Research And Advanced Development Of MapInfo

As a emerging technology ,GIS(Geographic Information System) merges computer technology, database management system and computer graphics. With the help of GIS, we could implement information management on maps and data visualization conveniently. Since the 1990's GIS has been widely developed in many fields such as post and tele-communication, urban transportation, land administeration and so on, and the advantage is evident by building a professional resources management system based on GIS.Now, with the development of science and technology, advanced requirement is presented on the development of GIS, a platform which can be developed quickly, be used easily and neatly, and have a powerful function, a good pertinence and a strong stability, and is expandable for GIS has more and more become the focus of people's concern, a deep research and development neatly to these platforms have also become the urgent affairs for the software developers. Of course for them, development language is very important, but platform is also a powerful tool doubtlessly, if we can make use of these platforms freely, the development of software will become very easy.First of all, the thesis introduces the MapX components, which is one of MapInfo products series-popular GIS platform at present and the inundate development trend of Com GIS. Then it makes a deep research on MapX's data structure, model structure and so on. And it also does the research and practical developments to the common functions which MapX may carry out combining the VC++, validate the advantages of development mode on com. At last, with the hotspots of GIS com, as 3DGIS, some theoretic thoughts are put forward. And it also can be a technical reserve for developing a pertinence user-defined GIS platform in the future as MapX which is foreign excellent GIS platform. Then predicts the future trend and the main research directions to the GIS in the future.