Godfrey Data Training
Specialist training for specialist software...
Mapinfo Training - Day 1 - Fundamentals
INTRODUCING THE BASICS
- MapInfo file and directory structure
- Saving, copying, and closing
- Understanding the MapInfo Screen
- How a map and data are connected
- View Tools: Zooming, setting map
- Scale, arranging the map in its window
- Working with Layers
- Object size concepts
- Understanding Workspaces
- Labelling the map
- Setting the zoom range
- Map types: Raster versus Vector
SELECTION
- One or several objects by clicking
- Within a rectangular area
- Within a circular area of set radius
- Within a (user-defined) drawn polygon
- Within the boundary of an area
- Invert a selection
- Remove a selection
CREATING AND EDITING OBJECTS
- Points of various styles / formats
- Lines of various patterns and thickness
- Areas of various fill and boundary style
- Reposition and reshape
- Reformat
INFORMATION TOOLS
- Distance between points by measuring
- Object properties
- Statistics on stored numeric values
- charts production
