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MapInfo Professional v4.5
What's New
The new MapInfo Professional v4.5 offers you features that let you work faster,
smarter, and more accurately. Access more data, create reports and produce eye-opening
presentations. Check out these new features in MapInfo Professional v4.5, the world's
leading mapping software for business analysts and GIS professionals.
To order your copy today Print & Fax the
Upgrade Order Form.
- Thematic Templates!
Quickly create thematic maps that look just how you want them to.
- Save Query!
Create complex SQL queries just once and save them for re-use.
- Universal Translator!
Seamless two-way translations of all your GIS data for use in MapInfo Pro.
- Report Wizard!
Easily create column-style data reports to supplement your map analysis.
- Enhanced Line Styles!
The presentation quality of your maps will be better than ever.
- InfoTips!
Get "bubbles" of information when your mouse hovers over a map object.
- Tool Manager!
Point and click to access 21 special MapBasic programs that make working easier.
- Other Enhancements!
Check out these other features that help you work smarter and faster.
Maps
Look Right Every Time
With MapInfo Professional v4.5 you can save your thematic maps as templates to use and
re-use over and over again. You'll quickly make maps that look just right every time. All
your colors, fonts, patterns, legends, etc. are saved, just the way you like them.
Create your own templates for maps you use frequently or choose from one of the
pre-formatted templates.
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Save
Queries to Run Again
Write a query once in MapInfo Professional v4.5 and you can save it so you can run it
again and again. You not only save time, you guarantee yourself error-free results. Write
a frequently used query once, and you never have to think it through or type it out again.
You can save queries so they run automatically next time you open your workspace, even
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Access
All Your GIS and CAD Data
In MapInfo Professional 4.5 you can import or export files from or to other GIS and
CAD formats. Work seamlessly with DWG s11, w12, r13, DXF, DGN and Shape and ArcGen
formats. Now it's easier than ever to share your work with other GIS users in other
departments and agencies.
Get at all your GIS and CAD data with the easy-to-use data translator built right into
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Make
Your Case with Report Wizard
It's easier than ever to make presentations with the new Report Wizard in MapInfo
Professional 4.5. This handy tool lets you quickly and easily build spreadsheet style
reports that show any or all of your underlying map data.
Point and click to build column reports that supplement and support your map analysis.
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Produce
Cleaner, More Professional Maps
Line styles have been enhanced in MapInfo Professional v4.5. Crossing lines like
highways now have seamless intersections. And line widths now can be selected in pixels or
points, which means truer WYSIWYG performance and hard copy printouts that look the same
as your on-screen maps.
Your maps will look more like paper maps with new presentation features like seamless
intersections.
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"Guess
Right" Every Time with InfoTips
Allow your cursor to hover for an instant over an object and you'll get and
"InfoTip Balloon." No more guessing if your mouse is positioned over the right
object when there's dozens of others around it. You can see exactly what you're pointing
at when using the Label , Select or Info Tool. Especially handy in a crowd of objects.
With the new Info Tips, it's easy to see exactly what you're selecting or labeling
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Easy
Access to Extra Applications
MapInfo Professional v4.5 has a new Tool Manager that lets you point and click to
access valuable MapBasic programs. There's Legend Manager that lets you embed a legend in
your map window and store multiple legends, plus a Concentric Ring Buffer which lets you
easily buffer objects and aggregate the data within the rings. Plus many more. And it's
easy for developers to add their own applications to the Tool Manager.
Valuable MapBasic applications are now easily accessed from the main toolbar in MapInfo
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Many
More New Features Designed to Meet Your Needs
There's extra features in MapInfo Professional v4.5 that let you access common tasks
fast, increase nodes in polygons and improve dot density thematics, just to name a few.
- The Status Bar Pop Up feature lets you change the View Display (Zoom, Map Scale or
Cursor Location). You can change which layer of your map you are editing. And you can see
the Base Table associated with your active map window.
- You can now have over 1 million nodes in a polygon (Power GIS users and digitizers take
note!).
- You can choose colors for the dot patterns in your dot density maps, enabling you to use
dot color and dot size to convey information.
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