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Work Smarter, Not Harder with
MapInfo Professional v12.0
Tom Probert, EMEA LI Product Marketing Manager
Insights Denmark conference
19/09/2013
Agenda / Table of contents
Overview of MapInfo Professional v12.0
Five areas of improvements for creating cartographic output
Demonstration of new labeling capabilities
Five more areas of improvements
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Work Smarter, Not Harder with MapInfo Professional v12.0
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Road map for 2014 and 2015 5
First…
Why are we doing what we are doing?
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#1 from the
Ideas Portal
And, … from a recent survey
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If you were in charge and had to pick just ONE general area to focus
improvements on for MapInfo Professional, which of the following would you
consider to be the highest priority?
Secondary Areas of Focus:
Helping you to get the job
done
1. Data access and tech stack
improvements
2. Ease of use enhancements to
reduce mouse clicks
3. In-product notifications
4. Upgraded back-end license
server
5. Drawing and editing
improvements
MapInfo Professional v12.0
Primary focus:
Making it easier to produce
good cartographic output.
1. Make it quicker and easier to
nicely label the map.
2. Make it easier to create output
to scale.
3. Scalebar improvements
4. Cartographic legend
improvements
5. Minor improvement to the
Layout window
"Smarter" Labelling in MI Pro v12.0
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Settings used
• Set which layers are the
priority for labelling
• Auto position along line.
• Second column for label
abbreviations.
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Version 12 Smarter Line Labelling
Matrikelkort – Version 11.5
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Matrikelkort – Version 12.0, 50%
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Matrikelkort – Version 12.0, 75%
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Improved Labeling
Labeling Lines:
• Auto position along line
• Option for alternative
placement along
polylines
• Combine curved & rotated
labels
• Click and drag to move
curved labels
• Handy tip! The abbreviation
option can be a label
expression!
Some Details on Labeling Improvements
• Labeling Lines:
– Combine curved & rotated labels
– Option for alternative placement along
polylines
– Click and drag to move curved labels
• Labeling Regions:
– Confine to Region boundary
– Place outside with callouts
– Font reduction to fit in boundary
• General:
– Control priority of labels across layers
– Use secondary abbreviation column
when label will not fit
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World Map - V11.5 label settings
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World Map - Version 12.0 example 1
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World Map - Version 12.0 example 2
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Easier to create output to cartographic scale
Cartographic scale displayed (or
available) by default
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Smarter Scale Bar
• Easier to use because it creates more desirable scale
bars automatically!
– Option for automatic rounding to "nice" numbers
• New option for transparent background
• Better use of space
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#6 from the
Ideas Portal
Smarter Scale Bar
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Version 12.0
Version 11.5
Legend Designer Improvements
Greater control helps MapInfo Professional users create nicer looking
legends!
Change the size of
the legend sample
individually for each
layer.
Control the order
of the elements
within a frame.
Use these tic boxes to
control which elements
appear in the Legend.
Automatic "smart"
word wrapping
Layout Window
Quick access to the
commands to line up the
elements of your page.
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MapInfo Professional v12.0
Secondary focus areas
• Data access and tech stack updates
• Ease of use and productivity
enhancements
• Notifications direct to end users via RSS feeds
• Upgraded License Server
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MapInfo Professional v12.0
Data Access and Tech Stack Improvements
• Improved SQL Server support (geography data type)
• PostGIS v2.0
• New! Autodesk SQLite
• Use Windows Authentication with Oracle
• New smarter UI for opening tables from RDBMSs
• FME Quick Translator (replaces Universal Translator)
• WFS v1.1 support
• Support for MrSID 16 bit format
• Windows 8 Support
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Opening DBMS tables
Open multiple tables with
the same settings or with
customised settings for
each table.
Universal Translator Upgraded
• Now using the FME Quick Translator
• Includes KML and ArcSDE import capabilities
– All the same formats as found in "Open Universal Data"
• More options/control.
– Console window provides detailed feedback on the translation process.
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Ease of Use and Productivity Enhancements
• Layer Control enhancements
• Compare/edit the structure of multiple tables at once
• MapCAD improvements
• Polybuilder utility
• Smart Map Zoom option to match Tile Server zoom
• Increased width of data records
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Layer Control Improvements
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Clear custom labels
for individual layers.
Quick way to select
all from a map layer.
New ability to control
whether labels can
be selected or not.
Smart zooming
for tile servers to
ensure a nice
map appearance.
Click the icon to quickly
modify a thematic map.
Smart mouse cursor highlights
when functionality is available.
Ease of Use and Productivity Enhancements
Compare/edit the structure of multiple tables at once
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MapCAD Improvements
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– Orthogonal Polygon tool
MapCAD Improvements
• New Undershot/overshot tool
New option to use the bounds of the editable layer
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Simplifies the conversion of
digitised linework into polygon
vector objects.
• Checks and corrects linework
• Create polygons
• Add text as attributes to the
polygons
• Can digitise from scratch
• Additional utilities to break, join and
filter linework.
PolyBuilder
Improved width of data records
• MapInfo Professional v12.0 allows our users to have
more columns in their tables.
– Limit is increasing from 4096 bytes to 64,500 bytes.
• This is a direct (and early) result of the extra investment
in MapInfo Professional.
#8 from the
Ideas Portal
In product notifications to end users
• Will be used for notifications of new releases, web seminars,
expiration dates for Bing mapping and more.
• You have control over whether to see messages and the
frequency of checking for new messages.
– Separate settings for maintenance patches and news
• Settings are in Options > Preferences > Notifications
• Help > Check for News Feed…
New License Server
• We upgraded the backend license server ("FNO").
• New server is smart about recognising when a computer
that already had a license is requesting a license again.
– It will not decrement the license count.
• Improvements to the system should solve the errant
problem of licenses "breaking".
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Let's talk about the road map
#2 from the Ideas portal
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MapInfo Professional roadmap
• Performance improvements – Multi-tasking
– Object Processing
– Multi-threading
• 64 bit – Full 64 bit application including
dependencies
– Beta version planned for early 2014
• Cartographic output – Active Layout
– Layout Designer
– Further labelling improvements
• New Grid module – Rationalise capabilities across Vertical
Mapper, Discover and Engage.
– Includes SDK and increased performance.
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• Licensing enhancements – Improved control and access to
internally hosted and administered license servers.
• Remove Windows XP support
– v12.5 (June 2014)
• Windows 8 tablet support – Touch screen interaction
– Specific support for field based operation
• User experience upgrades – Redesigned user interface and new
dialogue navigation
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Increased investment provides parallel research and development streams:
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12.0 June
2013 12.5 June
2014
13.0 June
2015
Cartographic Output
Layout
Labeling
Performance
Research and planning multi-thread/core support
64 Bit
Research and planning development
New Grid Product
Research and planning V1.0 development V2.0 development
Licensing
implementation implementation
implementation implementation
Part 2
Part 2
Part 2
MapInfo Professional roadmap
Can we talk about Windows XP in 2014?
• We are dropping support for Windows XP in MI Pro v12.5. (June 2014)
• Main reason - Layout window work and the performance improvements are much harder to achieve in Windows XP.
• Example: Some of the Scale Bar improvements in v12.0 took 3x as long due to the need to support Window XP. – And even with that, not everything is working correctly on XP!
• Microsoft formally ends extended support in April 2014. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/lifecycle
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Operating System Share – MI Pro Users
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Follow up question for those who indicated they use Windows XP:
Will your organisation continue to run MI Pro on Windows XP beyond June 2014?
What Operating System do you use MI Pro with?
31%
8%
9% don't know
We would be happy to help.
Do You Have
Any Questions?
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