MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL 10.5

MapInfo Professional 10.5 is the latest revision of this mature GIS from Pitney Bowes Business Insight (formerly "MapInfo Corp"). With a "first ship" date in June 2010, v10.5 maintains the company's decade-long tradition of annual software upgrades.

Compared to other GIS software, MapInfo Pro is distinguished by:

Microsoft Windows "look-and-feel" including full support for Windows 7 O/S and MS Office 2007;

Tightly-integrated set of viewing, editing, mapping & analytic tools;

Unparalleled "what-if" analysis features; and

Excellent inter-connectivity with Oracle, Access, SQL Server and other industry-standard databases.

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MapInfo Professional 10.5 is the latest revision of this mature GIS from Pitney Bowes Business Insight (formerly "MapInfo Corp"). With a "first ship" date in June 2010, v10.5 maintains the company's decade-long tradition of annual software upgrades.

Compared to other GIS software, MapInfo Pro is distinguished by:

Microsoft Windows "look-and-feel" including full support for Windows 7 O/S and MS Office 2007;

Tightly-integrated set of viewing, editing, mapping & analytic tools;

Unparalleled "what-if" analysis features; and

Excellent inter-connectivity with Oracle, Access, SQL Server and other industry-standard databases.

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New in Version 10.5

Free BING™ maps!

Want detailed aerial photography as a base map layer? In v10.5 this is a one-click operation. Click a new Bing button and the aerial map is auto-added to the map window, geo-referenced (of course) so your standard MapInfo maps overlay correctly. As with Bing Maps in Firefox or IE, a live internet connection is required.

Cost? $0, provided you maintain your MapInfo Pro software maintenance agreement.

Transaction limits? None. Pan-and-zoom as much as you wish.

Geographic limitations? None. Underlay detailed aerial maps for Lhasa as easily as Los Angeles.




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Multiple zoom-dependent styles

Accustomed to using "zoom layering" to turn layers or labels on/off at a single zoom level? MapInfo v10.5 lets you set *multiple* zoom levels, each with its own style.




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Custom composite point & line styles

Add a fresh, original look by defining custom point, lines or patterns via "stacks" of standard styles.





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Layered, georeferenced and data-enriched PDFs

v10.0 let you create PDF map files with built-in layer control. v10.5 adds Lat-lon geo-referencing and options to bake-in data table values.



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Data Access
KML/KMZ Maps

Directly open Google KML and KMZ format files in your map window.

Search, buy & download maps "on demand"

Need digital maps for a new project? Use v10.5's built-in "Data on Demand" toolbar to access PBBI/MapInfo's entire worldwide geodata catalog. Find, buy and download the data you need in just a few clicks.

Need map content for just a small geographic area? For the first time, buy "per square kilometer".

SGSI's Comments:
When interacting with PBBI web sites, please select "SGSI" as your PBBI/MapInfo reference "partner". It will not affect your costs and will give you the benefit of our responsive after-sales customer and technical support.

Search Global Digital Map Catalogs

Need international or other unusual map layers? Use v10.5's menu (File > Open Web service > Search CSW catalogs) to search worldwide digital map catalogs.

SGSI's Comments:
CSW map catalogs are new to North America, but are an emerging global standard.

Tile Server map layers

Define and display map layers driven by nearly any tile server--not just BING.

Have your own Envinsa or other corporate map tile server? MapInfo Pro v10.5 can be configured to directly address them, too.

SGSI's Comments:
MapInfo Pro has long been able to access web-based map servers via WMS or WFS protocols, But WMS and WFS seem slow compared to BING or Envinsa map tile servers.

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Updated Add-ins

The following add-ins, are significantly updated in v10.5:

MapCAD: CAD tool box;

GPS: Real-time GPS integration




Supported Operating Systems:
Windows® 7
Windows® Vista
Windows® XP
Windows® 2008 Server
Windows® 2008 Server with Citrix® XenApp
Supported Databases:
XY – i.e. Databases that store point data as X & Y numeric columns:
Microsoft Access 2003 & 2007
Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 XY on a spatialized DB
Oracle Spatial 11G, 10Gr2 (10.2.0.3)
PostgreSQL 8.3 with PostGIS 1.3
Spatial – Databases that store map data as objects including: points lines and regions
SQL Server 2005 with SpatialWare 4.9
SQL Server 2008 (also called SQL Server Spatial)
SQL Server 2008 (also called SQL Server Spatial) with SpatialWare 4.9.2
Oracle Spatial 11G, 10Gr2
PostgreSQL 8.3 with PostGIS 1.3
MS Office Data Types:
MS Office 2003 – MS Excel (.XLS) & MS Access (.MDB)
MS Office 2007 – MS Excel (.XLSX) and MS Access (.MCCDB)