MapInfo Pro

We would love to see 3D maps, also known as Z-value or height support in MapInfo.

In Norway more maps and map data is now being populated with height value.

Looking at the future, its hard to visualize a GIS without support for height data.

I know we (Micado AS) has requested this feature in the past, but we now submit a new request. As the requested feature is not getting any less important, in our opinion. 

Please let us know if there is anything we can assist with on this matter or my description is unclear in any way.

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Thanks Kenneth. We have discussed this earlier but maybe to help set the right focus you can talk a bit about more specifically it is that you need.

MapInfo Pro can already access Z/M values stored on nodes in data such as Shape files sing the ObjectNodeZ/-M() function. As far as I have understood, what you are looking for as a first step is to be able to also retrieve and assign Z-values to nodes in MapInfo tab files.

This would mean that

• the tab format should be able to hold the Z-value on the individual nodes.
• the ObjectNodeZ() function also would support native tab files
• that we add a way to specify the Z-value on the individual nodes of a polyline or region, for example using Alter Object

Would this help you as a first step? This would basically also mean that Pro itself would handle the Z-values in a clever way. It would be up to the application.

I'm certain we would in the longer run need to consider other enhancements.

Yes, you are correct.

As a minimum we suggest that TAB-files can handle get and set Z-values.

• ObjectNodeZ()
• Alter Object ..... (x,y,z)