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MapLinker

• Managing GIS data sets

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• Integrating application processes

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• Leveraging software development

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MapLinker

• Managing GIS data sets

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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
Specifying a GIS map normally requires a complex
command sequence...
GIS Layers
Layer Order
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Attributes for each layer


GIS Map
Latitude Longitude

Geographic Extents
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
With the MapLinker maps and links Database ...
GIS maps present reliably at the click of a
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
In many systems maps are defined in undocumented
command files (eg MapInfo Workspaces) ...
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MapLinker documents your map library
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
MapLinker integrity checks locate and fix
missing data at the folder level...
Describing GIS tables by file name can be
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Start Integrity Check
Locate one missing folder
Auto locate other folders
Relocating a folder affects many files. Each
missing file invalidates many Workspaces.
Relocating a set of folders becomes Easy...
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
With MapLinker, two mappers using the same GIS
table, access it through the same database
record...
MapLinker Maps and Links Database
MapInfo Mapper
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MapInfo table file
MapInfo Mapper
Locating a missing data file once, repairs all
subsequent references ...
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
Describing the GIS layers
Describing the Selected Item
Assisting Data Search
Presentation Options
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
Because MapLinker maps are database objects ...
Click Here ...
Mapper presented exactly as saved in previous
session
Point and Click
Activate Map Hot Link
Save Mapper
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View Map Catalog
You can hot-link maps from other maps...
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets
And present maps from external applications .
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Managing GIS Data Sets

• Quickly locate the required map
• Simplify map presentation
• Maintain Data Set integrity
• Document GIS maps and layers

MapLinker Maps and Links Database

• Improved accessibility
• Protection for the corporate data asset
• Adherence to quality control standards

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Extending MapInfo with Out of the
BoxIntegration Technology
MapLinker
For end users and systems integrators
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Is your knowledge base fragmented across
multiple computer systems?
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Legacy Systems
Shared Data
Is geography your common key?
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GIS Integration -Hot-linking Processes
Context sensitive maps hot-links...
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Document Management Systems
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• Context sensitive hot-links
• Maps to external applications
• One application to another
• Any application back to the map

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Database Forms
Document Management Systems
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GeoBasemap MapLinker Integrating Application
Processes
Computer applications are built in layers
User Interface
Business Rules
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Database
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Most application integration is programmed at the
database level...

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• Bypassing or duplicating business rules
• Providing alternate user interfaces

• Which can...
• Threaten data integrity
• Require additional user training
• Increase software maintenance overhead
• Confuse core business processes

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GIS Integration -Traditional
Corporate Information Systems
Business Rules
Data integrity at risk
Database
GIS Operator
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MapLinker - The new paradigm
MapLinker integration is at the application
level...
Business Process

• User Interface
• Business Rules

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MapLinker
Hot-link from one process to the next
GIS Operator
Corporate Information Systems
Business Rules Attributes
Business Rules Spatial
Database
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Maximise your leverage...
Legacy Systems
Shared Data
Integrate best of breed applications into a
unified processing model...
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Traditional process integration requires a hand
tailored interface between each pair of
applications...

• Site specific programming
• Hard to update or maintain

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The MapLinker application server provides a
common reusable interface
MapLinker application Server
MapLinker application Server
MapLinker application Server
MapLinker application Server
MapLinker application Server
MapLinker application Server
MapLinker application Server
MapLinker application Server
Document management
Financials
Assets
GIS
Document management
Document management
GIS
GIS
Assets
GIS
Assets
GIS

• Minimal programming
• Maximum flexibility

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Maximo
MapInfo
Click for maintenance details..
Click to find documents...
Documents and Databases
Click to open database...
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Selecting Map Objects
Click to see floor plan...
Click to locate the asset...
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Microsoft Access
PC-Docs
Click to Start ...
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The MapLinker Paradigm

• Enable the Process
• Dont duplicate the data and business rules
• Leverage on existing Investment
• Build from installed applications that define
• your business
• Support on-Site Tailoring
• User interface screens, not inflexible hard
  coding
• Browse all your Knowledge Sources
• A web of processes, not one to one linking

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MapLinker

• Leveraging software development

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The MapLinker database describes business
processes that can be called by other
applications...
Metadata
Classification
Search engine
Data Sources
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Process definitions configured through User
Interface screens...
Write once and share
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Organised and managed by MapLinker .
Process definitions Documented and available for
any application.
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MapLinker Technology - Systems Architecture
Reusable plug in application drivers
Active X Drivers
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MapLinker Technology Under the Bonnet
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Method to invoke the process
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A compact method to describe application
processes and expose them to multiple client
applications.
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Any application that exposes a link to MapLinker,
makes that link available to every other
MapLinker enabled application.
Building a driver for an application add it to
the global knowledge tree.
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MapLinker Application Drivers
Standard shipment
Optional Extensions
MapInfo Professional or MapX Microsoft
Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft Access Windows
QuickView Windows Registered Viewer AutoCad and
AutoCad Lite Command line applications

• PSDI - Maximo
• Docs Open - PC-DOC
• ADI Document Management
• Additional third party drives are
• undergoing certification.
• Contact your reseller for an update.

Custom Drivers
The MapLinker SDK includes code examples and
test harnesses for development of custom
application drivers. The GeoBasemap team assists
vendors to add MapLinker support to their
applications.
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MapInfo driver configuration
MapInfo Maps as reusable database objects
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MapInfo run time controls
MapInfo Pro button Pad

• Activate Map Hot Link
• Database of GIS Mappers
• Database of GIS Layers

• Create Hot-link
• Save/update Mapper
• Administration
• Installation Details

User Defined buttons for MapInfo Pro and Map X
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MapLinker Developer Advantages

• Easily add and swap out applications
• Just acquire or swap out a driver
• Leverage off existing mature systems
• Bypass the need to integrate data models and
  build inquiry screens
• Manageable implementation methodology
• Add drivers one at at time
• Minimise documentation and re-training
• Automate the interface the users already know
• Leverage development efforts
• Reuse the drivers and inherit the Maps and Links
  database
• Minimise software maintenance
• Less code to write, less code to support
• Segment application knowledge requirements
• Build, acquire or outsource drivers one at a time
  
• Minimal implementation support requirements
• Fine tune through UI screens, not custom
  programming

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MapLinker Licensing Options
End User Systems

• MapLinker for MapInfo Professional
• Application server and driver for MapInfo Pro
• X-Linker application
• Application server with a MapX GIS engine

Developer Support

• MapLinker SDK
• For building MapLinker drivers
• Developers Deployment Kit
• Application server and OCX controls

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MapLinker is member of the GeoBasemap family

• See also
• GeoBasemap Mapping System
• GIS tools for Technical Professionals
• GeoBasemap Display Tools
• Improving MapInfo Data Presentation
• GeoBasemap MapLinker Plotting
• Plot to scale and manage your plot library.

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