MapInfo5.0 Chinese User Manual
Foreword
Geographic Information System, Abbreviation GIS) is based on geospatial database, with the support of computer hard, software environment, collect, manage, operation, analysis, simulation, and display of space-related data, timely supply space and Dynamic geographic information, a type of information system for decision service.
MapInfo5.0 is a geographic information system platform that is launched by US MapInfo. Through it, you can connect a lot of information intuitively with geographic graphics to make the boring table data visualize and visualize.
Mapbasic is a system development language provided by MapInfo software, which can be written in a manual interface, geographic data analysis.
First learning articles
Chapter 1 MapInfo Overview
The MapInfo built-in relational database implements an automatic connection and two-way query of electronic maps and databases.
MapInfo's development tool Mapasic, you can complete users in graphics, interfaces, queries, analysis and other requirements. If the multimedia system, the map can be multimedia queries.
MapInfo uses points, lines, face multiple graphic elements, and rich map symbols, text types, linear, fill mode, and color, etc., complete display of electronic map data.
The MapInfo is organized and managed by the concept of layers, and is hierarchically processed. For example, Changchun City map can be divided into a highway layer, a railway layer, a river layer, a building layer, a square layer, a green floor, etc. Each layer can be processed separately, and automatic labeling can be implemented for each layer. For the size, font, position, content, and color of the label can be modified as needed. MapInfo has a decorative layer in each map, and the user can edit any layer, graphics.
Chapter II MapInfo Map Organization
Fundamental concept
The database is organized by the data sheet. The data table consists of rows and columns, each line consists of several data items, and each data item contains a geographic characteristic, an event and other information; each column contains a number of data items. In terms of database terms, each line is a record, each column is a field. The data table containing graphic objects can be displayed in the map.
In MapInfo, text, graphical information is organized in the form of a table.
Floor basic concept
The electronic map is actually a collection of plurality of layers, while each layer corresponds to a data table containing a graphic object. Each data table containing a graphic object can be displayed as a layer. Suppose Changchun City map consists of several layers of road layers, railway layers, rivers, buildings, square layers, and green ground layers. They show road information, railroad information, etc., and imagine that these layers are transparent and superimposed. Together, it makes into a complete map.
In MapInfo, data tables and layers are one or one.
The figure below shows the relationship between the layer and the table (as an example of Changchun City Map):
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Xi'an Road
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Jiefang Road
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Free road
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The second practical article
Chapter 1 MapInfo instance tutorial
1. Open MapInfo5.0, "Quick Start" dialog box appears "Because we want to create
Map, so click the "Cancel" button.
2. Open the File menu, select "New", appear "New Table" dialog box, select "Open New Browser" and "Open New Cutant" checkbox, click Create button. "New Table Structure" dialog box, enter "Field Name", here we enter "Background", select "Type" to "Character", select "Wide" as needed, here we Select the default size 10.
3. Click the "Open", "Create New Table" dialog box appears, in
Enter a data table name in the file name (for the layer name), here we enter the Background, click the "Save" button.
4. A browser window headed as "background bor" will appear on the screen, display
Structure; another title "Background Map" map window, because we did not create any Feature (any point created on the map, the line, the surface is called a "," So a blank in the "Map" window.
5. Click the status bar "editing" in the screen, the list, and click "Background" to make the background layer optional. On the screen, right click, click "Layer Control", select the "Editable" check box of the background layer in the "Layer Control" dialog that appears, is the background layer editable. Then click "Good".
6. Next, set the "District Style", click the button on the toolbar, set "Fill foreground", "Border style" is "None", and then click "Good".
7. Select a rectangular fill tool to draw a rectangular area. Click Right-click, open the Layer Control dialog, remove the "editable" and "Selectable" properties of the background layer, so that the background layer is not editable and is not optional. Click "Good".
8. Create a layer-backward road layer. Open the File menu, select "New Table", select "Add Current Charters" in the dialog that appears, and click Create.
9. Enter the field name "Name", the size is "30". Click "Open". Click Right-click, open the "Layer Control" dialog, the first one is "Cosmetic Layer" (ie, decorative layer), use the "Up and Down Button" to list the second, remove other layers "editable" And "selectable" attribute, setting the "Editable" and "Auto Lable" attributes of the main road layer. Click "Good".
10. Modify "District Style" to select another color for the road, click "Good". Then use the rectangular tool and the polygonal tool to draw the trunk road.
11. Add a label. Select the "Information" button in the toolbar. At this time, the mouse edge is a cross-shaped, click the highway to be marked, in the "Info Tool" box appearing, enter the name of the road.
12. Set automatic annotation. Click Right-click, open the "Layer Control" dialog, set the "Auto Lable" property of the "Snare Highway", click the "Number" button, set the position of the label in the open dialog box. Click "Good" twice, you will see that the label appears on the map.
12. Next, continue the new construction layer, and finally draw all layers to complete the map. Open the File menu, select "Save Workspace", enter the map name "Changchun City Traffic Travel Map" in the file name.
At this point, the map is completed. You can sit down and have a cup of coffee!
