Glossary of terms – Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional User Manual

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Glossary of Terms

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A window that allows you to view your maps
containing continuous grids from various viewpoints
in 3D Format.

3DMap

Use the Add Node button to add a node to regions,
polylines, and arcs. You can add nodes when the

Add Node button

Reshape tool is in effect. Adding nodes can give
more precision to your object.

The search dictionary used for matching addresses
during geocoding.

address dictionary

A map decoration, such as a title, scale bar, or
company logo, that provides contextual information
for the map view.

adornment

The name assigned to an expression or a column
when you are working in the Select Columns field

alias

in the SQL Select dialog box. This name appears
as the column title for that expression or column in
a Browser.

A computer program used for a particular kind of
work, such as word processing. Application is often
interchangeable with the word program.

application

The Arc button allows you to access the Arc tool.
Use the Arc tool to draw an arc the size and shape

Arc button

of one quarter of an ellipse. Once you have created
an arc, you can reshape it to the desired size.

The acronym for American Standard Code for
Information Interchange. ASCII is a standard code

ASCII

used in most microcomputers, computer terminals,
and printers for representing characters as
numbers. It not only includes printable characters,
but also control codes to indicate carriage return,
backspace, and so forth.

Use this button to permanently assign all selected
map objects to the target district.

Assign Selected Objects button

Text added to a tile server table definition that
automatically displays when a tile server layer is in

attribution text

a map window. Some tile servers require attribution
text, such as origin and copyrights information (the
tile server author or distributor provides attribution
text requirements).

Used in a graph, these are graduated lines
bordering the plot area of a graph. Location

axis

coordinates are measured relative to the axes. By

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