Hi Everyone,
Great to see some momentum and support growing in this space. I do recall now in previous testing with SiteMapper that auto labels did not seem to show. Additionally, with reliance on autolabels, overview maps and scalebars and in conjuction with Layout Templates i am thinking that Sitemapper in this instance will not provide the solution i require.
We still however have a need to continue to create map books, for things like parks, facilities, roads, buildings, carparks Assets etc so no surprises that i 100% agree with what Steve Graham said previously and could be a really big draw card in helping to bring customers on to the 64-bit platform.
Back to the example i have been using, i may need to create one multi-page Layout Template that includes all possibilities and simply remove components that are not required for each set of maps. This way i will just need to figure out some code to batch print the multipage layout in each workspace for 18 or so workspaces, but this is for another day.
Cheers
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Joel Cranston
Lockyer Valley Regional Council
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2019 17:49
From: Steven Graham
Subject: Any plans to reinstate MapShop-like functionality
Hi Joel, Peter and Kalu,
I worked extensively on the SiteMapper tool created by Kalu, I had more success using it with printing Layouts than Mapper.
The only major issue I have had with SiteMapper is the printing of labels during batch printing, the only workaround being creating a
Note 'Continue'
popup to halt the execution which made it work fine but was very semi automatic.
@Peter Horsbøll Møller I would really like to see Pitney Bowes include some better Map printing functionality for batch map printing as well as the inclusion of grid index printing for atlas like functionality. These kind of questions are very common as this functionality is highly sought after for government and enterprise that use multiple sites or have wide spread assets. If this can be done in open source software, surely it can be looked at in commercial software such as MapInfo. Perhaps you could put this forward for development as a urgent feature suggestion?
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Steven Graham
Tenterfield Shire Council
Tenterfield
Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2019 16:59
From: Kalu Ribush
Subject: Any plans to reinstate MapShop-like functionality
Hi Joel, Peter and Steve,
The Site Mapper tool should work in most instances. There's an issue with it not replicating automatic labels in the cloned maps. I've raised this with software support. At first they had trouble replicating the issue, but after recently remoting into my machine the could observe the issue. I was also eventually able to get them to replicate the issue at their end. I suspect it is going to be resolved slowly.
Regards
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Kalu Ribush
Senior Mapping Specialist
Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (DEDJTR)
Melbourne NT
Original Message:
Sent: 01-16-2019 03:31
From: Peter Horsbøll Møller
Subject: Any plans to reinstate MapShop-like functionality
Hi Joel
Did you have a look at the tool mentioned in the discussion link, you provided originally?
This one: SiteMapper x64
I spent some time on some issues in the tool with @Steven Graham and @Kalu Ribush, who wrote the tool. Not sure if we get all the issues fixed. If not, we might have to get tech support involved to have a look at the final issues.
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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Pitney Bowes
Original Message:
Sent: 01-15-2019 22:03
From: Joel Cranston
Subject: Any plans to reinstate MapShop-like functionality
Hi Jim,
Thank you for looking into this. I can definitely appreciate your feedback in regards to the lack of interest of the larger MapInfo user community however like you said there are still users that 'need' this capability and i would go as far as to say that MapInfo users in Australian Local Governments would benefit greatly if this is developed.
Coincidentally and as an example i am currently staring down the barrel of creating and maintaining 131 maps/layouts for a local planning scheme which could be reduced to approximately 18 maps if Map series creation/printing was implemented similar to that of ArcGIS Pro or QGIS.
I very much look forward to your findings and progress on this.
Cheers
Original Message:
Sent: 12-17-2018 17:31
From: James Stone
Subject: Any plans to reinstate MapShop-like functionality
I appreciate your posts on the MapShop functionality. Although there are users who need this capability, there has not been a strong expression of interest from the MapInfo Pro user community. We are looking into the work required to create an updated add-in and will try to find a partner to sponsor this effort. I have created a reminder to myself to post a follow-up in a month to report on our progress.
Regards,
Jim Stone
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Jim Stone
Pitney Bowes
Product Manager, MapInfo Pro
Reading, MA
Original Message:
Sent: 12-16-2018 17:44
From: Duri Bradshaw
Subject: Any plans to reinstate MapShop-like functionality
I would like to support this suggestion, I have several clients who still run VERY old version of MapInfo simply so they can use MapShop.
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Duri Bradshaw
Spatial IT Consultant
Insight GIS
Original Message:
Sent: 12-13-2018 21:16
From: Joel Cranston
Subject: Any plans to reinstate MapShop-like functionality
Hi,
I may have posted something like this previously but I noticed a previous discussion Here in regards to Map series printing which reminded me of a recent Idea's posting I've been involved with Here about previous MapShop functionality and why we need it.
Just thought it might be useful to discuss community thoughts on this and find out whether there is any possible plans to work on putting something like this back into MapInfo Pro?