Putting your data on the map, Chapter 14: putting your data on the map – Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional User Manual
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14
Putting Your Data on the
Map
As we saw in
Data - Where MapInfo Professional Begins
, you can convert your
existing data to a format that MapInfo Professional can use to display it on a map.
Now you are getting somewhere! But how does MapInfo Professional know where
to put the information on a map? That is the subject of this section.
In this section:
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How Do I Get My Data on the Map? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362
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Displaying your Excel (.XLS or .XLSX) Data . . . . . . . . .363
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Displaying your Access (.MDB or .ACCDB) Data . . . . .364
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Displaying your SQLite Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365
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Displaying your Comma Delimited CSV Data . . . . . . . .366
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Displaying your dBase Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367
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Displaying your Lotus 1-2-3 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .368
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Displaying your ESRI Shapefile Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .368
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Registering and Displaying your ASCII Data . . . . . . . .370
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Importing and Displaying GML File Data . . . . . . . . . . . .370
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Using Universal Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371
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Opening MapInfo Professional Grid Files . . . . . . . . . . .374
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Importing Graphic Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .374
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Geocoding - Assigning Coordinates to Records . . . . .374
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Putting Latitude/Longitude Coordinates on a Map . . . .384
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Displaying Your Data on the Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385
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Printing Your Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387