I agree with most of the comments that have been made and I don't want
this to be a debate on which one is better as I do use both MapInfo and
AV in my office. But as far as ArcView comments go I have to
disagree.
First I find that most people that say that AV is better, are doing
programing with avenue or they are surfing the ESRI site for a
scripts. If these people are saying that you only have to do 2-3
clicks to change colors then they have written or download a script to
make that happen. Tony had a more accurate description of that
procedure .
Grant you, MapInfo has MapBasic but you do not have to use it to do
simple things like update a column or change a column name in your
database or just putting lat/long to your points into your
database.
So I think it is what you are going to use it for and if you are do
things on a repetitive bases.
MI lets you save those things that you do over and over again and I think
that makes my job easier and I can get a map out a lot faster.
The New 3D feature I don't think I would use and I would rather they had
spent their time on developing the Topology Manager
Donna Glover
California Department of Water Resources
Emergency Response Section
Division of Flood Management
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