MapInfo Tips
Introduction
This page contains a brief introduction to the MapInfo software. A number of MapInfo tasks which are repeatedly used in creating a TUFLOW model are described below, each of these has a separate page. If you have any suggestions to be included in these pages, please add them to the discussion page. Please add MapInfo Suggestions Here!.
MapInfo File Formats
A number of files with the same name but different extensions make up a MapInfo table. A brief description of the MapInfo file formats, in particular the MapInfo Interchange (.MIF and .MID) are provided here: MapInfo File Formats.
Basics
In this section are some basic MapInfo functions that are regularly used in creating TUFLOW models in MapInfo.
- Import a .MIF/.MID
- Export a .MIF/.MID
- Layer Control
- Editing a Table
- Incrementing a Table
- Change Data Attributes
Tips and Tricks
- Pack Table
- Move Snapped Nodes
- Display Vertices (Nodes) on Polygons and Lines
- Setting Default Style from an Existing Layer
- Digitising Along Common Boundary or Object
- Hotlinking (Open Data in external program)
- Setting the Number of Undo Objects
- Labelling Numbers using Fixed Number of Decimal Places
- Selecting Subsets
- Concatenating Labels
- Using MapInfo String Functions
- Joining Tables (Updating a table with data from a second table)
- MapInfo Find Information Window
- Create a Projection Shortlist for commonly used projections
- Thematic mapping (Symbology)
- 1D Result Viewer
- Creating a Google Earth KMZ file
- Change Attribute Data Type
MapInfo Add-ons
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