User Guide.Book
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MapInfo Discover User Guide Contents INTRODUCTION TASKS 1 - Introducing MapInfo Discover 6 - Map window controls About this guide.................................................... 2 Map view settings ...............................................33 Conventions used in this guide............................. 2 Map projections .................................................. 35 Displaying map coordinates, distances and 2 - Installing and configuring MapInfo bearings ....................................................... 37 Discover Add a dynamic map grid to a map window......... 39 Window size and zoom controls ......................... 40 System requirements............................................ 5 Linking map windows.......................................... 40 Installing MapInfo Discover .................................. 6 7 - Importing and exporting Uninstalling MapInfo Discover .............................. 7 Licensing MapInfo Discover ................................. 7 Product Improvement Initiative ........................... 11 Import and export tools....................................... 45 Starting MapInfo Discover .................................. 11 Importing and exporting tabular and vector data 46 Running multiple instances of MapInfo Pro and Importing and exporting images ......................... 74 MapInfo Discover ......................................... 12 Importing and exporting drillhole data................. 78 Configuring MapInfo Discover ............................ 12 8 - Working with tables 3 - Getting help Opening and closing tables ................................ 97 Help .................................................................... 16 Refreshing tables with database connections .. 100 Technical support ...............................................17 Searching and replacing text in tables.............. 102 Checking for MapInfo Discover updates............. 17 Selecting records by attribute ........................... 103 Viewing and printing the electronic manuals ...... 17 Sorting tables.................................................... 104 Changing the map bounds of a mappable table105 4 - Managing the user interface and Splitting tables .................................................. 106 workspaces Digitizing and data entry ................................... 108 Adding unique identifiers to table records......... 135 Updating multiple columns................................ 135 Controlling the interface...................................... 19 Working with multiple tables ............................. 137 Using Tool Search .............................................. 20 Organizing your MapBasic tools......................... 21 9 - Data processing and statistics Managing your workspaces................................ 22 MapInfo Pro context menus................................ 27 Pre-processing and cleaning data .................... 145 5 - Acknowledgements Classifying data ................................................145 Normalising or levelling data............................. 151 Computing summary statistics.......................... 152 Acknowledgements ............................................ 30 Computing a correlation matrix......................... 155 10 - Coordinates and projections Calculating distances between points in separate 15 - Graphs and profiles tables ......................................................... 157 Displaying cursor coordinates in a map window158 Updating coordinates........................................ 158 General purpose graphs................................... 262 Coordinate transformations .............................. 159 Stacked profiles ................................................266 Reprojecting coordinates.................................. 166 16 - Using the GraphMap tool Generating traverse lines and peg coordinates 168 11 - Working with map objects Starting GraphMap ........................................... 270 GraphMap menus and toolbars ........................ 270 Objects and layers............................................ 175 Creating graphs ................................................ 278 Creating objects from a table............................ 175 Preconditioning data......................................... 286 Creating and editing objects from the keyboard178 Creating derived columns................................. 287 Creating Voronoi polygons ............................... 182 Viewing data values.......................................... 290 Managing and applying object styles................ 183 Arranging and modifying graph displays........... 291 Selecting objects .............................................. 183 Selecting data in graphs ................................... 296 Copying, moving and transforming objects ...... 186 Multi-table relationships.................................... 300 Manipulating lines, polylines and polygons ...... 191 GeoLocated graphs .......................................... 301 Using polyline and polygon attributes............... 199 Displaying statistics .......................................... 307 Colouring map objects by RGB values............. 204 Changing the style of graph objects ................. 308 Formatting vector objects ................................. 205 GraphMap settings ........................................... 315 Cloning object styles......................................... 207 17 - Working with images Linking objects to external documents ............. 208 12 - Map making Processing images ........................................... 319 Using the Image Tool........................................ 320 Creating scaled maps....................................... 214 Registering and rectifying raster images .......... 321 Add a map grid ................................................. 225 Reprojecting an image...................................... 328 Add a scaled frame to a layout ......................... 228 Clipping an image............................................. 330 Add a title block and scale bar.......................... 228 Displaying image properties ............................. 331 Add a map legend ............................................ 231 Enhancing an image......................................... 332 Add and format text and labels......................... 235 Applying image filters........................................ 334 Apply transparent fill patterns ........................... 242 Rotating an image............................................. 336 Apply geological line styles and line annotations ... Converting an image to another format ............ 337 244 Setting image transparency.............................. 339 13 - Capturing maps as images and 18 - Working with drillholes movies Drillhole data workflow...................................... 342 Drillhole data formats........................................ 342 Saving a map window as a registered raster image Trench data formats.......................................... 349 249 Importing drillhole data from other drillhole Making movies and animations from a map window applications ................................................ 355 250 Creating and managing drillhole projects ......... 356 14 - Viewing data in three dimensions Desurveying method......................................... 381 Creating sections and plans ............................. 382 Managing and analysing sections and plans.... 391 MapInfo Discover 3D ........................................ 259 Displaying downhole data................................. 405 Viewing data in 3D............................................ 259 Displaying downhole logs ................................. 422 Creating and editing legends............................ 427 Creating section legends .................................. 433 24 - Discover tab Adding sections to a layout............................... 434 Adding a map grid to sections .......................... 437 Creating a section collar plan ........................... 438 Open Table....................................................... 525 Interrogating drillholes ...................................... 438 Save Table........................................................ 525 Downhole compositing ..................................... 439 Revert Table ..................................................... 525 Merging downhole tables.................................. 448 Close All............................................................ 525 Clipping drillholes by 3D solids or surfaces ...... 451 Vector Import .................................................... 525 Generating 3D coordinates............................... 455 Multi-File Open .................................................526 Calculating maximum and EOH values ........... 456 Multi-MIF Import................................................526 Converting alpha-beta core angles................... 460 ASCII Import ..................................................... 526 Calculating sectional resources........................ 463 acQuire Import..................................................531 DataSight Import............................................... 532 19 - Hydrological surface analysis EGB Import....................................................... 535 ECW/JP2 import ............................................... 536 Hydrology workflow .......................................... 469 Geosoft Import..................................................537