay your data with demographic information is awesome.

Smooth customer service experience

My experience with Caliper was very smooth, the team responded very promptly to our enquiry, and were both accommodating and professional. For a busy research team, their customer service was both helpful and discerning, seamlessly reacting to our situation. Thank you, I look forward to using Maptitude!

Excellent, prompt customer service

I emailed asking a question about beginning my experience with Caliper, and I was very impressed to receive an extremely prompt, thorough, and helpful reply within less than a half hour! Thank you for your excellent customer service; I really appreciate it!