KEY NEW FEATURES OF PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 4.0 – RELEASED DECEMBER 1995

32-bit processing and Windows and Office 95
Shortcuts and ToolTips to improve your productivity
New Layer Control to manipulate several layers simultaneously
Autoscrolling to select, edit and create objects larger than your map window
Autotracing to quickly trace the nodes of an existing object
Map Clipping to focus in on just the area of interest
Drag and drop support of maps to other applications
Hundreds of updated data sets
Built-in read/write capabilities to databases through ODBC

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 4.1 – RELEASED DECEMBER 1996

Native access to Microsoft Access databases to quickly open and save tables
Spatial database queries that allow your server to process data
Direct export of maps to Adobe Photoshop

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 4.5 – RELEASED DECEMBER 1997

Save Query so you don’t have to remember SQL queries, just open and run them again
Save Thematic Templates to keep your favourite map styles on hand at all times
Universal Translator to import and export AutoCAD, Shape and Intergraph file formats
InfoTips to identify objects you are about to select or label
Enhanced line styles including better intersections and more line choices
Improved Tool Manager to better access and manage MapBasic utilities

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 5.0 – RELEASED DECEMBER 1998

Continuous Thematic Shading that interpolate data values between points and continuously shade your maps
Crystal Reports integrated report writer to easily and professional create reports of your analysis
Improved legends that let you show cartographic elements and use multiple legends for one map
Better connectivity to remote databases for accessing and updating data (Live Access through ODBC)
Improved Universal Translator to support more data formats
New Utilities - Rotate Map Window utility; MapX Geoset utility; Easy Loader.

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 5.5 – RELEASED JUNE 1999

All-new business graphing and charting that includes 3D, extensive style control, and active selection
Relief shading that dramatically reveals the terrain of a continuous thematic map
Data-driven cartographic legends that automate the processing of creating detailed legend entries
Oracle8i Support
Support for new raster formats including MrSID, WMF, PNG, Photoshop 3.0
User Interface Tweaks: display length while drawing; display co-ordinates degrees, minutes, sections (DD^o MM’ SS") format; save printer settings (page orientation, etc) in workspace; select-by-drawing-polygon tool; unselect-all button; explicitly specify Spherical or Cartesian length and area calculations
New Tools – Map Wizard; Check and Set; CoordSys Bounds; DEM to Grid

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 6.0 – RELEASED JUNE 2000

Internet Support HotLinks, HTML Image Maps, MetaDataBrowser
3Dviewing Rotate, pan, zoom, query, drape, and print
Database Support Oracle 8.1.6, MS Access 2000, MS Access multi-user
Output 24-bit colour, control over colour dithering method, control over transparency handling technique, control over page size, control over defaults
Object Processing Create convex hull and enclosed area polygons. Use MS Windows support for clip regions
Geocoding Support user control of inset from ends of street and offset to side of street. Correctly interpolate along polygons
Cartographic Legend Automatically align items across frames. Support generating item labels from joined tables
Projections Fixes for polyconic projection. Support for Oblique Aspect of Azimuthal Equidistant projection. Many new datums and ellipsoids
Raster file formats ECW from ER Mapper. VMGrid from Northwood Geoscience.
Vector file formats VPF, SDTS, and AutoCAD 2000. Fix for ‘Survey Feet’ problem when importing.
Tools New Rotate Symbols and Labels tools. Improved Scale Bar and Table Manager.

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 6.5 – RELEASED JUNE 2001

Platform Support Windows 2000 certification; Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 tested; works the same as previous logo-certified versions
Remote Database Support Support for SpatialWare 4.5 on all platforms (Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle 8); support for Oracle Spatial 8.1.5, 8.1.6 and 8.1.7; improved performance
Raster / Grid Enhancements Raster and grid translucency, raster display override, direct read of DEM, DTED and GTOPO30 grid formats
3D Prism Maps Great for bivariate theme mapping; display two different variables at once
Object Processing Clean (remove self-intersections, gaps and overlaps); Snap / thin / Generalise (remove extra nodes to simplify geometry); Disaggregate (separate composite objects into separate components); performance improvements (operations like erase reduced from hours to minutes)
New Object Types Oracle Spatial and Open GIS Consortium Compliance, multi-point; collection (combination of points, polylines and polygons)
TIN-based interpolator
Invert Selection
User Interface and Usability Enhancements View Entire Layer defaults to ‘All Layers’; raster and grid zoom layering preferences; most recently used list expanded from 4 to 10 items
Tools Enhanced HTML image Map tool; enhanced scale bar; new co-ordinate extractor tool, new grid tool

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 7.0 – RELEASED JUNE 2002

Platform Support Microsoft^® Windows^® XP logo (XP Professional and XP Home support); Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000 logo certification; Microsoft^® Windows^® NT^® + SP6 and Microsoft^® Windows^® 98 – tested - works the same as previous logo certified versions
Remote Database Support X, Y (point Data) – MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Spatial (Map Objects) – Oracle, Informix, SQL Server. Significant performance improvement on SQL Server
File Types Direct read of Shape files; Import support for GML; Built in support for the following raster formats: MrSid, ECW, JPEG2000, ADRG, CADRG, CIB, ASRP and NITF
Projections Double Stereographic Projection; Austrian Projection; JGD 2000 support for Japan
Object Processing Split by line polyline; Voronoi polygons; Data Aggregation for buffer, erase and erase outside support for: points, multipoints and collections
Data Editing Rotate Objects; Move objects using arrow keys; undo nodes during polyline and polygon creation
Improved User Experience Create new table based on open table; Combine objects using column - save results in new table; Better import of Microsoft^® Excel files; Auto detection of Shape file projections during translation; Persist categories for individual value themes; File open now opens tables, workspaces and remote database tables all from one simple dialog
Publishing Save window as per user defined resolution, Updated Crystal Reports 8.5; Send live maps to MapInfo Discovery™ web server support; Send Map to MapInfo MapX^® Mobile option
Better Control Over Installation and Maintenance Support for common application data files; Smart Update menu option
ToolsNew North Arrow tool; Enhanced Co-ordinate Extractor tool

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 7.5 - RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2003

OGC Support Web mapping service (WMS) client support; import of OS (GB) GML files including style sheet support.
Remote Database Support MapInfo Professional now supports access to Oracle Spatial 9i, Oracle 9i Locator, Microsoft Access 2000 and SQL Server; SpatialWare Version 4.6 for SQL Server and Informix; reading Oracle meta data catalogue when making a table mappable.
Object Creation and Editing New CAD type tool - rotation; offsetting, large crosshairs, snap tolerance radius, trimming and extending line and polyline objects, zooming and panning whilst in editing mode.
Microsoft Excel Files Accessing the worksheet limit of 65,536 rows.
Improved User Experience Save newly created buffers and voronoi regions to a new table. Raster registration eased by selecting control points from the map window; more menu shortcuts; more projections and transformations; create points from character based fields.
Publishing Print maps to scale; improve scaling of fill patterns when printing and exporting.
Symbology Add more custom symbols, more colours within the symbol, larger file sizes and control symbol size.
Fill Patterns New geological fill patterns.
3D Viewing Higher resolution drape files.
Tools Packaged workspaces for easy distribution.
Platform Support Windows 98 SE; Windows NT (SP6); Windows 2000 (SP3); Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional (SP1).

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 7.8 - RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2004

Interoperability
OGC Features: WMS 1.1.3 Client and Get Feature info support; WFS 1.0 Web Service support.
Remote Database Support
X,Y (point Data): MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM Informix.
Spatial (Map Objects): Oracle 10G, 9iR2, 8i and locator, IBM Informix 9.4, SQL Server 2000 with SPW; Read/write of views for Oracle without being the schema owner.
Imagery and Raster: Open MrSid G3 and AirPhoto USA formats directly out of the box with MIPro v7.8.
MapXtreme 2004: Save MapInfo Professional Workspace as MapXtreme 2004 MWS format directly from MapInfo Professional.
File Export: Direct Export to CSV Format: export data from MapInfo Professional directly to an industry standard format.
Updated GPS Utility: Includes USB port support and improved documentation.

Mapping
Text Objects support 2048 characters; split line at a point; persist snap and thin values in each TAB file; draw line by distance supports DMS or decimal degrees, can create polylines and uses current map coord-sys. Line snap utility; new continuous trace mode during digitising, new MapInfo made custom symbols. New French RGF coordsys support, new projection systems added for Sweden, Denmark, Australia and Israel.

Data Analysis
Dot density thematic supports square or circle shapes of any size; support of query tables in 3D Prism maps; distance calculator to find the longest and shortest distance (straight line) between records in two tables; spider graph; synchronise map windows; search and replace feature.

Sharing Results
Support for Cartographic scale; specify field type during MS Excel import; improved default range during import; option to specify small or large legends.

New and Enhanced MapBasic
New and enhanced MapBasic statements to support the new MapInfo Professional features.

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 8.0 - RELEASED JUNE 2005

Platform Support
Windows XP logo (Professional and Home) Windows 2000, Windows NT+SP6 and Windows 98SE Certified. Support for Windows 2003 Server with Terminal Services and Citrix; support for silent and unattended installs added.

Data Access

OGC enhancements: Proxy Server support (with passwords) for OGC Web Services; Preference Options added, refresh WFS based on current window, import GML 2.1 support added; display user friendly projection names in WMS WFS dialogs; smart projection default added for WMS and WFS tables. Control image resolution to improve print quality; ability to index WFS tables adds search and fast query capability.
Data import: import DWG/DXF (Autocad 2004 format), DGN v8 format, display ASRP 1.2 imagery, open ESRI grid data binary or text formats, Open CSV files directly; Open 3D ESRI Shape files with M&Z values directly.
Database support: Oracle 10G, Oracle 10G locator, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access, IBM Informix. Spatial data support: Oracle Spatial & Locator, MS SQL and Informix via Spatialware.
Export window: added more formats to export windows option: GIF, LZW TIFF and TIFF CCITT Group 4.
Save Workspace: save workspace as (MapInfo Workspace XML Format) MWS now includes label expressions, thematic expressions and query tables.
Mapping/data editing
MapInfo geographic objects: node limit: 134 Million nodes per single polyline or polygon object. Multi-polygon object limit: 20,648,881 polygons per record. Polylines: theoretical limit for number of segments per: 24,403,223 / polyline object; Multipoint object limit:134,217,724 nodes / object.
Oracle object map verification enhanced to support object/map validation - detection of bowties and figure eights. Option to convert unsupported geometries during data upload (save as) to Oracle, Informix, and SQL Server. Improved performance when creating legends from/for a Live Table; support for Oracle Spatial Workspace Manager.
Option to save as MapInfo native to allow data editing when opening the following data files : CSV, XLS and TEXT.

User interface enhancements
File Open Dialog enhanced - clicking on a MapInfo location also updates the file format filter (WOR/TAB); Option to store default styles, Layer Control enlarged. A new layer list preference.
Longer statements in SQL Select Dialog Box from 254 characters to 1024. Improvements made to usability; set default find style added to preferences; find selection in front window only added; New find custom symbols added in custom symbol library; mouse wheel support for browser window enabled. Custom sort order for the legend items of individual value thematic maps. Option to create bi-variate layer using transparent patterns.
Multi-column alignment options for legend frames. Choice of thematic legend swatch sizes added.
Stream digitising added - auto node drop while drawing. Support for orthogonal polygons added; sync window usability enhancements; utility to count and optionally remove duplicate rows in a table added; Distance Calculator enhanced functionality - find straight line distance to nearest/farthest lines/polygons plus improved performance; workspace resolver utility added - fix workspaces that do not have the correct file path or have missing tables; new thematic templates - provide improved cartographic options for thematic mapping.

Datum enhancements
Guernsey grid co-ordinate system. Chinese Coordinate Systems. Guernsey Grid Coordinate System. Hellenic Geodetic Reference System. Baltic Projections (Lithuanian And Latvian). New Belgian co-ordinate system. New zealand Geodetic datum 2000. Additional UK national grid co-ordinate system.

MapBasic enhancements
New and enhanced MapBasic statements to support the new MapInfo Professional features.

MAPINFO PROFESSIONAL VERSION 8.5 - RELEASED JUNE 2006

Platform Support
Windows 2000. Windows XP logo (Professional and Home support). Support for installation on Windows 2003 Server, Terminal
Services and Citrix. Validation on Windows XP 64Bit in 32Bit compatibility mode. Silent install support using Microsoft Windows Installer technology
Data access
Web Services: Connectivity to MapInfo Envinsa for Street Level Geocoding (location enablement), find address and Drive Region. MapInfo Map Marker connectivity for street level Geocoding and find address. Connectivity option to: MapInfo hosted Envinsa Online Services EOLS for Geocoding, Find Address and Drive Region generation. Access to other Web Services support through MapBasic programmability. New Web Services toolbar added for quick access to capabilities. New web services interface to configure Web Services preferences include Proxy and HTTPS protocol.

Data Formats: Support added for: the latest Air-photo USA Raster format, Inter map TIFF image format, ERDAS IMG
format.
Database Support: Oracle 10G and 9iR2, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access XP, IBM Informix 9.4. Support for SQL Server 2005
Spatial Data Support: Oracle Spatial 10G and 9iR2, Oracle Locator 10G, SQL Server 2000 with MapInfo Spatial Ware v4.8.1, Informix 9.4 with MapInfo Spatial Ware 4.5.2
Save Window As: Option to save a map window image along with geographic reference information, anti-aliasing for image smoothing options added.

Mapping/Data Editing
Area Units. Save default thematic with a table. Column and expression persistence added to Browser windows. Automatically view results of query for Select and SQL Select. Ability to reproject and rotate raster and grid images on the fly. Option to smooth raster and grid files to get more info. Improved raster image registration dialog - support for cross hair and larger data view. Extended support for Vertical Mapper Grid (GRD) files - support added for: 3D visualization, Info. Maximum buffer resolution increased, Enhanced Redistricting capabilities now also include percent
values based on district totals.

Database Improvements: Use Primary Key for new table creation or when saving a remote copy. Added Primary Key auto-increment for Oracle databases. MapInfo data uploaded to remote databases is saved more precisely. Refresh DBMS Table button now refreshes all forms of ODBC connection type tables.
User Interface Enhancements: Copy and paste from Message and Statistics windows. New Toolbar buttons added for commonly used functions. Status bar expanded to show more coordinates and file names. Dialog boxes improved to show more information (Layer Control, Modify Table Structure, New Table Structure, Register raster). Auto-trace tool enhanced - more visible line when tracing. New right click menu to quickly find selection
Output and Printing: Support for anti-aliasing for labels. Removal of 28,000 pixel limitation (facilitates printing of any size maps). Better memory management for large prints. Tool included to print to PDF. Included tool to Export image or vector data to Google Earth
Datum Enhancements: New ETRS-based Coordinate Systems. New Swedish, South African, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian Coordinate Systems added.
Map Basic Enhancements:
New and enhanced MapBasic statements to support the new MapInfo Professional features.