A walk-through of some of the capabilities of MapInfo Pro v2019. The presentation lists use cases and gives specific examples of usage.

1. Be Location Intelligent
with MapInfo Pro
September 2020

2. Goals for this presentation
• Offer a basic overview of the
Precisely MapInfo Pro Desktop
Mapping and GIS capabilities to an
individual who may not be familiar
with MapInfo Pro.
• Offer some examples of how these
capabilities might be used.

3. Agenda / Main Topics
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• What is MapInfo Pro
• Ten ways to use MapInfo Pro
• Key capabilities
• The Basics
• Getting data into MapInfo Pro and on to a map.
• Creating and editing data & maps
• Visualizing and analyzing data
• Presentation and output
• News, wrap-up, Q & A

4. Precisely MapInfo Pro
• A desktop mapping application which provides
comprehensive Location Intelligence capabilities
• Base map creation and editing
• Visualization and analysis
• Output and sharing in all forms
• Integrated with Precisely Location Intelligence Suite
• Easy to learn and use
• Available in 16 languages
• Used in a wide variety of vertical markets and industries
• Public sector (planning, emergency response, crime analysis)
• Telecommunications (network planning and optimisation)
• Insurance (risk analysis, book analysis, underwriting analysis)
• Retail and property (site location and analysis,
targeted marketing)
• And lots more!...

5. MapInfo Pro in Action

6. Ten Ways to Use MapInfo Pro
1. Visualize truancy, anti-social behaviour and other incidents in the area of responsibility for a
local authority.
2. Analyze the signal quality data of a cell phone network with respect to reported problems,
call volumes or population served in a wireless telecommunications provider.
3. Calculate the risk exposure of a set of insurance policies in a particular area for a property
and casualty insurance company.
4. Compare potential store locations to help choose a new site for a retail store operation.
5. Plan and organise responses to accidents, disasters and other emergencies in a local,
regional or national government agency.

7. Ten Ways to Use MapInfo Pro
6. Plan and optimise the use of the network of water pipes, electrical wires or telephone lines in
a utility.
7. Analyze crime patterns and trends in a police force.
8. Find correlations and causes for health related problems and issues in a health service.
9. Plan new road layouts, traffic plans and property developments in a town planning
department or engineering consultancy.
10. Identify and target the closest customers to my stores or service locations for a tactical
marketing campaign.

8. Key Capabilities
The Basics
Working with maps; panning,
zooming, and layering
Getting data into MapInfo Pro
and on to a map
Using your own and third-party
data on the maps!
Creating and editing maps
MapInfo Pro users can create and update map
information for their organisation.
Visualizing and analyzing data
MapInfo Pro can be applied to help
solve business problems!
Presentation and output
Printing and plotting maps,
preparing maps for publication
and more!

9. The Basics
• Maps are composed of multiple layers of information.
• Each layer is a different set of data and can come from
a different original source.
• Map layers can be tied to information from databases,
spreadsheets and other sources of information.
• Maps are interactive
• Support for panning and zooming through multiple tools.
• The detail on the map can change with the zoom level.
• Simple analysis is possible on screen
• Interrogating values and simple interactive querying.

10. Base Maps – Bing Aerial and Hybrid
• MapInfo Pro includes access to the Bing Aerial and Bing Hybrid map services.
• Please note that continued access is dependent upon keeping your licenses on maintenance.
Bing Hybrid Bing Aerial

11. Base Maps – Premium Service Option
• Includes the Bing Roads layer
• A handy “move map to” feature – quickly zoom your map to any address or place name in the Bing gazetteer.
Bing Roads
Move Map To ►

12. Base Maps – Precisely Maps
Precisely Bronze
Precisely Steel
Precisely Iron
• Access requires a (free) account for the Precisely APIs

13. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• Common PC data file formats
• Database systems (ODBC, etc.)
• Direct open of common spatial data formats
• Importing and Exporting data with the MapInfo Universal Translator
• Grid and Raster Imagery
• Data from Tile Servers (TMS) such as Microsoft Bing, OSM, and
Precisely Maps
• Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS)
• Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)
• Catalogue Services Web (CSW) Metadata Catalogues
• Digitising
• Third party translators
• Unicode Support
Summary Slide

14. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• Access database (.MDB and .ACCDB)
• Excel spreadsheet (.XLS and .XLSX)
• Delimited ASCII text (.TXT)
• Comma separated value (.CSV)
• ESRI Shape file (.SHP)
• dBase (.DBF)
• Lotus spreadsheet (.WK*)
• OGC GeoPackage (.GPKG)
• MapInfo Native and MapInfo Extended Native (.TAB/.DAT)
These formats can be opened directly, no conversion or translation is required.
Common personal computer data formats

15. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• MapInfo Pro can work with databases supporting Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
• Oracle support includes
• Built in support for Oracle Spatial capabilities
• Built in support for Oracle Workspaces (Version control and data workflows)
• SQL Server support includes the SQL Server spatial capabilities.
• PostgreSQL and PostGIS
• An open source database
• PostGIS provides spatial capabilities
• SQLite
• Open source database with spatial capabilities
• OGC GeoPackage
RDBMS Connectivity

16. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• EasyLoader provides bulk data upload capabilities into
database systems.
• Attribute data and spatial data
• Is a standalone utility provided with MapInfo Pro and
available for download from our Web site
Database Connectivity – EasyLoader

17. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• MapInfo Pro includes the FME Quick translator which provides access to several
common spatial data formats
• AutoCad DWG and DXF
• ESRI Arc/Info export, GeoDatabase and ArcSDE
• GML (Geography Markup Language)
• Google KML
• Microstation Design (DGN)
• Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
• Vector Product Format (VPF).
• The included FME Quick translator is provided through our partnership with Safe
Software. Customers with full versions of Safe Software products (FME) will have access
to all the data formats available.
• Over 325 data formats (and growing!)
Direct Open / Import / Export

18. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• For using aerial photos and scanned maps
• MapInfo Pro supports a wide range of popular raster image formats:
• BIL, SID, GEN, NTF, ECW, URL, TIF, GRC, BMP, GIF, TGA, JPG, PCX, JP2, J2K, PNG, PSD,
WMF, EMF. ASRP
• Support for GeoTiff and World Tiff files.
• These are image files with coordinates
• Intuitive image registration process for when it is necessary to manually register images.
• Background mapping - Microsoft Bing Maps and Precisely Maps supported
• Add to your map with just one click!
• MapInfo Pro Advanced add-on provides comprehensive raster GIS capabilities.
Supported Raster Imagery Data formats
Bing aerial map of Heathrow Airport >>

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Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• MapInfo Pro can also open the following grid data formats natively:
• Multi-Resolution Raster (MRR)
• Vertical Mapper Grid
• GeoTiff Image
• Band Interleaved (BIL)
• ERMapper ERS Grid
• ESRI ASCII and Float Grid
• Surfer Binary and ASCII Grid
• Encom Float Grid
• Erdas Imagine (.img)
Supported Raster Grid Data formats
• ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
• First Generation USGS DOQ
• New Labelled USGS DOQ
• Military Elevation Data (.dt0, dt1, dt2)
• DTED (levels 0-2)
• GTOPO30
• ESRI Grid ( .adf, .flt, .txt, .asc )
• MapInfo native grid format (.mig)

20. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• MapInfo Pro can connect to and use data from Web Map Servers (WMS)
and Web Map Tile Servers (WMTS).
• These are open standards for serving raster map images to client
applications.
• MapInfo Pro can connect to and use data from Web Feature Servers (WFS)
• WFS is an open standard for serving vector data to client applications.
• Data published from our developer tool and server products, MapXtreme
for Windows and Spectrum Spatial, is also supported.
WMS, WMTS and WFS Connectivity
WMTS examples
Geoscience Australia PDOK Netherlands US Geological Service UK Ordnance Survey Land Info New Zealand

21. Getting Data Into MapInfo Pro
• MapInfo Pro can connect to and search catalogues of
metadata that meet the OGC Catalogue Services Web
standard.
• Where available the data can be accessed and used as well.
• Establish connection to a WMS or WFS.
• Download, unzip, and open zip archives
Catalog Services Web (CSW) Metadata Catalogs

22. Getting your data on to a Map
• MapInfo Pro includes a basic geocoding capability
• You can match against any of your own tables.
• Street address geocoding is supported but this does not contain sophisticated matching
capabilities.
• Geocoding requires a set of data to match against. There are no built in gazetteers or
address dictionaries.
• MapInfo Pro v16.0 and later provides every user with access to online geocoding
using the Precisely Developer API.
• Two levels of accuracy (1) street/rooftop or (2) postal/city level.
• Each user receives a monthly allocation of credits while on maintenance.
Geocoding Capabilities in MapInfo Pro

23. Getting Data on to a Map
• Data that includes coordinates, such as can be collected with a GPS (Global
Positioning System) can be mapped very easily in MapInfo Pro.
• MapInfo Pro supports hundreds of different coordinate systems.
GPS data / coordinates
An example of data points that were collected by GPS ►

24. Drawing and Editing
• Comprehensive drawing and editing tools
• Point, line, polyline, region, text, arc, rectangle, ellipse and more.
• Easy to use CAD like tools for creating precise data.
• Combine, erase, split, buffer, convex hull, enclose and overlay functionality
• For regions, lines and polyline objects.
• Object checking and cleaning capabilities
• Find and fix duplicate nodes, self-intersections, gaps and overlaps.
Create your own map data

25. Visualization and Analysis
• MapInfo Pro offers robust thematic mapping capabilities
Thematic Mapping
3D Prism map

26. Visualization and Analysis
• Create your thematic and modify it via capabilities on the Theme tab
• You can switch the column used or the color palette
• For Ranged Themes, you can also change the Calculation Method
• Turn individual bins on and off via the Explorer Window
Interactive Thematics
 Below: Visualizing Traffic using the Precisely StreetPro Traffic dataset.

27. Visualization and Analysis
• Powerful and flexible capabilities for analysing subsets of data
• When a data set is very large it is possible to use just a portion of it.
• Filter data to meet a specific condition.
• Summarise data
• View customers, stores, geographic areas, roads or any other data that meet certain criteria. For example…
• The top spending customers
• All cableswirespipesetc of a particular capacity or type
• Geographic areas with the most people aged 55 to 75
• Sort and rank data by highest/lowest values.
• Easy to use capabilities to find particular locations on your map.
• Search by any column in any set of data.
• Search using the location to find locations intersecting or nearby.
Querying and Searching

28. Visualization and Analysis
• Robust map based selecting tools
• Choose data from the map window
• Individual, within rectangle, circle, map region, bespoke region and invert
selection
• A Find capability to quickly search for an individual person, place or thing.
Can be done with any of your data.
• Robust SQL language
• Filtering
• Joining (multiple tables possible),
• Aggregation and grouping (multiple columns, alphanumerical and spatial)
• Formatting (rounding, currency signs, etc)
• Deriving new info from existing info
• Sorting (nested sorting)
• Sub-selects
Querying and Searching

29. Visualization and Analysis
• SQL Dropdown
• Access to all capabilities around SQL
• SQL Select
• Simple Select
• Select By Location
• SQL Window
• Update Column
• Close Queries
• Quick access to running or viewing
• your favorite scripts
• the most recent used scripts
Querying and Searching

30. • SQL Window
• Support for building simple and advanced SQL statements; Select, Update, Delete & Insert
• Support for building MapBasic and Python scripts
• Dropdowns for quick access to tables, columns, functions, aggregates and unique values
• Syntax highligtning and IntelliSense
Visualization and Analysis
Querying and Searching
 Below: Visual result a query finding addresses within 100 meters of a highway.

31. Visualization and Analysis: Buffering
• Points, lines and regions can be buffered
• Buffer radii based on column expression
• Used for proximity analysis.
• Examples:
• Points near a store location.
• Proximity to a fibre optic cable.
• A buffer zone around a protected wildlife area.
Proximity analysis
 A buffering example with 1, 2 and 3 mile circles.

32. Visualization and Analysis: Buffering
Proximity analysis
Buffer of 1000 meters around an airport An “inside” buffer zone that visualizes 200
meters from the border of an airport.

33. Visualization and Analysis
• For territory creation based on underlying data
• Goal can be to size territories to a specific value or to try to distribute an attribute
equally.
• Can interactively monitor sums and percentages of numeric data values from the
table.
• Up to 1600 territories (Districts).
Territory building with the Redistricter
An example of using the Redistricter with MapInfo
Postmap postal boundaries. © Collins Bartholomew ►

34. Visualization and Analysis
Distance Calculator
 Points are associated to the closest water feature.
 Below: Points are associated to the nearest land
feature.
• Calculate distances between different sets
of data.
• Closest or farthest

35. Visualization and Analysis
• Visualize the density of events, people or other elements using MapInfo Pro
• MapInfo Pro Advanced gives you more control over the heatmap calculation
Heat Mapping
 The four simple heatmap types

36. Visualization and Analysis
Connect related objects to each other
• Stores and customers
• Origins and destinations
• Patients and hospitals
Visualize data associations with the Spidergraph tool
• Theft and recovery locations.
• Students and schools.
• Hospitals and patients

37. Visualization and Analysis
Visualization and analysis of time-based data
MapInfo data format includes Time and DateTime field types.
Time and DateTime data is automatically recognised from MS
Excel, Access and database systems.
Example applications:
• Crime analysis/public safety - crime incident analysis
• Traffic incident analysis
• Emergency vehicle response time analysis
• Wireless telecommunications
• Asset management - network uptime / downtime

38. Visualization and Analysis
• Hotlink capability allows for automatic access to files, data
and applications directly from MapInfo maps and Browser
windows.
Connect to other data, files, web links and applications via Hotlinks

39. Presentation and Output
• Page layout and printing capabilities (Layout Designer Window)
• Single or multiple page layouts
• Standard paper sizes supported worldwide.
• Custom paper sizes
• Layout Templates for easily producing output to consistent standards.
• Page and map annotations
• Scale bars
• North arrows
• Scaled map overviews
• Bespoke text annotations
• SmartText for dynamic texts
• PDF Output
• Flat, Layered, Geo-registered
Printing and Plotting

40. Presentation Output
• Quick publishing to PDF
• Choice of creating a standard PDF, layered PDF, or
geo-registered PDF
• Attribute data from the MapInfo tables can be
included.
• Benefit: Provide interactive maps to others
Publish to PDF

41. Presentation and Output
• Automatic map labelling
• Map features automatically labelled – includes many user controllable options
• Smart label placement
• Layer expressions from table data
• Custom labels
• Click, drag and edit any label
• Label edits can be saved
• Simple bespoke text annotation
Annotation and Labeling
Map data is StreetPro UK © TomTom BV ►

42. Presentation and Output
• MapInfo ProViewer
• Free viewer for share your results with others in your organisation. Included in MapInfo Pro installer
• Open Tables and Workspaces.
• MapInfo Pro can save images into a wide variety of commonly used graphic file
formats.
.BMP, .WMF, .EMF, .JPG, .JP2, .TIF, .TIFF CMYK, .PSD, .PNG, TIFF CCITT Group 4, TIFF LZW, .GIF, GeoTiff.
Postal office coverage in France. Data from LaPoste ►
MapInfo ProViewer and Saving Output in graphic file formats

43. Customising MapInfo Pro
• Programming language for customising MapInfo Pro.
• Automate repetitive tasks
• Create new functionality
• Develop complete solutions
• Easy to learn for non-programmers.
• Integrated with .NET and Python
• Call .Net assemblies from a MapBasic app
• Control MapInfo Pro from a .NET application
• Create scripts and applications using Python
• Active user community and publicly shared resources.
• Free utilities and code samples.
• MapInfo Marketplace integrated into MapInfo Pro
• MapBasic is a free download from our Web site.
The MapBasic Development Environment
The MapInfo Marketplace

44. Support for Python
• MapInfo Pro comes with Python 3.7 and a number of the most common
Python libraries such as GDAL, Pandas, SciPy, and more
• You can use Python in multiple ways in MapInfo
• Write and execute Python scripts via the Python
console
• Write and execute Python scripts via the SQL
window
• Load and execute Python files (.py) as add-ins
• Python gives you access to looping and
branching via scripts in the Python console
and the SQL window which can't be done
with MapBasic scripts
• With Python you get access to an object
model for tables, maps, layers, and thematic
maps

45. Get on the Grid with MapInfo Pro Advanced!
• Next generation raster grid creation, visualization and analysis tool.
• Details available in a separate slide deck.
Contouring Hotspot mapping Grid calculator Viewshed
Multi-spectral analysis

46. • All MapInfo Pro users have access to the following highlighted capabilities on the Raster
tab. MapInfo ProViewer also grants you access to some of these capabilities.
• Open, Copy, Delete and Rename raster files.
• Get information and statistics about raster files.
• Use the Cell Value tool to click and capture data values from the raster grids.
• Change the colors and styles of the raster files.
• Convert (individual) raster files from one format to another.
Raster capabilities for all MapInfo Pro users
MapInfo Pro Advanced

47. The Knowledge Community
• Have questions? Want more information? Check out our online community!

48. THANK YOU!