MacMap®, the easy-to-use and user-friendly GIS for Mac OS X:
MacMap® is a Geographic Information System (GIS) for MacOS™, developed and marketed by Carte Blanche Conseil. As with all GIS solutions, you can create and use databases which integrate a representation of geographic elements (points, axes, areas...), associated with data of any format (numeric, alphabetic, data, time...). It is, of course, possible to make requests (geographic or not) from this database and to generate new data and maps with the calculation modules.
MacMap® and the Macintosh™:
The main asset of MacMap® is to reuse the concept of an object-based interface from which the Macintosh™ was born. Each geographic element drawn is integrated in the database as an object which can be easily manipulated with the mouse: A single click on the map lets you select an item, a road for example. This road can then be manipulated endlessly... A double-click lets you open the card for the object you are pointing at and review its data... The data can be displayed in spreadsheet format...
Graphics:
MacMap® offers numerous possibilities for representation of geographic objects based on the data associated to them. The choice of platform also lets you benefit from the indisputable qualities of the Macintosh™ as regards to DTP and CAD. MacMap® is, therefore, a simple and powerful tool, for appropriate and well-crafted thematic cartography. Furthermore, the PDF functions in MacMap® allow for Postscript printing as well as PDF exports for use by CAD tools.
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Solutions for education and research: MacMap® is available in a version limited to 1,500 objects for education, and is available at a special price for university research laboratories.