Pitney Bowes MapXtreme User Manual
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Chapter 1: Introduction to MapXtreme
Overview of MapXtreme
MapXtreme v7.1
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Developer Guide
For developers upgrading to MapXtreme, see the Release Notes for what’s new and changed in the
product. See also
for a mapping of features in MapX to features in
MapXtreme .NET.
Feature
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Purpose
Tables, Layers, Features
Maps in MapXtreme consist of geographic features like point
locations, boundaries and street networks. The feature information
is stored in tables and display in the map as layers.
Data access
MapXtreme supports data from a wide variety of sources, including
spatial and non-spatial RDBMS, MS Access, dBase and ASCII, as
well as its own native type the MapInfo Table (.TAB). All data
operations are carried out via the MapInfo.Data namespace.
Operations include adding and removing tables, and inserting,
updating and deleting records from a variety of data sources.
.NET Dataset Provider support: allows any ADO.NET dataset
provider to be treated as a table in MapInfo.Data. This will allow you
to use external non-mappable data.
Web Services
MapXtreme provides clients and APIs for you to access several
popular web services: geocoding, routing, WMS and WFS.
Selections and Searches
This common mapping operation allows you to find just the data
that matches your criteria, by using attributes or spatial queries.
Thematic mapping
One of the most widely used ways of analyzing your data is to show
the visual relationship and underlying data through theme maps.
MapXtreme supports the creation and use of six themes: ranged,
individual value, graduated symbol, dot density, and pie and bar
charts.
Labeling
MapXtreme provides a sophisticated labeling capability for you to
label features with names or other information (column data or
expressions), and create ranged and individual value themes on
the labels themselves to impart your message without relying on
text alone.
Map Styling
Labeling is one form of map styling that you can control on your
map in nearly infinite ways. Style also refers to the color, patterns,
fonts, line styles and symbols of map features that is used in many
areas of MapXtreme, including features, adornments (map titles),
dialog boxes and text.