Inside Mapinfo Professional

By Angela Whitener, Larry Daniel, Paula Loree

This comprehensive tutorial provides an overview of the basic functions and procedures of MapInfo, as well as five case studies which illustrate various MapInfo applications. Early on in the book, MapInfo's principles functionalities are presented through the development of an application from start to finish. Subsequent chapters focus on learning MapInfo components and procedures, including map display options, workspaces, queries and browsers; how to create thematic maps and graphs; how to edit graphics and attribute data; how to improve layout and print; and the benefits of geocoding, buffering, digitizing and other applications. Claritas, and data samples by Geographic Data Technology, American Digital Cartography and Claritas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566900883
• ISBN13: 9781566900881
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Onword Pr
• Length: 618 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 7.0" x 1.3"

Customer Reviews

Good Start

This is a good start into learning mapinfo and was a big part of the class I took. The book exercises are very well layed out and easy to understand.

A good introduction to MapInfo Professional for Windows.

Given the dearth of any third party book dealing with the most widespread desktop GIS application, this book provides a good starting place as a tutorial. The MapInfo manuals, though fairly clear and concise, leave out some of the nuances for using MapInfo. Windows users will be pleased by the thorough treatment the windows platform receives in this book. Mac and UNIX users can still pick up some useful tidbits. The accompanying CD, while most of the items will work on all platforms, provides Windows tables and examples, without identifying which will work with or crash Mac or UNIX platforms. Only about 27 Mb of the CD was used, while about another 600 Mb was available, the authors should have included some of the other public domain tables and utilities available at MapInfo internet sites, and should have considered including the URLs either in the book, on the CD, or point to a well maintained net site where the links could be found. Overall, a very useful manual, with a lot of good information, and some nit picky problems.