Yes, I agree. I find AV to be counterintuitive in many ways, I too
mainly use it to view before translating to MI. I'm amazed that some
people find AV's layout and printing functions to be more robust than
MI. I have never found AV's output snazzy at all, it's pretty plain,
unexciting, generic, and difficult to produce (but that's my opinion).
With MI I've been able to throw together some darn impressive layouts in
very little time. In the end, it all comes down to personal preference
and what you're comfortable with. I learned AV first, but MI was a
faster, easier learn and I didn't sacrifice functionality. Don't get me
wrong, AV does have some great features that MI doesn't offer, but I'm
more comfortable with MI and therefore I can do much more with it.
Derek E. Bedarf
GIS Specialist
The Environmental Company, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
http://www.tecinc.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Rood [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:09 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: MI (Fwd) RE: MapInfo v.s. ARCVIEW
>
>
>The first and foremost thing that I always name in thest AV vs MI duke outs
>is the incredibly weak and unintuitive query functionality in AV compared
>to the pretty powerful SQL database querying available in MI. Few others
>seem to be bothered by that---at least it doesn't get mentioned in many
>comparisons I see. I think the differene in querying alone makes MapInfo so
>far superior to ArcView that I only use AV to look at a shapefile before I
>convert it to MI. Then there's the inability of AV to run for 45 minutes
>without crashing, but that's another story. Anybody else think the power
>and straightforwardness of MI's query building is the major reason they use
>it rather than AV?
>
>Tim Rood
>
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