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June 12, 2012

MapInfo Professional 11.5 Release Notes

This document provides information about resolved customer issues and known issues that are important for users to be aware of

For a list of new and enhanced features in this release, see the What’s New chapter in the

MapInfo Professional User Guide or Help System.

Table of Contents

Š Upgrading MapInfo Professional 2

Š Downloading Tools and Applications 4

Š Locating Your Documentation 4

Š Notes about this Release 5

Š Known Issues 8

Š Progress and Resolution of Outstanding Issues 13

Upgrading MapInfo Professional

For a list of new and enhanced features in this release, see the What’s New chapter in the MapInfo Professional User

Guide To access this document, from the InstallShield wizard, click Online Reference > MapInfo Professional User

Guide.

How to Uninstall the MapInfo Professional 11.5 Beta Release

Did you assist with the MapInfo Professional 11.5 Beta program? If you did, then before installing MapInfo Professional you must first uninstall the MapInfo Professional Beta software This is a two-step process that requires:

a uninstalling the MapInfo Professional Beta using Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel and

b manually removing MapInfo Professional Beta files that are left behind.

To manually remove the MapInfo Professional Beta files left behind after uninstalling:

1 Locate the MapInfo Professional Beta files by searching for a folder called 1150 on your computer’s C drive For

example:

On Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\1150

On Windows 7

C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\MapInfo\MapInfo\Professional\1150

2 Delete the 1150 folder and all of its contents.

You are now ready to install MapInfo Professional 11.5 to your computer

Microsoft Warning for 64-Bit Version of Microsoft Office

If you do not have Microsoft Office installed on your machine, then MapInfo Professional 11.5 installs a Microsoft Office

2010 32-bit driver, so that MapInfo Professional can open Microsoft Access and Excel 2010 files

If you already have the 64-bit 2010 Microsoft Office driver installed, and you do not have the 2007 32-bit driver installed, then MapInfo Professional installs the Microsoft Office 2007 32-bit driver You can still work with Microsoft Access 2010 and Excel 2010, but you may see an error message if an incompatibility occurs

L Microsoft strongly recommends using the 32-bit (x86) versions of Office 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, and SharePoint Designer 2010 applications as the default option for all platforms (including on a 64-bit operating system)

Refer to 64-bit Editions of Office 2010 on page 9 for more details

Repairing MapInfo Professional from the MSI file

On Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, the repair process fails using the msi file when the Microsoft User

Account Control (UAC) is turned on Depending on the installation conditions one of two error messages displays and the repair stops:

You have MapInfo Professional running, please close it and run setup again

Or

MDAC 2.8 cannot be installed on this machine MDAC 2.8 requires any one of the following configurations

To work around this issue, do one of the following three things:

• Shut off the UAC (User Account Control), this requires System Administrative privileges, reboot the machine, and

• Run the installed copy of the MapInfo Professional 11.5 msi file as an administrator:

a Go to C:\Windows\Installer and search for the MapInfo Professional 11.5 msi file it will have a name similar

to 8e95f1.msi, where the name is different for each machine

b Go to C:\Windows\System32 and find the cmd.exe file Right click this file and select Run as Administrator

(this may require an administrator password)

c Run the command C:\Windows\Installer\<nameofMiPro11.5.msi> and select Repair from maintenance

mode

Disabling User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista/Server 2008

To disable UAC:

1 Launch MSCONFIG by from the Run menu.

2 In the System Configuration dialog box, click the Tools tab.

3 Scroll through the tools list to locate and then select Disable UAC

4 Click Launch.

5 Click OK to close the dialog box.

6 Reboot the machine to have this change take effect.

Disabling User Account Control (UAC) on Windows 7/Server 2008 R2

1 Launch MSCONFIG from the Run menu.

2 In the System Configuration dialog box click the Tools tab.

3 Click Change UAC Settings.

4 Click Launch.

5 Move the slider to Never Modify.

6 Click OK to close the dialog box.

7 Reboot the machine to have this change take effect.

After repairing MapInfo Professional, follow the previous steps to turn UAC on again We strongly recommend this Windows security feature remain activate (remain turned on)

SQL Server 2008 Support on Vista

Vista is not a supported operating system with MapInfo Professional 11.5 If you choose to install to VISTA, then be aware that SQL Server 2008 (SQL Server Spatial) provides a different ODBC driver for Windows Vista

A Windows Vista user must use the x64 and Itanium versions of sqlncli.msi, which installs the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of SQL Server Native Client, on your 64-bit Windows operating system

To download the appropriate sqlncli.msi, see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms131321.aspx

Downloading Tools and Applications

Several tools and applications are available for download from the Pitney Bowes Software website at

www.pbinsight.com.

To install these downloads, unzip the download file in to your Temp folder (C:\Temp) and then launch the setup.exe An install wizard guides you through the installation process

Locating Your Documentation

MapInfo Professional documentation, in the form of PDF files, installs with MapInfo Professional in to the

Documentation subfolder You must have the Adobe Acrobat reader installed to view PDF files To download a free

copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to http://www.adobe.com

Installation Instructions are Available in the Install Guide

For system requirements, installation instructions, and System Administrator notes for performing a workgroup

installation, see the MapInfo Professional Install Guide To view this document from the InstallShield wizard, click

Online Reference > MapInfo Professional Install Guide.

Instructions for Activating your License are in the Install Guide

Instructions for activating your MapInfo Professional license are in the MapInfo Professional Install Guide The same information is also in the MapInfo Professional Licensing and Activation notes (ActivatingYourProduct.pdf).

The MapInfo Professional Data Directory Document is on the DVD

MapInfo Professional’s sample data comes with the MapInfo Professional Data Directory document, which describes

the sample data You can view this document from the Discstarter application, which launches automatically when you insert the MapInfo Professional DVD in to your machine’s drive From the Discstarter application:

• click Online Reference> MapInfo Professional Data Directory, or

• click Browse DVD This launches an Explorer Window Under the PDF_DOCS folder, double-click the

MIProDataDirectory.pdf file.

MapInfo

ProViewer

http://go.pbinsight.com/proviewer MapInfo ProViewer lets anyone open, view and manipulate your MapInfo Professional maps, tables and analyses with easy-to-use functionality including print, zoom, scroll, select objects, measure distances and view details

MapBasic http://go.pbinsight.com/mapbasic

The MapBasic development environment is a complete, BASIC-like programming language used

to create custom applications for use with MapInfo Professional or special MapInfo runtimes MapBasic allows you to customize the geographic functionality of MapInfo Professional, automate repetitive operations and integrate MapInfo Professional with other applications

EasyLoader http://go.pbinsight.com/easyloader

EasyLoader lets you to upload MapInfo tab files to a remote database, such as Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and PostgreSQL / PostGIS

Notes about this Release

Retiring Functionality

Notice of Discontinued Feature

The Search PBBI Data Catalog feature has been discontinued This feature was available by selecting File > Open

Web Service > Search PBBI Data Catalog or by selecting the toolbar button of the same name This opened the Catalog Browser to search for data in a Pitney Bowes Software catalog This feature has been discontinued as of this release

Retiring Envinsa Online Services (EOLS)

The Envinsa Online Services link with MapInfo Professional is no longer available for new customers Please contact saassalessupport@pb.com or speak with your Pitney Bowes account representative about alternative options for Geocoding

Existing customers of Envinsa Online Services will continue to receive support through 2012 We will contact existing customers to discuss requirements for geocoding and other on-demand services Going forward, we will look to support these services on Pitney Bowes Software’s Spectrum and Spatial Server technologies

New Features

More Sorting and Filtering Options in the Browser Window

The Browser window is where you edit records in your table, copy records, add new ones, or delete existing records

To open a Browser directly, on the Window menu, click New Browser Window If the Browse Table dialog displays, select a table from the list and click OK The new toolbar buttons will be the first thing you notice.

The Browser window now supports more sorting and filtering options that are available through toolbar buttons and from right-clicking to display a pop-up menu New features include the options to:

• Add a new row

• Sort on multiple columns

• Create filters to limit which rows display

• Clear sort and/or filters

• Reapply sort and/or filters

• Launch the Text Style or Pick Fields dialog boxes to control the style and contents of the Browser window

• Toggle your sort and/or filter conditions on or off

A New Legend Designer Window

MapInfo Professional replaces the cartographic legend window with a new and more usable window, called the Legend Designer You have improved control over designing the layout of your legends, specifically with aligning and positioning legend frames Output of the new legend window from a Layout is also greatly improved

The new Legend Designer window provides a grid and guideline features that you can snap selected legend frames to for accurate alignments Scroll bars display in the window as needed when zooming into and out of the legend view The zoom feature uses a paper-based scale, so that you can zoom out and see an overview of the window contents, or zoom in to see more detail Toolbar buttons let you quickly access these new features

To access the Legend Designer window, activate your Map window and from the Map menu select Create Legend

This opens the Create legend wizard where you would select the map layers to include in the map legend as well as any specific settings for how to display map layer information in the legend The map legend then displays in a Legend Designer window, which offers controls for customizing the layout of the map legend

You can still create the previous Cartographic Legend window by setting the preference via

Options>Preferences>Legend Window.

Edit Records in the Catalog Browser

The Catalog Browser is a tool in MapInfo Professional that allows you to locate descriptive information about spatial and non-spatial datasets This information is often referred to as metadata Metadata describes information about the data, such as its title, creation/modified date, coordinate reference system and location MapInfo Professional lets you edit catalog records and then save them back to a MapInfo Manager 1.2 Library Service seamlessly

To edit a record against a managed table that you have open in MapInfo Professional, right-click on it in the Table List

window or Layer Control window and select View/Edit Record This launches the Catalog Browser, if it is not already

open, to an Edit Record View For a description of how to make your edits, see the Catalog Browser Help.

When you save a managed table after applying edits to it, your edits save back to the MapInfo Manager Library Service Data saved to the MapInfo Manager library service is saved in the format of the metadata

You can only edit metadata records for catalogs exposed from MapInfo Manager and not for public catalogs To work with the catalogs from a MapInfo Manager Library Service, set the library service as a preference in MapInfo

Professional

Added Support for Working with MWS Workspaces

As of the 11.0.3 Maintenance Release there is additional support for: reading basic label information from MWS files created in MapInfo Professional or MapXtreme’s Workspace Manager; writing label override information to a

workspace (MWS); and including Layer Translucency, Style Override Translucency, and Label Translucency settings

Add Google Earth Enterprise Tile Server Layers to a Map

As of the 11.0.3 Maintenance Release, MapInfo Professional supports Google Earth Enterprise Tile Servers If you have access to a Google Earth server, then you would create TAB and XML files for each Google layer that you wish to use There is no support for a public Google server; this feature lets you get data from a private Google Earth Enterprise Server

A Google Earth Enterprise Tiling Server can contain image tiles for one or more layers The tiles can be based on image or vector data The URL to request individual tiles uses a slightly different format for Imagery versus Vector data requests This impacts the <url> in the XML file The data can be in two different projections

A tile server can contain one or more layers (Tile Server Layers) Each tile server layer has its own information,

including and not limited to: ID, label, version, type of data/request Each tile server layer corresponds to a single MapInfo Table/Layer

Google Enterprise supports two projections: flat and Mercator This impacts the Coordsys clause in the TAB file

(including the Bounds, which are different for flat and Mercator projections)

To use a Google server as a tile server within MapInfo Professional, you must have a TAB and XML file This

corresponds to one layer on the tile server You can open and use the TAB file in MapInfo Professional just like any other tile server table Currently, there is no automatic way to generate these files The following sections explain how

to get information about the server and how to construct TAB and XML files for your specific server

Add SQL Select Query Results to the Current Map Window

The SQL Select dialog box, which is accessible by selecting SQL Select from the Query menu, now includes a check

box for adding your query results to the current Map window

Updates to Feature Manipulation Engine (FME)

FME supports additional input settings for the following input types

• Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF – New input settings are Apply World File, Schema Attributes, Search Envelope, and Layer Options Updated settings for Group Entities By, Blocks, Entity Color, Visible Attributes, and Groups For

details about these settings, see Input Settings for Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF Dialog Box (FME) in the MapInfo

Professional Help System.There is support up to AutoCAD 2010 for this format.

• Bentley MicroStation Design (7 and 8) – New input setting for World File Transformation Updates for Group Elements By, Element Expansion, Read Reference Files, Coordinate Units, and Override Global Origin For details

about these settings, see Input Settings for Bentley MicroStation Design (V7) Dialog Box (FME) and Input Settings

for Bentley MicroStation Design (V8) Dialog Box (FME).

• ESRI ArcInfo Export (E00) – New input setting for Schema Attributes and Search Envelope For details about these

settings, see Input Settings for ESRI ArcInfo Export (E00) Dialog Box (FME).

• ESRI Geodatabase MDB – New input setting for Database Connection, Schema Attributes Updated settings for

Constraints For details about these settings, see Input Settings for ESRI Geodatabase MDB Dialog Box (FME).

• Google Earth KML Parameters – New input setting for Move To World Coordinate System, Apply Transformations

To Models, and Search Envelope Updated settings for Schema Attributes For details about these settings, see

Input Settings for Google Earth KML Dialog Box (FME).

• Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) – Newly documented For details about these settings, see Input Settings

for Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) Dialog Box (FME).

• Vector Product Format (VPF) Coverage – New input setting for Dataset Parameters, Feature Class Parameters],

Schema Attributes, Search Envelope For details about these settings, see Input Settings for Vector Product

Format (VPF) Coverage Dialog Box (FME).

Data Access Features

MapInfo Professional now supports:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (also called SQL Server Spatial)

SQL Server 2012 comes with enhanced security features, offers interactive data visualization, and supports on-premises and public cloud solutions

• PostgreSQL 9.0.3 with PostGIS 1.5.2 (with the ODBC driver delivered with PostgreSQL 9.0.3)

PostGIS extends a PostgreSQL database to support spatial data (geographic objects) PostGIS follows the

OpenGIS Simple Features Specification for SQL.

Data Enhancements

See the MapInfo Professional Data Directory document on the MapInfo Professional DVD for a description of the

sample data supplied with this product

MapCAD Version Update

This release updates the MapCAD tool to a new version This product provides tools that work with MapInfo

Professional to create maps that are appropriate for land development and surveying tasks The MapCAD tool includes new functionality for splines and for creating text from a database

The MapCAD tool installs automatically with MapInfo Professional to a subfolder called MapCAD To access MapCAD

drawing and editing tools and toolbars, from the MapInfo Professional Tools menu, select Tool Manager > MapCAD

The manufacturer provides a full help system to assist you in using this product For support, contact MapCAD incorporated directly Their web site is:

http://www.geoas.de

Zoom-in, Zoom-out Relative to Mouse Pointer Position

When using mouse wheel, users should be able to zoom-in and zoom-out relative to the position of the cursor In this release, we have created a new Preference that will allow users to switch between current zooming behavior in MapInfo Professional and a new one

Changes to the Browser Window Right-click Menu

The browser window and its context menus have been rearranged, to make it easier to use common commands

A toolbar at the top of each Browser window provides quick, easy access to frequently-used commands, such as Text Style, Pick Fields, and New Row (These commands have been removed from the right-click menu now that they are toolbar buttons.)

Previously, clicking on a column header would display the sort menu In this release, you can sort by right-clicking anywhere in the column (on either a column header or a cell)

MapBasic Language Enhancements

The MapBasic language has been enhanced Several new statements have been added, and various pre-existing statements and functions have been enhanced, related to recent enhancements to the Browser window and the Legend Designer window For details on language enhancements, see the MapBasic online Help

There is also new MapBasic support for Legend Designer windows (Create Designer Legend, Add Designer Frame, Remove Designer Frame, Alter Designer Frame, Refresh Designer Legend, Set Designer Legend) and updates to LegendInfo() function

Currently, in this release, you cannot print the contents of the Legend Designer window and you cannot copy and paste its contents to the clipboard

New Fill Patterns

Tables created with new fill patterns in MapInfo Professional11.5 (Pattern # 176 – 186), when opened in MapInfo Professional version 9.5 and earlier display with a solid foreground color In MapInfo Professional 10.0 and 10.5 they display as no fill, no background In MapInfo Professional 11.0, they display as a solid fill

A Workspace opening one of these tables shows the pattern as a solid foreground like 9.5 and earlier

New Help Menu Item for Bing Maps Terms of Use

A new item “Bing Maps Terms of Use ” has been added to the Help menu Selecting it will open the user’s default

web browser to a page describing the legal terms of use of the Microsoft Bing Services within MapInfo Professional The menu item can be invoked via MapBasic using the menu id M_HELP_BING_TERMS_OF_USE(1220)

Multiple Monitor Support

The following improvements have been made to multiple monitor support:

1 All modal dialogs will display on the same monitor where the MapInfo Professional application window is located

(If the application window is split between multiple monitors, then the dialog displays on the monitor that contains the greatest amount of the application window.)

2 When MapInfo Professional starts up, it will ensure that all floating windows and toolbars are visible on one of the

available monitors

3 When the virtual desktop changes, MapInfo Professional will ensure that all floating windows and toolbars are

visible on one of the available monitors (This can happen when you use "remote desktop control" or plug your laptop into a projector.)

4 If you have lost a window off screen, you can click menu item Window > Recover Off Screen Windows to make it

visible on one of the available monitors

5 The status bar popup window now appears in an appropriate location (was always being displayed on the primary

monitor)

Known Issues

Installing

Installing Sample Data on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008

To work with the sample data after installation on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, you must install to a folder that has permission to edit (read and write permission) Some folders, such as the Program Files folder, do not have write permission by default when the User Account Control (UAC) is turned on Consult with your system administrator prior

to installing the sample data

64-bit Editions of Office 2010

Microsoft recommends installing a 32-bit version of Microsoft Office when you are dependent on using 32-bit

applications that interact with Office In this case, MapInfo Professional is 32-bit application that requires 32-bit drivers

to work with Microsoft Office data, such as Access and Excel

Microsoft offers detailed information at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681792.aspx This web posting includes the following recommendations for which edition of Office 2010 to install:

• If users in your organization depend on existing extensions to Office, such as ActiveX controls, third-party add-ins, in-house solutions built on previous versions of Office, or 32-bit versions of programs that interface directly with Office, we recommend that you install 32-bit Office 2010 (the default installation) on computers that are running both 32-bit and 64-bit supported Windows operating systems

• If some users in your organization are Excel expert users who work with Excel spreadsheets that are larger than 2 gigabytes (GB), they can install the 64-bit edition of Office 2010 In addition, if you have in-house solution

developers, we recommend that those developers have access to the 64-bit edition of Office 2010 so that they can test and update your in-house solutions on the 64-bit edition of Office 2010

If you already have the 64-bit Microsoft Office driver installed, then MapInfo Professional 10.5.2 uses the Microsoft Office 2010 32-bit driver installed with MapInfo Professional 11.5 You can still work with Microsoft Access and Excel

2010, but you may see an error message if an incompatibility occurs

If you want to install an Office 64-bit application after installing MapInfo Professional 10.5.2, you must remove the 2010 Access database engine that was installed with MapInfo Professional 10.5.2 Follow the instructions provided in the error message that you see from Microsoft:

To install the 64-bit Office 2010 application and then install the 32-bit Office 2010 driver:

1 From the Start menu, select Control Panel and then depending on your operating system select Add or Remove Programs or Programs and Features.

2 From the list, select the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 driver and click Remove.

3 Install the 64-bit Office 2010 application on your computer.

4 Install the 32-bit Office 2010 driver on your computer

You can download this driver from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255 You can now open all versions of Access and Excel files until version 2007 (Office 12) without issue You can still work with Access and Excel 2010 files, but you may see an error message if an incompatibility occurs

Accessing a Premium Service License

If the License Server Utility has more than one serial number for the same product and version, then MapInfo Professional can check out any one of them regardless of the serial number you entered during activation If you have

a Premium Service and the License Server Utility selects a non-Premium serial number, then MapInfo Professional is not available with Premium Services and vice versa

This is applicable only when both product and version are the same—there are two serial numbers for MapInfo Professional 11.5

Setup Error

You cannot install the 64-bit version of Office 2010, because you have 32-bit Office products installed These 32-bit products are not supported with 64-bit installations:

Microsoft Access database engine 2010 (English)

If you want to install 64-bit Office 2010, you must uninstall all 32-bit Office products first, and then run setup.exe in the x64 folder If you want to install 32-bit Office 2010, close this Setup program and either go to the x86 folder at the root of your CD or DVD and run setup.exe, or get the 32-bit Office 2010 from the same place you purchased 64-bit Office 2010

Workaround: Install the License Server Utility on two different machines, one with Premium Services serial number

activated and the other with non Premium Services serial number activated

Working with the Catalog Browser

Native Table Support

MapInfo Professional lets you add Native tables (*.TAB files) to the Library, so that you can manage them in MapInfo Professional You can also add non-native tables, which cannot be managed within MapInfo Professional

• If the table list shows against a table, the table is managed by the MapInfo Manager

• If the table list shows against a table, the table is not managed by the MapInfo Manager

• If the table list shows no icon against a table, the table is not manageable, such as a selection table, query table, seamless table This also applies to Access and Excel tables

Editing Metadata with integration to MapInfo Manger 1.2 when Authentication is turned on

In MapInfo Professional 11.5, we have provided a new “Metadata editing” feature having integration support with MapInfo Manager 1.2 For that feature to work properly with authentication enabled MapInfo Manager you need get an updated version of MapInfo Manager 1.2 created to address an issue with MapInfo Manager: MIM-3487 Contact your Pitney Bowes representative or your channel partner for an updated version of MapInfo Manager

However if you are not turning authentication on while setting up MapInfo Manager 1.2, then you need not get this new patch release addressing that authentication issue with MapInfo Manager 1.2

Printing to PDF

Avoid printing to an already open PDF file (using the MapInfo PDF Printer Version 11.5 driver) Replacing an open PDF file may lead to unexpected results

Printing after Turning off Customized Labels

When printing to a PDF, customized labels are visible after unchecking the Labels layer

Printing to a Georegistered PDF

The MapInfo PDF Printer driver does not support the GeoRegistration or PDF Attribute data export with PDF security options or encryption

The GeoRegistration or PDF Attribute exporting is valid with the following MapInfo PDF Printer configuration settings (set on the Destination tab):

• Preview document before proceeding and Prompt for destination options should be unchecked.

• File system should be selected as destination.

• On the File System Options tab, set the following fields:

– Destination File should be set to Prompt for file name.

– Default Directory should be left blank – Default Filename should be left blank – Overwrite option should be set to anything but Append to Existing file – Print to should be set to Do not Print

L Printing to a GeoRegistered PDF or exporting PDF data without applying these recommendations may result in

an error: “An unknown error occurred while exporting Geographic/Attribute data to PDF.”