Geocoding

MapInfo Professional's built-in geocoding capability allows for fast and accurate placement of address data on to maps. Numerous controls are at your disposal, including the ability to specify how far to offset an address from the side of a street and how far to inset an address from the ends of street segments.

Geocoding Services

MapInfo Professional provides direct connectivity to MapInfo’s enterprise  platform Envinsa, MapMarker or MapInfo hosted Envinsa On-Line Services (EOLS) via industry standard WEB SERVICES technology. This built in connectivity provides the ability to access high quality street level geocoding. Using the geocoding services for instance, customers can quickly location-enable their data by following a simple process from within MapInfo Professional and start location analysis with minimal effort.

Create Points

MapInfo Professional also allows you to create points quickly and easily.  If your data already contains coordinates - longitude and latitude or others, you can map it directly by creating point objects from the coordinates. If not, you can still get your data on the map either by geocoding or by joining your data with an existing map layer to analyze your data.

Prism Mapping

Uncover patterns and trends based on data values with Thematic Mapping.  You can shade, use bar & pie charts, graduated symbols, dot density, and grids.  The new prism mapping feature lets you take a flat map and turn it into something special.  You can select regions on your map, extrude them to any height and your maps pop off the page.

Choose from hundreds of colors, symbols and line types to enhance comparisons and store popular combinations in Thematic Templates. Save frequently used templates for future reference and modification.

3D Views

3D window and Prism maps continue to be a distinctive and powerful way to visualize and analyze data and MI Pro v9.0 makes this feature even more compelling.

The drape files over 3D terrain are now of significantly higher quality, resulting in more legible labels and higher quality 3D maps.  Create a 3D view of any map containing a continuous thematic grid layer. Based on Microsoft's implementation of OpenGL software graphics interface, our 3D viewing feature allows freehand tilt and rotation of the image as well as traditional panning and zooming. Create 3D views with any grid format by directly reading MI Grid, VM Grid, DEM, DTED and GTOPO30.  Make the terrain stand out by interpolating the data or by using relief shading.  And to really make your maps something special, utilize the prism mapping function to extrude specific variables to new heights --- making them pop off the page.

One of the most powerful aspects of MapInfo Professional is its ability to combine data from widely different sources, even with different formats and projections, in the same map window.

Once combined in the map window, relationships that only exist geographically are revealed. You can also overlay vector and raster data together. In the map window, you can control the o

rder of layers, their display characteristics, and labeling. You can also control the translucency of raster images. Now, instead of simple backdrops, raster images can be made semi-transparent

and mixed with vector and other raster images.

Hunt for answers in your data with standard SQL queries. In addition to the standard key words - Select, From, Where Group By, Order By, and Into, MapInfo Professional offers these special geographic key words:

Contains, Within, Partly Within, Entirely Within, and Intersects

You can also aggregate data with:

Sum(), Min(), Max(), Count(*), Avg.(), and WtAvg() functions

Build and save SQL queries that access and integrate data from multiple tables. Frequently performed queries can be written once, re-used and even distributed to others. You can also invert a selection. Instead of crafting a complex query to select all but a few records or objects, just select the few you want to exclude, and invert the selection to unselect them and simultaneously select all the others.

MI Pro has made selecting geographic objects a piece of cake.  Simply utilize point, marquee, radius, polygon, and boundary tools to complete your tasks.  Select the appropriate tool and click or click and drag on the map to select the geographic objects you want.

MapInfo Professional provides continuous thematic mapping, independent of any existing geographic layer, via interpolation. For example, you can show air temperature as measured at various locations as a continuously varying color spread instead of trying to color political boundaries, postal delivery zones, or something else as inappropriate. MapInfo Professional gives you more choices in Interpolations. Choose between inverse distance weighting (IDW) - based and triangulated irregular network (TIN) - based interpolation. You can also add relief shading to the results of interpolation to make variations in the surface stand out. Any interpolated grid can be used to display a map in the 3D window.

Create and modify graphical and tabular data with MapInfo Professional's drawing and digitizing tools.  Create professional looking maps by creating points, lines, polylines, polygons, square/rectangles, circle/ellipses, text, multi-point, region (multi-polyline), and collection objects.

Modifying your maps is a breeze with tools like snap to node, move adjacent nodes and trace.  Editing your maps is also easily done with tools that cut, copy, paste, move, resize, reshape and undo.

You can rotate labels and symbols and in all types of styles including vector, raster, TrueType symbols as well as custom line styles.  You can even fill patterns and use TrueType fonts.  MapInfo Professional's tools make drawing and editing quick and simple.

MapInfo Professional gives you the power to manipulate tables easily with intuitive tools.  You can add/modify/delete/index columns and pack tables, quickly and easily.

Get noticed with MapInfo Professional's interactive graphs and charts including 3D, bubble, column, histogram, surface, area, bar, line and pie scatter charts. Select graph templates from thumbnail sketches. Graphing style control includes position, tilt, rotation and pie explosion. Choose database records by clicking on sections of a chart or graph.

MapInfo Professional provides tools for every imaginable task, too many to list.  A brief selection of some unique, popular and powerful tools includes:

A Coordinate Extractor tool which simplifies getting coordinates out of geographic objects and into columns in the database.

Three Rotation tools - one for symbols, one for labels, and one for map windows -are included for ease of use. These tools enable you to rotate all the symbols in a map, labels in a map, or the entire map window at once.

A ScaleBar tool that can even create horizontal scale bars on projected maps with curved lines of latitude.

A Table Manager tool that supports adding, modifying and deleting meta data keys and displays the meta data associated with a table. Meta data templates can also be used to streamline the process for users who create or modify tables frequently.

The MapX Geoset tool provides read/write access to MapInfo MapX, MapInfo MapX Mobile and MapXtreme GeoSets.

The EasyLoader tool uploads MapInfo TAB files into Oracle Spatial and SpatialWare databases.

Drag & Drop Tool - Improve presentations by 'dragging and dropping' a map into other applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Corel Draw.  Or export maps directly into Adobe PhotoShop.