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 Business Mapping Software - MapInfo Professional®
MapInfo Professional is a powerful Microsoft
Windows-based mapping application that allows business
analysts and GIS professionals to easily visualize the
relationships between data and geography.
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NEW MapInfo Professional v10! Now
Available!
CALL FOR UPGRADE:
1-888-627-7767 Ext. 85
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Buy MapInfo Professional v10 Today! |
MapInfo Professional 10
Highlights
MapInfo Professional
v10 introduces key enhancements in the area of:
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Ease of Use:
Major changes to the product User Interface |
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Data Access:
New formats and Data Sources |
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Better Output:
New Output Options |
Ease of Use
Features
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Save time and maximize productivity
through flexible toolbars that allow access to
frequently performed functions quickly |
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Maximize your productivity with the new
Layer Control interface. Map Creation and manipulation
has never been this easy.
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Benefits
Saves time and resources with a new
interface
You're going to love the new modern look and
feel of 10.0. The toolbars and menus have been given a
facelift, resulting in a more modern and usable interface.
And now you have the flexibility to organize the toolbars
however you want. This saves screen space and gives you
quick and easy access to frequently used commands.
 Dramatically
reduce your clicks, clutter, effort and time. Access layers
effortlessly. Drag and drop between layers and group layers.
Apply changes to multiple layers at once. Apply changes to
layers from different maps. Quickly preview changes and
discard if necessary. And more
Data Access
Features
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Promotes cost efficiency through improved
data access |
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By “accessing data where it lives”
directly, analysts can make more informed decisions
based on the latest data that is available to the
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Benefits
Now you can access even more data where it
lives.
MapInfo Professional 10.0 makes the most of
your IT investments with support for open source PostGIS,
Microsoft SQL 2008, Excel 2007, and Office 2007.
MapInfo Professional v10.0 includes a
powerful, user extensible data access option to directly
open non-MapInfo format data. Using this capability, users
can open ten commonly used spatial data formats. In
addition, customers have the option to extend the format
list to over 200 formats. This enhancement allows MapInfo
Professional customers to visualize virtually any spatial
data format
Dynamic Map Output and Map visualization:
The maps in v.10.0 are simply better looking
than ever before. Improved curved labeling support; control
of setting for “overhangs” allows user to increase/decrease
amount of objects that are labeled. Improved automatic
Labeling; MapInfo Professional will automatically try
multiple locations for labels in order to increase amount of
labels that appear on the map while preventing them from
overlapping each other, and
Produce better looking maps to facilitate
strategic planning efforts. Advanced options include dynamic
scale bars, improved performance of analytics such as
proportion overlap, and export to layered PDF files for
sharing and distribution.
GPS support
Included GPS tracking utility that supports
NMEA, Trimble TSIP and Garmin USB live or simulated data
feeds. Useful for collecting asset location informatio
Data editing
New set of CAD like
editing capabilities including
40 new individual tools/buttons – when
used in combination with each other provide a very large
number of new drawing and editing capabilities. Rich
map creation and editing capabilities & multi-screen
synchronization option.
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Benefits:
Drawing and Editing
Map objects is faster and easier
Some editing
tasks that were previously extremely difficult (or perhaps
even impossible) have been made simple:
Examples:
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Draw a building that is 40 meters long by 15 meters
wide. The building is positioned at the same angle as
the road it sits on and is precisely five meters from
the edge of the road and five meters from the parcel
border on its left. |
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A water pipe connection to a residential property stems
from the main pipe in the street. This connecting pipe
is five meters from the nearest junction and runs at a
37 degree angle from the main pipe towards the house.
The pipe is 8.4 meters long. |
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Represent the direction of water flow in pipes by using
the line direction display in MI Pro. With the MapCAD
tool kit, reversing the direction of a line can be done
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Some other
editing tasks have been made much simpler.
There are a number of capabilities which have always been
possible in MI Pro but were generally only accessible to the
more advanced users.
Examples:
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Select objects by style:
Customers that have data that is differentiated in
symbology but not in the underlying attribute data can
perform analysis or editing on the data based on the
styles. |
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Copy and paste styles:
Changing the style of an object can be as quick and
symbol as a copy and paste operation! There is also a
facility to copy and paste an object into an existing
object and preserve the attribute data of the object
being pasted into. These capabilities make users more
efficient – they help save lots of mouse clicks compared
to how the same operations must be done with prior
versions of MapInfo Professional. |
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Creating lines and polylines
from a table: The
MapCAD tool kit provides a facility to automatically
convert stored coordinate information into lines or
polylines. In previous versions of MI Pro, lines could
be built from pairs of coordinates in a table but it
required an expert user. This capability is accessible
to novice users. Building polylines from coordinates
stored in a table was difficult, even for expert users. |
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Drawing circular objects:
Drawing circular objects such as silos, stadiums, fish
hatcheries traffic circles/roundabouts or storage tanks
is quicker and easier as compared to earlier versions of
MI Pro. The MapCAD tool kit provides a facility to
create a circle from three points. This can be done by
clicking on an image in an aerial photo. Alternatively,
surveyed data points could be used. For example, three
points around the edge of a water tank may have been
collected using an accurate GPS receiver. In addition
there is a tool to create circular objects from
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Better Looking Maps
Features
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Automatic labeling around
points and centroids |
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User control over
curved labeling overhang |
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Extended formats for custom
symbol support |
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Vector & Label translucency
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Map anti-aliasing |
Benefits
Curved Labeling & User control over
curved labeling
overhang
By having a setting to
automatically try several locations to best place labels
around points and centroids means users will get more
descriptive maps without spending a long time positioning
labels by hand. Users also get control over curved labeling
overhang which is useful in situations where a street name
that runs longer than the street section. More control
means producing clearer maps in less time.
Extended formats for custom symbol support
One
of the ways maps can be easy to read is by placing symbols
that the target audiences can intuitively understand. The
challenge sometimes is that these symbols can be in any of
the common formats such as JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF etc. By
extending the format support, we ensure that whatever the
custom symbol format, MapInfo Professional will be able to
display it on the map.
Vector & Label translucency (Coming November 2008)
Translucent map objects help you focus-on a specific area by
deemphasizing focus on other areas. The capability also can
be used as a way to illuminate a section of a map and make
it stand out. You can think about this capability as a
virtual highlighter tool.
Anti-Aliasing
(Coming November 2008)
Anti-aliasing smoothes lines and region
borders which increases clarity so your maps look
professional and finished. By having professional looking
maps, your colleagues can focus more on the information you
are trying to convey and therefore benefit from the power of
location quicker.
Enhanced
Data Access
MapInfo Professional 9.5 features support for the following
databases:
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Supported Database Servers in v9.5 |
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Database Data
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Points (X,Y) via ODBC |
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Oracle 11G , 10G and Oracle 9iR2 |
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MS Access XP |
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MS SQL 2008 Spatial read and text data
read/write |
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MS SQL Server 2000 & 2005
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Spatial Data (geometry: i.e. parcel data and maps) |
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MS Access with MapInfo
Professional |
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MS SQL 2008 native Spatial
read and text data read/write |
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SpatialWare for SQL Server
2000/2005 |
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Oracle Spatial 11G, 10G & 9i |
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ESRI SDE Database (read only) |
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Enhanced Licensing and Deployment
Workgroup deployment
Customers that use multiple seats of MapInfo Professional
can now use the new workgroup deployment option. Using this
option, you can share your MapInfo customizable files such
as custom symbols and thematic templates with others. The
sharing of these files means that map produced by one user
with custom symbols will look the same on all systems. In
addition, Layout and Thematic templates can also be shared
which means, any template created by one user can be used by
the group.
Call
888.627.7767 to upgrade today.
Visualize, Analyze, Strategize with MapInfo Professional
Business Mapping Software
The award-winning
MapInfo Professional software package includes a
built-in geocoder, more than 579 MB of data and
an extensive collection of pre-designed maps.
It's simple to use, powerful
and easily integrates with other
mapping applications.
Feature List:
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MapInfo has
exhaustively tested
MapInfo Professional
under the following
Microsoft Windows
Desktop Operating
Systems:
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Windows Vista |
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Windows 2000
Professional
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Window XP Home
Edition
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Windows XP
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MapInfo has
exhaustively tested
MapInfo Professional
under the following
Microsoft Windows
Server Operating
Systems:
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Windows 2003
Server
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Windows 2003
with Terminal
Services with
Citrix Meta
Frame
technology.
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MapInfo has
performed
Installation and
validation testing
on the following
64Bit Windows
Operating System:
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Microsoft's
64-bit Windows
XP Professional
with 32 Bit
compatibility
mode.
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Note: There are
no special
installation
instructions for
installing
MapInfo
Professional on
a 64Bit Windows
Operating
System.
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.
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MapInfo
Discovery
Connectivity
allows you to
send MapInfo
Professional map
workspaces to a
MapInfo
Discovery
enabled server
where anyone
with a Browser
can view maps
you publish.
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MapInfo MapX
Mobile Tool
provides a quick
and easy way to
export MapInfo
Professional map
windows to
Pocket PC
devices running
MapInfo MapX mobile
applications.
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Crystal Reports
version 9.0
provides
powerful,
user-friendly
controls for
creating complex
reports,
including the
ability to embed
maps via OLE and
add charts; new
wizards and
templates for
report layouts
extensive export
options to
formats such as
PDF, HTML or
XML. The
reporting engine
comes with a
powerful yet
user-friendly
interface for
creating complex
reports.
Some of the
feature
highlights are:
Back end
Microsoft Access
engine (MDB
Files) ability
to embed MapInfo
maps, add
charts, wizards
and templates
for report
layout.
Extensive export
options such as
PDF, XML, HTML
and Excel
formats are also
available.
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Export Window
allows you to
choose a
resolution that
meets your
needs.
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Workspace
Packager, a workspace
sharing
tool provides an
interface that
can copy all
open files to a
single directory
and recreate the
workspace
referencing the
new directory.
The utility
facilitates the
successful
sharing of
complex
workspaces that
often access
many network
locations and
data types.
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Save map window
with coordinates
There are two
use
examples/benefits
to this feature.
1. Ability to
save a base map
as a raster to
simplify the map
and speed up
display
2. Trim large
raster images
and produce
smaller sections
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Export to
Google Earth
is yet
another
option for
MapInfo
Professional
users to
share
results of
their work
with others
in their
organization.
The Google
Earth
Utility
allows users
to overlay
MapInfo
Professional
data and
maps over
Google Earth
imagery.
This ability
can aid in
enhancing
the
presentation
of analysis
maps when
communicating
MapInfo
Professional
analysis
results with
the rest of
the
organization.
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Print to PDF
- MapInfo
has bundled
a PDF viewer
with MapInfo
Professional.
This is a
commonly
used tool
for creating
and viewing
maps in PDF
format.
PDF format
is a very
common and
interoperable
format for
sharing
documents
which
simplifies
the ability
to share
analysis
results with
the rest of
the
organization.
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Geocoding
MapInfo
Professional's
built-in geocoding
capability allows
for fast and
accurate placement
of address data on
to 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.
Geocoding Services
MapInfo Professional
provides direct
connectivity to
MapInfo’s enterprise
platform Envinsa,
MapMarker or MapInfo
hosted Envinsa
On-Line
Services (EOLS)
via industry
standard WEB
SERVICES technology.
This built in
connectivity
provides the ability
to access high
quality street level
geocoding. Using the
geocoding services
for instance,
customers can
quickly
location-enable
their data by
following a simple
process from within
MapInfo Professional
and start location
analysis with
minimal effort.
Create Points
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 or by
joining your data
with an existing map
layer to analyze
your data.
MapInfo Professional
includes the ability
to generate drive
regions through
connectivity to
MapInfo's Envinsa
platform. Driving
regions represent
areas that can be
traveled within a
given time or
distance following
the street network.
The ability to know
the number of
customers that can
be reached within a
given driving
distance or
understanding how
far sister stores
should be placed to
avoid internal
competition is
critical to site
planning and
strategic business
decisions. The
capability also
helps in designing
targeted marketing
campaigns that are
based on customer’s
proximity to
available services.
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:
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Info Tool:
click on any
point of the map
and retrieve the
database records
of all the
objects located
there.
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Statistics Tool:
show the sum and
average of all
the numeric
fields in all
the records in
the current
selection.
Dynamically
changes with the
selection.
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Calculate
Statistics
Option:
calculate the
minimum,
maximum, range,
sum, mean,
variance, and
standard
deviation of a
single numeric
column of all
the records in
the current
selection. |
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Prism maps
are great
for
bivariate
mapping.
Combine with
color
thematics to
map two
attributes
onto one
map. (click
to enlarge)
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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 v9.0 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 has
been enhanced to
offer even more
powerful enterprise
data access with
support for the
following
applications:
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Oracle 10G,
Oracle 10G
Locator and
Oracle 9iR2
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Microsoft Access
2003, Excel
2003, SQL Server
2000 and SQL
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In
addition to offering
enhanced enterprise
data access, MapInfo
Professional enables
you to access local
data in a wide
variety of formats
including:
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Vector data in
MapInfo TAB and WMF files
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Raster data in
BMP, JPG, TIFF, BIL, SID, PNG,
PSD and ECW
files
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Grid data in
MapInfo MIG,
VMGrid, DEM,
DTED levels 0-2,
ESRI Grid, and
GTOPO30 files
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Tabular data in
Delimited ASCII
text, XLS, WKS,
DBF and MDB
files
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Microsoft Excel
and csv data
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Direct reading
of ESRI Shape
File format
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Support for GML
V2 (Geography
Markup
Language).
Allows the
importing of
individual files
for OS Mastermap
Independent
polygon format,
which is
supplied by the
UK Ordnance
Survey
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Extensive
support for
imagery (Raster)
formats
including
built-in MrSid
and ECW support,
ERDAS IMG,
AirPhoto USA,
GIF, JPEG2000
Import and
Export support,
built-in support
for ADRG, CADRG,
CIB, ASRP and
NTIF (Government
Raster Formats),
PDF and XML
support for
exporting
reports (through
Crystal Reports
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Importing and
Exporting Data
With
the Universal
Translator, MapInfo
Professional makes
importing and
exporting data in
different formats
easier than ever
before.
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Import
vector data with
these formats
MIF/MID,
DXF, DGN, SHP,
E00, VPF, and
SDTS
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Export
vector data with
these formats
MIF/MID,
DXF, DGN, SHP,
and E00
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Compress raster
images into the
ECW format
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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:
Contains,
Within, Partly
Within, Entirely
Within, and
Intersects
You
can also aggregate
data with:
Sum(), Min(), Max(),
Count(*), Avg.(),
and WtAvg()
functions
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.
Object Processing
MapInfo Professional
has powerful object
processing
capabilities
including 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.
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Voronoi Polygons introduce
new
possibilities
for data
presentation and
analysis.
Through simple
user interface
it is now
possible to
create exclusive
coverage and
trade areas for
point data.
Applications for
such
functionality
are extensive.
Some examples
are: Finding
exclusive trade
areas for
retail, modeling
cell tower
coverage or even
working with
dense point data
in more
presentable way.
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Split Objects
simplifies the
creation of
custom areas in
cases where you
want to split a
region (along a
highway or
river, for
instance) by
adding a line or
polyline.
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Erase and Erase
Outside
on point
objects,
multipoints and
collections.
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Data Aggregation
support for
buffer
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Redistricting
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.
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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.
Internet
Connectivity
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.
Click
here
to
see an example
showing countries of
the world and their
populations.
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:
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Albers
Equal–Area Conic
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Azimuthal
Equidistant
(polar aspect
only)
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Austrian
Projection
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NEW
Cassini-Soldner
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Cylindrical
Equal Area
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Double
Stereographic
Projection
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Eckert IV
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Eckert VI
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Equidistant
Conic, also
known as Simple
Conic
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Gall
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Hotine Oblique
Mercator
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Japan JGD 2000
Projection
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JGD 200 -
expanded
geographic
coverage
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KKJ - enhanced
accuracy
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NEW Lambert
Azimuthal
Equal-Area
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Lambert
Azimuthal Equal
Area (polar
aspect only)
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Lambert
Conformal Conic
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Lambert
Conformal Conic
(modified for
Belgium 1972)
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Longitude/Latitude
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Mercator
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Miller
Cylindrical
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Mollweide
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New Zealand Map
Grid
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New Zealand
Projection
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Oblique
Azimuthal
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Polyconic
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Regional
Mercator
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Robinson
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Sinusoidal
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Stereographic
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Swiss Oblique
Mercator
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Transverse
Mercator, also
known as Gauss
Kruger
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Transverse
Mercator,
(modified for
Danish System 34
Jylland Fyn)
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Transverse
Mercator,
(modified for
Danish System 45
Bornholm)
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Transverse
Mercator,
(modified for
Finnish KKJ)
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Transverse
Mercator,
(modified for
Sjaelland) |
Charts & Graphs
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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Custom menus,
dialogs, buttons
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External
function cells |
Integrated Mapping
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Visual Basic,
C++, and
PowerBuilder |
APIs
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Raster
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Grid
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Interpolation |
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:
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New North Arrow
allows you to
place a stylized
North arrow in a
Map or Layout
Window
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Label Partial
Objects
increases your
labeling options
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Change View when
using MGRS
(Military Grid
System)
coordinates
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Prepare for printing
by positioning maps,
thematic and
cartographic
legends, tables,
graphs, 3D views,
annotations on a
virtual page.
Map Creation and
Editing Options
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:
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Undo Nodes
during polyline
and polygon
creation
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Nudge Objects
using arrow keys
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Rotate Objects
including lines,
polylines,
polygons,
rectangles,
circles and
ellipses
|
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Control Default
Settings
for Projections,
Object Styles
and Autoscroll
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Projection
Support
added for
Austrian
Projection,
Double
Stereographic
Projection, New
Zealand
Projection and
Japan JGD 2000
Projection
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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.
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New File Open
Dialog Box
opens Tables,
Workspaces
raster images,
ESRI Shape files
or Database
connections all
for the same
dialog box
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Set Default
Locations
for TAB files,
Workspaces and
MapBasic
applications –
much like
Windows’ “My
Documents”
folder
|
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Create New Table
now includes an
option to use an
existing table
as a template
|
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Data Import
option for MS
Excel has been
enhanced
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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
Geospatial
Consortium (OGC)
since 1995.
Click
here to learn
more.
MapInfo Professional
adds supports for
Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC),
WFS and WMS
Services. Customers
can now access any
OGC compliant, WFS
or WMS server (from
any vendor) and add
the data as a layer
in MapInfo
Professional. The
OGC compliant
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 WFS
or WMS service, can
be overlaid on top
of data sets from
local or remote
sources. By
supporting this Open
Geospatial
Consortium (OGC)
service, MapInfo
Professional
provides a new level
of integration and
interoperability.
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The Best in Business Mapping
Software
MapInfo
Professional is hands down the best business mapping
software on the market, used by thousands of business
analysts to make key decisions where location information is
critical. Call your MapInfo Partners at 888.627.7767 or
email us today to
discuss how MapInfo Professional can address your business
needs.
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