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on Sunday June 21, @08:27AM
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All Points Blog brings notice that Mapinfo is doing free 30 day evals. Here is their summary : "MapInfo (aka Pitney Bowes Business Insights) has always been good about making evaluations available and the company is doing the same thing for v10. You can get a 30 day eval here. (Do read the license and privacy policy to which you must agree before requesting it.)"
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GeoPlace offers a quick review of MapInfo Professional 8.5. From the review: "I suspect that many MapInfo Professional users never fully use many of its tools, simply because there are so many. What particularly comes to mind are the “expressions” that can be used throughout the product, including labels, thematic maps and within the Select and SQL Select tools-some 30 pages of the User’s Manual are dedicated to defining these."
Technology: MapInfo 9.0 Coming this June
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Very Spatial shortly discuss the coming release of MapInfo 9.0. From the overview: "MapInfo Professional version 9.0 is the latest
release of the most powerful yet easy-to-use
desktop location intelligence solution available.
Direct access to new data including ESRI SDE
and GeoDatabase and the latest CAD formats lets
you use MapInfo Professional in conjunction with
colleagues and other applications without the
need to convert data. Rounding out this release
are capabilities to perform time- and event-based
analysis, features that improve your productivity
by streamlining commonly performed tasks, and
functionality to help you create better looking,
easy to understand maps."
Technology: MapInfo Professional 9 Released 2 comments
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Vector One informs us that MapInfo Professional 9 has been released. New features were discussed last month. I don't see anything changed, so here's the same summary: "MapInfo Professional version 9.0 is the latest release of the most powerful yet easy-to-use desktop location intelligence solution available. Direct access to new data including ESRI SDE and GeoDatabase and the latest CAD formats lets you use MapInfo Professional in conjunction with colleagues and other applications without the need to convert data. Rounding out this release are capabilities to perform time- and event-based analysis, features that improve your productivity by streamlining commonly performed tasks, and functionality to help you create better looking, easy to understand maps."
Reviews: MapInfo Professional Version 9.5 Review 1 comment
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Directions Magazine offers a review of MapInfo Professional 9.5. Last month, APB linked to another review by a non-geo professional. MapInfo Pro 9.5 was announced last June. Part of the DM conclusion: "The new product feedback function will allow Pitney Bowes MapInfo to collect and analyze user feedback from more of its users going forward. Users should find that the new features in MapInfo Professional v9.5 make the product easier to use and it displays better output. Users who need to edit spatial data will find the MapCAD tools very useful for their workflows and users who access spatial data in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database now have updated functionality to access these databases. Developers can now use the .Net integration to customize MapInfo Professional or to add GIS functionality to their applications. "
Reviews: MapInfo Professional Version 10.0 Review
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Direction Mag offers a review of MapInfo Professional version 10.0.
The review's conclusions: "The new interface in MapInfo Professional 10.0 is certainly more visually appealing than previous versions. The latest release has greatly improved the ease of use of the Layer Control. In previous versions, users had to click OK buttons several times before a change such as a Style Override would occur in the map window. The Layer Control is much easier to work with now and changes occur instantly as long as the Automatic Map Drawing button is not selected. Users have more choices to store their MapInfo Professional data using proprietary databases such as Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Office 2007 products as well as an open source products PostgreSQL and PostGIS. The ability to create layered PDF files is a time-saving enhancement that allows the end users of the maps to be able to control the display of the map output in Adobe Acrobat software instead of having to keep recreating the maps one at a time. Lastly, the Proportional Overlay tool is a new tool that allows users to quickly calculate summations and averages of data when the polygons of two layers do not line up exactly."
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Free Eval of MapInfo Professional 10
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