[GIS] Learning how to use Mapinfo Professional

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I am wondering if there is a good website where can I learn how to use Map Info Professional ? I am an advanced ArcGIS user and am a beginner MapInfo. Thanks.

What I mean "Good website" I mean they can be from site where they give you the steps, documents, powerpoint, pdf related to MapInfo.

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Pitney Bowes has some web-based training videos online that are pretty comprehensive:

http://tutorials.mapinfo.com/tutorials/Index.htm

They walk you through a lot of the basic functionality, but don't cover too much of the advanced features. The training includes some sample data and exercises.

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Ensure you have ArcTutor installed (comes with ArcGIS Desktop install)

Start doing the tutorials.

Id also advise paying a trip to the ESRI Virtual Campus. - Plenty of free training on there to get you started.

Go to video.esri.com for inspiration.

[GIS] Labeling from a defined string in MapBasic

Never mind. Managed to play around with the code and an answer from somewhere else. I'm going to post it in case

Include "MAPBASIC.DEF"

Dim sLabinput As String

Dialog
    Title "Section Ref"
    Control statictext
        Title "Enter section ref field"
    Control edittext
        Value sLabinput
        into sLabinput
    Control OKButton
    Control CancelButton

if commandinfo (CMD_INFO_DLG_OK) then

Else
End Program
End if

Dim nMID, nLayer As Integer, sLayer As String

nMID = FrontWindow()
For nLayer = 1 To MapperInfo(nMID, MAPPER_INFO_LAYERS)
    sLayer = LayerInfo(nMID, nLayer, LAYER_INFO_NAME)
    If sLayer Like "%AllG%" Then
        Set Map Window nMID
            Layer nLayer 
                Display Global Global Line (1,2,45056)   
    ElseIf sLayer Like "%roup0%" Then
        Run Command "Set Map Window " & nMID & " Layer " &nLayer
            & " Label With " & sLabinput
            Set Map Window nMID
            Layer nLayer 
                Display Global Global Line (2,2,16711680)
                Arrows On
                  Label Auto ON Font ("Arial",257,9,0,16777215)




    '**add extra cases here below if you need to
    '**ElseIf sLayer Like "%zz%" Then
    '**    Set Map Window nMID
    '**        Layer nLayer 
    '**            Display Global Global Line (2,2,16711680)
    '**            Arrows On
    End if
Next

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