Digital Mapping for
Business & Government

MapInfo Discovery™ Features:

• Zoom in/out or re-center the map to any location or zoom level 
  

• Get associated tabular or attribute information on any map object such as a point, a line, or a region object like state boundary 
  

• Use the ruler tool to measure distance between two points 
  

• Use the side bar icon to display the associated side-bar information 
  

• View the layer control - turn on/off layers and labels as desired 
  

• Search the tool to quickly find and zoom to desired area in the map, such as specific state/highway or a school 
  

• Use the zoom entire layer or map to get back to the map extents 
  

• Use the built in email program to send colleagues links to specific maps

Publisher Features - Any MapInfo Professional^® v6.5 or v7.0 user has the option to be a publisher using the included wizard-based tool. Connecting to the MapInfo Discovery™ server is as easy as typing the computer name or its IP address. For each published map, the publisher can provide a Map Title, short description, thumbnail and a detailed description or sidebar URL.

• Map publishers have the option to add a password to the map allowing only authorized personnel to view the information 
  
• Map publishers has the option to fully edit or remove his/her published maps and all associated information at any time 
  
• Map publishers have the option to create map categories during the publishing process 
  
• Advanced Features 
  
• Create linked/shared data between MapInfo Discovery™ and MapInfo Professional^®. As MapInfo Professional^® users update the data, changes are immediately seen on MapInfo Discovery™ no republishing required 
  
• Embed Hotlinks in attribute info to provide even more powerful information discovery experience
  
• Use the option to reference a URL/Link for the side bar for added power to publish PDFs, Excel and other project related documents. Take Discovery to a truly new level with this powerful capability

• Change or remove any map entry or category from the catalog 
  
• Change or remove any map publisher (user) from the catalog 
  
• Set or update security on maps, web server and FTP server connections 
  
• Enable/disable the email service

Provide every person in your organization with browser-access to any of your maps.

MapInfo Discovery™ is an enterprise browser-driven map catalog and map viewer application. It functions as an extension to MapInfo Professional^®. The product is ideal for sharing maps within and between departments. Now colleagues, executives and constituents can easily access interactive maps showing the results of your analysis. It’s easy-to-use, requires no programming or Internet skills, and - most importantly - increases the value of your MapInfo Professional^® knowledge and expertise throughout the organization.

Enterprise deployment made simple
Installing and using MapInfo Discovery™ is as easy as 1-2-3. Anyone who uses MapInfo Professional^® can use MapInfo Discovery™. You create the maps as before, in MapInfo Professional^®. Then MapInfo Discovery™ helps you create a neatly organized catalog of your maps and related information. Setting up and maintaining the catalog is as easy as maintaining files on a Microsoft^® Windows^® PC. For each map in the catalog, you provide a title, description and category for your map. MapInfo Discovery™ automatically creates a thumbnail image that makes it easy to browse and search the catalog.

Viewers Have Easy Access
All you do is provide your audience with a link/bookmark (created by MapInfo Discovery™) to your map catalog. They can browse the catalog in their web browser and simply click on the map thumbnail or title they want to see. For each published map, users can:

• Zoom in/out or re-center the map to any location or zoom level
• Get associated tabular or attribute information on any map object such as a point, a line or a region object like state boundary.
• Use the ruler tool to measure distance between two points
• Use the side bar icon to display the associated side-bar information
• View the Layer control – turn on/off layers and labels as desired
• Search tool to quickly find and zoom to desired area in the map such as specific state/highway or a school
• Use the zoom entire layer or map to get back to the map extents
• Use the built in email program to send colleagues links to specific maps  

Simple Installation Process
MapInfo Discovery™ has three main parts: Discovery server, Discovery publisher and a standard browser for viewing the catalog and maps. Discovery server is the main application that is the engine of Discovery and is responsible for managing the catalog and enabling online map visualization. Discovery server installer is simple and can accommodate range of users. From the MapInfo Professional^® users that may not be knowledgeable about databases and web servers to advanced users that want flexibility every step of the way. 

The publisher is the utility MapInfo Professional^® users need to publish maps to the Discovery server. It is provided in a separate installer that simplifies the process of deploying the publisher on any or as many system running MapInfo Professional^® v6.5 or 7.0.

The viewer being a standard web browser is the tool for viewing live interactive maps of MapInfo Discovery™.  Microsoft Operating systems today come standard with this application. If you do not have a web browser please contact your MIS department or consult your windows operating system CD.

Hardware Requirements