Caliper Corporation announces the release of Maptitude for Redistricting 2016. Maptitude for Redistricting 2016 is a powerful and widely used, tool for political redistricting.
Maptitude for Redistricting 2016 is a professional product for congressional redistricting. Maptitude utilizes modern Geographic Information System (GIS) technology that allows state legislatures, political and public interest groups, city and county governments, and even private citizens to create and submit redistricting plans that will meet their mandated goals and stand up in a court of law.
Maptitude for Redistricting 2016 has new features. Updated datasets include the American Community Survey (ACS) for Census Block Groups. Speed improvements provide faster access to maps and geographic analysis. There is new file support for Google Earth Documents (KML/KMZ) data fields, and MapPoint Map files.
About Maptitude for Redistricting
Maptitude addresses the complexity of redistricting by facilitating the key aspects of creating and evaluating map-based plans. As the redistricter adjusts boundaries between districts, the software instantly reports the consequences of these actions in terms of population balance and demographic and political composition. Maptitude for Redistricting streamlines the redistricting process, removes formerly cumbersome steps, and provides all of the supplemental calculations and reports that redistricters want.
Designed with the help of redistricting professionals from state legislatures and political parties, Maptitude for Redistricting works the way redistricters work and is easy to learn and use. It is used by a majority of state legislatures, the Democratic and Republican national parties, many state political parties, cities and counties, and numerous public interest groups.
Maptitude for Redistricting runs on Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista.