A Big Year for MapInfo

Professional!!

Product Overview 2014

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Disclaimer

This material contained within is intended to depict the new direction of

MapInfo Professional. Many of these new capabilities are still under

development and may change as needed.

All new features and improvements are not guaranteed to be in a

specific version or exactly as shown.

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It’s what you asked for!

This year will see an unprecedented leap forward for MapInfo Professional with a

renewed emphasis on making it the best GIS product for our customers. We

heard from many of our customers through conversations, user workshops,

surveys and our Ideas web site.

The message we have heard is clear:

You want to make better looking output and to do it with less work. That is why

this release is focused on building the new Layout Designer and dramatically

improving the usability of MapInfo Professional. Both of these are large efforts

that we are laying the foundation for this year and will be continuing into future

versions in 2015.

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2014 Plan One size does not fit all…

The 32 bit version will remain the classic MapInfo Professional. We are adding the much requested “Layout

Designer” to this version. This will be available in the usual June release.

The 64 bit version will also include the “Layout Designer” but this version is designed to be the foundation for

the future of MapInfo Professional. The 64-bit architecture paves the way for handling much larger data sets

and using far more available memory for processing. We are also adding multi-core and background

processing to make MapInfo faster so that it can handle the demands of big, complex data.

In addition to the horsepower upgrades, the 64 bit version will come with an entirely new ribbon-based user

interface. The new UI is much more intuitive and provides the ability to make many common operations easier

to accomplish. This will be available October 2014.

This will be largely backwards compatible with the classic MapInfo, except:

• Customization of the UI will be with a new API

• MapInfo Professional will allow windows to be placed on any connected display

• Building OEM solutions from Integrated Mapping will use a new .NET API

• We have dropped Crystal Reports and the Graph window capability for this release

Both 32 and 64 bit versions for the varying needs of our users

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Layout Designer (32 and 64 bit versions)

Maps can now be fully

interactive on the layout.

Labeling, Edit, Scale,

Zoom, or any other map

changes can be done

without the need to go to

a separate map window.

Alignment bars and snap-

to-grid (same as in the

new legend designer)

Text boxes that support

auto-wrapping text … to

be extended to support

rich text.

Shown here is the 64-bit user interface

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MapInfo v12.5 x64 Overview

Changes include: User Interface

Customizable Ribbon UI

Window Management: Tabbed, Docking, Multi-Monitor Support , Hide/Unhide

Mini-Toolbar

Workspace Explorer

Labeling Styles & Label Preview

Layout Designer

Live content on layout

Alignment & Grid + Snap to Grid

Wrapping Text Boxes

Image support

Performance

Multi-Threading

Background Processing

Grid Capabilities

New MRR Grid Format

Some grid capabilities integrated into base MapInfo Professional.

Note: This is a prototype and not all features shown here are

guaranteed to be in the final product or as shown.

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Ribbon User Interface

Menu and toolbar system replaced with ribbon navigation.

Ribbon can be customized to remove things you don’t need or to reorganize around your workflow.

Customization can be done via GUI or through an API.

The new ribbon organizes the capabilities of MapInfo Professional so that you have

what need where you need it. No more cluttered user interface!

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Window Management

All windows now support docking, floating and tabbed modes.

Floating windows can be moved onto secondary monitors.

Windows can be “closed” to reduce clutter but re-opened when needed.

New Window Manager allows you to see all windows by type and hide/unhide them, as needed.

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Mini Toolbars

Common map functions are

readily available on a new

floating toolbar in the map.

This makes moving around

the map or operations such

as labeling much less

tedious:

– Selection

– Pan

– Zoom in/out

– Label tool

– Label Font

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Performance

Improvements:

Multi-threading of selected object

processing commands to use more or

all of the available processors

• Split

• Erase

• Erase Outside

• Buffer

Run and track multiple time

consuming tasks in the background

while continuing to use MapInfo

Professional to do other work.

New raster grid format (.MRR) has

substantially improved rendering

times

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Label Properties & Preview

Label settings are bundled into groups of settings to make getting good output much simpler.

One click to make changes. For example, click “Bold” to change all labels in the layer to bold automatically.

Settings Preview – hovering on the settings (label settings, font, size, etc.) will automatically show on the map in most cases

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Raster Grid

New MRR (multi-

resolution raster)

format can handle

much larger input

data while at the

same time creating

a smaller footprint

file.

Dramatically faster

rendering of grid

files.

Some grid

capabilities will now

be built into the

base MapInfo

Professional. The

exact feature set is

TBD.