Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 17)

Selecting Records Not Geocoded............................................................382
Locating Newly Geocoded Points.............................................................382
Result Codes............................................................................................383
Ungeocoding a Table ...............................................................................383
Putting Latitude/Longitude Coordinates on a Map .......................................384
Dispersing Points Located in the Same Place..........................................384
Creating Points for Intersections..............................................................384
Geocoding Data using a Server...............................................................384
Displaying Your Data on the Map....................................................................385
Finding Data on your Map........................................................................385
Viewing a List of Open Tables..................................................................386
Displaying Data Details using the Statistics Window ..............................386
Printing Your Results........................................................................................387
Setting up the Page..................................................................................387
Printing Your Map ....................................................................................388
Viewing and Printing Text ........................................................................388
Troubleshooting Print Problems...............................................................389
Chapter 15: Working with Coordinate Systems and Projections...............391
Working with Coordinate Systems..................................................................392
Displaying Coordinates ............................................................................392
Elements of a Coordinate System............................................................392
Understanding Coordinate Systems.........................................................393
Building Blocks of a Coordinate System........................................................397
Coordinate Systems, Projections, and their Parameters..........................397
Projection Types.......................................................................................397
Datums ....................................................................................................399
Units.........................................................................................................400
Coordinate System Origin........................................................................400
Standard Parallels (Conic Projections).....................................................400
Oblique Azimuth (Hotine Oblique Mercator).............................................400
Scale Factor (Transverse Mercator).........................................................400
False Easting and False Northing............................................................401
Range (Azimuthal Projections).................................................................401
About Polyconic Coordinate Systems......................................................401
Examples of Projection Entries in the MAPINFOW.PRJ File...................401
Adding Projections to the MAPINFOW.PRJ File.............................................402
Using the New Projection in a Coordinate System...................................403
Entering a New Coordinate System (Example)........................................404
Understanding Precision in MapInfo Professional........................................404
What is Precision?....................................................................................405
Understanding Affine Transformations...........................................................405
Description of an Affine Transformation...................................................405
Using Earth and Non-Earth Maps....................................................................407
Specifying Coordinates for a Non-Earth Map ..........................................407
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