Thursday, November 10. 2005

MapInfo Pro Will (sort of) Access Google Data

MapInfo responded to a quote from its recent conference call suggesting that technology would be included in a future release to allow access to Google map data.

In this comment a MapInfo product manager explains MapInfo Pro will be able to output to KML format, so the information can be used in Google Earth. Pretty much every vendor is now offering or will soon offer such a tool.

He further notes, in a second comment, that "MapInfo Professional Link Utility for Google Earth has a feature to launch Google Earth to enable immediate use of their imagery data as a backdrop for the map built into MapInfo Professional. Of course we recommend that before you leverage this feature, that you have the appropriate Google Earth license for your intended use."

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in PBBI [MapInfo] at 07:31 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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