Workshop150603 MapInfo Pro v12.5 presentation v4
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This document summarizes new features and enhancements in MapInfo Professional v12.5, including a redesigned layout designer for easier map creation and printing, performance improvements from using multiple CPU cores and 64-bit processing, and a new ribbon user interface. Benchmark tests showed buffering and splitting geospatial data was up to twice as fast in v12.5 compared to earlier versions. The updated software is aimed at making mapping and GIS work faster, stronger and better.
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- 1. 1 Transforming GIS: Changing the Way you Map the World Introducing MapInfo Professional v12.5
- 3. 3 MapInfo Professional v12.5 schedule
- 4. 44 Cartographic output Ability to work directly with a map in a layout. An all new Layout Designer to make creating layouts easier. Performance improvements Use of multiple cores for object processing improvements OS - 64 bit Full 64-bit application User experience upgrades Redesigned user interface with ribbons (64 bit) New Grid Engine New format and high performing grid engine. (64-bit). Targeted for Q1 2015 MapInfo Professional v12.5 Themes
- 5. 5 New Layout Designer Grids and Guidelines Auto-wrapping text boxes 32 bit – easy access toolbar (as shown) 64 bit – dedicated ribbon Prepare maps for printing quicker and easier than ever before
- 6. 6 Layout Designer – Grids and Guidelines
- 7. 7 Layout Designer – Active Maps Work directly with your map windows without leaving the Layout page! Pan and Zoom Adjust layers Modify labels Set the scale Prepare maps for printing more quickly and easily than ever before.
- 8. 8 Layout Designer – Active Browser Work directly with Browser windows without leaving the Layout page! Sort and filter Add / remove / rearrange columns Change the font
- 9. 9 New Layout Designer – Image support Easily use images on your Layout windows
- 10. 10 Performance comparisons Dell Latitude D630, 2 CPU-2Ghz, 4 GB RAM Dell Latitude E6420, 8 CPU-2.2Ghz, 8 GB RAM Windows XP (32 bit) Windows 7 (64 bit) Version 12.0.3 Version 12.0.3 Version 12.5 alpha build 6404 Buffer 1,735,272 points. 1 mile radius. 100 smoothness. One buffer of all objects. Cosmetic layer. 1091 seconds 844 seconds 760 seconds Buffer US Highways. 20 km radius. 500 smoothness. One buffer for each object. Cosmetic layer. 130 seconds 113 seconds 57 seconds Split 58 boundaries with a table of 3221 boundaries 254 seconds 207 seconds 82 seconds Split 58 boundaries with 30,458 boundaries 705 seconds 557 seconds 220 seconds Up to 2 GB RAM used / single CPU Up to 4 GB RAM used / single CPU Multiple CPU's (multi-threaded!)
- 11. 11 Easier to learn – easier to use! New User Interface Brand New Ribbon UI Window Management: Tabbed, Docking, Floating Multi-Monitor Support Mini-Toolbar Workspace Explorer Labeling Styles & Label Preview
- 12. 12 Mini Toolbars Common map functions are readily available on a new floating toolbar. Right click in the map
- 14. 14 Label Properties and Preview One click label changes! See "live" previews of label changes
- 17. 17 Keep in touch! Learn more! Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/mapinfo http://www.twitter.com/datamapeurope Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/mapinfo https://www.linkedin.com/company/datamap-europe-ltd
- 19. 19 Community site for tools and utilities http://communitydownloads.pbinsight.com Download MapBasic and other tools and utilities. Direct link from MapInfo Professional! 19
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Editor's Notes
- This is a monumental year for MI Pro. For the first time ever, we will have 2 releases – a 32-bit version at the end of this month and a true 64-bit version later in the year. This year will see an unprecedented leap forward for MapInfo Professional with a renewed emphasis on making it the best GIS product for our customers. We heard from many of our customers through conversations, user workshops, surveys and our Ideas web site. You told us what you want and we listened We have increased the size of the R&D team significantly so we could address some key requirements of our users, one most popular requested item was for a 64-bit version that will take advantage of the hardware you’re using. Let’s take a look at what’s in each release.
- We think this is the biggest release we’ve ever done. These are the five major work areas. (We have some additional improvements, but these are the "big rocks"). When we survey our customers the two general areas that consistently come up as the most important to improve are how maps are printed and shared (cartographic output capabilities) and overall performance. To help our customers produce better looking output and to do it with less work, we have added an all-new Legend designer to MapInfo Professional. It is easier to use and provides capabilities to produce nicer map layouts for printing than ever before. Another major work area has been to make MapInfo Professional support multiple processor cores for object processing. In addition, the 64 bit version provides additional performance boosts due to its ability to better utilise the available memory in your computer. The 64 bit version will come with an entirely new ribbon-based user interface. The new UI is much more intuitive and provides the ability to make many common operations easier to accomplish. This will be available October 2014. There will be 2 releases this year – 32-bit and 64-bit Colouring – yellow means the things that are in both releases The blue are only in 64-bit release The last major work area listed on this slide is the New Grid Engine we are working on. We are not going to spend a lot of time on this in this presentation but this is another major investment that Pitney Bowes is making in our GIS technology. We are creating a new grid format and a new 64-bit grid engine for raster grid applications. MapInfo Professional will support the new grid format and provide basic viewing and querying capabilities. We will build an add-on solution for grid based visualisation and analysis. The first version is expected later this year. We'll share more details on this in separate communications.
- You have told us for a while now that producing high quality output is a high priority item. We started addressing output capabilities a few years ago. We added a new legend designer in v12 to allow you to create good looking legends easier than before. With capabilities like snapping to a grid, and aligning one or more items in the layout to a guideline, means you don’t have to spend as much time trying to get your legends to align and look professional. Another area we have always had a lot of feedback on is around labelling. Many of our users create lots of output and the key ingredient to producing great looking output is having good labels. That’s why in v12.0 last year, we rebuilt the labelling capabilities to allow you to create great looking labels automatically with much less time spent manually manipulating your labels. Feedback from some users is that it has saved them several hours a week. So that’s legend and labelling capabilities covered. The main thing left to do was improving the layout window. In 12.5, we have an all new Layout designer to make it easier than ever before to create great looking layouts. We’ve deployed the same grid and guidelines capability from the legend designer along with several other improvements to make generating layouts more efficient than ever before. Things like auto-wrapping text boxes and an easy access toolbar in the 32-bit version and a dedicated ribbon in the 64-bit version, for improved usability. The new layout designer will be in both versions.
- As mentioned earlier, as with the legend designer, the new layout designer will allow you to snap items to a grid automatically when they are added, to ensure a neat looking layout. You can also add vertical and horizontal guidelines and align one or more objects to a guideline to ensure they all line up. You can even set the spacings of the grid to snap to.
- Perhaps the best part of the new layout designer is that the map is interactive! That means you can interact directly within the map inside the layout window, rather than having to switch back and forth between the map and the layout. You can zoom and pan, turn layers on and off, reorder layers, turn thematics on and off, change style override, change labels. Basically anything you can do in a map window normally, you can do directly inside the layout window now. This once again, makes it even more efficient than ever before to create your layouts. We understand that you’re under pressure to do more with less, so we’re making life a little easier for you.
- Similarly, you can also interact directly with the browser window inside the layout. You can sort, filter, change font, etc, directly inside the browser. Basically everything you can do in the browser window you can now do directly within the layout window. No more switching back and forth. The interactive map and browser windows are in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
- It’s even easier now to add images to your layout window. You don’t need to open the image file first. You can simply click on a button in the Easy Access Toolbar to load an image file. This means improved usability and few clicks to get your images into the layout. You can also add transparent logos and icons onto the map, as you can see with the airport symbols on top of the map and to further demonstrate, I added another transparent airport logo in the top left corner of the map. These icons could represent a company logo, or north arrow or just a symbol on the map.
- These are informal tests run by me (Tom Probert) on my own laptops, not "laboratory quality". In some ways this might make the tests better as my computer would have been doing other things during the test and as such, more indicative of "real world" performance. The tests done on the 64 bit machine (the two right hand columns) were all run 3 times with the average time taken. Most of the times were pretty consistent.
- Now let’s look at what’s coming in the 64-bit version later in the year. In addition to the layout designer and object processing improvements mentioned already, there will be several other significant areas of improvement in the 64-bit version. Firstly, there is a completely redesigned user interface which utilises a ribbon toolbar, that is used in many other applications you would be familiar with, such as the Microsoft Office applications.
- Quick access to commonly used functions Disappears when you click a tool Right click to bring it back Right click brings up mini toolbar and right click menu Not customisable
- Right click on the tabs Can add tab groups Can drag a map from one tab to another
- All label settings on one tab
- New site for the MapInfo community to share tools and utilities. Tom will show this later.
- MapBasic update Roadmap Dropping XP support How long will the 32-bit version be supported? Licensing improvements Dropping Crystal Reports