We are happy to announce the launch of version 1.5 of out MI Streetview tools. The big new feature in this tool is the ability to generate a tab file of the streetview images that you generate.
This can be automatically added to your MapInfo session as a non-earth raster
Head over to the [...]
We are happy to announce that the polygon GIS store is now open. The store is accessible via the store link at the top of the page and will allow you to purchase MI Streetview and download the application straight away. Alternatively if you want to get a quote for an enterprise [...]
We have released a new version of MI Streetview V1,2 which allows you to view Google streetview imagery in MapInfo Pro. The previous version did not always zoom to the correct location on non windows PC’s. If you experienced such a problem we are sorry and we have administered severe beatings [...]
According to James Fee MapInfo 11 will have an option for OpenStreetMap as a base layer - http://twitter.com/#!/cageyjames/statuses/79221825606914048 Keen reader will have been aware that we have provided this option already via a .tab file
For those of you who cannot wait you can grab our .tab file here http://www.polygongis.com/index.php/2011/02/05/mapinfo-10-5-and-openstreetmap-raster/
Anybody looking for free (as in free beer) screen sharing should checkout the http://www.mikogo.com/ tool, a very handy utility to have if you want to share our screen or perform remote maintenance on another
Check it out a sneak list of some of the items here - http://groups.google.com/group/mapinfo-l/browse_thread/thread/8f2712ee46df7d56
This is what the prof had to say:
If you are every looking to take the querystring variables out of a url (e.g. http://www.polygongis.com?x=2340006&y=356000 client side (think x,y coordinates for a Google Maps page) the following function will do it for you
function parseFloat( name ) { name = name.replace(/[[]/,"[").replace(/[]]/,"]"); var regexS = "[?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)"; var regex = new RegExp( regexS ); var [...]
The Proj4js library – http://trac.osgeo.org/proj4js/ – is the business when you want to have some client side coordinate conversion
Here are three simple steps to get working
1)Download the library from http://trac.osgeo.org/proj4js/
2)Include the library as part of your html page
<script src="proj4js-combined.js"></script>
3) Add the definitions for [...]
We are proud to launch our new tool today – MI StreetView.
As it’s name suggests the tool allows you to view Google Streetview from inside MapInfo Professional 9.5+. The tool is quite easy to use once loaded a new pegman icon is added to your MapInfo session. Click the tool and then click anywhere [...]

