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by Caroline Hilton 23 February 2023
Datamine Discover with MapInfo is now available on a single-user annual subscription licensing model.

The new licensing model adds to Datamine's subscription-based services, which already includes Discover for ArcGIS Pro.

Subscription software simplifies annual expenditure forecasting, and enables you to increase your software count for temporarily intensified workloads and exploration projects.

Contact usfor more information about either Datamine Discover with MapInfo, or Discover for ArcGIS Pro
by Caroline Hilton 14 December 2020

The Datamine Discover 2021 v21.0.216 release is now available.

This is only available as a bundle, and it installs and licenses -

  • Discover 2021
  • Discover3D 2021 (optional license - if not licensed is available in viewer mode functionality)
  • MapInfo Pro 2019.3
  • MapInfo Pro Advanced (Raster menu)
  • MapInfo Pro Premium services Bing (annual subscription license, expires 31st December 2021)
  • Discover Mobile - available via your app store for Android and iOS

This release supports Windows 8 and 10.


Some of the New features in this release are -

Discover 2021

  • MapInfo Pro 2019.3
  • New Scaled Layout tool for professional map production
  • New Gridline Planner tool for generating sampling grids
  • Simplified Drillhole section creation tools
  • Full support of trench data in the Drillhole module
  • BigTIFF image support
  • New XYZ Tileserver basemap importer
  • Numerous bug fixes and enhancements

Discover 3D 2021

  • Completely new user interface
  • Hidden shortcuts exposed on menus
  • New floating tool bars
  • Simplified dialog and tool interfaces
  • New Cursor Plane menu with all the associated commands and functions
  • Ability to directly open Drillhole projects
  • New Drillhole cones tool to display unoriented structural data
  • Consolidated Drillhole database between Discover and Discover 3D for single source of truth
  • Ability to align the Cursor Plane to a Drillhole section
  • Ability to filter individual Drillhole tables in the Data Window
  • Vast speed improvements in displaying and loading Drillhole data
  • New navigation method
  • Quicker EGB image rendering
  • Support for Wavefront OBJ files
  • Numerous bug fixes and enhancements

Discover Mobile 2021

  • New tool to capture a track whilst conducting data collection (Android)
  • New tool to capture non spatial data such as downhole drill data (Android)
  • New tool to capture structure data using device sensors with compass and clinometer (Android)
  • Display structure data with the correct symbology (Android)
  • Support for Bad Elf GPS receivers (iOS)

Download

Datamine Discover 2021 is available for download now from:

Download link  2.83GB (MapInfo 2019.3 is 2.2GB)

If this download drops out or you have a slow connection, and alternative link is here -

Download for slow connections  2.83GB (MapInfo 2019.3 is 2.20GB)



by Caroline Hilton 3 December 2020
MapInfo 2019.3 is now available for download for all maintained MapInfo-only users. 

v2019.3 will give you renewed access to online services such as the MapInfo Marketplace.

Older versions of the software will now tell you that you are not online, or not logged in, so do update if you are on maintenance.
Download from here:  https://support.precisely.com/product-downloads/for/mapinfo-professional/  (login may be required)

If you are using Discover, please do not download this update . We are expecting a Discover update in mid-December, which will include MapInfo v2019.3. 
by Caroline Hilton 4 June 2020
v2019.2 is a MapInfo-only patch available for MapInfo 2019.1. This is a PATCH and requires v2019.1 to be installed.
https://www.pbinsight.com/support/product-downloads/item/mapInfo-pro-v2019.2-maintenance-release
Released June 2020

Datamine have incorporated this patch into Discover v2019 v20.5.17 (June 2020) , which is available for download  here.
*Discover users should NOT install the MapInfo-only patch*



by Caroline Hilton 14 May 2020
In December 2019, the software and Data arm of Pitney Bowes was purchased by Syncsort to become one of the largest global data companies. 

On 14th May 2020 the company was renamed Precisely.

Precisely is theglobal leader in data integrity, providing accuracy and consistency in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 90 percent of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes.

Precisely MapInfo remains available in all the same formats as you know and love.
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