Need to do some demographic research and our company has usually used MapPoint. Currently we have the 2006 version and they are thinking about upgrading to 2010. Im used to using google earth, but not sure if it has any demographic research tools available.

Mostly we need to research demographics by zip code, ideally age 65+.

Any other programs out there we should be looking at?

11/18/2009 4:28:58 AM

bttt

11/19/2009 8:36:33 PM

i thought mappoint was just a tool to map the data that you find, how are you using it to do research?

11/19/2009 9:08:37 PM

ArcGIS + Business Analyst (or some other dataset) = FTW. That being said, Business Analyst subscriptions aren't cheap. What's your budget?

11/19/2009 10:47:11 PM

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"i thought mappoint was just a tool to map the data that you find, how are you using it to do research?"

You can search demographic (age, sex, race, household income, etc) by county, state, etc.

11/20/2009 5:50:40 PM

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"i thought mappoint was just a tool to map the data that you find, how are you using it to do research?"

That's how you do research, dawg.

But yeah, you can do with this ArcGIS, MapPoint, or a couple of other commercial mapping packages. It's really just about finding your data source (as sheldavie has already mentioned).

If you already use MapPoint, might as well stick with it and start researching data providers for it.

11/20/2009 6:34:09 PM

i thought you had to load the data into it, and i thought the data was what he needed

11/20/2009 10:25:05 PM

mmmm i love me some really good mapping programs (overlays, historical maps, progressions, flow...)

11/25/2009 11:32:32 AM