MapInfo Professional
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| MapInfo Professional | |
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 MapInfo Professional 6.5. |
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| Developed by | MapInfo Corporation |
| Latest release | 9.0 / June 2007 |
| OS | Windows |
| Genre | GIS |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.mapinfo.com/mipro |
MapInfo Professional is a Geographic Information System software product produced by MapInfo Corporation.
MapInfo Professional has the ability to combine and display, on a single map, data from a variety of sources that are in different formats and projections. The software is capable of overlaying raster and vector layers on the same map; the former can be made semi-transparent, so that they can serve as more than mere backdrops.
MapInfo is popular both in business and the public sector, where a typical user is analyzing pre-built map data layers. The software is traditionally desktop-oriented and often compared to ESRI's ArcView 3.x product.[1]
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[edit] History
MapInfo Corporation was founded in 1986 and its first product was MapInfo for DOS. The software could be customized by using the MapCode development environment which was a C-like programming language. The DOS product was eventually discontinued and replaced by MapInfo for Windows.
In 1990 MapInfo was redesigned with an easier-to-use graphical user interface and was made available for the Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Macintosh platforms. The MapCode development environment was replaced with a new language MapBasic. Version 4 of the product, released in 1995 , saw the product renamed "MapInfo Professional".[1]
MapInfo Professional is no longer available for the UNIX and Macintosh platforms.
