Doing street labelling properly requires "topology". Segmented streets need to be combined, the extent of the whole feature with common attribute for labelling (eg. street name) needs to be known. One view of MapInfo Pro's feature set is that "if it cant be done in real time and the user see immediate results, it ain't worth doing". Possibly, MI R&D/mktg considers that once topology needs to be built for a purpose, it needs to be retained (in TAB) , supported in export, import and by every other feature and function that is going to fall over it. In other words, it's just too hard. The curious adoption (and subsequent discard) of SpatialWare Topology Manager on the desktop may be a factor , along with the new relationship with "Radius Topology" - it looks like MI are dabbling but fearful of jumping in with their own products. The MI product line has sort of proven to date that you really dont need topology to satisfy business geographics, but there's always exceptions. My view of topology is that it's just another form of metadata, built to describe a data set more completely, rebuilt when invalidated by an edit, used by whatever application needs it. It doesnt have to impact the performance of all the great features that have got by without it so far. Does require better management of the map data environment though.
Phil. _______________________________________ SPATIAL PROJECTS Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.spatialprojects.com.au ----- Original Message ----- From: Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:01 AM Subject: RE: MI-L R�f. : MI-L MapInfo's Map Quality Gets Panned in the News My Favorite part of the article: "I am no cartographer and I make ugly maps too, but in business every map is part of selling an idea, or a location, etc., and 'pretty always wins.'" So true! I'm spoiled, I get to see millions of colors (in the aerial photography) on our maps. Vector maps in MI need more capability...And how about a decent label tool? Back me up guys, you know you love ArcMap's auto-label function...though neither wrap around a polyline, i.e. curved street! Just my 2 cents, Ryan Morgan Aerials Express www.Aerials-Express.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: MI-L R�f. : MI-L MapInfo's Map Quality Gets Panned in the News Thanks for the link, I agree fully with the article. Our first MapInfo version was 4.5 and it hasn't changed much in this respect untill now. The layout window which can represent different parts of a wider map is a wonderfull invention. However there are many graphical problems : In thematics maps, the legends are never correctly aligned (I've had trouble with our pre-press specialist). You have to accept centered layout without option to align things left or right. MapInfo doesn't offer any color management and when you have to convert your maps in the CMYK world, this is a pain. I understand that color management could be left for other imaging software. But MapInfo should at least offer CMYK palettes or HFS palettes. Christiane Roh Vient de para�tre : Lausanne � la carte, le nouvel atlas lausannois Christiane Roh - Section Statistique Lausanne Statistique Lausanne - SCRIS Service cantonal de recherche et d'information statistiques Rue de la Paix 6, CH-1014 Lausanne t�l.: +41(021) 316 29 51 fax : +41(021) 316 29 50 Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04.03.2005 15:40 Pour : MapInfo-L <[email protected]> cc : Objet : MI-L MapInfo's Map Quality Gets Panned in the News Good grief! The general public is finding out what we've all known for quite some time -- MapInfo's graphic quality hasn't improved much since the days of MapInfo 3.0! See Hal Reid's article in Direction Magazine, "A Number of Colors" (http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=776&trv=1&PHPSESSID=f85 85645039fae89c65c89bd6e680378.) We don't want to get pegged as "cartoon cartographers," do we? - Bill Thoen --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15522 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15546
