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The easiest, most cost-effective way to embed
mapping functionality into new and existing applications.
MapInfo MapX®
is an ActiveX component enabling developers to quickly
and easily add mapping functionality to any application.
Using standard languages, a streamlined object model,
defaults and other wizards, MapInfo MapX® helps simplify
application development. MapInfo MapX® Mobile is the
premier Windows™-based software developer's tool for
creating customized mapping application on Pocket PC
devices. With MapX® Mobile, developers can easily create
custom-made applications that empower the mobile
workforce with the ability to access, gather and analyze
critical business information, resulting in increased
productivity and enabling them to make faster,
better-informed business decisions.
MapX® Features:
Standard Languages
- Use Visual Basic®, Visual C++, and
Delphi® to
integrate MapInfo MapX® into new and existing
applications.
Data Access and
Database Support - Spatial
Server Access (SSA) enables developers to connect to
live data stored in enterprise databases such as
Oracle®, IBM Informix® and Microsoft™ SQL
Server.
In addition to supporting Oracle's SDO_Geometry spatial
data format, MapInfo MapX® also supports Oracle's
coordinate systems and projections. Any valid SQL query
can be passed to Oracle® Spatial or
Oracle® Locator.
Performance is enhanced by using Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
pre-fetch methods to retrieve multiple rows per request.
MapInfo MapX® supports data access for Microsoft® Access
and MapInfo SpatialWare's newest platform, Microsoft™
SQL Server.
Dynamic Selection
for Radius and Polygon Selection Tool
- The Radius and Polygon Selection Tools can now
dynamically display the number of objects contained
within the selection. This feature is being used
to dynamically determine the number of customers located
inside of the selection. The user knows that they
want to know the area in which 100 customers live
Using this feature, they increase the size of their
selection until the number of customers selected reaches
100.
Raster Image Support
- Use raster images to add a bitmap layer, such as
scanned paper maps or aerial photographs to your maps.
Thematic Mapping
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Translucent Raster Images
- A
translucent image can be seen through. This allows
raster images to be placed on top of other layers, yet
the underlying layers are partially visible.
Object Processing and
Editing - Enables users to create, combine, buffer,
intersect or erase objects like points, lines and
polygons. A node editing feature allows users to edit a
geometry, such as a polygon, by adding, removing or
moving individual nodes.
True Object Linking and
Embedding (OLE) - For fast application development.
Label Enhancements -
Individual labels are now selectable and editable. Users
can change the orientation of a label around a point or
curve a label around a road. The new label
functionality makes it easier for the user to read and
interpret the information that is being displayed on the
map. It also gives users better control over the
look and feel of their maps.
Find - Any map
object, such as a customer, street, postal code, state,
etc. can be located and displayed.
Label Partial Object
- This feature allows labels to be displayed even when
the centroid is not in the current view. For
instance, if your map displays multiple counties, all of
the counties can now be labeled even if the centroid is
not in the area being displayed. If a user
is looking at the border of two states, neither state
would be labeled. Now both states would be.
New Military Features
- Support for military raster formats including ASRP,
ADRG, CADRG, CIB, and NITF. Also support for the
Military Grid Reference System.
Visual Spatial Selections
- Select data by individual points, within a given
polygon, or by drawing and enclosing data within a
circle or rectangle.
Geocoding - Place
location information (such as a customer's address, or
the location of a cell tower) on a map down to the
postal code centroid level. For more enhanced street
level precision, MapInfo MapX® fully supports MapInfo
MapMarker® Plus and MapMarker® J Server. MapMarker® is also
available as an ActiveX component enabling geocoding
functionality to be embedded within your applications
rather than having a geocoder running separately from
your application.
Map Rotation -
Specify the ability to rotate a map through 360 degrees
for greater flexibility and more effective presentation
of information (such as rotating the map while tracking the
location of a vehicle in real time).
ESRI Support -
Directly reads ESRI shape format.
Export Formats -
JPG,
GIF, WMF, BMP, TIF, PNG, PSD.
Support for Per Record
Styles - Allows each geometry in a single layer to
have its own style. For example, a single 'public
institution' layer in Oracle8i Spatial can have schools,
town halls, libraries and police departments and each
point type is represented with its own symbol (i.e. a
school symbol for all the schools). Similarly, a single
road layer in SpatialWare SQL Server may have different
road types such that streets are shown as a single pixel
black line, secondary roads as a double pixel red line
and interstates as parallel red lines.
This feature shows MapInfo's commitment to enable
seamless functionality between stand-alone desktop
implementations using TAB files and enterprise-wide
deployments using 2 and 3-tier architectures focused on
a spatially-enabled, IT-managed RDBMS.
Consequently, MapInfo MapX® users will see the
same results whether they use TAB files or a database.
Moreover, per-record styles eliminates the workaround of
having to manage multiple layers (one for each style
type: i.e. one for schools, one for police departments,
etc.).
User Controls - MapX®
provides you with a number if stock tools and dialogs
that you can expose to the user in your application.
Tools can allow users to pan and zoom the map, add
point, line or region features, select or label features
of any type, and add text or symbol annotations to the
map are included and require no code to be written by
the developer. Dialogs are also included that
allow users to control many of the map properties.
They can add and remove layers, control the display of
map features and edit the display of thematic maps.
The application developer can expose as much or as
little of this control to the users as desired.
Snap to Node - The
snap to node feature resembles the snap to node feature
in MapInfo Professional. When this feature is enabled,
if there are any nodes present in the rectangle around
the current mouse position (whose size specified by snap
tolerance), it snaps to the closest node to the centroid
of the rectangle and draws cross hair. This mode can be
turned on under all tools. Snap to Node makes it easier
for engineers to update information about their
network.
Label Thematics - New
labeling feature that allows the appearance of a label
to be controlled by a value in the data base. For
example, rather than have all the labels in one font,
labels can now have font, color or size be driven by
some value in the data base.
Support for Multi-point and
Collection objects - These are new object types that are
supported in MapInfo Professional and in Oracle.
Customers that create data using MapInfo Professional® will have
seamless support in MapX® 5.0.
Maps & Data - MapInfo
MapX® ships with an extensive set of data and
worldwide maps. Contact TerraNOVA for details.
Pack Table - In
previous versions of MapX®, when a record was
deleted from a .Tab file, it was flagged as deleted but
it was not removed. Additionally, feature keys for
these records could not be reused. When performing
edits, periodically the table is now packed.
Packing a table provides a mechanism for shrinking down
the graphics file after a series of edits and,
optionally, physically removing deleted records.
Feature keys from deleted records may now also be
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