MapInfo Professional - What's New

 

 

New Features in Previous Versions
8.0
7.8
7.5
7.0
6.5		 6.0
5.5
5.0
 4.5
 4.1
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Platform Support

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP logo (Professional and Home support)
  • Support for installation on Windows 2003 Server,Terminal Services and Citrix
  • Validation on Windows XP 64Bit in 32Bit compatibility mode
  • Silent install option using Microsoft Windows Installer technology

 

Data access

WEB SERVICES: Connectivity to MapInfo Envinsa for Street Level Geocoding (location enablement), Find Address and Drive Region

MapInfo MapMarker connectivity for street level Geocoding and Find Address

Connectivity option to MapInfo hosted Envinsa Online Services (EOLS) for Geocoding, Find Address and Drive Region generation

Access to other Web Services through MapBasic programmability

Web Services toolbar added for quick access to capabilities

Interface to configure Web Services preferences include Proxy and HTTPS protocol

 

DATA FORMATS: Support for the latest AirPhoto USA Raster format, Intermap TIFF image format, ERDAS IMG format

 

DATABASE SUPPORT:

  • Oracle 10g and 9iR2

  • MS SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005

  • MS Access XP

  • IBM Informix 9.4

 

SPATIAL DATA SUPPORT:

  • Oracle Spatial 10g and 9iR2

  • Oracle Locator 10g

  • SQL Server 2000 with MapInfo

  • SpatialWare v4.8.1

  • Informix 9.4 with MapInfo SpatialWare 4.5.2

 

SAVE WINDOW AS: Option to save a map window image along with geographic reference information, anti-aliasing for image smoothing options added

 

Mapping/Data Editing

Ability to set default Distance and Area units

Save default thematic with a table

Column and expression persistence added to Browser windows

Automatically view results of query for Select and SQL Select

Ability to re-project and rotate raster and grid images on the fly

Option to smooth raster and grid files to get more info

Enhanced raster image registration dialog—support for cross hair and larger data view

Extended support for Vertical Mapper Grid (GRD) files—support added for 3D visualization

Maximum buffer resolution increased

Enhanced Redistricting capabilities to include percent values based on district totals

 

Database Improvements

Use Primary Key for new table creation or when saving a remote copy

Employ Primary Key auto-increment for Oracle databases

MapInfo data uploaded to remote databases is saved with more precision

Refresh DBMS Table button refreshes all forms of ODBC connection type tables

 

User Interface Enhancements

Copy and paste from Message and Statistics windows

New Toolbar buttons added for commonly used functions

Status bar expanded to show more coordinates and file names

Dialog boxes enlarged to show more information (Layer Control, Modify Table Structure, New Table
Structure, Register raster)

Auto-trace tool enhanced—more visible line when tracing

New right click menu to quickly find selection

 

Output and Printing

Support for anti-aliasing for labels

Removal of 28,000 pixel limitation (facilitates printing of any size maps)

Extended memory management for large prints

Print to PDF capability added

Tool to Export image or vector data to Google Earth included

 

Tools

Universal Translator updated

Google Earth utility enhanced and included in Tool Manager

 

Datum Enhancements

NEW ETRS-BASED COORDINATE SYSTEMS ADDED:

  • Swedish Coordinate System
  • South African Coordinate System Zones
  • Lithuanian Coordinate Systems
  • Latvian Coordinate Systems
  • Estonian Coordinate System

 

Enhanced Help System

Documentation for the MapInfo Professional Tools

Links to Web content

Customizable favorites

Streamlined navigation

 

MapBasic Enhancements:

ADDED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:

  • EPSGToCoordSysString$( )
  • Geocode statements
  • Drive Region statements
  • ObjectNodeHasM( )
  • ObjectNodeHasZ( )

 

ADDED MAPBASIC ACCESSOR FUNCTIONS to HTTP, FTP and XML function calls

 

ENHANCED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:

  • CreateObject statement
  • Create Redistricter statement
  • Shade statement
  • UnitAbbr$( ) function