MapInfo Professional is Microsoft Windows logo-certified to support the latest versions of Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional, in addition to supporting Windows NT, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 98 Second Edition.
Work you do in MapInfo Professional should be accessible to everyone. These Publishing features make it easy to put your analysis into colleagues' and executives' hands.
MapInfo Corporation continues to offer the widest array of data specifically engineered to work flawlessly with MapInfo Professional. Highlights include: WMS Ten examples have been added to show the new WMS feature. Three of the examples, 02, 04 and 07 use two WMS servers in conjunction with MapInfo tables. ZipInfo Previously available on a 'as requested' basis, this data is now shipped with the sample data. Updates
Geocoding MapInfo Professional's built-in geocoding capability allows for fast and accurate placement of address data onto maps. Numerous controls are at your disposal, including the ability to specify how far to offset an address from the side of a street and how far to inset an address from the ends of street segments. MapInfo Professional also allows you to create points quickly and easily. If your data already contains coordinates - longitude and latitude or others, you can map it directly by creating point objects from the coordinates. If not, you can still get your data on the map either by geocoding it or by joining it to an existing map layer to create a thematic map. Create Points The enhanced create points interface in MI Pro provides the ability to use non-numeric fields to create points. It also provides the option to recreate existing points. The overall benefit is greater simplicity and flexibility of visualizing customer data. MapInfo Professional makes your analysis effortless with the ability to measure distance, length, perimeter, and area. You can aggregate the count, sum, average, min, max, and weighted average. You can also perform geographic joins, contains or within as well as textual matches. Finally, use these tools and options to extract information from your data:
Prism Mapping Uncover patterns and trends based on data values with Thematic Mapping. You can shade, use bar & pie charts, graduated symbols, dot density, and grids. The new prism mapping feature lets you take a flat map and turn it into something special. You can select regions on your map, extrude them to any height and your maps pop off the page. Choose from hundreds of colors, symbols and line types to enhance comparisons and store popular combinations in Thematic Templates. Save frequently used templates for future reference and modification. 3D Views 3D window and Prism maps continue to be a distinctive and powerful way to visualize and analyze data and MI Pro v7.5 makes this feature even more compelling. The drape files over 3D terrain are now of significantly higher quality, resulting in more legible labels and higher quality 3D maps. Create a 3D view of any map containing a continuous thematic grid layer. Based on Microsoft's implementation of OpenGL software graphics interface, our 3D viewing feature allows freehand tilt and rotation of the image as well as traditional panning and zooming. Create 3D views with any grid format by directly reading MI Grid, VM Grid, DEM, DTED and GTOPO30. Make the terrain stand out by interpolating the data or by using relief shading. And to really make your maps something special, utilize the prism mapping function to extrude specific variables to new heights --- making them pop off the page.
One of the most powerful aspects of MapInfo Professional is its ability to combine data from widely different sources, even with different formats and projections, in the same map window. Once combined in the map window, relationships that only exist geographically are revealed. You can also overlay vector and raster data together. In the map window, you can control the order of layers, their display characteristics, and labeling. You can also control the translucency of raster images. Now, instead of simple backdrops, raster images can be made semi-transparent and mixed with vector and other raster images. MapInfo Professional adds optimized “look ahead” logic for raster display. This code enhances the overall map processing by skipping invisible raster layers that do not need to be processed. This results in greater response from the product even with large data sets. MapInfo Professional also enhances the raster registration process by providing the ability to select the control points from the map. This enhancement saves time and streamlines the geo-referencing process of aerial imagery. MapInfo Professional adds a new vector registration utility that provides an option to re-project a vector layer. This utility significantly simplifies the import process of AutoCAD or Microstation files since this data often does not have projection information.
MapInfo Professional has been enhanced to offer even more powerful enterprise data access with support for the following applications:
In addition to offering enhanced enterprise data access, MapInfo Professional enables you to access local data in a wide variety of formats including: With the Universal Translator, MapInfo Professional makes importing and exporting data in different formats easier than ever before.
Hunt for answers in your data with standard SQL queries. In addition to the standard key words - Select, From, Where Group By, Order By, and Into, MapInfo Professional offers these special geographic key words:
You can also aggregate data with:
Build and save SQL queries that access and integrate data from multiple tables. Frequently performed queries can be written once, re-used and even distributed to others. You can also invert a selection. Instead of crafting a complex query to select all but a few records or objects, just select the few you want to exclude, and invert the selection to unselect them and simultaneously select all the others. MI Pro has made selecting geographic objects a piece of cake. Simply utilize point, marquee, radius, polygon, and boundary tools to complete your tasks. Select the appropriate tool and click or click and drag on the map to select the geographic objects you want.
In addition to the simple drawing and editing tools, MapInfo Professional has powerful object processing capabilities. These include Combine, Disaggregate, Buffer, Convex Hull, Enclose, Split, Erase, and Erase Outside. Also included are smooth, unsmooth, convert to polygon, and convert to polyline. MapInfo Professional has new ways for you to clean and modify your data with new object processing functions including check for self-intersections, gaps and overlaps; clean self-intersections, gaps and overlaps; snap nodes together; and thin or generalize. These functions allow you to detect and correct self-intersections, gaps and overlaps as well as simplify geometry --- making your data more accurate. MI Pro offers tremendous advantages for creating, managing and analyzing data within your own custom-defined regions such as trade areas, sales territories, school or municipal districts.
MapInfo Professional greatly streamlined the user interface of some of the key object processing capabilities. As an example, buffering or creating Voronoi polygons from a selection or from an entire table creates separate objects that often need to be stored in a separate location. MI Pro offers the option to store the output in a new table, as part of the buffer or the Voronoi process. The new flow greatly simplifies the data processing and analysis which results in significant time savings to the user.
MapInfo Professional has a built-in feature that gives you the ability to build and manipulate districts and territories. It can work with any layer and over 500 different districts. As you build or modify territories, it displays running statistics that you specify on each: count of objects, sum and percentage of total of any numeric value in the data.
MapInfo Professional provides continuous thematic mapping, independent of any existing geographic layer, via interpolation. For example, you can show air temperature as measured at various locations as a continuously varying color spread instead of trying to color political boundaries, postal delivery zones, or something else as inappropriate. MapInfo Professional gives you more choices in Interpolations. Choose between inverse distance weighting (IDW) - based and triangulated irregular network (TIN) - based interpolation. You can also add relief shading to the results of interpolation to make variations in the surface stand out. Any interpolated grid can be used to display a map in the 3D window. MapInfo Professional is enabled for the Internet in three different ways: First, the Hotlink Tool lets you make any object or label into a hotlink. You can launch web sites, open images such as BMP, JPEG, GIF and almost any other file including multimedia AVI, WAV or documents like DOC, PPT or XLS. And you can even open map files like TAB, WOR MDX and of course, HTML Image Maps. Second, the HTML Image Map Tool lets you turn any map into a clickable web page. Select one or more layers of points, lines, and polygons to be active. Specify which, if any, columns should be included on the landing pages and which should be links. Finally, use the MapInfo Metadata Browser, included on the CD, to hunt for data on FGDC compliant clearing-house servers. .
Thematic legends show the colors, patterns, and styles in the map and the values associated with them Cartographic legends show all the other features of the map. Create and modify graphical and tabular data with MapInfo Professional's drawing and digitizing tools. Create professional looking maps by creating points, lines, polylines, polygons, square/rectangles, circle/ellipses, text, multi-point, region (multi-polyline), and collection objects. Modifying your maps is a breeze with tools like snap to node, move adjacent nodes and trace. Editing your maps is also easily done with tools that cut, copy, paste, move, resize, reshape and undo. You can rotate labels and symbols and in all types of styles including vector, raster, TrueType symbols as well as custom line styles. You can even fill patterns and use TrueType fonts. MapInfo Professional's tools make drawing and editing quick and simple. MapInfo Professional gives you the power to manipulate tables easily with intuitive tools. You can add/modify/delete/index columns and pack tables, quickly and easily.
MapInfo Professional offers automatic, on-the-fly, and customizable, coordinate systems derived from any of 30 major projections. Users modify existing and/or add new coordinate systems based on these projections. MI Pro also offers the ability to rotate maps with an Affine transformation as well as being able to display cursor location in decimal degrees, DDMMSS, meters, and Military Grid Reference System. Supported projections include:
Get noticed with MapInfo Professional's interactive graphs and charts including 3D, bubble, column, histogram, surface, area, bar, line and pie scatter charts. Select graph templates from thumbnail sketches. Graphing style control includes position, tilt, rotation and pie explosion. Choose database records by clicking on sections of a chart or graph. MapBasic Development Language
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MapInfo Professional provides tools for every imaginable task, too many to list. A brief selection of some unique, popular and powerful tools includes: A Coordinate Extractor tool which simplifies getting coordinates out of geographic objects and into columns in the database. Three Rotation tools - one for symbols, one for labels, and one for map windows -are included for ease of use. These tools enable you to rotate all the symbols in a map, labels in a map, or the entire map window at once. A ScaleBar tool that can even create horizontal scale bars on projected maps with curved lines of latitude. A Table Manager tool that supports adding, modifying and deleting meta data keys and displays the meta data associated with a table. Meta data templates can also be used to streamline the process for users who create or modify tables frequently. The MapX Geoset tool provides read/write access to MapInfo MapX, MapInfo MapX Mobile and MapXtreme GeoSets. The EasyLoader tool uploads MapInfo TAB files into Oracle Spatial and SpatialWare databases. Drag & Drop Tool - Improve presentations by 'dragging and dropping' a map into other applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Corel Draw. Or export maps directly into Adobe PhotoShop.
MapInfo Professional enhances its fill patterns. One of the key benefits of MI Pro is map visualization – fill patterns of regions provide the ability to highlight a region or differentiate different territories from each other. MI Pro adds over 100 new fill patterns giving greater options for map display. MI Pro provides the ability to have more custom symbols (up to 32,000), higher resolution and higher color depth and size symbols. Customers often prefer to use their own high-resolution company logo or even a store photo as a symbol on a map for their stores. MI Pro makes all this possible. The benefit is higher quality maps with any image size or color as the symbol. Set Map Window Scale in Layout Window MapInfo Professional enhanced the scale control of the map window in layout which changes the map zoom level to match the scale required without changing the map frame. This enhancement facilitates the use of standard templates for creation of consistent maps at a set scale in a given layout. Use these features to enhance the look of your maps:
Prepare for printing by positioning maps, thematic and cartographic legends, tables, graphs, 3D views, annotations on a virtual page. With the enhanced data editing functions, customers now can rotate a selection of any map objects at a specified pivot point or offset map objects using precise units for a move or a copy operation. This capability is particularly important when creating custom geographies or editing and maintaining existing ones. MI Pro also adds the ability to zoom in/out while in data creation mode. Another enhancement to the editing function is the addition of continues visible snap area and option to toggle into cross-hair mode. In the area of tools and utilities, MI Pro provides two new utilities. The first is the enhanced line creation by bearing and distance tool which now supports any unit of measure and the output can be directed to any editable layer. The second utility is a line snap/extend tool that will extend or snap specified intersecting line objects. To help create the precise and accurate results you want – faster – MI Pro delivers several new and enhanced functions for creating and editing maps and objects, including:
Enhanced Keyboard Control: MapInfo adds many new keyboard shortcuts to frequently used operations such as find, previous view, find selection and clear target as well as pan using the arrow keys and zoom in and out using the +/- keys. The keyboard support further simplifies the usability of the product and facilitates greater productivity. Enhanced Open Windows Management: MapInfo Professional enhances the Window Name/Rename utility to rename any open window and reworked the window management user interface for more efficient management of multiple open windows. Working in MapInfo Professional is a delight with upgrades to several features that let you operate swiftly and efficiently.
MapInfo is fully dedicated to providing software that enables users to easily create, provide and share geographic data with other users. To that end, we have be an principle member of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) since 1995.
MapInfo Professional adds supports for Open GIS WMS Service. Customers can now access any Open GIS WMS Server (from any vendor) and add the data as a layer in MapInfo Professional. The Open GIS servers are often using different technologies in different locations over the intranet or internet. MapInfo Professional comes with many of them pre-loaded as examples with a simple user interface to add additional server locations as needed. The data that is accessed through WMS can be overlaid on top of data sets from local or remote sources. By supporting this Open GIS Consortium (OGC) service, MapInfo Professional provides a new level of integration and interoperability. MI Pro now offers more options and more flexibility for working with a wide array of file types - it brings you:
With the Universal Translator, MapInfo Professional makes importing and exporting data in different formats easier than ever before.
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