Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 361)

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Putting Your Data on the
Map
As we saw in Data - Where MapInfo Professional Begins , you can convert your
existing data to a format that MapInfo Professional can use to display it on a map.
Now you are getting somewhere! But how does MapInfo Professional know where
to put the information on a map? That is the subject of this section.
In this section:
• How Do I Get My Data on the Map? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362
• Displaying your Excel (.XLS or .XLSX) Data . . . . . . . . .363
• Displaying your Access (.MDB or .ACCDB) Data . . . . .364
• Displaying your SQLite Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365
• Displaying your Comma Delimited CSV Data . . . . . . . .366
• Displaying your dBase Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367
• Displaying your Lotus 1-2-3 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .368
• Displaying your ESRI Shapefile Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .368
• Registering and Displaying your ASCII Data . . . . . . . .370
• Importing and Displaying GML File Data . . . . . . . . . . . .370
• Using Universal Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371
• Opening MapInfo Professional Grid Files . . . . . . . . . . .374
• Importing Graphic Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .374
• Geocoding - Assigning Coordinates to Records . . . . .374
• Putting Latitude/Longitude Coordinates on a Map . . . .384
• Displaying Your Data on the Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385
• Printing Your Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387