Mapinfo resources
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Documentation
Mapinfo 9 documentation:
Evaluation download
- For use on your own computer, you can download a 30-day evaluation of Mapinfo Professional from http://mapinfo.com/location/integration - choose "products & services" -> "demos & evaluations" -> "Desktop applications" -> "MapInfo Professional®" -> "Download Evaluation Version".
- Additional software utilities and examples, including one that exports Mapinfo maps to Google Earth, are available here.
Tutorials and data
Tutorial introductions and data for Mapinfo are available:
- Thanks to Dan Toomey, Cindi Jacobs's RESD tutorial for Mapinfo using Lowell data is now online here (HTML) and here (MS Word).
- The Mapinfo data files for this tutorial, plus the Word and HTML documents, are available as a ZIP file at http://gis.uml.edu/workshop/mapinfo/RESDMapinfoTutorial.zip. (3MB)
- An older version: UML CFWC Mapinfo tutorial
- Data for tutorial to be supplied
- Current MapInfo 9.0 tutorial from Pitney-Bowes (which owns MapInfo)
- From Mapinfo.com: MapInfo Professional 7.0 Tutorial -- an earlier version than our Mapinfo 9.0 but should be the same for the purposes of the tutorial.
- Data for Mapinfo.com training (28MB) is here at mapinfo.com and here at gis.uml.edu - download "mipro_training90.exe" to your desktop and double-click to unpack.
This provides data files in the following folders:
Training_Data\ Training_Data\Australia Training_Data\Australia\Brisbane Training_Data\Australia\Melbourne Training_Data\Canada Training_Data\Canada\Toronto Training_Data\Exercise_Data Training_Data\Mexico Training_Data\UK Training_Data\UK\Windsor Training_Data\US Training_Data\US\DC Training_Data\US\Illinois Training_Data\Workspaces Training_Data\World
These are not the same files as those mentioned in the Mapinfo 7.0 tutorial, but you should be able to find enough data to complete most of the exercises. Find the folder Training_Data on your desktop in the "Open" dialogue and go to the appropriately named folder. For example, "\MapInfo\data\tut_data\tut_usa" is mentioned as the location of the "States" table in the tutorial; in the current dataset, go to "Training_Data\US" to find "states". Find other files, such as "US_CUST.DBF" in the "Exercise_Data" folder. The geocoding exercise (in which you place arrows at addresses on a Washington DC street map using "Training_Data\US\DC\DCWASHS.TAB") requires a file named "Registr.dbf" which does not exist; you can use "Training_Data\Exercise_Data\Dc_cust.dbf" instead.
- I have rearranged the files from the Mapinfo 9 training data to match the file paths described in the online tutorial for Mapinfo 7, in a ZIP file available at:
- http://gis.uml.edu/workshop/mapinfo/MapInfo.zip (27MB)
- There are still some missing files but this is the best I can do.
Alex 20:40, 18 March 2008 (EDT)
