XYZ Digital Map Company are offering AGI members a £100 discount on new purchases of either MapInfo Pro 10.5 or MAPublisher 8.3 made by September 30th 2010. This does not include maintenance renewals or upgrades.
Members should call or email us XYZ Digital Map Company quoting the code AGIXYZSEP in order to claim the discount.
MAPublisher is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that brings a set of GIS and cartographic tools into the desktop publishing / graphic design world. It is very popular with local government, commercial map publishers, the military, civil aviation , and the like. An on-line demonstration is available
http://www.xyzmaps.com/mapping-software/avenza-mappublisher.asp
with the demo software available from http://www.avenza.com/.
MapInfo Pro 10.5 is a complete desktop GIS where for under £1500 you get a system that already includes the Universal Translator for data conversion to e.g. ArcGIS, connectivity to Oracle, PostGIS, etc, integration with Office via ODBC and OLE, one button access to Mircrosoft Bing ™ maps and images, thematic mapping, geocoding, advanced analysis, a scripting language, and much more.
The 30 day demo version of MapInfo Pro 10.5 is available from:
http://www.pbinsight.com/support/product-downloads/for/mapinfo-professional