Data access features, Feature manipulation engine (fme) 2014, Sample data enhancements – Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional User Manual
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2. Click System Settings to open the System Settings Preferences dialog box.
3. Clear the Enable True Color Cursors check box to use the 1-bit per pixel cursor, which displays in
black and white.
Selecting the check box enables the 32-bit per pixel cursor.
Data Access Features
MapInfo Professional now supports:
• Oracle Spatial 11g R2 and 12c R1
For details about working with databases, see
.
Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) 2014
MapInfo Professional installs with the Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) 2014, which lets you open
data directly to avoid having to translate it separately and work with copies of the data in .tab format.
This FME opens a variety of Universal Data formats including:
• Autodesk AutoCAD (*.DXF, *.DWG)
• Bentley MicroStation Design (V7) (*.POS, *.FC1, *.DGN)
• Bentley MicroStation Design (V8) (*.POS, *.FC1, *.DGN)
• ESRI ArcInfo Export (*.E00)
• ESRI ArcSDE
• ESRI Geodatabase (*.MDB)
• Google Earth (*KMZ, *KML)
• Spatial Data Transfer Standard (*.CATD.DDF)
• Vector Product Format (VPF) Coverage NIMA/NGA (*.FT)
• Geography Markup Language (*.GML). For deatils, see
• Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase API) Reader/Writer (*.GDB)
To access the FME and open universal data directly in MapInfo Professional; on the File menu, point
to Open Universal Data. For details, see
For details about all of the FME supported formats, see FME Readers and Writers (formats supported
by FME 2014) in the FME Desktop Help.
To see what is new in FME 2014, see
Sample Data Enhancements
See the MapInfo Professional Data Directory document on the MapInfo Professional DVD for a description
of the sample data supplied with this product.
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Data Access Features