Where do we go from here

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Where do we go from here?
Felicia SemplePartner Channel Systems Engineer
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Whats New?
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MapInfo Discovery- What is it?

• Allows MapInfo Professional Users to publish
  workspaces
• to a web server which are distributed via the
  Internet or Intranet
• which End users access via a web browser
• End user product not a developer tool like
  MapXtreme
• Functionality cannot be changed
• Two Components
• Add-on to MapInfo Professional V6.5 or higher to
  publish data
• Server side Component based on MapXtreme
  technology

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MapInfo Professional v6.5
MapInfo Discovery
Web Server
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MapInfo Discovery- What is it?
From a menu in MapInfo Professional, data is
Published to a web server
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MapInfo Discovery- Server Setup

• Point to Web Server
• Username and Password

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MapInfo Discovery- Publishing Data

• Map Name
• Map Description
• Thumbnail
• Category
• Security Options

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MapInfo Discovery- Publishing Data

• Where is the data held

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MapInfo Discovery- Publishing Data

• Where is the data held
• Or specify a different directory

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MapInfo Discovery- Publishing Data

• Web Page
• HTML Text

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MapInfo Discovery- What is it?
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MapInfo Discovery- What is it?
The Map, the description, and some category
information are posted to web server and the end
user sees the following
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MapInfo Discovery- What is it?

• Accessed via a browser, the user selects the map
  of interest
• pan
• Zoom
• Info tool
• Layer Control
• Distance Tool

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MapInfo Discovery- Likely Users

• Customers who need a
• Simple way to share data within an organisation
  or externally
• Solution to the problem of pockets of information
• End-user tool (vs. developer tool) for creating
  and sharing data
• Way to leverage your current investment in data
• Your own
• Purchased data-Provided it is Properly Licensed

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MapInfo Discovery- Likely Users

• Who are they?
• Power user / Analyst that creates data
• User that needs to share information
• Where are they?
• Any organisation which needs Geographic Analysis
• Business decision maker not necessarily the
  MapInfo User
• You are probably doing it another way today
• Paper, Static Images or even Proviewer...

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Pricing and Licensing

• Software
• Priced on a CPU model
• Yet to be decided

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What the customer will require

• MapInfo Professional 6.5 or higher
• MS SQL Server 2000 or higher
• Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0
  or Higher
• Web Browser

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Next Steps

• Private Beta April
• Product Released (International English) End of
  April

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Questions?
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MapX v5.0

• Improved labelling including
• Making individual labels selectable and editable
• Ability to move labels
• Offset labelling
• Individual label positioning
• Curved labels
• Partial labelling

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MapX v5.0

• Support for Northwood Grid
• MI Pro Type Object Processing
• Snap to Point functionality
• Translucent Rasters
• JPEG 2000 Support
• Improved connectivity to SpatialWare for SQL
  Server

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MapX v5.0

• New sample applications including
• An application that demonstrates publishing a
  geoset and corresponding files to MIPro Discovery
• An application that demonstrates the use of MapX
  with MapXMobile
• Improved XML support
• Testing with latest versions of M\x Visual Studio
  and Borlands Delphi

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Next Steps

• Release scheduled Summer 2002

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Questions?

• Please also feel free to ask any questions you
  have in the Coffee Break