[postgis-users] Mapinfo

[Jan Hartmann]

Yes! Good news indeed!

Jan

Obe, Regina wrote:
> James,
> Ah that's great news.  We still use MapInfo around here for some of our
> analytic reports so maybe I can finally get rid of some of those shape
> dumper jobs I have. 
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
> James Stott
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:50 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Mapinfo
>
> I saw this article today and I remembered this post from a while ago
> that might interest people.
>
> http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/5707-MapInfo-Pro-v10-to-Support-Po
> stGIS.html
>
> MapInfo v10 will support PostGIS.
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Obe,
> Regina
> Sent: 16 January 2009 14:53
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Mapinfo
>
> I just had someone here who has MapInfo 8.5 check.  I see it has both
> WMS and WFS.  He said he'd give it a try later on today or Monday.  I am
> curious to see how it handles WFS services.   the WMS from what I recall
> was pretty decent, but you can't really get data aside form getinfo from
> WMS calls.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Obe,
> Regina
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:00 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Mapinfo
>
> Oh yes I forgot the WMS WFS route.  In older versions of MapInfo I think
> like MapInfo 7 -  I was able to use a WMS UMN mapserver connection.
>
> In later versions of Map Info I think they introduced WFS, but I have
> yet to try that out.
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
> James Stott
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:40 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Mapinfo
>
> If you want to see spatial data from PostGIS in MapInfo 'directly' from
> PostGIS, the only way to do this is to use FME. As stated earlier, it is
> read only though. 
>
> If you just want to use attribute data then you can access that using a
> DBMS connection, but I am guessing you want the spatial data.
>
> One other way which I have heard suggested is to use WMS or WFS to get
> your data into MapInfo from PostGIS.
>
> More and more GIS packages are supporting PostGIS so hopefully it will
> just be a matter of time before MapInfo adds support.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
> Stephen Carville
> Sent: 15 January 2009 22:36
> To: PostGIS Users
> Subject: [postgis-users] Mapinfo
>
> Are Mapinfo and PostGIS compatible?   I've seen a few messages on
> MapInfo-L 
> that sorta imply they work together.  Maybe.  But there is no support 
> mentioned on the MapInfo website.
>
>