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The world's premiere desktop mapping solution just keeps getting better.
Here's some of the latest additions to MapInfo Professional-making your
mapping and analysis easier, faster, and better!
Key Features
Local & Remote Data Access
- Directly read dBase, Lotus 1-2-3, MS Excel, MS Access 2000 and
multi-user, delimited
ASCII in native formats
- Direct access to ODBC compliant data sources
- Manage complex geographic data in Sybase and Oracle 8.1.6
- ECW from ER Mapper.; VMGrid from Northwood Technologies
- VPF, SDTS, and AutoCAD 2000; fix for "Survey Feet" problem
when importing
Data Visualization
- Thematic maps: using ranged shading, bar charts, pie charts, dot
densities, graduated symbol and individual values
- Combine thematic options to create maps that display multiple
variables from many tables
- Attach data to any object
- More than 100 projects available
Analysis Capabilities
- Get information about any object
- Donut/island polygons supported
- Polygon overlay operation
data aggregation/disaggregation, erase
outside, split, combine, overlay nodes
- Create buffers around any object or group of objects
- Geographic selection:
find any object, points within
radius/polygon, lines/polylines within radius/polygon, polygons within
radius/polygons
- SQL/Advanced Querying Language
- Relational query and geographic operators: contain, contains
entirely, within, entirely within, intersectional/union
- Mathematical funcations
- Aggregate functions from SQL queries: Group or sort data based on
any field or expression; sum, min, max, average, weighted average or
count
- Statistics: show count, total, mean, standard-deviation, variance,
range, min and max of a group of values
Dynamically display sum
and average of a selection
Map Creation and Editing
- Raster map registration and display: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, BMP, TGA,
BIL
- Graphics import: DXF, ARC/INFO, Atlas GIS, Intergraph MGE
- Digitizing to create vector images, support of Wintab and VTI
digitizing drivers
- autoscrolling to create or edit objects larger than the current
window
- autotracing of existing object with mouse or digitizer
- Clone mapping to copy current map window
- customize map objects: fill patterns, line types, symbols, TrueType
fonts
- Map editing functions: Reshape objects, snap-to editing, move
objects, select multiple nodes for deletion, overlay nodes copy
objects, create polylines from regions, create regions from polylines,
smooth/unsmooth, revert table, clear map object only
Display and Presentation
- Map clipping to highlight region
- Automatic or manual labeling
- Label position by anchor point, offset distances, callouts
- TrueType fonts and text rotation
- Large selection of text styles and symbols including user created
bitmaps
- Unlimited number of colors
- Scalable labels when zooming
Output
- Print individual windows or layout
- Supports any Windows compatible printer or plotter
- Output to bitmap (.BMP), Windows metafile (.WMF) or Photoshop 3.0
- 24-bit color and control over color dithering method, transparency handling
technique, page size and defaults
Continuous Thematic Shading
- Reveals the terrain of a continuous thematic map.
Cartographic Legends
- Derive cartographic legend feature
descriptions automatically from attribute data
and metadata.
- Automatically aligns items across frames and supports generating
item labels from joined table
Internet Support
- HotLinks, HTML Image Maps, MetaData Browser
and metadata.
3D Viewing
- Rotate, pan, zoom, query, drape and print
Object Processing
- Create convex hull and enclosed area polygons; use MS Windows support for clip
regions
Other Tools
- Rotate Symbols and Rotate Labels tools; improved Scale Bar and Table
Manager to support meta data
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