Just to stick my oar in, I have both MI and Autocad14.0/Map 3.0 and use
both. Why you might ask?
I find that they both have strengths and weaknesses. Mapinfo's strong
points are cost, relative lack of complexity (at a user level) and standard
of map presentation. Acad is costly, but I far prefer it's
drawing/editing/construction toolset, admittedly due in part to familiarity
as I have been using Acad a lot longer (since 1985). I do integrated
database/GIS development and provide GIS services for a number of clients,
and I tend to promote MapInfo/Access/Office solutions, but "in house" use
Acad to do any heavy data preparation and editing (eg. ensuring polylines
are contiguous, and closed if they are to be made into regions, ensuring
things are on the proper layer) before importing to MapInfo as it's much
easier to do this in autocad (in my humble opinion).
If I have to do a lot of digitising , I prefer using Acad for the
digitising as the Sketch facility (with skpoly on) provides a facility to
set the interval between points, the user can then concentrate on tracing
the line accurately, whilst points are created at the set interval.
A. Beckett
Aeromotion Limited
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