List, Would you regard that we are a small and insignificant MapInfo site? We have currently 59 licences of MapInfo Pro v5.01 packaged and distributed on our network. I often wonder this, in comparison to large American corporations, which Andrew Dressel is referring to. One other point to remember, Hamersley Iron, here in Western Australia, is one member of the Rio Tinto Group of companies. Now, I could not tell you how many licences of MapInfo the Rio Tinto group may have in use throughout the world but I reckon we may well have added a fair few $$ to the coffers of the MapInfo Corp. over the past years. So, little ol' me, sitting here putting in justifications to the bean counters why we should buy maintenance etc. etc. sits on the list and thinks the same as most people who have contributed to this thread! I am having v6.5 packaged at present and I am getting the same response from my users here, about why, new features and NOT fixes to annoying problems already in the software are in v6.5 i.e.(to mention a few)..... *be able to save workspaces as pevious versions, so we don't have to edit the workspace if sending to a user with previous version installed. *more than 256 characters in a text object *update the tools docking to current windows standards (like Office '97!!!!) *a snap to grid in the layout, proper ruler that works, geez it is a layout after all!!! *auto labels that work *label lines NOT taking on the symbology of the current region setting, how many times have I opened a new workspace only to discover I had label lines in heavy weight red dashed. So close workspace or MapInfo reset back to the symbology you want and reload workspace? ......on and on (see the wish list). MapInfo says, "send us your list of changes", "we have already". They have a list staring at them 24hrs a day! I'll say one more thing. Considering Hamersley has spent minimum $150,000 AUS (not including MapBasic, MapX) on MapInfo products and then I go off and take a look at the Manifold website and look at the features and interface of v5 AND the cost$$$$! I start to wonder, what if??????? My AUS$ worth (for what it is worth!!!). Chris Chris Brown - Cartographer Resources Planning, Hamersley Iron P/L Perth, Western Australia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 5:55 AM > To: PERRY Chris > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI-L MapInfo 6.5 > > >I recently saw some info about what's new in MI Pro 6.5 and I'm > interested > >in the direction that MI is going. Don't you think its interesting that > >prism maps, new object types (multipoint and collection?) are more > important > >than some of the issues continually raised here on the group. > > Sorry for the delay in responding. I've been on the road, one of our > engineers > brought this question to my attention. > > I don't consider the user base that requests these other features as more > important than the MapInfo-L community, rather equally important. > Unfortunately, > I don't have the resources to do everything that everyone wants. I must > compromise. > > The main fact to keep in mind is that although MapInfo-L represents a > large > and wonderfully vocal community of MapInfo Professional users, it is only > a subset and only one channel for user feedback. As much as we would love > to address all the issues raised on MapInfo-L, we must also keep our large > corporate customers, some of whom don't even know about MapInfo-L, happy. > They, and even other groups of users, are the ones requesting these other > features. > > I hope that we have included enough of the type of changes requested on > MapInfo-L such as invert selection, better object processing, and a longer > frequently-used-files list. If not, I hope I can continue to count on this > forum to let us know. > > Thankful, as always, > > Andrew Dressel > MapInfo Professional Product Manager > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Sponsor ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 10 PARTNERS - ONE BIG EVENT The industry's biggest players have joined forces. See why EarthWatch, LAND INFO, ERDAS, Kodak, Hitachi Global Software Technology, Imagelinks, Landata, Pixxures, Research Systems, and Trimble are so excited they're giving away over $5,000 in prizes. http://www.digitalglobe.com/forms/survey.jsp?form=esri_survey.xml&source=directions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
