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MapInfo 10.0 First News

So the first news from Version 10.0 of MapInfo Professional is coming out and I think it is really exciting. MapInfo will natively support the PostGIS Spatial Database.
For those of you not familiar with POSTGis, it is a spatial database extension for PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). It is released under a BSD-style license and is thus free software. As with many other open-source programs, PostgreSQL is not controlled by any single company, but has a global community of developers and companies to develop it.

You can think of PostgreSQL/POSTGIS combination as an open source alternative to Oracle with the Spatial Extension. You get an enterprise RDBMS solution free of charge with an excellent community that are happy to help. It is the favoured RDBMS of the open source geo community and our friends in openstreetmap recently switched their backend to POSTGis.

It is great to see MapInfo embrace the open source community long may it continue

For more information check out http://li.pbbiblogs.com/2009/04/28/mapinfo-professional-v100-support-for-postgis/

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Posted by polyadmin on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:12 PM
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Tom Probert United Kingdom

Monday, July 20, 2009 10:30 AM

Greetings,

Just a quick note to say that a 30 day evaluation of MapInfo Professional v10.0 can be downloaded from our Web site at http://www.mapinfo.com/ten.  You can use this to try MI Pro with PostGIS.

Tom Probert
EMEA Desktop Product Manager
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (formerly MapInfo)

Matt McD

Friday, September 25, 2009 5:07 PM

Guys - can anyone help

does anyone  have the code I might need to add into the MAPIFOW.PRJ file to add this KUDAMS projection system to the Mapinfo projections list?

Mapinfo does not place this projection in their standard list...

Below details my dilemma FYI:

The PRJ file (which provides Mapinfo its projections) opens in note pad, I’m struggling to source the appropriate code on the projections to add to the file.  I believe I need to following elements as highlighted in the Help:

From Mapinfo Help it states on a tabular format (which is lost in this cut and paste!):

Entering a New Coordinate System (Example)
To illustrate this process in another way, create the following coordinate system using these parameters by adding a new entry to the MAPINFOW.PRJ file:
Parameter Type   Entry   Description
Name   "Equidistant Conic Plus"   Name of the new coordinate system
Projection Type   6,   Equidistant Conic
Datum   74,   (NAD 83)
Units   7,   meters
Origin Longitude   -90.5,   9030W
Origin Latitude   30,   30N,
Standard Parallel 1   10.33333,   1020N
Standard Parallel 2   50,   50N
False Easting   10000000,   10,000,000 m
False Northing   500000   500,000 m
1.  Open MAPINFOW.PRJ in a text editor or word processor.
2.  Go to the Equidistant Conic section and add a new line.
3.  Type the name of your new coordinate system in quotes, followed by a comma.
4.  Enter the following information to represent your coordinate system:
6, 74, 7, -90.5, 30, 10.33333, 50, 10000000, 500000
5.  Save your edited MAPINFOW.PRJ file.

Sassy

Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:19 AM

like this post.
Thanks bro.
alway posting!

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