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New Features 

New features in MapInfo 11.5 - summary

 

New features in MapInfo 11.5

 

MapInfo Version 11.5 introduces key customer benefits through the following capability enhancements in the area of:

  • More effective legend creation through the new Legend Designer.
  • Complete faster table operations in the Browser Window through easier access to common functions plus new sort/filter capabilities.
  • Edit metadata direct in MapInfo Manager for up to data and accurate shared records.
  • Ability to use multiple monitors for your work enhancing productivity.


MapInfo Professional v11.5 Key Enhancements

 

-New Legend Designer

  • Use grid and guidelines to quickly and accurately position legends.
  • Built in toolbars allows easy access to refresh and alignment capabilities.
  • Multi-selection and resizable legends.
  • Improved WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) output of new legend in a layout.
  • Alignment features: Guidelines to see if elements are aligned - Grid lines for accurate positioning - Snap to grid for legend frames - Multi select multiple frames to move them together.
  • Sizing:  Drag to resize frames allwoing legend elements to be positioned in multiple columns - Sample sizes for swatches are now configurable.
  • Legend support:  New Legend is fully supported within the Layout window - 11.0 Legend also remains fully supported.

-Enhanced Browser Window usability

  • Sort and filter data quickly to view what you what, when you what.
  • Refresh button to refresh data in browser including database data.
  • Built in toolbar allows easy access to commonly used functions saving you time.
  • New filtering capability:  Allows a user to define conditions to filter the data such as all cities with population greater than 1 million. - The results of the filter are then shown in the same browser window - Filter results can be transferred to a new Query and shown on the map.
  • Enhanced sorting:  Added in the 11.0.3 release.  Multiple columns can be sorted (up to 4 at a time) - Sort uses operators such as A-Z or smallest to largest - The results of the sort are then shown in the same browser window - Sort results can be transferred to a new Query and shown on the map.
  • Improved usability: A new toolbar at the top of the Browser window allows you to quickly and easily perform common operations such as sort, filter, refresh data, select data, pick font and change fields - There are now context menus on the right click for Sort and Filter - Select All allows you to then show the results of a Sort or filter on the map.

-MapInfo Manager Integration (Metadata Editing)

  • Edit Metadata records directly from MapInfo Professional.
  • Automatic update of existing metadata records.
  • Users can now edit metadata directly from MapInfo Professional.
  • Basic data validation is performed on entry.
  • Fields allowing multiple entries allow this through use of appropriate controls.
  • Metadata data is grouped into categories in the display.
  • Improved appearance and display of metadata.
  • Ease of use:  Zoom to mouse cursor (new option in map preferences) - Add results of query to Map Window (new option on SQL Select dialog).

-Multiple Monitor support

  • Multi task more effectively with multiple monitors for your work.
  • All dialogs now appear on the same monitor as the MapInfo Professional application.

-Improved cross suite integration (MWS format support)

  • Read/Write label settings to MWS.
  • Read/Write translucency settings to MWS.

-Additional MapCAD tools

  • Change polyline into a curved line (spline).
  • Create Text from database.

-MapBasic v.11.5

  • Support for new Legend Designer window.
  • Support for Browser Sorting and filtering.
  • Google Earth Tile Server support.
  • Source code for the layout Template tool now included.

-Projections, Datums, and Coordinate Systems

  • Datums (New):  CH1903 for Switzerland - Schwarzeck (updated) for Namibia - Serbia datum MGI 1901 - North Sahara 7-parameter.
  • Projections (Updated):  CH1903 (Switzerland)
  • Projections (New):  Longitude/Latitude (CH1903) - Mercator WGS84 (#3395) - Popular Visualisation CRS ('900913) - Belgium Lambert additions - Columbian Coordinate System - Namibian Coordinate Systems - Republic of Serbia Coordinate Systems - Algerian Coordinate Systems.

-Styles

  • 11 new fill patterns.
  • New "Pinpoint custom symbols.

 

 

 


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