2 Day Course Outline ($795.00)
Displaying Your Data
Opening tables, viewing the data in a Map window, Browser window and Graph window; saving a workspace.
Developing Map Window Skills
Changing the zoom level, using the Grabber, Zoom in, and Zoom out tools, using menu commands to change the Map window view.
Mapping in Layers
Using MapInfo's layer control features. Adding and removing layers from a Map window, reordering layers, setting display options, using the info tool, cloning and clipping map windows.Opening Data Files in MapInfo
Opening an Access table, opening a spreadsheet file, opening a delimited ASCII file. Working with the browser window.
Selecting Records
Using the select, marquee select, radius select, and boundary select tools. Selecting via a query, saving selections, deselecting map objects.
Finding
Using the Find command, respecifying a search, finding an intersection.
Geocoding
Assigning point locations to your data, geocoding to street address, geocoding to ZIP Codes. Selecting un-geocoded records, creating points.
Creating Points
Using the Create Points command. Understanding latitude and longitude coordinates.
Creating Thematic Maps
Shading points and boundaries. Shading a table based on information from a different table, editing a legend, understanding thematic layers. Managing thematic templates.
Labeling
Interactive labeling, label settings, editing and saving layers, typing your own labels, saving the cosmetic layer.
Using The Layout Window
Printing your maps. Using the layout window to create output. Working with frames objects in the Layout. Create a cartographic legend.
Creating Output: Using OLE
Using the Clipboard to paste a map into another application. Create a clipped region.
Buffering
Buffering around point objects. Searching for objects within the buffer using the boundary select tool and saving the results.

Intermediate MapInfo Professional

1 Day Course Outline ($495.00).
Intermediate Thematic Mapping
Creating Pie Chart Maps, proper use of Dot Density maps, shading on an expression. Shading one table with information from another table (joining). Effective color choice; dealing with zero values and other advice on creating cartographically sound thematic maps.
Introduction to SQL Select
Explanation of SQL; Filtering data, deriving and formatting information. Aggregating, summarizing, and sorting information. Joining tables including performing a geographic join. Saving queries.
Update Column
String parsing and functions, extracting characters from a column, updating queries. Updating one table with information from another (performing a one column outer join).
Redistricting
Understanding redistricting and the Districts Browser. Assigning map objects to a district. Modifying table structure, creating districts from scratch.
Object Creating and Editing
Create a new table and map. The Drawing ButtonPad. Use the Snap feature, reshaping map objects. Use Autotrace. Combine objects together, erase portion of an object, split an object into two or more pieces. Pack a table.
Registering Raster Images
Registering raster images in MapInfo, setting control points, adjusting display settings, using Raster Images, the limitations of raster images, displaying an unregistered image (i.e. company logo).

 Advanced MapInfo Professional

1 Day Course Outline ($495.00)
Advanced Thematic Mapping
Creating bivariate thematic maps, (for example a map where the color of the symbol represents one variable and the shape of the symbol another variable). Creating inflection point maps, (using two sets of colors in a map at once to represent a dividing point in your data. For example a map where red indicates a loss and green indicates a profit.) Shading regions twice using "see through" patterns. Create grid thematic maps.
Advanced SQL Select
Geographic querying, (using geographic operators and functions). Calculating the length of streets, calculating distances, determining which object a point is closest to, creating circles and using other MapBasic functions in SQL. Using Sub-selects.
Using Seamless Map Sheets
How to combine several tables into a single virtual table, seamless map sheets explained. Benefits of using Seamless Map Sheets. How to create a Seamless table, how use a Seamless table.
MapBasic Tricks for MapInfo
Use the MapBasic window to record and execute MapBasic commands. Alter MapInfoís standard interface (menu items, ButtonPads) using the MapInfo.mnu file. Edit workspaces.
How to save a series of commands (a "script"), store it and re-use it. Some helpful commands that are only available in the MapBasic window.
ODBC Basic for MapInfo Professional
Install ODBC support and drivers. Download an ODBC table, create a MapInfo Map Catalog. Make an ODBC table mappable. Save changes to a remote table.
Importing .Map Files
Use the MapInfo Universal Translator to import and export the various different types of map files in the industry: AutoCAD, ESRI Shape, and Intergraph/Microstation Design files. Create a MapInfo Interchange file. Use MapInfoís Table > Import command to import a Drawing Export Format (.DXF) file from a CAD package.

Introduction to MapBasic Development Environment

2 Day Course Outline ($795.00).
Introduction & MapBasic Fundamentals
What is MapBasic? Three uses for MapBasic. The structure of a MapBasic program. Variable declarations, global definitions and declarations, sub procedures, operators, flow control, branching, loops.
Lesson 1: Dialog Boxes
Types of controls in dialogs, positioning controls, placing control values into variables, reading the values of controls, altering controls, calling sub procedures with controls.
Lesson 2: Working with Menus
Menu fundamentals, altering existing menus, creating new menus and menu commands.
Lesson 3: Working with ButtonPads
Types of buttons, creating a ButtonPad, modifying a ButtonPad, using a button to call a sub procedure, enabling/disabling buttons, the toolhandler special event sub-procedure.
Lesson 4: Thematic Mapping
Creating thematic maps with MapBasic, the shade statement, using arrays to store range values and style values.
Lesson 5 Obtaining System Information
Using functions to find out information about the MapInfo system environment.
Lesson 6 Creating and Manipulating Objects
Object variables, object functions, creating tables, creating a buffer, querying objects in tables.
Lesson 7: Using an Animation Layer
An example on how to use MapInfo's animation layer for quickly updating point location display.
Lesson 8: System Event Handlers
Definition of a system event and an event handler. Event handler procedures, using the CommandInfo( ) function.
Lesson 9: External Function Calls
Declaring and calling dynamic link libraries (DLLs)
Lesson 10: Dynamic Data Exchange
Overview of DDE Conversations, how MapBasic acts as a DDE Client, how MapInfo acts as a DDE Server. DDE example with a spreadsheet program

Introduction to Geocoding with MapMarker

1/2 Day Course Outline ($295.00)
What is MapMarker?
Basics about geocoding. Basics about MapMarker and its components. An introduction to the geocoding process. Installation and licensing issues.
Using MapMarker
How to prepare a data file for geocoding. Your first geocoding pass through your data. What to do when MapMarker cannot geocode a record (how to geocode interactively). Strategies for geocoding. Geocoding accuracy versus high hit rates Effects of selecting different geocoding options. What result codes are and how to interpret them. Displaying a geocoded table in MapInfo Professional.
MapMarker Utilities
Learn to use the MapBasic add-on utilities that ship with MapMarker. Use MakeAddress to create your own custom address dictionary, FindAddress to find an address using MapMarker, and EasyMarker to geocode automatically. Setting MapMarker system options.

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