MapInfo Manager

Take command of your spatial assets – catalogue, publish and share your data

MapInfo Manager enables organisations to build and manage a single point of truth for their spatial assets - facilitating easy discovery and access for users.

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Establish a Single Point of Truth

Pitney Bowes^® MapInfo^® Manager^TM is a server based application that provides the necessary tools to build and manage a centralised library of your organisation’s spatial data assets. This includes creating one or more easily searchable catalogues of spatial data as well as tools to populate a catalogue with the required information about your datasets, and to make that data easily deployable.

Whether spatial data is stored in a spatial database or as native files, or a combination of both, MapInfo Manager provides easy, powerful control over all of the spatial resources.

Key Benefits of MapInfo Manager:

Provides an easily searchable, industry standard, central catalogue of your spatial data
Optimises data access - everyone who needs it, finds it
Assists organisations in establishing a single point of truth for their spatial data
Saves costs by avoiding duplicate data collection or purchases
Increases understanding of the characteristics and appropriate uses for your data
Ensures organisational compliance with spatial data infrastructure standards like ISO and OGC

Questions to consider:

Do you have a large number of MapInfo tables in use?
Do you find users make copies of tables because they are hard to find?
Is time wasted by users searching for the data they need?
Are your expert users spending too much time helping people find the data they need?
Has there ever been an issue where a dataset was used in an inappropriate way because it was not well understood?
Has your organisation ever engaged in overlapping or duplicate data collection (or data cleanup) efforts?
Is effort spent by one or more individuals in “policing” a data store, network volume or directory structure?
Have you ever been surprised to find a useful set of data you didn’t know someone had?
Has your organisation ever purchased licences for the same data in two different departments?

If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, then you should consider MapInfo Manager.

NOTICE: Because we offer many custom solutions, it is our policy not to post pricing on our website. Please contact our knowledgeable staff to select and price products that fit your organisation's budget, number of users, IT environment, data requirements, support and training needs. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Creating and Editing Metadata

<strong></strong> Search MapInfo Manager catalogues from MapInfo Professional to find the data you need and open it.

With MapInfo Manager, building a library of metadata is easy. Metadata literally means data about your data. Metadata can include information such as the vintage, source, owner, origin, location, geographic area of the data and more. Metadata is essential to helps users understand the suitability of a data set for a specific purpose.

Some of the metadata can be obtained in an automated fashion when data is being registered in the system. This is referred to as “harvesting”. Harvesting is useful for those metadata items that can be determined in an automated fashion. An example would be the geographic area covered by the dataset.

In addition, certain metadata fields may be common to some or all of your datasets (such as the owner). Repeated values can be applied automatically through the use of templates. Multiple metadata templates can be configured to suit individuals or departments. In addition, where metadata needs to be changed or edited, this can be done to individual metadata records or to multiple records at once.

Publishing and Sharing Metadata

Once a single point of truth has been established in MapInfo Manager, data custodians and GIS managers can control how data is published, how it can be discovered and how it can be accessed by a targeted user base. Multiple catalogues can be created and shared. Having multiple catalogues can aid in publishing the same datasets to different audiences. This helps an organisation control the information shared, in a manner appropriate for different audiences – internal and external.

The OGC CSW standard is used primarily to ensure any permitted application can search and discover data in a catalogue. Users can directly interrogate and discover data in MapInfo Manager catalogues.

Intuitive and Easy to Use

MapInfo Manager has been designed to be used by the GIS and data professional. The application is deployed as a web application, for high accessibility across an organisation. It is also completely dialogue driven for simplicity and intuitiveness.

Upload data, edit metadata, create catalogues and publish data (like OGC WMS) - all through intuitive dialogues
Powerful search capability - to make it easy to manage large repositories of spatial data

Integrated

MapInfo Manager is part of the Location Intelligence suite of products from Pitney Bowes Software. MapInfo Manager has tight integration with MapInfo Professional and will soon integrate with MapInfo Exponare and MapInfo Stratus. MapInfo Professional users can search catalogues created by MapInfo Manager to find the data they need, view the metadata, preview the layer and where available, open the layer itself.

Standards Compliant

MapInfo Manager adheres to various standards to maximise system and agency interoperability. Standards include ISO 19115 for metadata statements, OGC CSW for catalogue publishing and discovery, and OGC WMS for data publishing from version 1.1.

For those organisations directly or indirectly impacted by the European Union INSPIRE directive, MapInfo Manager utilises the necessary standards to meet your INSPIRE requirements.

Our products are designed to work within a wide variety of existing technical environments.

Standards Compliance

MapInfo Manager has been developed to conform to a variety of international technology standards that help facilitate interoperability and conform to the EU mandate for the INSPIRE infrastructure for spatial information. The summary below lists the current standards supported by MapInfo Manager to ensure all customers around the world are able to benefit from these advancements in interoperability.

ISO 19115: Geographic information - Metadata (which covers key ANZLIC requirements for Australia and New Zealand)
ISO 19139: Geographic information - Metadata - XML schema implementation
OGC CSW: Catalogue Service for the Web
OGC WMS: Web Mapping Service (from MapInfo Manager version 1.1)
OGC WFS: web Feature Service (implementation date to be confirmed)

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise R2
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP 2
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows Vista SP 2
Windows XP Professional SP 3

Supported Languages:

English
French
German
Swedish

Supported Web Browsers:

Internet Explorer 7 and 8
Firefox 3.6
Google Chrome

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