MapInfo Basic Tutorial

Author: Fei Lifan Yan Huiwu Li Chenyan Huo Liang
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: The MaPInfoProfessional product from the American MaPInfo Company is currently the most comprehensive, powerful, flexible, and intuitive desktop mapping information system in the world. It not only allows the scientific creation of visually stunning maps using geographic and thematic data but also possesses complex and in-depth geospatial visualization analysis capabilities. Since its introduction to China in the 1990s, this product has been widely applied in departments such as statistics, surveying, telecommunications, geology, water conservancy, urban planning, oilfield exploration, forestry, military, public security, and industry and commerce, achieving excellent application results.
This book is divided into three parts. The first part is the MapInfo Foundation, which introduces the basic usage of MapInfo in a step-by-step manner. The second part is MapBasic, which explains how to use the MapBasic language for secondary development of MaPInfo, along with detailed examples that cover MapBasic statements, functions, and how to edit, compile, link, debug, and run MapBasic applications. The third part is the Project Examples section, which first discusses the general development approach for geographic information system (GIS) projects. It then takes the development of a planning and management information system for a high-tech industrial development zone as an example to analyze the entire process of system analysis, overall system design, database design, sub-system design, software system debugging, operation, and maintenance. As an example of the integrated application of high technologies, it also introduces the design and implementation of a CPS vehicle tracking system, including source code written in MapBasic, which can serve as a reference for users engaging in secondary development of MaPInfo.
This book can be used as a foundational textbook for students majoring in cartography and geographic information systems, as well as a reference for engineering and technical personnel in related fields.