All of us on the MapInfo Professional team are busy traveling throughout the summer and fall to visit customers and introduce them to MapInfo Professional v10.0. Our events may vary slightly from region to region, but the one thing that remains constant is our enthusiasm to show customers what’s new!
These events also allow us to reach out and talk to users like you so that we have a clear understanding of what you’d like to see in future versions of MapInfo Professional.
To see where we’ll be next in the US and Canada Click Here
If you’re in the UK or Ireland don’t miss our MapInfo User Group – for information Click Here
The new look of MapInfo Professional v10.0 has been unveiled at numerous user events around the world in the last month or so. The feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive. One such example of enthusiasm was at a user forum in New Zealand last week. Users in the audience were asked to judge v10.0 and as the photo shows, the result was unanimous!
Want to check out MapInfo Professional for yourself? Download our eval and let us know what you think!
If you’ve been reading our blog the past few months you know that we have been posting quite a bit about MapInfo Professional v10.0. Our fully functioning 30 day evaluation has now been posted – download it at:
www.pbinsight.com/ten
MapInfo Professional v10.0 includes:
- Greater Ease of Use – A more intuitive user interface and data sharing via layered PDF enables organizations to more easily and efficiently create and share customized maps, resulting in greater efficiency and time savings.
- Cost Savings - MapInfo Professional 10.0 supports PostGIS, an open-source database, providing users with a cost-effective, open source alternative.
- Enhanced Data Access - Organizations can tap into even more data including Microsoft SQL Server® 2008, giving organizations even greater flexibility and continuing access to multiple forms of data.
To view a webinar that provides an in depth demo of the new features and functionality click here.
MapInfo Professional v10.0 was shown to our PBBI Insight’s User Conference attendees this past week. It was great to see that our users where just as excited, if not more, about MapInfo Professional v10.0 as we were!
If you were not at Insight’s 09 here’s a short list of what’s new MapInfo Professional v10.0, for details click here to view the MapInfo Professional data sheet.
Benefits of MapInfo Professional 10.0 include:
- Greater Ease of Use – A more intuitive user interface and data sharing via layered PDF enables organizations to more easily and efficiently create and share customized maps, resulting in greater efficiency and time savings.
- Cost Savings - MapInfo Professional 10.0 supports PostGIS, an open-source database, providing users with a cost-effective, open source alternative.
- Enhanced Data Access - Organizations can tap into even more data including Microsoft SQL Server® 2008, giving organizations even greater flexibility and continuing access to multiple forms of data.
We are very excited to share the new face of MapInfo Professional v10.0. The completely redesigned user interface not only has an updated look and feel – but also dramatically increases users’ efficiency.
The newly designed icons and toolbars are dockable. They can be docked on any four sides of the screen. This allows users to easily organize their toolbars, for example, placing all object creation toolbars on the bottom of the screen for quick and easy access.
We are also thrilled to demonstrate our brand new layer control – that is also dockable and can remain accessible for the entire mapping session. To learn more about our layer control and other MapInfo Professional v10.0 features please join us for an in-depth webinar on June 9th at 2pm EST – Click Here to register.
MapInfo Professional v10.0
Not only will MapInfo Professional v10.0 support the latest data formats, such as PostGIS – but it will also have the ability to print maps to a layered pdf format.
What does that mean exactly?
A layered PDF has the ability to have selected layers turned on and off. Now you can create a single output and depending on the target audience, turn various layers on and off. This can reduce the need to create multiple PDF’s saving you time and energy. Anyone with an Adobe Reader will be able to open and view a layered PDF.
For an example of a layered pdf Click Here
As our Insights User Conference approaches we’ll have more inforation on MapInfo Professional 10.0 right here.
With only about seven weeks until MapInfo Professional 10.0 begins shipping we wanted to post an update on our Beta program.
Last week we sent select customers the MapInfo Professional 10.0 Beta. After only a day or two of testing new features such as, a brand new user interface, enhanced data access, new map output capabilities, and enhanced analytical tools – Customers are already giving us rave reviews!
“… I would like to say that I am very pleased to see these enhancements and changes.”
“I really love the new layer control and increased efficiency. “
“Thanks and keep the improvements coming”
You can visit us in Orlando for Insights ‘09 and the grand unveiling of MapInfo Professional 10.0.
In the meantime, register for our June 9th webinar where you can learn in depth What’s New in MapInfo Professional 10.0.
I have been researching the best practices with tile servers and how to integrate real cartographic analysis into tile based RIA applications. The results are very interesting with respect to several limitations and also quality.
Tile based RIA applications are becoming more prevalent in the web community because of their responsiveness and flexibility. The current implementations are based on simple APIs, this is excellent for rapid prototyping and creating a site quickly. But it also limits the application when it comes to real data analysis.
In the February MapXtreme Users Group (MUG) we discuss how PBBI products can act as a tile provider and data analysis engine for tile base RIA applications. The talk goes into some of the details and limitations of the current MashUp type RIA application and describes a more complete architecture that allows complex data analysis and how to produce better cartographic maps. Check out the recorded session as well as other MapXtreme recorded sessions and slides at:
http://www.mapinfo.com/mug
The code and description of the basic architecture are available for download at the PBBI Code Exchange:
http://www.mapinfo.com/for-developers/code-exchange
Coming in the May MapXtreme Online User Group we’ll have a sneak peak at what Engineering has been working on.
We hope to see you there.
We are really excited about the upcoming release of MapInfo Professional version 10.0. It is expected to ship in June, which is right around the corner. We are planning on revealing 10.0 publicly for the first time at our annual users’ conference, Insights ‘09, which is June 3rd in Orlando, Florida. Feel free to join us!
In the mean time, we plan on releasing information on key features from time to time, so check back at this blog often between now and June. We expect to be sharing a lot of exciting information.
The first enhancement we want to share relates to improvements in MapInfo Professional’s data access capability. MapInfo Professional 10.0 will have comprehensive read and write access to PostGIS spatial data. PostGIS is an open-source software program that adds spatial capability to the open-source PostgreSQL database. We have applied our many years of experience in working with spatial database systems (including our own SpatialWare technology) to extend MapInfo Professional to include support for PostGIS.
- MI Pro v10 will offer direct native access to PostGIS without the need for any middleware.
- Support for PostGIS is also being added to our MapInfo EasyLoader tool. EasyLoader is a freely downloadable tool for managing bulk uploads of MapInfo tables into a database system.
- Support for PostGIS represents our continued commitment to allowing our users to access as much of their data as possible “where it lives”.
There is more to come in MapInfo Professional v10.0 with respect to data access and other major work areas. Remember to check back here, or follow us on twitter to get more updates on MapInfo Professional 10.0!
Here’s something cool.
One of our colleagues decided recently to build a proof of concept showing how Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s mapping software can be used with an Apple iPhone.
In this case, the maps are being accessed via the web and returned to the iPhone, which has a simple client to catch the data.
Among the benefits to this is the fact that the mapping data that are returned are not limited. Because Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s Location Intelligence software lets companies build and organize their own data, the information that is streamed across the internet is not limited to just streets, as is the case with most iPhone applications. The data that are streamed to the iPhone can be sales territories, infrastructure data related to pipes or power lines, or crime data, such as the latest reports of crime by type sorted and pinned to a map.
I also liked the way we used the creation of drive-time polygons to show off some of the spatial analytics that can be integrated into a map to add real value.
The iPhone might not be the best device for a complex business application, but because Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s software is open and standards based, it can usually be accessed via any client. It is great to see our technology being shown off in such a good light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2QFBBKrscU
