PostGIS support in MapInfo Professional 10.0

[Andrei Veselov]

Hello Listers,

Just a quick note to point out our announcement regarding support for
PostGIS coming in MI Pro v10.

Here is Directions Magazine's take on it:

http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/5707-MapInfo-Pro-v10-to-Support-PostGIS.html

For additional information check out the PBBI Location Intelligence
Blog at:
http://li.pbbiblogs.com/

The grand unveiling of MI Pro v10 will take place at the Insights
conference in Orlando, in June.

Andrei

[Warren Vick]

Hello Andrei,

That's good news. Even better if you include support for EPSG900913 in
v10!

Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd.
http://www.europa.uk.com

[Richard Greenwood]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrei Veselov
<Andrei_...@mapinfo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Listers,
>
> Just a quick note to point out our announcement regarding support for
> PostGIS coming in MI Pro v10.
>
> Here is Directions Magazine's take on it:
>
> http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/5707-MapInfo-Pro-v10-to-Support-PostGIS.html

Quoting from the above link: "MI Pro already supports Microsoft SQL
Server 2008".

I certainly hope that the PostGIS support is better than the existing
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 support!

--
Richard Greenwood
richard....@gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com

[eric.bl...@pb.com]

I am not sure how that relates to PostGIS. In fact, I am pretty sure
it does not.

The Popular Mercator will be supported in 10.0 with the EPSG code
3785, which is actually recognized by EPSG! That organization has
never heard of 900913 which kind of makes a laughing stock of the
whole notion of codes, in my opinion.

Eric

On May 4, 5:43 pm, "Warren Vick" <wv...@europa.uk.com> wrote:
> Hello Andrei,
>
> That's good news. Even better if you include support for EPSG900913 in
> v10!
>
> Regards,
> Warren Vick

> Europa Technologies Ltd.http://www.europa.uk.com

>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mapi...@googlegroups.com] On
>
> Behalf Of Andrei Veselov
> Sent: 04 May 2009 18:03
> To: MapInfo-L
> Subject: [MI-L] PostGIS support in MapInfo Professional 10.0
>
> Hello Listers,
>
> Just a quick note to point out our announcement regarding support for
> PostGIS coming in MI Pro v10.
>
> Here is Directions Magazine's take on it:
>
> http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/5707-MapInfo-Pro-v10-to-Support-Po
> stGIS.html
>
> For additional information check out the PBBI Location Intelligence
> Blog at:http://li.pbbiblogs.com/
>
> The grand unveiling of MI Pro v10 will take place at the Insights
> conference in Orlando, in June.
>

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[Lars I. Nielsen (GisPro)]

Hi Eric,

I don't agree that Google made a "laughing stock" of codes for projection, they just - as they always do - challenge the various monopolys in the world. And EPSG is a de-facto monopoly, or rather, has been made to be.

And Google's (mis)use (as mentioned in your mail dated 11/5/08) of the namespace "EPSG" was a de-facto necessity, since no GIS system really supports projection namespaces (at all, i.e. other than "EPSG"). I proposed using "DK:#####" for local Danish projections some years back, but no-one wanted to even consider the idea.

But isn't the "Popular Mercator" (is this the official name?), regardless of its number, not already supported in Pro via custom setup ? And just not predefined in the projections file ?

Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Lars I. Nielsen
GIS & DB Integrator
GisPro

eric.bl...@pb.com skrev:

[Warren Vick]

Is it 3785 or 3857?

Regards,
Warren

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Vick
Sent: 05 May 2009 09:18
To: MapInfo-L
Subject: RE: [MI-L] Re: PostGIS support in MapInfo Professional 10.0

Hi Eric,

Not related, but there are a lot of people making spherical Mercator maps driven from PostGIS. There was no option to work in that environment using MapInfo without this mutual support. I know that 900913 was ad hoc with a dodgy bit of numerical character art, but I wonder how long it will be before we're all using 3785? As for EPSG not "knowing" about this code... yeah, sure. Denial is a river in Egypt.

[Warren Vick]

Hi Lars,

 

I don’t think it is possible to implement “the projection with multiple names and codes” in the current version of Pro as it has a custom sphere (using WGS-84’s semi-major axis). Editing the PRJ only gives the ability to vary supported coordsys’.

 

Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd.
http://www.europa.uk.com

[Warren Vick]

Hi Eric,

Not related, but there are a lot of people making spherical Mercator maps driven from PostGIS. There was no option to work in that environment using MapInfo without this mutual support. I know that 900913 was ad hoc with a dodgy bit of numerical character art, but I wonder how long it will be before we're all using 3785? As for EPSG not "knowing" about this code... yeah, sure. Denial is a river in Egypt.

Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd.
http://www.europa.uk.com

-----Original Message-----

From: mapi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mapi...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of eric.bl...@pb.com
Sent: 05 May 2009 00:04
To: MapInfo-L

[Glen]

"Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Stay tuned for more information coming
each week leading up to the announcement."

what about MS Acess 07 and excel 07?