MapInfo Monthly 2025.1

The calendar now says 2025.

Unless I look at my paper calendar on my desk. Time seems to affect that paper calendar less than it affects my digital calendars.

Wouldn't it be nice if you had the option to say: "No, I wasn't done with yesterday. I'll have another go at yesterday today!"

There are days when I feel like that - for various reasons. According to the paper calendar on my desk, there have been many of those days.

Or maybe, sometimes, I just forget to tear off the page.

Latest MapInfoMonday Articles

Temporal Mapping

Louise Kavanagh is back with her second article. She takes us through temporal mapping in MapInfo Pro.

Temporal Mapping allows you to split your data by location and bring in the concept of time. This helps you to understand how things change over time.

Louise discusses:

?? requirements for the data

?? creating the initial Time Series map

?? using the Time Slider

?? formatting the Time Series pap

?? adding elements to the map

?? exporting the final map

You can learn more about temporal mapping in the article here.

Signing Up for an Account in MapInfo Pro

Did you know you can sign up for a free account in MapInfo Pro and get access to additional features?

With an account, you get access to:

?? The 3 Precisely Base Maps

?? The MapInfo Marketplace with a bunch of tools with additional capabilities

?? Geocoding via the Precisely Geocode API

?? Drive Regions via the Precisely Zones API

With an account, you get 2000 monthly credits that can be used for geocoding or creating drive regions

What are you waiting for? Create your free account now! You can read more about signing up for an account in the article here.

SQL Select Exercises in MapInfo Pro

You remember things better if you have done it.

To give you a chance to practice your #MapInfoPro skills the #MapInfoMonday articles will now and then hold exercises allowing you to train your skills.

These exercises use Open Source or sample data from the @Precisely Data Experience. In this way, you can perform the exercises using the same data in the article.

In this article, you can train these #SQL skills in MapInfo Pro:

?? Query out specific records from a dataset

?? Filter out specific columns from a dataset

?? Create a single buffer around a dataset

?? Find records that lie inside a buffer

You can find the SQL Select exercises in the article here.

Interacting with the Table List

We started the year with a technical article on integrating the functionality of your MapBasic application into the Table List in MapInfo Pro.

This question came to me from a customer via our partner CDR Group.

There are a few steps in this:

#?? 1. Add a menu item to the contextual menu of the Table List

#?? 2. Check how many tables the user has selected

#?? 3. Get the table name or ID, and act on the table.

You can find the MapBasic tips and example code in the article here.

Manually Selecting Records in the Map Window

Sometimes you have to select records from the map window manually.

MapInfo Pro comes with a wide range of selection tools such as:

?? The Select tool

?? The Radius Selection tool

?? The Boundary Selection tool

?? The Polygon Selection tool

Besides these built-in tools, I'd also like to highlight a few that come with MapBasic add-ins:

?? Select by Style from MapCAD, created by our German partner AGIS GmbH.

?? Select by Map Extent from WindowHelper

You can find all the tips on manually selecting records in the article here.

News & Updates

Precisely Geo Addressing app for Snowflake

Earlier this month, Precisely released the Geo Addressing app for Snowflake adding to our growing support for the well-known cloud data platform.

Read the LinkedIn post by Clarence Hempfield for more details.

Resources

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