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review the power of ten pitney bowes business insight s mapinfo professional 10 v10.0 this month, pitney bowes business insight launched mapinfo professional v10.0, the latest version of the company s flagship application for business mapping and analysis. designed in direct response to valued feedback from the worldwide mapinfo professional customer base, this latest, landmark upgrade offers unprecedented new capabilities and equips organisations to make better, faster and more insightful business decisions. by tom probert addition to the newly added support for postgis, version 10 builds on mapinfo professional s already impressive data access capabilities with native support for sql server 2008 spatial data and others. since this is version 10.0, pitney bowes business insight has drawn up a top ten list of the new capabilities and enhancements to help quickly identify the added advantages and business benefits which mapinfo professional v10.0 brings into play: 1. an improved layer control system mapinfo professional v10.0 s redesigned layer control system makes users far more productive compared to previous releases of the software. common operations take fewer clicks and the instant feedback it provides helps new users to learn more quickly. a major benefit of the new system is that the layer control operates as a floating, docked or slide out window, meaning the user can interact with it and see updates to the map immediately. this makes it more intuitive. for example, a new user in a local authority experimenting with the zoom layering capabilities will see the impact on the map immediately. a town planner or engineer viewing three different map windows of the same area can also work more easily in mapinfo professional v10.0. for example, the user has one map window containing aerial photography, a second containing the government supplied main mapping source and a third containing the local authority parcel boundaries. copying a layer from one of the map windows to another is as easy as dragging and dropping. changing the same layer in all three windows can also be done in one operation instead of three separate efforts. in addition, the new preview button introduced in the layer settings dialog boxes allows for multiple previews to be viewed july/august 2009 uk post codes by population density - mapinfo professional v10.0 makes it even easier for organisations to harness the relationship between data and geography to make better business decisions ver half a million users across public and commercial sector organisations use mapinfo professional to help them easily visualise and harness the critical relationship between data and geography to make better business decisions. mapinfo professional v10.0 is the latest release of this popular product and pitney bowes business insight has worked in close consultation with over 400 customers to ensure that this upgrade reflects the evolving needs of users. the end result delivers substantial improvements at all levels, but in particular in three key areas: usability, data access and cartographic output. these developments combine to deliver a marked increase in productivity for existing users and a faster learning time for new users. with an eye firmly on improved ergonomics, mapinfo professional v10.0 has been developed to deliver increased productivity and significant cost savings for local authorities, con- o sultancies and related agencies across virtually all operational and project areas. the redesigned interface means that users will get more done in less time; time savings can be measured in speed of fulfilment or simply in mouse clicks. sharing output and access to data feature heavily in the list of productivity benefits. the new layered pdf output provides an instantly accessible and very flexible way of sharing output with all the members of an extended project team, including (and especially) those who are not users of a mapping or gis system. support for postgis, a freely available open source database system, is a new cost-effective option for central data storage in mapinfo professional v10.0. this ability to access data where it lives , without the requirement for translation and maintenance of multiple versions of data, is an important factor in the productivity of all large scale projects. in 16
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