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Scheduled:

Date Location Duration Cost
12 Jun 2012 (Tue)
13 Jun 2012 (Wed)
Salford 2 £ 495
All prices exclude VAT

Private:

This outline is available as a private course. Please contact us to arrange this course at a venue and date of your choice.
Private courses can be held at your site or one of our training venues, and can be customised to fit your requirements.

You can choose to have a private course based on an existing outline or you can choose the most applicable lessons from a number of different outlines and consolidate them into one course.

We can also write bespoke courses to fit your specific requirements, whether you require training on a standard application or a bespoke inhouse system.

Please contact us to discuss this further on 0191 377 8377.

Course Overview

This is a two-day Introduction course in one of the world's leading desktop mapping solutions - MapInfo Professional. The course is aimed at those who are new to MapInfo, or at those at a novice level. The aim is to give users confidence to use the power of GIS and MapInfo to display, manipulate and analyse information geographically, with the result that they are able to make more informed decisions.

Other courses in this series:

Course Content

An introduction to GIS

    What is GIS?
    What data are available?
    Introduction to MapInfo

Displaying Map Data

    Working with tables
    Basic map operations
    Navigating around the map
    Multiple map windows
    Browser windows
    Graphing techniques
    Hotlinks and labels

Working with Map Layers

    Map layer control
    Display options/graphical style options
    Labelling
    Cosmetic layer - annotation
    Zoom layer control
    Creating and using workspaces

Map Production and Data Output

    Creating map layouts
    Embedding logos
    Saving map workspaces
    Annotation and legends
    Saving layouts as images
    Text data output and export

Mapping Your Own Data

    Basic data import techniques
    Creating points from co-ordinate values
    Geo-coding address-based information

Creating New Data Layers

    Planning the table structure
    Creating a new table
    Drawing objects
    Editing objects
    Adding attribute data
    Update column function

Selection Methods

    Selecting from the map and/or browser
    Selection tools
    Working with selected records
    Buffering techniques

Querying Methods

    Selecting by query
    Numerical queries
    Text-based queries
    Logical queries
    Basic statistics
    Joining tables

Basic Thematic Mapping

    What is thematic mapping?
    Planning thematic maps
    Overview of thematic mapping methods

    MapInfo is a registered trademark of Pitney Bowes Software Inc

Training Options

  • Scheduled public courses at one of our training venues
  • Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377

What's Included

  • 1 delegate per computer
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
  • Comprehensive course manual and exercises
MapInfo is a registered trademark


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