MapInfo Discovery is an enterprise browser-driven map catalog and map viewer application. It functions as an extension to MapInfo Professional®. The product is ideal for sharing maps within and between departments. Now colleagues, executives and constituents can easily access interactive maps showing the results of your analysis. It’s easy-to-use, requires no programming or Internet skills, and most importantly increases the value of your MapInfo Professional knowledge and expertise throughout the organization.

Enterprise deployment made simple Installing and using MapInfo Discovery is as easy as 1-2-3. Anyone who uses MapInfo Professional can use MapInfo Discovery. You create the maps as before, in MapInfo Professional. Then MapInfo Discovery helps you create a neatly organized catalog of your maps and related information. Setting up and maintaining the catalog is as easy as maintaining files on a Microsoft® Windows® PC. For each map in the catalog, you provide a title, description and category for your map. MapInfo Discovery automatically creates a thumbnail image that makes it easy to browse and search the catalog.

Viewers Have Easy Access All you do is provide your audience with a link/bookmark (created by Discovery) to your map catalog. They can browse the catalog in their web browser and simply click on the map thumbnail or title they want to see. For each Map Published, users can:

• Zoom in/out or re-center the map to any location or zoom level
• Get associated tabular or attribute information on any map object such as a point, a line or a region object like state bounday
• Use the ruler tool to measure distance between two points
• Use the side bar icon to display the associated side-bar information
• View the Layer control – turn on/off layers and labels as desired
• Search tool to quickly find and zoom to desired area in the map such as specific state/highway or a school
• Use the zoom entire layer or map to get back to the map extents
• Use the built in email program to send colleagues links to specific maps

Works in Tandem with MapInfo Professional MapInfo Discovery works alongside MapInfo Professional. A typical department with several MapInfo Professional users can share a single copy of MapInfo Discovery because it is licensed for the computer where the catalog resides. Each user could have the MapInfo Discovery extension installed and publish their map catalog to a shared server.