MapInfo

MapInfo Professional is a Geographic Information System software (GIS ) of the U.S. company MapInfo Corporation. The program is for collecting, processing, analysis, visualization and presentation of geographic data.

File Formats

Import and export interface format is the Map Info Interchange Format (MIF / MID ). Data management in the program itself in the format TAB / DAT / ID / MAP and is referred to as a relation or tab file. Also, raster data can be read. These are geo-referenced by a TAB file that certain pixels of the image assigns coordinates.

MapBasic

As a development environment for custom applications and applications is the programming language MapBasic, a BASIC-like programming language offered. To get a customized work environment or to facilitate routine procedures can Mapinfo but also be supplemented through its interface for object-oriented languages ​​such as VB, DELPHI or C with your own applications.

MapInfo Corporation

The manufacturing companies MapInfo Corporation was founded in 1986 and is one of the major software manufacturers of geographic information systems (GIS ) worldwide. It was taken over by the office equipment manufacturer Pitney Bowes in April 2007, where it forms with its sister company, Group 1 Software, the software subsidiary Pitney Bowes Business Insight ( PBBI ).

Other MapInfo products

MapInfo Professional was and is the main product of MapInfo Corp. and today PBBI. In addition to this application and the programming language MapBasic following additional products are offered:

• MapInfo MapMarker - geocoding of address data
• MapInfo ProViewer - free viewer for viewing created with MapInfo Professional maps and tables
• MapInfo StreetPro - detailed vector map in scale 1: 10,000
• MapInfo Vertical Mapper - spatial analysis, modeling, interpolation and 3D display
• MapInfo World Info - digital world map in scale 1: 1,000,000
• MapX - integrate cartographic functions in applications.
• MapXtreme - cartographic web server