Dear Ian
You do have another solution. Our DNF translator will be available for
£250 to customers who already have MapNTF and £750 for customers who do
not.
However this was not quite your point!
MapInfo has a list price of £1095, £400 less than Arcview. At only two
copies of MapInfo over Arcview you will have saved more than enough to
buy a translator for DNF. Most customers who will make use of this new
data format will have many more than two copies of Desktop GIS.
I would suggest that DNF/NTF are not really "free" with Arcview as the
price is so much higher.
Not all users of desktop GIS will need DNF translation. I would have
thought it is better to pay less for the GIS, and pay for the options
you really need, rather than pay for it over and over again the more
copies you buy - even when you do not need it!
An analogy for my thread would be having the option to include a sunroof
and air conditioning when buying a car. Not all buyers would want these
options and therefore would prefer the option to pay less. I would
prefer to have the option rather than pay 36.5% for every copy,
especially when MapInfo has a turbocharged engine as well!
The TAB/MAP format is a much more sophisticated format than the SHP
format and I think DNF will help to show the superiority of MapInfos
file format over the cruder SHP file format. There is a lot more data
within DNF amking the files bigger. The R Tree index within the MAP file
will further strengthen the case for MapInfo as the better system for
deploying Ordnance Survey data.
-- End of MapInfo Plug !! --
Regards
Bob
By Design
In message <B14A11160D35D311B1B300805FC74182493C71@NEWBURY_01>, Ian
Macey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Can we assume that the lack of response to Ian Hull's email re GML and
>MapInfo that the way that we will be able to get GML data into MapInfo is to
>buy a translator from Dotted Eyes at a cost of £950 per copy.
>
>Are MapInfo not proposing anyway of bringing in this data to MI Pro? While
>ESRI's new ArcView 8.1 includes such a translator as standard and ESRI have
>been working on a solution from the very start MapInfo are happy for us to
>plod on with the traditional methods. I read with interest the focus on ESRI
>in GI News in the July/August 2001 edition and was refreshed to see that
>someone appears to be moving with the times and developing desktop GIS and
>not just concentrating on web based solutions.
>
>So is the arrival of the DNF that is heralded as "the most significant event
>in the UK GIS industry for 20 years" going to pass many of us by as we can't
>make full use of the data without spending and additional £950 on a
>translator?
>
>I for one would find it easier to get backing to spend £1495 on a copy of
>ArcView 8.1 than £950 on a translator.
>
>(thanks, that's my rant for the day)
>
>
>Ian
>
>
>
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