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MapInfo MapX

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The easiest, most cost-effective way to embed mapping functionality into new and existing applications.

MapInfo MapX® is a cost-effective, robust, ActiveX component, enabling developers to add mapping functionality to any application - quickly and easily.

Using standard languages, a streamlined object model, extensive methods and events, efficient property pages, defaults and other wizards, MapInfo MapX helps simplify application development. The result is a highly visual way to display and analyze location-based data to better serve customers, make better decisions, and manage assets and operations more effectively.

Standard Languages (Developer)
Use Visual Basic®, Visual C++, Delphi®, Powerbuilder® and Oracle® Express Objects to integrate MapInfo MapX into new and existing applications.

Data Access and Database Support (Developer)
Spatial Server Access (SSA) enables developers to connect to live data stored in enterprise spatial servers such as Oracle 8® Spatial, Informix®, IBM® DB2 and Microsoft® SQL.

In addition to supporting Oracle 8i Spatial 8.1.6 SDO_Geometry spatial data format, MapInfo MapX also supports Oracle's coordinate systems and projections. Any valid SQL query can be passed to Oracle 8i. Performance is enhanced by using Oracle Call Interface (OCI) pre-fetch methods to retrieve multiple rows per request.

MapInfo MapX supports data access for Microsoft® Access (DAO 3.6) and MapInfo SpatialWare's new platform for Microsoft® SQL Server.

ESRI Support (Developer)
Directly reads ESRI shape format.

Raster Image Support (Developer)
Use raster images to add a bitmap layer, such as aerial photographs, to maps.

True Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) (Developer)
For fast application development.

Geocoding (Developer)
Place location information (such as a customer's address, or the location of a cell tower) on a map down to the postal code centroid level. For more enhanced street level precision, MapInfo MapX fully supports MapInfo MapMarker Plus and MapMarker J Server. MapMarker is also available as an ActiveX component enabling geocoding functionality to be embedded within your applications rather than having a geocoder running separately from your application.

Standard Database Querying (Developer)
Supports queries to popular data formats used in business applications.

Support for per Record Styles (Developer)
Allows each geometry in a single layer to have its own style. For example, a single 'public institution' layer in Oracle8i Spatial can have schools, town halls, libraries and police departments and each point type is represented with its own symbol (i.e. a school symbol for all the schools). Similarly, a single road layer in SpatialWare SQL Server may have different road types such that streets are shown as a single pixel black line, secondary roads as a double pixel red line and interstates as parallel red lines.

This feature shows MapInfo's commitment to enable seamless functionality between stand-alone desktop implementations using TAB files and enterprise-wide deployments using 2 and 3-tier architectures focused on a spatially-enabled, IT-managed RDBMS.

Consequently, MapInfo MapX users will see the same results whether they use TAB files or a database. Moreover, per-record styles eliminates the workaround of having to manage multiple layers (one for each style type: i.e. one for schools, one for police departments, etc.).

Bind Data (Developer)
To Oracle Express Objects.

Object Processing and Editing (End-User)
Enables users to create, combine, buffer, intersect or erase objects like points, lines and polygons. A node editing feature allows users to edit a geometry, such as a polygon, by adding, removing or moving individual nodes.

Thematic Mapping (End-User)
Assign colors, symbols and shading to represent data values on a map. Options include range shading, individual value, dot density, pie charts and bar charts.

Find (End-User)
Any map object, such as a customer, street, postal code, state, etc. can be located and displayed.

Visual Spatial Selections (End-User)
Select data by individual points, within a given polygon, or by drawing and enclosing data within a circle or rectangle.

Map Rotation (End-User)
Specify the ability to rotate a map through 360 degrees for greater flexibility and more effective presentation of information (such as rotating the map while tracking the location of a vehicle in real time).

Export Formats (End-User)
JPG, GIF, WMF, BMP, TIF, PNG, PSD.

User Controls (End-User)
Pan, zoom, identify, distance measurements and layer controls are all included.

Maps & Data (End-User)
MapInfo MapX ships with an extensive set of data and worldwide maps including:

Operating System Requirements

Windows 95, 98, NT v4.0. At least 15MB of available disk space, not including map data.

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