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MapInfo Pro Help

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New units appear in places such as the Ruler window, on the status bar (if you have set up the map to show coordinates), and in dialog boxes that display area measurements, such as Region Object.

Map Units

Coordinate Units

Earth Maps - The menu always contains degrees. It may also contain the native units for the coordinate system if they are not degrees.

Non-Earth Maps - inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers.

Distance Units

Options include US Survey feet*, yards, rods, chains, miles, nautical miles**, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers.

*One US Survey Foot is equal to 12/39.37 meters or approximately 30.48006 centimeters.

**A nautical mile equals 1852 meters.

Area Units

Options include square inches, square links, square feet, square yards, square rods, perches, square chains, roods, acres, square miles, square nautical miles, square millimeters, square centimeters, square meters, hectares, and square kilometers.

Distance/Area using

Spherical

Spherical calculations are used for distance methods, which attempt to keep the measurement on the curved surface of the earth. The data is first converted to Latitude/Longitude and then a calculation is produced. Lat/Long data will always use Spherical calculations.

Cartesian

Cartesian methods are used to perform calculations on Non-Earth data. Cartesian coordinates are a pair of numbers, (x, y), defining the position of a point in a two-dimensional space by its perpendicular projection onto two axes which are at right angles to each other.

Image Processing button

Select this button to change the raster image reprojection options for the current map.

Projection button

Use this button to access the Choose Projection dialog box. See Saving a Copy of Your Table in a Different Projection.

Display in Status Bar

Determines what displays in the Status Bar.

Zoom (Window Width)

The Status Bar shows the horizontal distance in the Map window.

Map Scale

The Status Bar displays the map scale.

Cartographic Scale

The Cartographic Scale displays the cartographic scale.

Cursor Location

The Status Bar displays the X and Y coordinates of the cursor's location.

Apply Clip Region Using

Window Device Clipping (all objects)

The Windows Device Display (screen or printer) provides the clip region functionality. All objects (including points, labels, text, rasters, and grids) will be clipped at the Clip Region boundary. This is the default mode.

Windows Device Clipping (no points, text)

The Windows Device Display provides the Clip Region functionality. All objects are using Erase Outside Target except points and labels. Points and labels will be completely displayed only if the point or label point lie inside the Clip Region object. Text objects are always displayed and never clipped.

Erase Outside (no points, text)

This option uses the MapInfo Erase Outside Target functionality to produce the clipping. The Clip Region object is the Cutter object, and all other objects are Target objects for this operation. All objects are clipped using Erase Outside Target, except points and labels. In addition, points and labels will be completely displayed only if the point or label point lie inside the Clip Region object. Text objects are always displayed and never clipped.

When Resizing Window

Allows you to determine what happens to the map when its Map window is resized.

Fit Map to New Window

Retains the same view but at the new size.

Preserve Current Scale

Preserves the map scale, which means that you see more or less of the map when the Map window is resized.

Display Coordinates

Degrees Decimal

Degrees decimal is the default. When checked, MapInfo Pro will display coordinates for that particular map in degrees decimal (for example -97.90052°, 42.85732°).

Degrees Minutes Seconds

When checked, MapInfo Pro will display coordinates for that particular map in degrees, minutes, and seconds (for example -97° 54' 1.908", 42° 51' 26.28"); when unchecked, coordinates for that particular map will be displayed in degrees decimal. The default is to display degrees according to the setting in the Map Window Preferences dialog box.

Military Grid Reference

When checked, MapInfo Pro will display coordinates for that particular map in the Military Grid Reference format system. Coordinates are converted to the Military Grid Reference System format using the World Geodetic System (WGS) of 1984 Datum (for example 14TNN8982545555).

US National Grid Reference (NAD 83/WGS 84)

When checked, MapInfo Pro will display coordinates for that particular map in the United States National Grid (USNG) reference system. Coordinates are converted to the United States National Grid format using the North American Datum of 1983 / World Geodetic System (WGS) of 1984 Datum (for example 14TNN8982545555).

US National Grid Reference (NAD 27)

When checked, MapInfo Pro will display coordinates for that particular map in the United States National Grid (USNG) reference system. Coordinates are converted to the United States National Grid format using the North American Datum of 1927 (for example 14TNN8985745342 (NAD 27)).

Scroll Bars

Select this check box to show or hide the scroll bars.

Autoscroll

When checked the window scrolls when you drag a double-click command outside of the windows boundaries.

Enhanced Rendering

Enable Enhanced Rendering

Use this check box to turn on the advanced rendering functionality for MapInfo labels, objects, lines and borders, and images. You must select this check box to enable the enhanced rendering features that are listed below it.

Smooth Text & Labels

When you choose to smooth text and labels, MapInfo Pro removes the appearance of jagged characters in horizontal and rotated labels and on any custom text objects that display in the map. Use this drop-down list to choose whether to "smooth" the display the text and labels. Smoothed text and labels look better on your map, but because these objects require more rendering, it may take longer to display your map.

The two options are:

None, which indicates that you want no text or labels to be smoothed.

Anti-alias, which indicates that you want all text and labels to be smoothed.

Smooth Images

When you use this option, MapInfo Pro removes the appearance of jagged edges in images that display in the map. Use this drop-down list to choose whether to smooth the map images; options include:

None, which indicates that you do not want to smooth the map images.

Low Quality, which indicates that you want some image smoothing but do not want the performance impact that High Quality would have.

High Quality, which indicates that you want the most image smoothing that MapInfo Pro can provide. Selecting this option would cause your map image to draw more slowly.

Smooth Lines & Borders

When you use this option, MapInfo Pro removes the appearance of jagged edges in lines and borders that display in the map. Use this drop-down to select from these options:

None, which indicates that you want no lines or borders to be smoothed.

Anti-alias, which indicates that you want all lines or borders to be smoothed.