MapInfo Version 8.0 - Coming Soon

May 2005

Boost productivity with powerful new features and enhanced collaboration tools!

Increased Flexibility

As more is demanded of you, the ability to work more efficiently and with greater quality becomes increasingly more valuable. MapInfo Professional 8.0 can help:

• New data creation and analytical capabilities including stream digitizing, orthogonal polygon creation, bivariate thematic analysis and an enhanced distance calculator
• Increased settings in geographical object support - now objects can store over 134 million nodes per single polyline
• or polygon object
• New legend size and cartographic legend window formatting, including multi-column support

Greater Collaboration

MapInfo endorses industry standards and promotes interoperability. This allows information to be shared freely across the organization and translation costs to remain minimal. MapInfo Professional version 8.0 can help:

• Share your work with others through enhances MapInfo Workspace and extended OGC support. There are many improvements to WMS and WFS capabilities including:
• The ability to control the resolution of downloads WMS images (for better printing)
• Support for proxy servers and passwords.
• Improved WFS data refreshing - it is now easier to refresh data to the current map window.
• Ability to ad indices to WFS tables (so query > Find operations can be performed).
• An option/preference has been added to WMS support so that the co-ordinate system for the WMS layer can default to that of MapInfo map window rather than that of the WMS server.
• With new and updated support for various raster and vector data formats including the latest DWG/DXF and DGN formats, shape files with M and Z values, ASRP v1.2, CSV files and the ability to export windows to GIF, TIFF LZW and much more.

More Value

Get more out of your investment via IT-friendly capabilities, usability improvements and new MapBasic support:

• Install on a central computer and use remotely via MS Terminal Services and CITRIX.
• Multiple user support through silent and unattended installs.
• Support for Oracle Workspace Manager including data versioning.
• A host of usability enhancements have been made, including the ability to automatically copy XLS, TXT and CSV files for editing when opening them, larger Layer Control and SQL Select dialog boxes, a new default symbol setting for the Query > Find command, a new utility to find and delete duplicate rows of data in a table and many more.
• MapBasic has been enhanced to support new features and capabilities, including new functions and statements for determining the nearest and farthest objects.