MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system software (GIS) product manufactured by Pitney Bowes Software (formerly MapInfo Corporation) and is used for location mapping and analysis. MapInfo allows users to visualize, analyze, edit, interpret, understand, and extract data to reveal relationships, patterns, and trends. MapInfo lets users explore spatial data in a data set, symbolize features, and create maps.
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History
MapInfo Professional was first released in 1986 as Mapping Display and Analysis System (MIDAS) and was the first GIS desktop product on the market. Currently only available for DOS operating system. The software can be customized using the MapCode development environment which is a C-like programming language. The name was later changed to just "MapInfo" in the second release.
DOS products were eventually discontinued and replaced by MapInfo for Microsoft Windows in 1990. MapInfo was redesigned with a more user-friendly graphical user interface and is also available for UNIX and Macintosh operating systems. The MapCode development environment was replaced with a new language called MapBasic.
Version 4 of the product, released in 1995, saw the product renamed "MapInfo Professional".
Version 9.5 was released in June 2008. Version 9.5.1 was released in December 2008. Major improvements in this release include the use of a new graphics engine that enables translucency and anti-aliasing when displaying maps. A set of such CAD editing tools is also added in this release.
Version 10 was released in June 2009. Key improvements include a more intuitive user interface, including a rewritable Layer Control dialog box, compatibility with PostGIS and PDF generators that support Layered PDF files and georeferences.
Version 10.5 was released in May 2010. The major improvement including new Table Manager window, which was built in the ability to publish to MapInfo Stratus, the ability to swallow directly Bing Maps as the mapping background and enhanced support for Catalog Service for the Web (CSW).
Version 11 was released in June 2011. Key improvements include performance tuning and increased usability in Browser windows to create and analyze tabular data. Integration with MapInfo Manager, products to manage spatial data and provide compliance [INSPIRE]. Support for 64 bit operating systems is enhanced with the ability to use up to 4 GB of RAM (not 2GB, limit when running on 32 bit operating systems).
Version 11.5 was released in June 2012. Key improvements include a new window for Creating Legends, further enhancements to the new Browser window (introduced in v11.0) and further integration with MapInfo Manager, including the ability to edit metadata in the Catalog Browser.
Version 12 was released in June 2013, with an increase in Cartographic Output; Support for Windows 8, SQL Server 2012, PostGIS2; and new In-Product Notifications features that use RSS.
Version 12.5 of MapInfo Pro is the first time a 64 bit version of the product was introduced. MapInfo Pro 12.5 32 bit is released in July 2014 and 64 bit in October 2014. The 64 bit release sees the introduction of new ribbon UI and layout windows, as well as allow for new frameworks to handle background and multi-threading processing.
Version 15 of MapInfo Pro 32 bit released in June 2015 and 64 bit (15.2) was released in October 2015. Highlights include geopackage support as well as changes to the TAB file format to allow larger files and Unicode. The 64 bit version of 15.2 sees the introduction of MapInfo Pro Advanced as the new license level for products that incorporate all new raster capabilities into products including the.NET SDK. MapInfo Pro Advanced enables users to visualize very large raster files at high resolutions such as 1m for the whole country and combine multiple satellite bands. This is achieved by using the new multi resolution raster file format (.mrr).
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Usage
MapInfo Pro is a 64-bit GIS (Geographic Information System) application used by GIS engineers and business analysts.
Examples of industries include:
- Insurance - Analysis of risk exposures from environmental or natural hazards such as floods, tornadoes, storms or crime. Conduct demographic and risk analyzes to determine the best target location for new potential policy holders.
- Environment - Analysis and assessment of environmental impacts such as pollution, erosion, invasive species, climate change including human-induced changes to the environment.
- Engineering - Coordinate with local planning and engineering groups for construction projects. Help groups deal with helping them understand the environmental impacts or locations of public infrastructure or utilities such as water, gas and electricity services.
- Telco - Generate coverage maps, visualize gaps in coverage, plan additional coverage. Maximize new investments based on demographics, local terrain, and real estate available for mobile tower sites.
- Marketing - Implementation of location intelligence to identify geographic areas to convey marketing.
- Retail Site Selection - Specify an optimal location for opening or closing sites (stores, factories, depots, etc.). The selection process is usually based on the customer or worker's location, demographics, purchase patterns, transport links, nearby facilities.
- Crime Analysis - Systematic analysis of spatial data to identify and analyze patterns and trends in crime and harassment.
- Mineral Exploration - Visualization of spatial data such as drill holes, soil samples, geophysical survey data, land boundaries and cadastral data.
System Features
Data Formats --- MapInfo Pro is a database that manages information as a Table system. Each table is a map file (graph) or database file (text) and is denoted by the.TAB file extension. MapInfo creates a visual display of data in the form of maps (map windows) and/or tabular form (browser window). After the data is referenced in the table, the coordinates X and Y are set so that the recording can be displayed as an object on the map. This is known as Geocoding.
Objects (dots, lines, polygons) can be upgraded to highlight specific variations on a theme through making thematic maps. The basic data is overlaid with graphic styles (such as color shades, hatch patterns) to display information at a more advanced level. For example, population density between urban and rural areas may indicate cities in deep red (to indicate a high population ratio per square mile), while indicating remote areas in very pale red (to indicate low population concentrations).
Information retrieval is done using the data filter and the "Query" function. Selecting objects in the map window or recording in the browser generates a temporary table that provides a range of values ​​determined by the end user. Further "Structured Query Language" (SQL) analysis allows users to combine various operations to obtain answers to complex questions. This may involve a combination of tables and possible result calculations such as number of points in a polygon, proportional overlap, and statistical details. The quantity and quality of the attributes associated with the object depends on the original table structure.
Vector analysis is the main function of MapInfo based on X, Y coordinates and users can create and edit data directly with commands like: edit node, merge, divide, delete, buffer, clip area. MapInfo Pro includes various "CAD likes" techniques of drawing and editing tools such as lines, circles, and polygons (referred to as "regions") that can be inserted into tables or drawn as temporary overlays.
Printout maps from MapInfo and/or statistics are managed through design settings in Window Layout. Layout design allows for the creation of combined presentations with maps, tables, legends, text, images, lines, and shapes. Hardware output includes large format plotters and high specifications. business printers. Data from MapInfo can be incorporated into applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Word using copy/paste commands and resized as needed.
Compatibility with External Software System --- MapInfo Pro can read and write other file formats to exchange data with applications such as:
- ESRI Shapefile and AutoCAD DXF
- Restricted CSV and ASCII text
- Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
- Bitmap or Raster Formats like GeoTIFF, ECW, Mr. SID, JPEG, PNG, MRR
- Spatial Database: Oracle, PostGIS, SQL Server, SQLite and GeoPackage
- Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services: Web Feature Services, Web Map Services, Catalog Services for the Web
- Web Based Map: Bing, Open StreetMap (OSM)
Historical Notes
With MapInfo Professional, the Sydney Organizing Committee for Olympic Games (SOCOG) created hundreds of maps for the longest torch relay in modern game history. The Torch Torch torch covers 16,740 miles in 100 days and crosses Australia by road, rail and boat. Torch routes are designed to ensure that more than 85 percent of Australians are within an hour's drive of the selected route, which passes through 1,000 cities. In addition, TNT Express uses MapInfo to map over 5,500 shipping routes to deliver Olympic tickets to over 400,000 homes in Australia. "We can not create a torchbearer selection process without MapInfo and CDATA96, and it is invaluable as a backup to take mismatch information in our database..." [3]
See also
- MapBasic
- MapInfo TAB Format
- List of GIS software
References
External links
- Official website
- Professional Pitney Bowes Software Support Page
- LI360, the MapInfo user community
- Reviews: Map the world with GIS stuff
- MapInfo List of Discussions
- MapInfo Professional v11 magazine review guide
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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