What's New in Maptitude for Redistricting 2026

New Redistricting-Relevant Data

United States Data Packages:
- 120th Congressional boundaries updated with the 2026 election delineations
- State Legislature boundaries updated for the Michigan Senate and the Mississippi House and Senate
- School District boundaries refreshed with 2025 Census boundaries and Department of Education demographics (free upon request)
- Personal income and 2024 GDP (BEA) data added for states and counties
- Population projections extended for ZIP Codes, Block Groups, Counties, States, and Tracts in 5-year increments through 2054.
- January 2026 ZIP Code update
Demographic Map Librarian updated with the 2024 Tract layer and 2025 FFIEC banking-compliance data

Find Non-Contiguous Areas now includes the option to “Ignore islands separated by a body of water,” helping focus results on likely misalignments rather than legitimate offshore areas.
Find Non-Contiguous Areas now includes the option to “Filter by Map,” restricting results to the districts at the current zoom level rather than in the entire plan.
Automatically Assign Unassigned Areas now reports how many unassigned areas in a district were added to the surrounding district.
Districts count in the Plan Manager now reports the number of districts in the plan rather than the maximum number shown in Plan Settings.
Library Drop-down has been added to the Templates tab in the Plan Manager to streamline workflow and increase efficiency.

Line smoothing tool for line layer features (Tools>Editing>Layer Editing Toolbar), for faster and more accurate editing of district boundary lines.
New archive database tool for line layers, to create a backup while making boundary edits.
Ability to change the source file location for linked records directly from Map>Linked Records Settings.
Support for very large databases (billions of records), up from the prior 16.7-million-feature limit, via File>Export.
Group By enhancements: The Dataview>Tools>Group By command now supports grouping by multiple fields in a single pass and includes a “Count” statistic for better data summarization.
Ability to add and delete records in MSSQL dataviews opened in Maptitude.
Ability to geocode records in an MSSQL dataview and to geocode by Census Block Group (USA) via Tools>Locate>Locate by Census Block Group.

Faster map drawing and navigation: near-instant panning and zooming, all layers now draw at the same time, and new keyboard shortcuts for map navigation and font scaling.
Custom color palettes can be created and saved for reuse the next time Maptitude is opened.
New “Select Zero-Length Line Segments” tool scans a line layer to remove lines with fewer than two unique shape points - useful for cleaning up externally sourced boundary data.
“Select by Related Values” now supports all mappable (joined) fields.
Three new Log Histogram Chart types (Bar, Area, Spline Area) for visualizing skewed data with wide value ranges, such as population or income.
Refreshed interface with a simplified ribbon-style toolstrip and updated icons.
Clustering add-in now produces consistent results each time it is run with the same data and settings, and adds "Cluster ID" and "Distance to Centroid" fields to the clustered point layer.
Facility Location tool allows a unique custom name for each analysis and always includes travel-time and distance columns in the results.