MapInfo Professional, the industry's leading business mapping solution, lets you perform sophisticated and detailed data analysis to increase revenue, lower costs, boost efficiency and improve service with location-based intelligence. Use MapInfo Professional to:
Create highly detailed maps to enhance presentations and aid in decision making;
Reveal patterns and trends in your data that may otherwise be impossible to see;
Perform sophisticated and extensive data analysis;
Understand customer and marketplace demographics;
Manage geographically based assets, such as stores, people and property; and
Plan logistics and prepare for emergency response.
The award-winning MapInfo Professional 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.
MapInfo Professional is part of MapInfo's full suite of desktop mapping solutions that let users worldwide leverage the geographic component of business data to make more informed decisions.
MapInfo Professional V9.5 provides enhancements in the following areas:
Supported Operating Systems
Desktop Operating Systems:
Windows Vista (Ultimate)
Windows XP Professional SP2
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP (64-bit)
Windows 2000 SP4
Server Operating Systems:
Windows 2003 Server
Citrix Meta Frame v4.x
Additional Deployment Capabilities:
New Workgroup installation option allows multiple users to share user customizable files and symbols
Silent installation and product activation
Data Access
Database Support: Oracle 11G and 10G,& 9iR2, Oracle 11G Annotation text support; MS SQL Server 2000 & 2005 MS Access XP; MS SQL2008
MS SQL Spatial Data: SQL Server 2000 & 2005 with MapInfo SpatialWare; Support for Read SQL Server 2008 native Spatial data and read and write SQL Server 2008 textual data
Spatial Data Support: Auto detect of SHAPE format projection information when available.
OGC Enhancements: WFS-T transaction support. Ability to download WFS data, make edits and update the server.
Better Looking Maps
Curved labeling enhanced to support user controlled overhangs
Added automatic positioning of labels around points and centroids -- results in more labels on the map
Support of additional image formats for custom symbols (GIF, JPG, TIF, PNG)
Support for sub-directory structure for custom symbols
New Comprehensive Data Editing Package, 40 New Data Editing Functions with configurable Button Pads
Suitable for creating geographic asset information such as: sewers or pipelines at fixed intervals from road or parcel boundaries; pipelines, cables or wires at fixed angles from a road.
Attach text objects from a separate DXF/DWG imported layer into the associated sewer or pipeline layer.
Line direction can easily be changed for the purposes of representing the direction of water flow
Access layer operations from the right click menu including: View entire layer; Select all from layer; Make layer editable
Selected objects from the layer highlight the layer in Layer Control for easy layer finding
Modify table structure by dragging and dropping columns
Easy to use New Map Window dialog
Added grid lookup for color, line or pattern.
Vista/Windows-XP application look
Newly redesigned named views utility
Improved selection visualization via enhanced drawing mode
Programming Enhancements
Programming with .NET Support for .NET programmability: Design your GUI in .NET and run within MapInfo Professional; or Embed MapInfo Professional inside your .NET application. Write code in VB.NET or C# or any .NET compliant language
New MapBasic Functions
TableInfo() - Added definition to return CoordSys clause without bounds.
RasterTableInfo() - Returns information about a Raster or Grid Table
GridTableInfo() - Return information about a grid file. It will error if the table is not a grid.
ControlPointInfo() - Return information about control points for image tables.
IsGridCellNull() - Returns whether a specific grid cell is null or not.
GetGridCellValue() - Returns value of specific grid cell.
MapInfo Professional
