Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 409)

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Working with Data from a
Web Service
A web service is a software system that is accessible using an intranet or Internet
connection. MapInfo Professional supports the Web Map Service (WFS) and Web
Feature Service (WFS), which allow you to retrieve data that others are sharing
internally or world-wide. The power of web services is that you can use them to
create more powerful maps or in the case of geocoding services get more accurate
and precise results using the same data.
You can also work with Geocoding and Driving Region web services. A Geocoding
web service lets you geocode with greater accuracy, because the maps on a
service are more precise. A Driving Region web service lets you create time- and
distance-based buffers around a site to determine proximity to a location. You
might use this service to find the customers closest to a store, or to determine
which insured customers are closest to a weather pattern.
A mapping tile server provides cartographic maps of geo-referenced data, in the
form of raster images (tiles). In MapInfo Professional, you can add map tiles as
a base layer to your map to provide a visual reference for your data. This gives
you a real-world reference for viewing your data, such as for viewing store locations
or maintenance routes.
In this section:
• Introduction to Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410
• Enhancing Map Data using a Web Map Service (WMS) .412
• Enhancing Map Data using a Web Feature Service
(WFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .414
• Geocoding using a Geocoding Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417
• Creating Routing Distance and Time Buffers . . . . . . . .420
• Enhancing Map Data using a Mapping Tile Server . . . .422