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MapInfo Professional
6.5
What's New
See the new features introduced
in version 6.0
See the new features introduced
in version 5.5
See the new features introduced in
version 5.0
See the new features introduced in version 4.5
See the new features introduced in version 4.1
New Features in 6.5
Layering - Now with Raster
Translucency
Thematic Mapping - New Prism Mapping
SQL Selection with Geographic Extensions - New Invert
Selection
Interpolating - New TIN-based
Directly Access Local Data
Directly Access Remote Data
Projections
Platforms
Layering - NOW with Raster Translucency
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 order of layers, their display characteristics, and labeling.
A NEW feature added gives you the ability to 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.
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| Combine multiple raster images with your vector
data to create very rich, very realistic maps. |
Thematic Mapping - NEW 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.
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| Prism maps are great for bivariate mapping.
Combine with color thematics to map two attributes onto one map. |
SQL Selection with Geographic Extensions - NEW Invert Selection
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 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.
A new feature gives you the ability to invert the current 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.
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| Select and then invert, what could be easier... |
Interpolating - NEW TIN-based
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.
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| Improve the way your terrain data is used to
create 3D maps. Get more definition and more 'depth' making your
maps more topologically accurate than ever before. |
Directly Access Local Data
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vector data in MapInfo TAB, and WMF files
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raster data in BMP, JPG, TIFF, BIL, SID, PNG, PSD and ECW
files
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grid data in MapInfo MIG,
VMGrid, DEM, DTED levels 0-2, and GTOPO30 files
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tabular data in Delimeted ASCII text, XLS, WKS, DBF and MDB files
Use raster images such as scanned paper maps, satellite images, photographs and logos to provide detailed content layers for your maps.
Use grid files to display maps in the 3D window
The ECW raster handler, from ER Mapper, and the Vertical Mapper grid handler, from Northwood Technologies, are included on the v6.5 CD and enable MapInfo Professional to read and display directly from files in the respective formats.
Image Registration
Image Display Attributes
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Translucency
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Transparency
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Contrast
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Brightness
Directly Access Remote Data
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Vector data in Oracle Spatial (8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7) via OCI and MapInfo SpatialWare 4.5 via ODBC on Informix, IBM DB2, and SQL Server
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Tabular data in Oracle, Informix, IBM DB2, SQL Server, and Sybase via ODBC
Manage discrepancies in data when multiple users write to the server.
Projections
MapInfo Professional offers automatic, on-the-fly, and customizable, coordinate systems derived from any of 30 major projections. Users
modify existing and/or add new coordinate systems based on these
projections.
It also offers the ability to rotate maps with an Affine transformation.
Finally, it can display cursor location in decimal degrees, DDMMSS, meters, and Military Grid Reference System.
Supported projections include:
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Albers Equal–Area Conic
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Azimuthal Equidistant (polar aspect only)
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NEW Cassini-Soldner
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Cylindrical Equal AreaEckert IV
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Eckert VI
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Equidistant Conic, also known as Simple Conic
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Gall
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Hotine Oblique Mercator
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NEW Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area
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Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (polar aspect only)
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Lambert Conformal Conic
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Lambert Conformal Conic (modified for Belgium 1972)
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Longitude/Latitude
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Mercator
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Miller Cylindrical
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Mollweide
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New Zealand Map Grid
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Oblique Azimuthal
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Polyconic
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Regional Mercator
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Robinson
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Sinusoidal
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Stereographic
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Swiss Oblique Mercator
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Transverse Mercator, also known as Gauss Kruger
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Transverse Mercator, (modified for Danish System 34 Jylland Fyn)
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Transverse Mercator, (modified for Danish System 45 Bornholm)
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Transverse Mercator, (modified for Finnish KKJ)
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Transverse Mercator, (modified for Sjaelland)
Platforms
MapInfo Professional 6.5
MapInfo tested on Windows 2000, NT 4.0, 98 and 95
Microsoft logo certified on Windows 2000
MapInfo Professional 6.0
MapInfo tested on Windows 2000, NT 4.0, 98 and 95
Microsoft logo certified on Windows NT 4.0, 98, and 95
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