First of all, a very happy new year to all! We at PBBI hope the festive season brought merriment, cheer and a plethora of gifts. I, for one, was mightily excited to receive a MapAction T-Shirt. An essential gift for all us geo-peeps!
Anyway, enough about myself…i’m here in an attempt to prolong the festive cheer into the January gloom with the help of my 4-legged friend patch. His tail has been wagging non stop since the maintenance release of MapInfo Professional (11.0.3) in mid December and he has finally grabbed a spot (no pun intended) on the blog.
Woof!
Highlights in this release include:
- Improved sorting capabilities in Browser window
- Support for Google Enterprise Tile Server
- Read labels from a MWS workspace into MI Pro
- Write Label Overrides into a MWS
- Read/Write Translucency settings for a MWS
- New Automatic update of metadata stored in MapInfo Manager
A number of issues have also been addressed including some for the EasyLoader utility. Here is the link to download the patch from our Web site. (Customers can also click on Help > Check for Update in MapInfo Professional).
The last bullet point about updating metadata stored in MapInfo Manager automatically is noteworthy. Many of us will know only too well the pain in not only collecting, but maintaining up to date metadata. MapInfo Manager certainly helps ease the pain of metadata collection (or harvesting)..and provides a mechanism for wholesale updating of record elements if and where appropriate. Time is money! What this small MapInfo Professional update brings to the party is the ability to cater for the constant update of the datasets themselves whereby you would require certain metadata record elements updating without manual intervention (i’m thinking namely dataset update date and the bounds). A great example of our products working together to make your lives easier!
But I have delayed Patch’s update for too long! He is also keen to mention that the Discover 2011.0.3 (Build 20) maintenance release is now available, incorporating Discover 3D (a mouthful even for Patch!). This release is available for both the single Discover and Combined Discover/MapInfo Pro Bundle installations:
- Encom Discover 2011.0.3 (including Discover 3D)
- Encom Discover 2011.0.3 MapInfo Professional Bundle (including Discover 3D) – this bundle also incorporates the MapInfo Pro 11.0.3 maintenance release.
This maintenance release is a full installation, and therefore does not require Discover to be previously installed. It can be downloaded via the Downloads page of the PBBI website or the Discover>Discover Help>Check for Update menu option within Discover 2011.
For those that are unfamiliar with Discover, its broad tagline is “The GIS for Geoscience users” and is aimed at organisations that require geological, geochemical, geophysical & statistical analysis of datasets. Of broader applicability, environmental management and water authorities (or Lead Local Flood Authorities for that matter) may be interested in the Hydrology module’s ability to extract and vectorise drainage features and watershed/catchment boundaries from digital elevation models…a January thought for the day…
Happy New Year!
Peter & Patch (woof!)
Oh, have got that MIPro patch. Was half expected another one.