MapInfo Corporation (NY, USA) has announced the availability of MapInfo Professional version 8.0. This version's new features include faster editing tools, new data creation and analytical capabilities, enhanced data access and work area enhancements No programming skills are necessary. In addition, new enhancements such as multiple user support though silent and unattended installs, free data such as U.S. Urban Areas, U.S. Wilderness Boundaries and additional demographics, provide improved automation and time-saving shortcuts.
MapInfo Professional v8.0 provides increased support for industry standards including the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) for Web Feature Service (WFS) and Enhanced Web Mapping Service (WMS). MapInfo Professional v8.0 customers are able to incorporate data from different sources including direct support of industry standard databases from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, third party data and proprietary company data, and view it on a single map for enhanced analysis.
Furthermore, the added support of advanced Oracle capabilities such as Oracle Database 10g Workspace Manager allows joint MapInfo Professional and Oracle customers to work with server side versioned data for optimal data sharing and business process enablement. The ability to easily maintain different versions of the same database table data on the server better meets joint customers' needs to edit the same data in a distributed environment.
