Desktop Operating Systems

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista (Ultimate)
• Windows XP Professional SP2
• Windows XP Home SP2
• Windows XP (64-bit)

Server Operating Systems

• Windows 2008 Server
• Windows 2008 Server with Citrix XenApp (Citrix MetaFrame) 

Additional Deployment Capabilities

• New Workgroup installation option allows multiple users to share user customizable files and symbols
• Silent installation and product activation

XY – i.e. Databases that store point data as X & Y numeric columns:

• Microsoft Access 2003 & 2007
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 XY on a spatialized DB
• Oracle Spatial 11G, 10Gr2 (10.2.0.3)
• PostgreSQL 8.3 with PostGIS 1.3

Spatial – Databases that store map data as objects including: points lines and regions:

• SQL Server 2005 with SpatialWare 4.9
• SQL Server 2008 (also called SQL Server Spatial)
• SQL Server 2008 (also called SQL Server Spatial) with SpatialWare 4.9.2
• Oracle Spatial 11G, 10Gr2
• PostgreSQL 8.3 with PostGIS 1.3

MS Office Data Types:

• MS Office 2003 – MS Excel (.XLS) & MS Access (.MDB)
• MS Office 2007 – MS Excel (.XLSX) and MS Access (.MCCDB)

• Curved labeling enhanced to support user controlled overhangs
• Added automatic positioning of labels around points and centroids - results in more labels on the map
• Support of additional image formats for custom symbols (GIF, JPG, TIF, PNG)
• Support for sub-directory structure for custom symbols
• New set of symbols of public sector assets added
• Automatic smoothing of label text
• Vector and label translucency
• Automatic Anti-aliasing of lines and border

• New Comprehensive Data Editing Package, 40 New Data Editing Functions with configurable Button Pads
• Suitable for creating geographic asset information such as: sewers or pipelines at fixed intervals from road or parcel boundaries; pipelines, cables or wires at fixed angles from a road.
• Attach text objects from a separate DXF/DWG imported layer into the associated sewer or pipeline layer.
• Line direction can easily be changed for the purposes of representing the direction of water flow
• Columns containing coordinates, automatically build lines/polylines
• Copy and paste styles from one object to another
• Select objects by object style
• And much more...

• Access layer operations from the right click menu including: View entire layer; Select all from layer; Make layer editable
• Selected objects from the layer highlight the layer in Layer Control for easy layer finding
• Modify table structure by dragging and dropping columns
• Easy to use New Map Window dialog
• Added grid lookup for color, line or pattern
• Vista/Windows-XP application look
• Newly redesigned named views utility
• Improved selection visualization via enhanced drawing mode

• Programming with .NET
• Support for .NET programmability: Design your GUI in .NET and run within MapInfo Professional; or Embed MapInfo Professional inside your .NET application. Write code in VB.NET or C# or any .NET compliant language

TableInfo() - Added definition to return CoordSyst clause without bounds

RasterTableInfo() - Returns information about a Raster or Grid Table

GridTableInfo() - Return information about a grid file. It will error if the table is not a grid

ControlPointInfo() - Return information about control points for image tables

IsGridCellNull() - Returns whether a specific grid cell is null or not.

GetGridCellValue() - Returns value of specific grid cell.

DATA ACCESS

Data Formats: Added direct access capability for: DWG, DXF, DGN, ESRI, E00, ESRI GeoDatabase, ESRI Personal GeoDB (MDB), SDTS and VPF.

Extensible data access can provide support to over 150 formats as needed.

Spatial Data Support: ESRI SDE v9.X and higher.

Save Window As: GeoTIFF (geographically referenced image)

Support for: Date/Time and Time data values

On-the-fly indexing: Find and Geocode functions now work with both indexed and non-indexed fields, when working with both TAB files and remote tables.

BETTER LOOKING MAPS

Curved labeling

New emergency management fonts

New preference to set default label font/style

New map preferences for searching and inserting map objects

ENHANCED ANALYSIS

MapInfo Professional's new time based analysis capabilities allow organizations to benefit from MapInfo Professional in new ways. MapInfo Professional will now recognize and preserve time and Date&Time based data from a number of data sources and this data can be visualized and analyzed using the full range of MapInfo Professional capabilities.

IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY

Wizard based process for producing professional quality output

Multiple hotlink support from a single record

Access MapBasic Help directly from MapInfo Professional

New Legend window preferences

New Layout window preferences

New preferences for find selection behavior

Windows Manager tool enhancements

DATUM ENHANCEMENTS

Czech Republic and Slovakia JTSK Projection

Bosnia-Herzegovina Coordinate Systems

PLATFORM SUPPORT

Windows 2000

Windows XP logo (Professional and Home support)

Support for installation on Windows 2003 Server, Terminal Services and Citrix

Validation on Windows XP 64Bit in 32Bit compatibility mode

Silent install support using Microsoft Windows Installer technology

DATA ACCESS

Web Services: Connectivity to MapInfo Envinsa for Street Level Geocoding (location enablement), find address and Drive Region

MapInfo Map Marker connectivity for street level Geocoding and find address

Connectivity option to: MapInfo hosted Envinsa Online Services EOLS for Geocoding, Find Address and Drive Region generation

Access to other Web Services support through MapBasic programmability

New Web Services toolbar added for quick access to capabilities

New Web services interface to configure Web Services preferences include Proxy and HTTPS protocol.

Data Formats: Support added for: the latest Air-photo USA RAster format, Inter map TIFF image format, ERDAS IMG format

Database Support: Oracle 10G and 9iR2, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access XP, IBM Infomix 9.4. Support for SQL Server 2005

Spatial Data Support: Oracle Spatial 10G and 9iR2, Oracle Locator 10G, SQL Server 2000 with MapInfo Spatial Ware v4.8.1, Informix 9.4 with MapInfo Spatial Ware 4.5.2

Save Window As: Option to save a map window image along with geographic reference information, anti-aliasing for image smoothing options added

MAPPING/DATA EDITING

Area Units

Save default thematic with a table

Column and expression persistence added to Browser windows

Automatically view results of query for Select and SQL Select

Ability to reproject and rotate raster and grid images on the fly

Option to smooth raster and grid files to get more info

Improved raster image registration dialog - suupport for cross hair and larger data view

Extended support for Vertical Mapper Grid (GRD) files - support added for: 3D visualization, Info

Maximum buffer resolution increased

Enhanced Redistricting capabilities now also include percent values based on district totals

DATABASE IMPROVEMENTS

Use Primary Key for new table creation or when saving a remote copy

Added Primary Key auto-increment for Oracle databases

MapInfo data uploaded to remote databases is saved more precisely

Refresh DBMS Table button now refreshes all forms of ODBC type tables

USER INTERFACE ENHANCEMENTS

Copy and paste from Message and Statistics windows

New Toolbar buttons added for commonly used functions

Status bar expanded to show more coordinates and file names

Dialog boxes improved to show more information (Layer Control, Modify Table Structure, New Table Structure, Register raster)

Auto-trace tool enhanced - more visible line when tracing

New right click menu to quickly find selection

OUTPUT AND PRINTING

Support for anti-aliasing for labels

Removal of 28,000 pixel limitation (facilitates printing of any size maps)

Better memory management for large prints

Tool included to print for PDF

Included tool to Export image or vector data to Google Earth

TOOLS

Universal Translator updated

Google Earth utility enhanced and now included in Tool Manager

DATUM ENHANCEMENTS

New ETRS-based Coordinate Systems

Swedish Coordinate System added

South African Coordinate System Zones added

Lithuanian Coordinate Systems

New Latvian Coordinate Systems

New Estonian Coordinate System

IMPROVED HELP SYSTEM

Documentation for the MapInfo Professional Tools

Links to Web content

Customizable favorites

Improved navigation

MAP BASIC ENHANCEMENTS

Added the following statements:

EPSGTOCoordSysString$(), Geocode statements, Drive Region statements, ObjectNodeHasM(), ObjectNodeHasZ()

Added MapBasic accessor functions to HTTP, FTP and XML function calls

Enhanced the following statements: Create Object statement, Create Redistricter statement, Shade statement, UnitAbbr$() function