Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional User Manual

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Chapter 16: Working with Data from a Web Service....................................409

Introduction to Web Services...........................................................................410

Accessing Web Services in MapInfo Professional ..................................410

Web Service Authentication.....................................................................410

Enhancing Map Data using a Web Map Service (WMS).................................412

How Does MapInfo Professional Use WMS Servers?.............................412

Supported Image Formats for WMS ........................................................412

Understanding WMS Error Messages......................................................413

Enhancing Map Data using a Web Feature Service (WFS)............................414

WFS Server Requirements.......................................................................415

Geocoding using a Geocoding Server............................................................417

What Are MapMarker and Envinsa Geocoding Services?.......................418

Geocoding a Single Address using a Geocoding Service........................419

Understanding the Geocoding Result Codes...........................................419

Creating Routing Distance and Time Buffers.................................................420

How are Time and Distance Buffers Calculated?.....................................421

Using Driving Region Buffers to Display Data..........................................422

Creating Time or Distance Buffers for Objects.........................................422

Enhancing Map Data using a Mapping Tile Server........................................422

Tile Server Authentication.........................................................................423

Adding a Tile Server Layer to your Map...................................................423

Adding a Layer to your Map from a Map Tile Server................................424

Working with Tile Servers.........................................................................426

Changing the Map Zoom to the Nearest Tile Server Level......................427

Setting Tile Server Layer Properties.........................................................427

Chapter 17: Specialized Topics in MapInfo Professional............................429

Embedding MapInfo Professional Maps.........................................................430

What You Should Know First....................................................................430

Menus and Commands Available While Using the MapInfo Map............430

Limitations of OLE....................................................................................431

Working with Embedded Maps.................................................................431

Sharing Documents with Embedded Maps..............................................431

Using MapInfo Tables with Data Map.......................................................432

Internet Connectivity and MapInfo Professional............................................432

What Are Active Objects?.........................................................................432

HTML Landing Pages...............................................................................433

Redistricting-Grouping Map Objects into Districts........................................433

What is Redistricting and How Can I Use It? ...........................................434

Using the Districts Browser......................................................................435

Using Redistricting....................................................................................436

Options in Redistricting.............................................................................436

Creating Expressions.......................................................................................437

Where Expressions Can Be Used ...........................................................437

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