MapInfo- 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 12: 13: 14: 15: 16: 17:
18: Setting Raster / l ( )
Map Projections: projection- : Q: ? A: . : Chrismas Creek and
Mount Nicholas .
Options>Preferences: Legend Window default stype ( )- Startup
Address Matching Output Settings Halftone, , ROP . Printer . Styles
. Web ServicesN/A. Settings Options>Toolbars: (toolbars )
Mapinfo Save as default tool bar- floating- .
2:
Mapinfo- Tab-Table>Maintenance>Table Structure . . . !
table ! version 300 ! charset WindowsLatin1
Type NATIVE charset WindowLatin1 Fields 4 Place_Name Char (40)
Index 1; Country Char (40); Latitude Char (20); Longitude Char (20)
Dat- spreadsheet . ( Browser window- )
Map- ( Mapper window- ) Id- Ind- . Find . Find (fields) .
Mapinfo . File>Open Table , pinfo.(*tab), Microsoft Access
Database (*.mdb), Microsoft Excel (*.xls), dBASE DBF (dbf), ESRI
(R) Shapefile (*.shp), Raster Image (most types of image ie *.bil,
*.tif, *grc, *.grd, *.alg, *.ers, *.ecw), Grid Image (*.ers, *.mig,
*.grd, *.dt0, *.dt1, *.dt2, *.dem), Delimited ASCII (*.txt), Lotus
1-2-3 (*.wkl, *.wks, *.wk3, *.wk4) *.tda, *.tdm,*.tna, *.tin, *tmp
*.mid / *.mif Mapinfo interchange format. Mapinfo- . .mid .mif , ()
. *.wor Mapinfo- . . Mapinfo Workspace- . Mapper . () . Mapinfo-
Workspace . Workspace- . Workspace- . , , . Mapinfo Workspace-
File>Open Table File>Close Table File>Close All
Map>Layer Control>Remove : Mapper Window- Workspace .
3:
(Mapper, Browsers, Layouts, Graphers)
Mapper Window . Mapper Mapper . . Mapper- File>Open table-
Window menu/ New Map Window- .
Browser Window .
Layout Window , .
Graph Window .
Full Window, Maximize, Minimize Layout Window . , .
4:
Main toolbar
- Mapper, Browser Layout /
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- Radius readout Status bar .
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Graph Window Mapper Browser Windows . . . File>Save Copy
As>Selection Window>New Map Window>Selection
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Mapper Window . Mapper . . > - . .
HotLink HotLink , .
Mapper . Mapper Map>Layer Control>Labels- .
Mapper OLE- Mapinfo, Word, PowerPoint, Corel . Mapper , . (Layer
Control ) . Mapper . .
. . . Layer Control Mapinfo
Map>Layer Control >Layer Control Checkbox icon settings- .
icon icon icon icon
Cosmetic Layer Cosmetic Layer . . , . . Cosmetic Layer Workspace
Workspace- . Display>Style Override .
Display Options- dialogue box Style Override checkbox . style .
Region Style . Pattern, foreground, background- . Background box-
pattern- see through . . Border style, .
File>Save Workspace- Workspace . Workspace- settings .
Display>Zoom Layering . Laber .
. zoom level- . . . Layer Control dialogue box icon- . Thematic
display settings- . Hotlink Hot Link
Layers>Add Mapper . Layers>Remove Mapper-aac . :
Workspace- . . Reorder>Up Reorder>Down Auto Layering Mapinfo
Raster image, Regions, Lines, Symbols, Text . Raster image- .
Regions . Lines Regions- . Symbols Lines- . Text . Cosmetic layer ,
. : Mapinfo , . .
5:
Find .
box . .ind .
Query>Find Browser Mapper . . , , , .
. . OK- Mapper . : Cosmetic Layer . Query>Find Selection
Browser Mapper . Browser find selection command Mapper . Mapper
Browser .
6:
The Browser Window
Opening a Table as a Browser- Browser Browser Window>New
Browser Window . Rearranging Browser Columns Browser . Editing Text
Data
Browser , . File>Save Table . Pick Fields Browser>Pick
Fields Browser . . . .
Browse>Options , . Tiling Windows Mapper and Browser
Window>Tile Windows . Links to Mapper . Query>Find Selection
. . Creating graphical points from a browser
Browser Mapper Table>Create Points- Mapper- .
7:
Layout Window
Layout Window , . 0- 4 . Layout Windows>New Layout Window
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Layout . . Layout .
Layout Mapper and Browser- Drawing Tool bar . , .
Contents box Fill Frame- Mapper presentation- . . Layout . , . A
layout can only be saved and reopened in a Workspace-Layout
Workspace , . Layout- . Layout , , , Workspa- . Mappers and
Browsers- . Workspace- .
8: Drawing Tools/ Object Editing
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. . - . . . Shift . Shift . Shift . Mapper Layout , .
, , browser-, , info tool, , Layout . , , -, , . Reshape , - . ,
. , ( ). , , . , , . Snap Tool S snap- . Status bar snap . Snap- .
Polyline or polygon tool snap and shift/control- olyline or
polygon- . (Auto Trace Tool ) Auto Trace Tool T Auto Trace - .
Status bar Auto Trace . Auto Trace- olyline or polygon- . CTRL .
Object Editing Object> . .
: Registering Raster Images Image- . Image- , , . Raster Images-
File>Open Table Files of Type Raster Image- . . dialogue box
image- . .
Register- .
Dialogue box image- . projection unit- . Lat/Long. + scroll bar-
image . Add , image . dialogue box .
Add , registration Pt2 . , dialogue box . Image- register .
register Error (pixels) . image register . pixel error image . OK
image Mapinfo . Image- . projection- . Adjust Image Style Image-
register Table>Raster>Adjust Image Styles image registration-
Table>Raster>Modify Image Registration . Mapinfo layer image-
registration point- . , register . 10: Querying .
Query>Select
. SQL- expression- .
Query- . OK , OK , Browser . query- Save and Load Template .
Query- SQL select- .
Query- . OK , OK , Browser . query- Save and Load Template .
Updating Columns -update . Table>Update Column .
11: Thematic Mapping Thematic Mapping Mapinfo layer- . Thematic
Mapping . . Thematic Mapping Map>Create Thematic Map .
. Character fields and textual data . Ranges, Bars, Charts, Pie
Charts, Graduated, Dot Density and Grid . Wizard .
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12: File>New Table .
Open New Mapper . ( ). New Table Structure field- projection- .
Create .
. Filename Save . . Table Maintenance : , .
Table>Maintenance>Table Structure
Field- , . Mappable box uncheck . projection- . OK , . undone .
Table>Maintenance>Delete Table Mapinfo . undone .
Table>Maintenance>Rename Table . Table>Maintenance>Pack
Table
Browser or Mapper- . compressing . 13: Mapinfo . read only .tab
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. Mapinfo DBASE DBF Delimited ASCII Lotus 1-2-3 Microsoft Excel
Raster Image- Grid Image Microsoft Access Database Shapefile
14: The Graph Window Window>New Graph Window graph wizard-
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15: Importing and Exporting Other Data Types- Table>Import
Mapinfo Interchange (mid/mif files) AutoCad DXF Mapinfo DOS not
often used OS MasterMap Table>Export Mapinfo Interchange
(mid/mif files) Delimited ASCII AutoCad DXF dBASE DBF Comma
delimeted CSV The Universal Translator Tools>Universal
Translator
Source Formats AutoCad DWG/DXF ESRI Shape ArcInfo Export (E00)
ESRI Shape Intergraph/MicroStation DGN Mapinfo TAB Spatial Data
Trasfer Standard (SDTS) Vector Product Format (VPF) Destination
Formats Mapinfo MID/MIF Mapinfo TAB ArcInfo- export (.e00) file-
ArcLink- . 16: Save Window As Workspace- . Mapinfo . : Word,
PowerPoint, Corel. File>Save Window As
. Windows Bitmap Windows Metafile Windows Enhanced Metafile JPEG
Portable Network Graphics Format Tif Photoshop Edit>Copy Map
Window
17: Tool Manager Mapinfo Mapinfo- . Tool>Tool Manager .
Description box- .
load Autoload box- Mapinfo- . Mapinfo shareware site- . .
18: Data Management . . GIS Data Storage System-Design - . / .
(: WA_Roads_Major.tab). Region, project or prospect- prefix or
suffix- . Compass data management interface- . field name and field
sizes- GIS coverage- . GIS . (: Stuctures-Examples). Theme area
(region, project, prospect) (cadastral, geological, topographic,
environment) .
GIS read only , Data administrator read/write . Data layer-
local workstation- Data Administrator GIS . Table Structure
(fields) field/attribute- metadata . Region, Project, Mapsheets,
Data Type, Title, Source, Capture Scale and Capture Date metadata-
Compass . Data Stuctures-Examples , .
Data Solutions Compass Compass Data Administrator GIS . . GIS- .
. Compass Administrator- metadata- Mapinfo . Mapinfo and Compass
Navigator Administrator- . GIS Manager Administrator- Compass
Navigator . Compass Navigator- . . metadata- .
Catalogue Search Compass Navigator- Data Category- Index map
Spatial Search- . Mapinfo Spatial Search Compass Navigator- .
Compass .
Update Catalogue Compass Administrator- Mapinfo , queries and
workspaces- , . Manage Catalogues Compass Configuration , . MappaMI
Mapinfo- spatial data . hard copy digitize digital . Mapinfo- .
digitize . . , .
region linework text string- . Linework , , , , . , . . .
Primary Processis Digitise Linework and Styles digitize Mapinfo
. MappaMI- attribution linework styles menu- . Check Linework
linework- linework . , . Extend and Break Linework MappaMI
linework- . Create Polygons linework- Linework Layer linework
layer- . ; POLY_ID-Character (4), AREA-Float, CENT_X-Float,
CENT_Y-Float.
Attribute Polygons with Text , . POLY_ID field . Symbolise
Polygons POLY_ID field attribute- . MappaMI attribute/ , , .
Ancillary Process Break Linework linework- linework- . Join
Linework . Filter Linework linework- , . Linework Connection View
Previous/Next Error Flag Check Linework . , View Previous/Next
Error Flag- . Fix Linework Linework- . ( ). Delete Error Flag .
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1: 1. Collect GPS Waypoints and Tracks (GPS- ): / . 1.1 , / 1.2
RL- . 1.3 , Mapinfo digitize . 1.4 Mapinfo . 2. Down Load points
into Mapsource (Mapsource ): 2.1.GPS- Mapinfo . 2.2.Mapsource- .
2.3. GPS- Mapsource : File>Open from GPS All>OK .
3. Edit and view GPS Data in MapSource
4. Export Data to .txt: File>Export 4.1 MapSource- . 4.2 .
4.3 _- , Mapinfo Mapinfo .
5. Go to the file location>Right Click>Open
with>Microsoft Excel. 6. Column delaminate each type of data
ready for import into MapInfo. 7. Importing Excel Files into
MapInfo (By Glen Mathews) 7.1. MapInfo Professional Excel
spreadsheet . Excel- MapInfo . 7.2. spreadsheet- MapInfo . 7.2.1.
cell range ? MapInfo Professional spreadsheet- . cell range- .
7.2.2. cell range- ? cell range- . 7.3. spreadsheet- . 7.3.1.
File>Open- . 7.3.2. Microsoft Excel . 7.3.3. . 7.3.4. Open .
7.4. spreadsheet- MapInfo . 7.4.1. Excel- Entire Worksheet- range .
7.4.2. box- . .
7.4.3. box field- . character field , Float field .
7.4.4. Spreadsheet Browse . 7.4.5. Spreadsheet- MapInfo
Professional- read-only .
