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 [...]
We are working on a new tool for all the MapInfo users out there…keep your eyes peeled, I think you might like it..In the meantime sit back and watch a legendary Irish guitarist.
Good news for fans of OpenLayers it looks like they are working hard on adding mobile support to the excellent web mapping api. I have looked at using some patches for openlayers to add mobile support and it worked quite well but it is great to see official support for device being added. Together with [...]
MapInfo Annual Conference hits Las Vegas…I wonder if Mike will be there
The Statistics window is a useful little tool for getting statistical information about a group of selected features. The tool is accessible via the sum icon in the main toolbar.
Clicking on the tool will bring up the statistics for the selected features. The statistics include sums and averages for all [...]
Through the access to Tile Based Service from MapInfo Pro 10.5, you can now bring in OpenStreetMap raster- http://www.openstreetmap.org – data directly into MapInfo. Users should be aware of how this data has been collected and also the license – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap -gives a very good overview.
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I have got some reports of users not able to download data using the OSM translator tool, I looked into it and identified the problem and have put up a new version of the tool. If you are getting errors like ‘Cannot download data’ please download the latest version of the tool and retry.
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James Fee reckons 2011 is the year of python…http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2011/01/03/2011-the-year-python-takes-over-gis/
Here is some classic python
OSM Translator allows you to download OpenStreetMap (OSM) data directly into popular GIS formats. Currently MapInfo .tab & ESRI .shp formats are supported.
If you are looking for the osm translator tool it is available here - http://polygongis.com/?page_id=8 – it has not been changed in the past year [...]
