MapInfo Professional 7.8
What's New

See the new features introduced in version 7.5
See the new features introduced in version 7.0
See the new features introduced in version 6.5
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 7.8

Platform Support

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 98SE Windows 2000 SP4 Windows NT 4.0 SP6a WIndows XP Professional SP1a Windows XP Home SP1a

Remote Database Support

Supported Database Servers Spatial SQL Server 2000 with Spatialware 4.8.1 Informix 9.4 with Spatialware 4.5.2 on Solaris 32-bit and HPUX Oracle Spatial 10G (NEW), 9iR2 and 8.17 Oracle Locator 9iR2 Database XY validation Oracle 9iR2 MS Access XP MS SQL Server 2000 Informix

 

Supported ODBC Driver Versions

Oracle ODBC Driver 9.2.0.6 MS SQL Server 2000 IBM Informix 3.82

Interoperability

OGC Functionality Web Feature Service v1.0 (WFS) Client Support Enhanced Web Mapping Service: Supports all versions include 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1., 1.1.3 GetFeatureInfo support for Web Mapping Service (WMS) Client

Remote Database Connectivity Enhancements Oracle 10G support Read/write of views for Oracle w/out being the schema owner

Sharing MapInfo workspaces with MapXtreme 2004 based applications: Save MapInfo Professional Workspace as MapXtreme 2004 MWS format directly from MapInfo Professional

Updated Version of the Universal Translator Updated GPS tracking utility Export data directly to CSV format New MrSID G3 raster format support New AirPhoto USA raster format support

Mapping

Text objects now support up to 2048 characters, up from 256 Split continues line at a point Persist snap and thin values per table and retrieve in snap and thin dialog

COGO Line utility Improvements: Accept Degrees Minutes Seconds (DMS) or decimal degrees for coordinate input Create polylines Use Coord-sys from the current map projection Line Snap utility enhancements: Improve performance Support polylines

New digitizing option: continues auto trace mode Ability to turn-on autotrace mode when creating map objects that border or follow existing road networks or geographic boundaries

Snap option now supports non-visible and visible snap area Settable option to enable or hide the snap area

Improved interface to quickly add custom symbols New hi color custom symbols added Included on the CD, line style editor utility to create new line styles

New Projections: New French Coordinate system RGF 93 added New Swedish projections added Added and updated Danish projections New Swedish projection "SWEREF 99" added Australian Projection updates Israeli Projection updates

Data Analysis

Dot density theme now supports any point size of square or circle shapes

Support of query tables in 3D prism maps Enhanced rendering of 3D prism maps Customers now can create a query by Select or SQL select dialog view the query results it in 3D prism map

Distance calculator utility Automatically find the longest and shortest distance (straight line) between records in two tables

New Spider-graph utility Utility to draw lines from point objects in one table to point objects of another table based on a common field

Synchronize Map Windows Utility to synchronize the zoom and/or pan of two or more map windows

Search and Replace: Search for a string value in multiple columns within a table and replace it with another string value

Sharing Results

Support of Cartographic Scale Ability to create maps both as unitless as well as unit based scale i.e. 1:50 as well as 1” = 4mi

Display field type dialog in MS Excel data import process MapInfo Professional prompts the user to identify the field type of an Excel file when opening it directly in MapInfo Professional Custom range on MS Excel now automatically defaults to A2

New option to specify small or large legends Improved legend defaults for existing workspaces MapInfo ProViewer A freely downloadable workspace viewer program that enables other individuals in the organization to view MapInfo Workspaces

New Features in MapBasic 7.8

New statements and functions MGRSToPoint( ) and PointToMGRS$ ( ) Converts X,Y coordinates to Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) format and vise versa Objects Pline statement - Poliline Split at a point Programmatic ability to split a continues line at a point WFS Refresh Table statement Programmatically refresh a WFS table

Enhanced statements Create Cartographic Legend statement to create small or large swatch sizes Export statement to support CSV format LegendInfo( ) function now returns legend size (Small and Large) Objects Snap statement PrintWin statement Register Table statement now has type WFS Set Cartographic Legend statement supports legend size Shade statement supports dot density of square/circle with any point size TableInfo( ) function includes type WFS Included Sample Applications