MapInfo WorldInfo allows the user to locate almost any city, town, or village in the world both quickly and easily. As a global reference map, WorldInfo allows you to visualize time zone boundaries, coastlines, international borders, roads, railroads, ports, airports, city points, and elevation and contour data.

WorldInfo can help the user make more informed business decisions, control costs, identify potential marketing opportunities, and enhance profitability.

The WorldInfo database contains 36 layers of information, which have been organized into convenient workspaces to help customers get up and running more quickly.

The World 1 & 2 workspaces each contain the same 27 layers including time zone boundaries, political boundaries, ports, major roadways, waterways, urban sprawl areas, capitals, railroads, and over 699,000 place names.. This extensive place name index facilitates the location of almost any city, town, or village in the world. The only difference between these two workspace is that the World 1 workspace has a look of a traditional paper map, whereas World 2 has more vibrant colors. Also, new with this release, World 1 & 2 are designed for use with a pop up tool that provides short, concise information all countries to the user.

WorldInfo also contains a geoset, a map definition file, and a workspace for working in MapXtreme 2004. The WorldTimeZones workspace contains five layers of information represented by time zones of the world and deviation in hours for each time zone from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The WorldElevation workspace contains two layers that display regions of elevation for the world, as well as layers from the World 1 & 2 workspaces.

Data Source and Methodology

The data in WorldInfo was created from the Digital Chart of the World, Vector Map Level 0, and Vector Map Level 1 by Stopwatch Maps. A number of enhancements were made to the source data, such as updating the political and administrative boundaries, updating country names to ISO naming conventions, and adding new territories. WorldPlaces data was gathered from GeoNet, Vector Map Level 0, and individual Country gazatteers. Administrative boundaries were researched and built from paper and publicly available digital map sources.

The data in WorldInfo is continually being updated, and is released on an annual basis.