Customer Reviews

Inside Mapinfo Professional

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Given the dearth of any third party book dealing with the most widespread desktop GIS application, this book provides a good starting place as a tutorial. The MapInfo manuals, though fairly clear and concise, leave out some of the nuances for using MapInfo. Windows users will be pleased by the thorough treatment the windows platform receives in this book. Mac and UNIX users can still pick up some useful tidbits. The accompanying CD, while most of the items will work on all platforms, provides Windows tables and examples, without identifying which will work with or crash Mac or UNIX platforms. Only about 27 Mb of the CD was used, while about another 600 Mb was available, the authors should have included some of the other public domain tables and utilities available at MapInfo internet sites, and should have considered including the URLs either in the book, on the CD, or point to a well maintained net site where the links could be found. Overall, a very useful manual, with a lot of good information, and some nit picky problems.

I love to read books front to back. But sometimes you just don't have the time and need answers fast. This book will not help you in that. And if you do find what you are looking for it will be too basic. Is a good book to read as a whole and follow the examples as a self taught class. But as a quick reference, it lacks depth.

This is a good start into learning mapinfo and was a big part of the class I took. The book exercises are very well layed out and easy to understand.

I have version 5.0, can it help me?