1. GEOG 578 GIS Application Lab 1 Intro. to MapInfo

2. Lab Objectives Help understand materials covered in lectures Implement case studies Develop successful teamwork skills

3. Lab Resource \\humboldt\classes\g578\ Lab materials are in electronic format

4. Lab Exercises Lab #1 Introduction to MapInfo Lab #2 Neighborhood Complaint Lab #3 Flooding Scenarios for an Insurance Company Lab #4 Medical Clinics Site Selection

5. Lab #1 Objectives –Get familiar with MapInfo –Understand the basics manipulating spatial data in MapInfo

6. Lab #1 Specifically –produce a map showing the 1991 population of Canada by province –a bar graph comparing the population changes between the provinces –a list of provinces whose population changes are greater than 10% of the population in 1981.

7. MapInfo Desktop spatial data analysis and visualization package Locations and attributes stored in a database Three methods to visualize the data in the database –Mapper –Browser –Grapher

8. Mapper Used to visualize the geographic patterns –Can be specified when opening MapInfo file –Or from Window  New Map Window

9. Mapper Control Map  Layer Control Used to control the layout of: –Cosmetic Layer –Data Layer

10. Browser Browser: presents information as tabular lists –Can be specified when opening MapInfo file –Or from Window  New Browser Window

11. Grapher Grapher: presents information arranged as graphs or charts –Window  New Graph Window

12. Thematic Map Map  Create Thematic Map

13. Thematic Map Be sure to select the correct table and field!!

14. SQL Query  SQL Select Select Province, Pop_1981, Pop_1991, Capital, (Pop_1991 - Pop_1981) / Pop_1981 "Change" from CANADA into P_change

15. Final Layout Window  New Layout Window