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Using MapInfo Tables with Data Map
Data Map uses MapInfo Professional tables. All of the sample maps provided with Data Map are actually
MapInfo Professional tables.
If you have created your own MapInfo Professional tables, you can use your tables in Data Map. However,
before you can display your table in Data Map, you must set up your table using the Data Map Data
Installer. To launch the Data Installer, double-click the file DATAINST.EXE. (To locate this file, click
Windows Start, and then click Find.) Once you have launched the Data Installer, complete the dialog
boxes that appear on the screen.
Note that some MapInfo Professional tables cannot be used with Data Map. Specifically:
• Data Map cannot display raster image underlay tables.
• Data Map cannot display a table that is actually defined as a relational join of other tables (such as a
Pitney Bowes Software Inc. StreetPro table). To use a street table with Data Map, use MapInfo
Professional's Save Copy As command, which saves a street table in a "flat" form that Data Map can
use.
• Data Map cannot display point objects that use MapInfo Professional "Custom" symbol styles. (Custom
symbols are selected by displaying MapInfo Professional's Symbol Style dialog box, and then selecting
"Custom Symbols" from the Font drop-down list.) If your MapInfo Professional table contains points
with custom symbol styles, those points will be invisible in Data Map.
For more information about Data Map, see the Data Map Help System. For more information about the
Data Installer, see the Data Installer Help System.
Internet Connectivity and MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional contains options that allow you to bring the Internet into your mapping sessions,
and to bring your maps to the Internet.
Using active objects and the HotLink tool, you can launch files and Internet URLs directly from objects
or labels on your map. Active objects provide you with a powerful display tool that allows you to bring
information from the Web and other applications together in your map.
These additional sources of information can give your analysis or presentation greater impact. For
example, you can link a location on your map to a Web site that gives more information about the location
or to an image file that shows certain aspects of the location in more detail.
In addition, you can use the maps you create in MapInfo Professional in your Web pages. The HTML
Image Map tool converts a MapInfo Professional map into an HTML image map. Visitors to your Web
page will be able to click any region to link to other HTML pages specific to that region.
What Are Active Objects?
Active objects are map objects that are associated with files or URLs. The file can be a bitmap, a MapInfo
Professional workspace or table, a MapBasic program, or any type of executable file whose extension
is associated with an application installed on your system.
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