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Good suggestion Lars..its time for mapinfo to do something
about the wish list now that grande is toast.
personally i am in two minds about grande..having just been
'encouraged' by MI UK to upgrade my old mipro licence AND take out maintenance
because of 'hint hint' new mapinfo developments soon. (non backward
compatibility was the reasoning). i am a little brassed off to see grande
being dumped. so nul-points for mapinfo uk's sales/marketting department
there..SO...i expect to see some real developments in mapinfos gui and
layout features now that i have been bounced into an upgrade, not the rather
half hearted 'upgrades' of recent releases...
having said that..'doing an ESRI' with grande probably would have cost MI a
lot of users..'power users/developers' might rave over arcmap, but i
know several organisations with mere mortals for staff have been crippled
by it and 4 years on they still havent got their mission-critical legacy avenue
apps across to vba because you cant get the developers if you are on a budget..i
think arcmap has done wonders for open source development, which was probably
not the intention of esri (and isnt it odd that arcview is sill so
popular)
anyway, enough navel gazing...we need a new list of demands er
......wish list of features.
heres mine:
a new gui please, if only to make life easier for mi's marketting
dept.
better pattern/colour /font support for all objects
some proper tools for making layouts that dont look like they have been
drawn by an amatuer with a crayon(including proper map-graticules and wysiwyg
legends)
3d support for map objects (in desktop, not just oracle)
a better 3d window (more 3d object support) with shutter glass
support and vrml 3d pdf exportability
built in vertical mapper sdk into mapbasic
legends that are easier to build, dynamic, show map-visible only content
and are at last, bug free
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