Étiquette : Initiation

The Windows environment: reminders.
MapInfo® content (maps and standard data).
The different types of windows (Maps, Data, etc.).

The concept of mapping software.
The concepts of table and document.
The types of maps managed by MapInfo®.
The superposition of different types of base maps, the addition and deletion of maps, the attributes (colors, presentation).
The organization of data.
The creation, opening, recording, modification, deletion of tables and documents

The Data windows, the Graphics windows.
The types of databases (MapInfo®, Access, Excel) managed.
Search and analyze using simple SQL queries.
Research and analysis using geographic criteria.
Statistics on the basis and selection.
Changes in the structure of tables.
Data modification, column updates, joins.
Data export to a spreadsheet or a database.

The origin, the format, the compatibility.
Use of scanned maps, aerial photos and satellite images
Modification of the data supplied with a map
Creation and modification of personalized maps (customers, factories, etc.), from a spreadsheet or a database
The creation and modification of base maps of sectors by merger.
Zoom tools, research, statistical sheets and information.
Selection tools on the map

Semiology and types of thematic analysis (by classes, colors, symbols, graphics, point clouds).
Labels containing the result of a calculation.
Thematic analyzes with multiple variables (size and color of symbols).

The base presentation option.
Map overlay: zoom thresholds, display customization.
Annotation tools: texts, shapes, symbols.
Exporting maps to a word processor.
The layout for printing and printer configuration.
Enrichment of the library of personalized symbols, logos.

General.
The types of information to be analyzed: Qualitative data or Quantitative data (Densities, counts, typologies, ratios, etc.).
The different ways of representing information, the types of analysis (colors, symbols, graphics), the visual variables (color, pattern, shape, size, orientation) and their use.
The presentation of a cartographic document (layout, scale, legends, images, references, etc.).

Deepening of the query language applied to cartographic analysis and the constitution of a database.
General functions and operators (numerical comparisons, extractions of character strings, mathematical functions, etc.).
Cartographic functions and operators (intersection of objects, nesting, distance, area…).
Complex queries mutli Tables.
Nested queries (selection of objects contained in objects from another table).
Merging tables.

Retrieval and use of instructions generated by MapInfo (history of operations, repetition of instructions)
Save in file.
Integration into a document.
Improvement of the functions offered by the menus via the MapBasic window (precise sizing of a window, merging of regions with complex data calculations, etc.).
Improvements and automation of a document by modifying the document file (.Wor) (Analysis on a selection, linking of documents, etc.).

Digitization of base maps and plans (Use of a digitizing tablet, calibration, projection… Image digitization).
Image calibration (scanned maps, satellite images, scanned aerial photos).
Import and export of Autocad (DXF), MapInfo (MIF), ArcInfo (E00 via ArcLink) format maps.
Modify a base map using MapInfo
tools Advanced geocoding, customization of the abbreviation file to adapt MapInfo to its own address file.