Spatial Data Processing with MapInfo Professional

MapInfo Professional (MI Pro) is the leading geographic information system software in the world today and is the fastest growing. At this time MI Pro is not only used as a tool in making decisions on natural resource management problems, but also helps in solving economic, social, population, tourism, health, criminal, and so on problems.

Most of MI Pro's capabilities are discussed in this book, including:

1. MI Pro can open and use data from other programs directly, including Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, dBASE, Lotus, and ESRI Shapefile. For graphic data input, MI Pro is equipped with a complete and comprehensive graphical object editing and editing tool.
   
2. MI Pro data can be displayed in a map window, browser window or graphic window, and with hot view technology, the same MapInfo data can be displayed in several views at once. The Seamless layer facility makes it easy to manage similar layers. The use of raster imagery as a backround data for MI Pro makes map information more interesting and more communicative. MI Pro provides spatial query facilities ranging from simple to complex SQL queries involving multiple files at once. Storing MI Pro's work environment with workspace saves you a lot of time working.
   
3. MI Pro's geographical analysis and thematic mapping can be used for spatial analysis and modeling so as to produce useful new information. Geocoding and creating point facilities can be used to map tabular data that has geographic references. MI Pro also provides table management facilities such as DBMS programs and map projection conversions.
   
4. The MI Pro layout design facility is capable of creating professional maps. The map layout can be printed directly to the printer or plotter, exported to an image format, or printed to an encapsulated postscript (EPS) file. In addition, MI Pro also includes Cristal Report for report design and tabular data printing.
   

This book is designed to be easy to understand and has been equipped with examples and practical applications. Direct training in front of a computer using the sample data included in this book on CD, is very helpful in speeding up the understanding process.