MapInfo Professional v10.0 Features:

Summary:
MapInfo Professional v10.0 is an industry leading location intelligence desktop solution used for creating, editing, visualizing and analyzing customer and business data in the context of location.

Benefits:
• Saves time and resources with a new interface, reducing clicks, clutter, and effort
• Promotes cost efficiency through improved data access
• Supports a wide variety of data types and formats, including PostGIS and Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 databases
• Maximizes investment in Microsoft Office®
• Produces better looking maps to facilitate strategic planning efforts
• Provides easier access to proportion overlap capabilities, as well as increased performance

Overview:

MapInfo Professional v10.0, the powerful new release of Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s leading desktop mapping application, represents a new standard of usability in location intelligence solutions. MapInfo Professional v10.0 provides an assortment of dynamic new features, including a powerful user interface, enhanced data access, and robust map output capabilities.

Powerful New User Interface
MapInfo Professional v10.0’s new flexible user interface not only greatly improves efficiency and organization, but also increases productivity. The new user interface allows users to dock toolbars on all four sides of the application helping to improve efficiency, reduce screen clutter, and save time.

Redesigned Layer Control
MapInfo Professional v10.0 includes a powerful new layer control. This redesigned Layer control, shown as either a floating or docked window that remains visible during the entire mapping session, provides quick and easy access at all times. Style swatches, label conditions, and text style settings are now easily accessible and included next to each layer, allowing you to change and preview layer settings quickly and easily. By simply clicking the desired style swatch, the new style override can be set for one or more layers in a single step. The new layer property manipulation process, coupled with the immediate preview capability, results in fewer clicks and improved efficiency. The redesigned layer control not only allows access to layers in all open maps, but also allows editing to layers in multiple workspaces, simultaneously. By allowing you to view, manipulate, and preview all current map layers, MapInfo Professional v10.0 creates a substantial time savings.

Enhanced Data Access
Data access is essential to any and all analysis. By providing support for the latest industry standards and databases, MapInfo Professional v10.0 enables you to apply the power of location to an unlimited number of data types. New supported data formats include:

PostGIS—Provides full read and write capabilities to the open source PostgreSQL database. Access to the open source database allows users to access, edit, and save PostGIS files to the database through MapInfo Professional. MapInfo Professional v10.0 satisfies various government mandates requiring PostGIS format support.
 
Microsoft ® SQL Server 2008 Spatial Database—Optimizes IT investments by providing both read and write access to Microsoft’s ® SQL Server 2008 spatial database.

Microsoft ® Office 2007—Supports the new ­le format of both Microsoft ® Excel and
Microsoft ® Access.

Dynamic Map Output
MapInfo Professional v10.0 includes new dynamic elements and map output capabilities, such as a dynamic scalebar and the ability to export maps to layered PDF. The dynamic scale bar automatically adjusts and updates as you zoom, pan, and resize the map window.  Once the desired maps are created, MapInfo Professional v10.0 supports exporting maps to layered PDF format. The layered PDF format allows future access to the various layers of data. This enable specifi­c layers to be turned on or off, depending on the requirement, providing flexibility for the end user.