• Classic Flowmap 7.4.2 runs on Windows 98/2000/ME/XP/VISTA/7 platforms
• New Flowmap 10.1 runs on Windows 10, 11 platforms
• Importing MapInfo/MIF and Shape files is easy
• Flowmap 10.1 can also import CSV, GPX and GeoJSON formatted data
• Flowmap 7.4.2 stores attribute data in dBASE III format
• Flowmap 10.1 stores attribute data in dBASE IV format for more capacity
• Flowmap 10.1 is upwards compatible earlier Flowmap versions
• Geometric results are easily exported as MapInfo/MIF files
• Flowmap attribute tables can be directly opened and joined in mainstream GIS packages
• Result maps can be saved in BMP, GIF or JPEG format
• Logfiles can be used to track progress, but can also be edited and/or rerun
•  is compatible with mainstream GIS packages

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Spatial aggregation
–          Based on geometric properties (shortest joint perimeter etc.)
–          Based on attributes values
–          Based on spatial relations (Functional distance)

Trip end ranking
–          Add distance and rank to spatial interaction
–          Add distance to closest alternative facility to spatial interaction
–          Detour analysis

Transport Network Analysis
–          Check network connectivity
–          Determine distance network segments to nearest origin or destination
–          Identify network segments on shortest path to nearest origin or destination

Interaction (Flow) assignment to transport network (Traffic Load)
–          Add non directional interaction to network segments on shortest path
–          Add non interaction by geometric direction to network segments on shortest path

Catchment Area Analysis
–          Regular: Identify nearest destination for all origins based on shortest path distance
–          With linear optimization: minimize overall travel distance (Hitchcock)
–          Alternate: Identify destination with lowest ‘Mean’ or ‘Worst Case’ travel distance
–          Second Best: Identify first and second best destinations for all origins

Accessibility Analysis
–          Regular proximity count; sum origin attribute within user defined distance
–          Threshold distance; distance needed to reach user defined capacity
–          Proximity coefficient; combination of the above

–          Potential scores; like regular proximity count but divided by function of distance
–          In Competition: all of the above but counts only if closer than existing facilities

Gravity modelling
–          Usual four models
–          Integrated Garin-Lowry model
–          Range exploration; identify strongest possible distance decay parameter

Service Location modelling
–          Set Coverage; identify minimum number of facilities needed to cover a whole area
–          Expansion; identify additional facility sites one by one given optimization criteria
–          Relocation; relocate facility given optimization criteria
–          Combination: Relocation after each Expansion step with same optimization criteria
–          Reduction; remove facility sites one by one given optimization criteria

Support Functionality: Although not considered main functionality Flowmap does offer several options for geometric manipulations

• Generalization of lines and polygon boundaries
• Removal of pseudo nodes from lines
• Creation of regular tessellations like squares and hexagons
• Creation of Thiessen (Voronoi) polygons
• Creation of a Delauney network (TIN)
• Adding feed-links to a transport network
• Creation of public transport network with generalized waiting/interchange times
• Creation of air-line or transport network based distance tables
• Creation of a minimum spanning tree between origin or destination locations
• Creation of spatial footprints like hulls and minimum bounding rectangles or circles
• Identification of largest inscribed circles
• Calculation of weighed gravity points

Please note: Flowmap is not a general purpose GIS. The focus lies on the above mentioned spatial analysis tools, its general map editing and visualization functionalities are rather basic.