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MapInfo Professional Features

• Direct Data Access
  • Vector Files
    MapInfo TAB, ESRI Shape
  • Raster Files
    BIL, SID, GEN, NTF, ECW, URL, TIF, GRC, BMP, GIF, TGA, JPG, PCX, J2K, PNG, PSD, WMF, EMF
    Intuitive Image Registration (geo-referencing capability)
  • Grid Files
    MIG, VMGrid, DEM, DTED (levels 0-2), GTOPO30
  • Tabular Files
    MDB, XLS, DBF, ASCII, WKS (Lotus 123)
• Remote Database
  • Vector Data
    Oracle Spatial (versions 8.1.7,and 9i) via OCI
    MapInfo SpatialWare 4.8 via ODBC on Microsft MS SQL Server and IBM Informix
  • Tabular Data
    Oracle, Informix, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server via ODBC Linked (static) & Live (dynamic) access
  • OGC
    Web Mapping Service client (WMS)
• Import/Export
  • Vector Import
    MIF/MID, DXF, DWG, DGN, SHP, E00, VPF, SDTS and OSGB GML v2
  • Vector Export
    MIF/MID, DXF, DWG, DGN, SHP, E00
  • Data Export
    TXT, DBF, MDB
  • Grid Import
    VMGrid, DEM, DTED (levels 0-2), GTOPT30
  • Grid Export
    MIG
• Data Creation
  • Drawing and Digitizing tools
    Map Objects - point, line, polyline, polygon, square/rectangle, circle/ellipse, text, multipoint, collection
    Digitizing - WinTAB Digitizer support. Snap to node and centroid, move adjacent nodes, trace.
  • Editing tools
    cut, copy, paste, move, offset, rotate, resize, reshape, undo
  • Styles
    vector, raster, and TrueType symbols
    custom line styles, fill patterns
    TrueType fonts
    Raster brightness, contrast, transparency and translucency
• Data Manipulation
  • SQL selection with geographic extensions
    contains, within, intersects
  • Geographic selection tools
    point, marquee, radius, polygon, boundary
  • Invert Selection
  • Geocode
  • Redistrict
  • Create Points
  • Interpolate: IDW & TIN
  • Object Processing
    combine, disaggregate, split, erase, erase outside, buffer, voronoi, convex hull, enclose, smooth and unsmooth, convert between polylines and polygons, check, clean and thin or generalize.
  • Table Manipulation
    add, modify, delete columns
    pack
  • Projections
    automatic, on-the-fly, customizable
    hundreds of variations of 30 main types
    display cursor location in meters, decimal degrees, degree-minutes-seconds, and Military Grid Reference System.
• Analysis
  • Measure
    distance, length, perimeter, area
  • Aggregate
    count, sum, average, min, max, weighted average
  • Joins
    Geographic: contains or within
    Textual: matches
  • Info Tool
  • Statistics Tool
  • Calculate Statistics Option
  • HotLink Tool
  • Launch URLs
    Images: BMP, JPEG, GIF, etc.
    Multimedia: AVI, WAV, etc.
    Documents: DOC, PPT, XLS, etc.
    Maps: TAB, WOR, MBX
• Visualization
  • Multiple, interactive views
    Map, Table, Graph
    Selections in any appear in all
  • Thematic Mapping
    shade, bar & pie charts, graduated symbols, dot density, grid, Prism
  • 3D View and relief shading
  • Raster & Vector Layering
    Layer ordering
    Zoom layering
    Labeling
    Image Registration
  • Charts & Graphs
    bar, pie, area, line, bubble, scatter, 3D, surface, etc.
• Presentation
  • Layout
    maps, thematic and cartographic legends, tables, graphs, 3D Views, and annotations
  • Seagate Crystal Reports
• Output
  • Print
  • Raster Images
  • HTML Image Maps
  • OLE Drag & Drop
  • MapInfo ProViewer
• Customization
  • MapBasic Development Language
    custom menus, dialogs, buttons
    external function calls
  • Integrated Mapping
    Visual Basic, C++, and PowerBuilder
  • APIs
    Raster
    Grid
    Interpolation