This questionnaire is for people who currently own or use MAPublisher. It has been designed to help us gather information towards making MAPublisher more functional and powerful according to the wishes of our users. So now is the time to let us know about the killer functions you would like to see in the next version of MAPublisher. It is a rather lengthy questionnaire but we assure you that all questions are important. This is the best way for us to gather the information we need and you want us to have in order to provide you with the products you want. This is your voice. Upon completion of the survey you will be sent a $35 coupon by mail that is good towards any future purchase from Avenza through December 31, 2002. This coupon will be sent to the address you enter in the first section of the form so please pay careful attention. If you are not a current user of MAPublisher please take our Non-user Survey by following the link below. All required fields are denoted with a pointed finger.

 Name

 What type of work do you do? 1) Advertising 2) Aerial Surveying 3) Architecture 4) Computer-aided Design (CAD) 5) Cartographic production 6) Conservation 7) Data Conversion/Entry/Provision 8) Educator (k-12) 9) Educator (secondary) 10) Educator (post secondary) 11) Engineering 12) Environmental Consulting 13) Forestry 14) Geography 15) Geology 16) GIS Professional 17) Graphic Design 18) Hydrology 19) Manufacturing 20) Market Research 21) Navigation 22) Petroleum & Mining 23) Photogrammetry 24) Planning 25) Prepress Service Bureau 26) Programming 27) Publishing 28) Real Estate 29) Remote Sensing 30) Research 31) Resource Management 32) Sales and Marketing 33) Software Development 34) Student 35) Systems Administration 36) Transportation 37) Utility 38) Web Design 39) Other

 Street Address

 City

 State/Province

 Country

 Telephone

 Email Address

 Which GIS/Mapping print publications do you read? (check all that apply)

ACSM Bulletin	Business Geographics	Cartographic Perspectives
Cartouche	EOM	GeoAsia/Pacific
GIS@Development	GeoEurope	GeoInfo Systems
Geoinformatics	Geospatial Solutions	GeoWorld
GIM International	GI News	GIS Development
Imaging Notes	Maplines	MapWorld
SOC Bulletin	None	Other(s)

 Which GIS/Mapping online magazines do you read? (check all that apply)

Directions Magazine	GIS Cafe
GIS@Development	SpatialNews
None	GeoReport
Other(s)

 Which Design/Computer Magazines Do You Read? (check all that apply)

Adobe Magazine	Digital Output	Computer Arts
Graphic Exchange	Mac Design Online	Mac User
Mac Week	Mac World	PC Magazine
PC World	Step-by-Step Graphics	None
Other(s)

 Which Operating System(s) Do you Use? (check all that apply)

MacOS 8.x	MacOS 9.x	MacOS X
Windows 9x	Windows NT	Windows Me
Windows 2000	Other

 What is Your Primary Operating System?

MacOS 8.x	MacOS 9.x	MacOS X
Windows 9x	Windows NT	Windows Me
Windows 2000	Other

 What type of CPU do you have? 1) Pentium IV or equivalent 2) Pentium III or equivalent 3) Pentium II or equivalent 4) Pentium I or equivalent 5) Mac G4 6) Mac G3 7) Other Mac processor

 What is the CPU speed of your computer? 1) over 1 GHz 2) 900 to 999 MHz 3) 800 to 899 MHz 4) 600 to 799 MHz 5) 400 to 599 MHz 6) less than 400 MHz

 Which Vector Graphics Application(s) Do You Use? (check all that apply)

Adobe Illustrator	Macromedia FreeHand
Corel Draw	Deneba Canvas
None	Other

 What is Your Primary Vector Graphics Application?

Adobe Illustrator	Macromedia FreeHand
Corel Draw	Deneba Canvas
None	Other

 Which Raster Graphics Application(s) Do You Use? (check all that apply)

Adobe Photoshop	Adobe ImageReady	Corel Photo-Paint
Deneba Canvas	Graphic Converter	Paintshop Pro
Macromedia Fireworks	MGI Photosuite	None
Other

 What is Your Primary Raster Graphics Application?

Adobe Photoshop	Adobe ImageReady	Corel Photo-Paint
Deneba Canvas	Graphic Converter	Paintshop Pro
Macromedia Fireworks	MGI Photosuite	None
Other

 Which Page Layout Application(s) Do You Use? (check all that apply)

Adobe InDesign	Adobe Pagemaker	Corel Ventura
Corel Word Perfect	Microsoft Publisher	Microsoft Word
Quark Xpress	None	Other

 What is Your Primary Page Layout Application?

Adobe InDesign	Adobe Pagemaker	Corel Ventura
Corel Word Perfect	Microsoft Publisher	Microsoft Word
Quark Xpress	None	Other

 Which GIS & CAD Application(s) Do You Use? (check all that apply)

ArcInfo	Arcview GIS	AutoCAD	AutoCAD Map
GeoMedia	MapInfo Professional	MicroStation	CARIS
IDRISI	MF Works	None	Other

 What is Your Primary GIS or CAD Application?

ArcInfo	Arcview GIS	AutoCAD	AutoCAD Map
GeoMedia	MapInfo Professional	MicroStation	CARIS
IDRISI	MF Works	None	Other

 What originally made you interested in MAPublisher? (check all that apply)

I needed better quality map output	I needed more control over my map design
I was referred by a colleague	I needed to use GIS map data in my graphics program
I learned about it in school	Nothing in particular
Don't remember	Other

 What is the latest version of MAPublisher that you currently use? 1) 4.0 2) 3.5 3) 3.0 4) 2.x 5) 1.x 6) LT

 Do you use it with Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia FreeHand? 1) Illustrator 2) FreeHand 3) Both (I own 2 copies)

 Do you use it on a Mac or Windows computer 1) Mac 2) Windows 3) Both (I own two copies)

 How long have you been using MAPublisher? 1) Less than 6 months 2) 6 months to 1 year 3) 1 year to 2 years 4) 2 years to 3 years 5) 3 years to 4 years 6) more than 4 years

 At what user level would you consider yourself? (click the "?" for details)  1) Power User/Expert 2) Regular User 3) Casual User 4) Novice 5) Conversion User

 Which vector GIS data format(s) do you use? (check all that apply)

ArcInfo (e00)	ArcInfo (other)	Arcview (shape)
Arcview Project (apr)	AutoCAD (dxf)	AutoCAD (dwg)
Intergraph (mge)	MapInfo (mid/mif)	MapInfo Table (tab)
MapInfo Workspace (wor)	MicroStation (dgn)	USGS (sdts & opt)
Vector Product Format (vpr)	None	Other(s)

 Which single GIS vector format do you work with most often or is most important to you?

ArcInfo Export (e00)	ArcInfo (other)	Arcview (shape)
Arcview Project (apr)	AutoCAD (dxf)	AutoCAD (dwg)
Intergraph (mge)	MapInfo (mid/mif)	MapInfo Table (tab)
MapInfo Workspace (wor)	MicroStation (dgn)	USGS (sdts & opt)
Vector Product Format (vpf)	None in particular	Other

 Please indicate your level of use of the Import MAP function with the following GIS formats.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Arcinfo generate
Arcinfo export (e00)
Arcview shape
AutoCAD dxf
MapInfo mid/mif
USGS DLG Optional
USGS DLG SDTS

 Please indicate your level of use of the following functions of the Import MAP filter/Xtra.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
import to existing layer
import multiple files at once
import to match an existing layer
importing with a grain value

 How do you feel about introducing a more sophisticated grain functionality in MAPublisher? 1) Gotta have it! 2) Strongly in favour 3) In favour 4) Somewhat in favour 5) Not in favour 6) Don't care

 How do you feel about the ability to import MAPublisher files to existing MAPublisher files? (ie. being able to merge two geo-referenced MAPublisher graphics files) 1) Gotta have it! 2) Strongly in favour 3) In favour 4) Somewhat in favour 5) Not in favour 6) Don't care

 How do you feel about the ability to import sections of GIS files rather than entire files? (ie. cropping on import) 1) Gotta have it! 2) Strongly in favour 3) In favour 4) Somewhat in favour 5) Not in favour 6) Don't care

 How do you feel about the ability to import GIS data directly from a spatial database? 1) Gotta have it! 2) Strongly in favour 3) In favour 4) Somewhat in favour 5) Not in favour 6) Don't care

 Please indicate your level of interest in MAPublisher being able to import the following vector GIS data formats?

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
ArcInfo Coverage
Arcview Project (apr)
AutoCAD (dwg)
GRID
Intergraph (Geomedia) (mge)
MapInfo Table (tab)
MapInfo Workspace (wor)
MicroStation (dgn)
UK Ordnance Survey (NTF)
US Census (TIGER)
Vector Product Format (vpr)

 Would you be interested if MAPublisher's import function made it possible for users to create their own import support for file formats that were not supported natively by MAPublisher? 1) Gotta have it! 2) Strongly in favour 3) In favour 4) Somewhat in favour 5) Not in favour 6) Don't care

 Please indicate your level of use of the Import Points function. 1) never 2) rarely 3) sometimes 4) often 5) not applicable

 Where do the majority of your Import Points files originate?

GPS	Database(s)	Spreadsheets
I create them myself	Not Applicable	Other

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to MAPublisher's point functions.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Plot a point by entering an X,Y value pair
Join points based on attribute value
User-defined symbols on import
Rotate points based on attribute value
Support for decimal degrees units

 Please indicate your level of use of the following functions of the Register Image filter/Xtra.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Registering with a reference file (tfw, irp etc)
Registering without a reference file
Registering a geotiff

 Please indicate your level of interest in MAPublisher being able to IMPORT & register each of the following raster GIS formats.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
DEM
DTED
ERDAS
ESRI GRID
LANDSAT
MFWorks
MrSID
PCI Geomatics
RADARSAT

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to the MAPublisher Register Image functions.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Crop images and maintain geo-referencing
Select portions of images and maintain geo-referencing
Registering images with differing X & Y pixel values

 Please indicate your level of use of the following functions of the Projection Editor.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Setting a supplied input projection
Setting a custom input projection
Projecting using supplied projection
Projecting using custom projection
Custom ellipsoids

 Please indicate the three projections you use most often.

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to the Projection Editor.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Add and save custom projections
Projecting all or some layers at once
Unprojecting to lat/long
Support for gore projections

 What single projection would you like to see added to the MAPublisher projection editor?

 What is your level of use of the Scale Conversion filter/Xtra? 1) never 2) rarely 3) sometimes 4) often 5) not applicable

 What is your level of use of the Transform Scale filter/Xtra? 1) never 2) rarely 3) sometimes 4) often 5) not applicable

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to the Transform Scale filter/Xtra.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Transforming multiple layers at once
A 'Defaults' function to rescale to a page

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAP Legend functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
MAPublisher legend function in general
Assign legend info
Auto-assign legend info (unique occurances)
Auto-assign legend info (value range)
Legend matching feature
Creating point legends
North arrow

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to the Legend filters/Xtras.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Create and save legend templates
Create and save custom north arrows
Easier application/changing of point symbols
Use of proportional symbols in point legends
Creation of dot-density maps
Use of multi-coloured point symbols

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAPublisher labeling functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
MAP Tagger tool
Feature Text Label
Labels following lines
Label leader lines

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to MAPublisher's labeling functions.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Intelligent labeling (conflict resolution etc.)
Multi-line labels
Colour by attribute
Font by attribute

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAPublisher grid & index functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Create grid (map units)
Create grid (page units)
Generate Index Labels
Make Index
Create Scale Bar
Create Neatline

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to MAPublisher's grid & index functions.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Create lat/long grid
Create grid in units other than page or map
Label grid lines
Customizable index settings
Dedicated 'create scalebar' functionality

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAP Creation functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Assign MAP Parameters
Assign Area Defaults
Assign Line Defaults
Assign Point Defaults
Assign Text Defaults

 Do you feel that Assign Text Defaults should create a default set of attributes for text features? (Presently MAPublisher text items do not have attributes) 1) Yes 2) No 3) Don't care

 Would you like the ability to create attribute tables for text features? 1) Yes 2) No 3) Don't care

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAP Attributes functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Show MAP Attributes
Show MAP Columns
Add/delete/edit MAP Attributes
Add/delete MAP Columns
Edit MAP Columns
Select by Attribute
Select by Attribute (add-to selection)
Select by Attribute (remove-from selection)
Select by Attribute (select-from selection)

 Please indicate your level of interest in the following possible enhancements to MAPublisher's MAP Attributes functions.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Change the display order of attribute columns
Select map elements based on distance queries
Find and replace attribute data
Merge character-based attribute columns
Cross-layer selection
Memory of recently made attribute queries for later use

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAP Arcs functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Join Arcs
Buffer Arcs
Flip Selected Arcs
Spline Selected Arcs

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAP Tables functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Import a Table
Create a Table
Delete a Table
Join a Table (linear match)
Join a Table (ordered match)
Show Table Records
Select Table Records
Add/Edit/Delete Table Records
Show Table Columns
Add/Edit/Delete Table Columns

 Please indicate your level of use of the Import a Table functions with each of the following supported file formats.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
dbase
USGS SDTS
ASCII (.csv)
ASCII (.txt)
ASCII (.dat)
ASCII (other)

Questions relating to MAPublisher's windows have already been asked in other sections of this survey. However if you have any additional comments or suggestions please enter them below.

 Please indicate your level of use of the following MAP Export functions.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Export to MapInfo mid/mif
Export to Arcview shape
Export e00 text
Export to pdfPLUS (MAPublisher pdf)

 Please indicate your level of interest in MAPublisher being able to EXPORT each of the following vector GIS data formats?

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
ArcInfo Coverage
Arcview Project (apr)
AutoCAD (dwg)
AutoCAD (dxf)
Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
Intergraph (Geomedia) (mge)
MapInfo Table (tab)
MapInfo Workspace (wor)
MicroStation (dgn)
UK Ordnance Survey (NTF)
US Census (TIGER)
Vector Product Format (vpr)

 Please indicate your level of interest in MAPublisher being able to EXPORT each of the following raster GIS data formats?

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
jpg or tif with referencing file
geotiff
DEM

 Please indicate your level of interest in the ability to export multiple graphics layers to GIS formats at once. 1) Gotta have it! 2) Strongly in favour 3) In favour 4) Somewhat in favour 5) Not in favour 6) Don't care

 Please indicate your level of use of each of the following additional MAPublisher tools.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
MAP Location Tool
Selstats/Show number selected (in general)
Selstats/Show number selected (select all)
Selstats/Show number selected (select reverse)
Selstats/Show number selected (save selection)
Selstats/Show number selected (memory functions)

 Did you know that a product called MAPublisher-GPS is available? 1) Yes 2) No

MAPublisher-GPS is an add-on module for MAPublisher that enables real-time data to be received and plotted in the MAPublisher environment when a GPS receiver is connected.

 MAPublisher-GPS is currently only available for Illustrator/Windows. Please indicate your level of interest in its availability for each of the following platforms.

	Gotta have it!	Strongly in favour	In favour	Somewhat in favour	Not in favour	Don't care
Illustrator/Mac
FreeHand/Windows
FreeHand/Mac

 Please rate each of the following technical support and help items based on your level of satisfaction.

	Excellent	Very good	Good	Just OK	Could be better	Poor	Not applicable	Never used
Supplied printed manual
PDF Manual on CD
Telephone Support
Email Support
Website FAQ's
Support from reseller
mapublisher-l list
other online lists

 Should future versions of MAPublisher contain in-program help? 1) Yes 2) No 3) Don't care

 Would you be interested in a modestly priced (below US$40) after-market MAPublisher guide similar to those offered for Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft products? 1) Yes 2) No

 Does the Idea of MAPublisher for CorelDraw Appeal to You? 1) Not at all 2) Somewhat 3) A great idea 4) I would definitely buy it

 Should MAPublisher be Available in Languages Other Than English? 1) Yes 2) No

 What Language(s) Would You Like to See MAPublisher Support?

Chinese	Dutch	French
German	Italian	Japanese
Spanish	English Only	Other

 Would You Be Interested in a Suite of PhotoShop Plug-ins that Offered Mapping and GIS Functionality Much Like MAPublisher Currently Does for Illustrator and FreeHand? 1) Not at all 2) Maybe 3) Probably 4) Definitely 5) What a great idea

 Would You Be Interested If MAPublisher Offered Direct Database Connectivity? 1) Not at all 2) Maybe 3) Probably 4) Definitely 5) What a great idea

 Do you or will you produce maps for display on the Internet? 1) Yes 2) No

 Please rate your current or intended use of the following formats for displaying maps on the Internet.

	never	rarely	sometimes	often	not applicable
Flash (swf)
Portable Document Format (pdf)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

 Would you be interested in MAPublisher offering direct support for the creation of SVG files? 1) Gotta Have It! 2) Very interested 3) Interested 4) Somewhat interested 5) Not interested 6) Don't care

 Please indicate your level of interest in each of the following possible functionality enhancements in future versions of MAPublisher.

	Gotta Have It!	Very interested	Interested	Somewhat interested	Not interested	Don't care
Some form of routing functionality
Ability to measure distances in map units
Rulers in map units
Rulers in projection units
Support for Illustrator actions
Other scripting ability
Supplied keyboard shortcuts
User-defined keyboard shortcuts
Buffer points
Create features based on map units
Support for azimuth as an attribute

 Do you think that a MAPublisher developer kit should be created that would enable third parties to create their own Illustrator and FreeHand tools for use with MAPublisher? (i.e. a plugin for a plugin) 1) Gotta have it! 2) Strongly in favour 3) In favour 4) Somewhat in favour 5) Not in favour 6) Don't care

Thank you for taking the time to complete our survey. Your submission and comments are very important to us. We value your contribution and assure you that we will take all responses into account when designing future products and MAPublisher updates. Please submit your responses by clicking the button below.

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