MapInfo Professional

MapInfo Professional Desktop Mapping GIS Software
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MapInfo Professional

The world's leading software for mapping and geographic analysis.

MapInfo Professional enables users to perform detailed data analysis to drive insightful decisions leveraging the spatial component. Use MapInfo Professional to:

• Create highly detailed maps to enhance presentations and aid in decision-making.
  
• Reveal the impact of location and uncover spatial trends in your data that may otherwise be impossible to see.
  
• Understand the relationships between geography and marketplace demographics.
  
• Manage geographically based assets, such as stores, people and property.
  
• Plan logistics and prepare for emergency response.
  
• Visualize risk such as exposure or proximity to floods for insurance or proximity to high terrain that may be more susceptible to mud-slides.
  
• Discover location based hot-spots of customers/incidents and prospects.

MapInfo Professional now provides enhancements in the following areas:

• Easy, high-quality location enablement of data through direct Envinsa™, MapMarker® or EOLS connectivity
  
• Drive region (catchments area) generation capability support for effective trade area creation and analysis through direct Envinsa or EOLS connectivity
  
• Enhanced display options such as ability to on-the-fly re-project maps that have grid and/or imagery data
  
• Enhanced display capabilities including easy map rotation support for maps that have grid and/or imagery data
  
• Extensive enhancements to ease of use and accessibility to frequently used functions through the introduction of new tool bar icons, right-click menus, larger dialogs and status windows
  
• Extends support of the workgroup environment by supporting unattended installs, and option to deploy the product via terminal services and CITRIX.
  
• Supports the latest business and map data formats and databases.
  
• Provides advanced server side data versioning.
  
• Offers new and enhanced data creation and editing capabilities.
  
• Provides greater data presentation options.
  
• Includes enhanced thematic analysis options.
  
• Provides new spatial analysis capabilities.
  
• Continues productivity gains with numerous usability features.
  
• Includes more free and updated data.

MapInfo Professional continues to be the cornerstone of the MapInfo product offering. It is the premier desktop mapping application on the Windows platform.

MapInfo Professional is commonly used for data creation/editing and analysis and then sent as output for publishing to the rest of the organization including interactive applications and solutions that are targeted for the internet/internet via a MapInfo Discovery, MapXtreme or Envinsa applications.

MapInfo Professional is often used in conjunction with other MapInfo desktop products including Vertical Mapper, TargetPro, MapMarker and SpatialWare. To share work, visualize, and manipulate data in specialized ways that are more suited towards the other MapInfo products.

Key MapInfo Professional Key Benefits

Increased Flexibility – improve your ability to work more effectively and produce high quality results using MapInfo Professional.

Your time is important. As more is being demanded from you, any opportunity to work easier and with greater quality is valuable. MapInfo Professional helps you save time and get to results quicker through:

• Open MS Excel, CSV files for editing in a click of a button.
  
• Productivity and usability enhancements to SQL select and layer list dialogs.
  
• Intuitive thematic templates for improved output capability.
  
• New legend size options and cartographic legend window formatting.
  
• New Data creation and analytical capabilities including Stream digitizing, orthogonal polygon creation, bi-variate thematic analysis, and an enhanced distance calculator.
  
• Increased settings in geographical object support - now objects can store over 134 million nodes per single polyline or polygon object.
  
• Work area enhancements including new Find feature, sync windows, workspace resolver, duplicate row removal, and more.

Greater Collaboration – leverage new and enhanced interoperability features to share data and analysis with MapInfo users within your company or the broader geospatial community.
MapInfo endorses industry standards and promotes interoperability for the benefit of increasing sharing of information and containing translation costs for the organization. MapInfo Professional helps you collaborate with colleagues through:

• Share your work with others through enhanced MapInfo Workspace support and extended OGC support.
  
• Leverage the latest capabilities of your central data repository systems such as Oracle’s Workspace manager for server side data versioning. Use MapInfo Professional to better support the process flow of your organization for data management.
  
• New and improved support for both raster and vector formats including the latest DWG/DXF and DGN formats, shape files with M and Z values, ARC Grid, latest ASRP imagery formats along with export options to GIF, LZW-TIFF, and more.
  
• Enhanced MapInfo Workspace support (MWS) – opened with MapXtreme .NET or Exponare.

More Value – get more out of your investment via IT-friendly capabilities, additional data and MapBasic support.
MapInfo Professional offers several enhancements that extend the breadth of capabilities in MapInfo Professional including:

• Install on a central computer and use remotely via MS Terminal Services and Citrix.
  
• Multiple users support through silent and unattended installs.
  
• Free data now includes US Urban Areas, US Wilderness Boundaries and more.
  
• MapBasic has been enhanced to provide automation capability with new features.

MapInfo Professional Detailed Features

Direct Data Access

Vector Files
MapInfo TAB, ESRI Shape including 3D shape files with Z and M values
Intuitive Vector Registration tool for architectural and engineering files (vector geo-referencing/re-projecting capability)
Raster Files
BIL, SID, GEN, NTF, ECW, URL, TIF, GRC, BMP, GIF, TGA, JPG, PCX, J2K, PNG, PSD, WMF, EMF,
support for GeoTiff and World Tiff files.
Intuitive Image Registration (geo-referencing capability)
Grid Files
MIG, VMGrid, DEM, DTED (levels 0-2), GTOPO30, ESRI Grid: .adf, .flt, .txt, .asc
Tabular Files
MDB, XLS, DBF, ASCII, CSV, WKS (Lotus 123)
Quick option for XLS, ASCII, CSV and WKS to open as MapInfo format for editing

Remote Database

Vector Data
Oracle Spatial (versions 9i and 10G) via OCI
MapInfo SpatialWare 4.8 via ODBC on Microsoft MS SQL Server 2000 and IBM Informix
Tabular Data including X,Y (point support)
Oracle, Informix, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server all via ODBC Linked (static) & Live (dynamic) access
OGC
Web Mapping Service client (WMS), Web Feature Service, GML 2.1, OSGB GML 2.1 are all supported out of the box

Import/Export

Vector Import
MIF/MID, DXF, DWG, DGN, SHP, E00, VPF, SDTS and, OGC GML 2.1 and OSGB GML v2
Vector Export
MIF/MID, DXF, DWG, DGN, SHP, E00
Data Export
TXT, DBF, MDB, CSV
Grid Import
VMGrid, DEM, DTED (levels 0-2), GTOPT30, ESRI GRID adf, .flt, .txt, .asc
Grid Export
MIG

Data Creation
Drawing and Digitizing tools

Map Objects
Point, line, polyline, polygon, square/rectangle, circle/ellipse, text, multipoint, collection,
Digitizing:
WinTAB Digitizer support. Snap to node and centroid, move adjacent nodes, trace, autotrace, cross hair
option, orthogonal polygons, draw by bearing and distance
Editing tools
Cut, copy, paste, move, offset, rotate, resize, reshape, undo
Styles
Vector, raster, and TrueType symbols, custom BMP symbols
Custom line styles, fill patterns
TrueType fonts
Raster brightness, contrast, transparency and translucency
Grid relief shade options

Data Manipulation

SQL selection with geographic extensions
contains, within, entirely within, intersects
Geographic selection tools
point, marquee, radius, polygon, boundary, unselect all, Invert Selection
Geocode
Create Points
Redistrict
Interpolate: IDW & TIN
Object Processing
combine, disaggregate, split, polyline split, split at a node, erase, erase outside, buffer, voronoi, convex hull, enclose, smooth and unsmooth, convert between polylines and polygons, check regions, clean and thin or generalize
Table Manipulation
add, modify, delete columns, revert table (undo all changes since last save), pack
Projections
automatic, on-the-fly, customizable hundreds of variations of 30 main types display cursor location in meters, decimal degrees, degree-minutes-seconds, and Military Grid Reference System easy to use interface to add geographic information to images or drawings

Analysis

Measure
distance, length, perimeter, area, autotrace
Aggregate
count, sum, average, min, max, weighted average
Joins
Geographic: contains or within
Textual: matches
Info Tool
Statistics Tool
Calculate Statistics Option
HotLink Tool
Launch URLs
Images: BMP, JPEG, GIF, etc.
Multimedia: AVI, WAV, etc.
Documents: DOC, PPT, XLS, etc.
Maps: TAB, WOR, MBX

Visualization

Multiple, interactive/linked views
Map, Table, Graph and browser
Selections in any appear in all
Thematic Mapping
shade, bar & pie charts, graduated symbols, dot density, grid, Prism
3D interactive view and relief shading
Raster & Vector Layering
Layer ordering
Zoom layering
Labeling
Image Registration
Vector registration/reprojection
Charts & Graphs
bar, pie, area, line, bubble, scatter, 3D, surface, etc.

Browser (tabular data display)
Attribute data display, pick fields, calculated fields, dynamic fields (change value/location of source data
– see update in browser)

Presentation
Layout
maps, thematic and cartographic legends, tables, graphs, 3D Views, and annotations
Seagate Crystal Reports

Output
Print
Raster Images
HTML Image Maps
OLE Drag & Drop
MapInfo Discovery
MapInfo ProViewer

Customization
MapBasic Development Language
custom menus, dialogs, buttons
external function calls

Integrated Mapping
Visual Basic, C++, and PowerBuilder

APIs
Raster
Grid
Interpolation

MapInfo Professional System Requirements

MapInfo has exhaustively tested MapInfo Professional under the following Microsoft Windows Desktop Operating Systems:

• Windows 2000 Professional
  
• Windows Vista Ultimate
  
• Windows XP Home Edition
  
• Windows XP Professional
  
• Windows XP 64-bit

MapInfo has exhaustively tested MapInfo Professional under the following Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems:

• Windows 2003 Server
  
• Windows 2003 with Terminal Services with Citrix Meta Frame technology

MapInfo has performed installation and validation testing on the following 64-bit Windows Operating System:

• Microsoft's 64-Bit Windows XP Professional with 32-bit compatibility mode

These are the minimum system requirements for MapInfo Professional v9.0:

These are the recommended system requirements for MapInfo Professional v9.0: