This is everything you need to know about MapInfo software in a comprehensive tutorial with data-specific case studies. The bonus CD-ROM includes sample demographic, boundary and other data from leading commercial data providers. MapInfo is a desktop mapping package that has rapidly grown to become the leader of moderately priced mapping software. MapBasic Developer's Guide is a handbook for customizing MapInfo Professional. The book begins with a tutorial on MapBasic elements, the MapBasic development environment, and program building basics.
Subsequent chapters focus on the customizing and editing of all program components.
They draw from a wide range of physical and human systems, taking approaches that vary from statistical to descriptive. Both a review of existing knowledge, techniques, and experience, and an analysis of critical research needs in the area of spatial data handling. Explaining what GIS component technology means for managers and developers, this text illustrates, through hands-on tutorials using Visual Basic and ESRI's MapObjects product, how to use GIS software components to create, display, and query geographic data. The CD-ROM includes an evaluation copy of MapObjects and tutorial code. Discusses hardware issues, data sources, land based data vs. facilities data, data quality, database design, impact of emerging technologies, and data conversion plan development.