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  • 1.  Adding an API to MapInfo

    Posted 09-22-2017 13:11

    Is it possible to add the 3rd party API that offers a web service/functionality to MapInfo Pro?

     



  • 2.  RE: Adding an API to MapInfo

    Posted 09-25-2017 01:00

    Hi @Chris Needham? , Mapinfo Professional has capabilities of adding web services like WMS,WFS and WMTS. We can add 3rd Party API's which share such kind of data. It would be great if you can share more details on the requirement.



  • 3.  RE: Adding an API to MapInfo

    Employee
    Posted 09-25-2017 04:28

    Chris,

    If you have a web service you want to call from MapInfo Pro/MapBasic, you would currently need to write an application to integrate this into MapInfo Pro.

    Personally, I would write such an application using C# .NET



  • 4.  RE: Adding an API to MapInfo

    Posted 09-25-2017 04:51

    Thanks guys. This is for a third party web application that requires interaction and returns results/polygons. So it looks like an application needs to be written - thanks Peter.



  • 5.  RE: Adding an API to MapInfo

    Employee
    Posted 09-25-2017 09:12

    Chris,

    The best way to do this would be to write an MapInfo Pro addin application to present and UI and call the API to get the resulting polygons. As Peter said, using .net would be easier to talk to the web service. After that point you would use MapBasic to add the polygons to a map for display and interaction.

     

    We have done the same thing with our Pitney Bowes LI Api geocoding service.  We have an sample application that shows how to call other LI Apis.

    [Forward looking statements follow]

    We are now working on doing the same with our GeoZones routing Api for our next release. In addition we plan to expose a .net API for creating/editing MapInfo tables, even from a background task. This would make it easy to get the resulting polygons onto the map.

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