Map Maker Ltd, The Pier, Carradale, Kintyre, PA28 6SQ, UK info@mapmaker.com
Comparison table: Map Maker Pro and Map Maker Gratis
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| Good looking maps | ||
| Unlimited number of layers, raster and vector. |
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| Colour, mono, and grey-scale bitmap backgrounds. |
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| Large range of fill, line, and symbol styles |
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| Virtually limitless range of user-definable fill styles, including symbol fills and multi-coloured hatching. |
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| User-definable symbols. |
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| Translucent and semi-translucent fills. |
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| Curved, stretched, and outline text. |
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| Arrows and dimension lines |
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| Grids. |
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| Easy to create scale bars, north points, legends, text panels, inset images etc. |
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| Include text and charts from MS Word. |
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| Point-and-click to pop-up images, documents and internet links. |
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| Printing | ||
| Print accurately scaled maps on any true Windows compatible printer. |
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| User-defined page templates for high-quality prints. |
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| Variety of grids, and co-ordinate numbering. |
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| Multi-sheet printing of large maps. |
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| Map creation and editing | ||
| Create from new or import and edit. |
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| Vector drawing and editing. |
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| Intuitive cutting and joining of polygons. |
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| Simple editing of common boundaries. |
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| Numerous "snap-to" options. |
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| Drag, stretch, rotate, duplicate groups of objects. |
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| Single-click flood-fill vector polygon creation. |
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| Raster and vector rubber sheeting. |
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| Create buffer zones around an object. |
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| Create buffer zones around collections of objects |
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| Trim raster and vector to polygons. |
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| "Spaghetti processing", - lines to polygons. |
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| Intersections and unions from overlapping polygons. |
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| Powerful data tidying routines. |
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| Calibrate raster images. |
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| Raster to vector. |
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| 3D functions - contours, views, etc |
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| Rubber sheeting of vector and raster data |
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| Many more vector and raster actions…. |
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| Using data with maps | ||
| Generate legends. |
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| Thematic maps from DBF data |
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| Thematic maps from Access and Excel data |
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| Data charts |
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| Link data queries to Microsoft Access forms. |
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| Simple on-screen measurement of areas and lengths |
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| Numerous spatial queries such as "contained in polygon", "within x distance of line", etc. |
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| Inherit data from one layer to another. |
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| Edit found data set. |
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| GPS | ||
| Live data capture (NMEA and Garmin) |
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| Import GPS data file (NMEA and Garmin) |
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| Download waypoints. |
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| Tracking of moving points. |
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| Rectify aerial photos using GPS control points. |
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| Latitude & Longitude | ||
| 225 pre-defined datums, limitless user definable datums and ellipsoids. |
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| UTM, OS Grid, Lambert’s Conic, and user-defined Transverse Mercator and Conic projections. |
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| Support for correction matrices to compensate for local irregularities, i.e. 5cm accuracy for the UK. |
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| Compatibility | ||
| Import vector data including ArcView SHP, MapInfo MIF, AutoCAD DXF, Idrisi VXP. |
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| Import a wide range of additional vector data types including USGS DRG, Ordnance Survey NTF etc. |
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| Export a map as an image overlay to Google Earth | x | x |
| Export SHP, MIF, DXF Idrisi VXP, etc. |
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| View BMP, TIF, JPG raster data. |
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| View Geo-Tiff, Idrisi RST, USGS DOQ, and ECW raster data. |
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| Export BMP, JPG, TIF. |
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| Export attribute data to DBF |
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| Export data to Microsoft Access and Excel |
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| Distribution | ||
| Distribute your maps with Map Maker Gratis. |
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