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1 MapMarker Brazil 4 Release Notes These Release Notes accompany the MapMarker Brazil 4 release. This provides information on features, operating requirements, usage notes, and known issues that may require your attention. These Release Notes should be used in conjunction with the MapMarker Brazil product documentation. Corporate Headquarters: Phone: Fax: Sales: Government Sales: Technical Support: UK and EMEA Headquarters: Phone: Fax: Technical Support: Pitney Bowes Software Inc.. All rights reserved. MapInfo and the MapInfo logo are trademarks of Pitney Bowes Software Inc. and/or its affiliates. Table of Contents MapMarker Brazil 4 Features Operating Requirements Usage Notes for MapMarker Brazil Known Issues

2 MapMarker Brazil 4 Features MapMarker Brazil 4 a new geocoding products from Pitney Bowes Software Inc. This adds to the international geocoding offerings produced by Pitney Bowes Software Inc. MapMarker Brazil 4 features are briefly described in these release notes and more fully covered in the MapMarker Brazil Server Developer Guide. Address Dictionary (Data Source) The Address Dictionary is built with data generated from Tele Atlas Dynamap data. The data vintage is 2008 January, 2008 ( ). Note: When you do an installation, the data vintage is not reported correctly. Please note that the correct data vintage is 2008 January ( ). Installer The MapMarker Brazil installer is designed to simplify the installation and provide feedback during installation. The installer supports: Typical and custom installs Silent installation and modification Selecting and installing the JVM Installing the sample application Selecting default and custom locations for installing software and data Choosing shortcut locations Uninstalling MapMarker Note: You must have administrator rights to install MapMarker software. This is true on all operating systems. Overall Geocoding and Performance The MapMarker Java-based geocoder provides a high level of geocoding accuracy, consistency, and performance, comparable to the other international geocoding products offered by Pitney Bowes Software Inc. Filtering Candidates MapMarker Brazil 4 disregards poorly matching addresses and returns only relevant candidates, with the strongest matching candidates at the top of the list. Street Geocoding Street geocoding includes street interpolation geocoding when a house number is present, street centroid geocoding, and street intersection geocoding. Alternate area names (aliases) are recognized. Partial street names, street abbreviations, and common misspellings are also handled. If you enter a postal code, you can use the complete five-digit postal code or you can use up the full eight-digit postal code. When a close match street candidate is not found, MapMarker Brazil can fallback to a postal code centroid or geocode centroid (or both). Postal Geocoding Postal geocoding returns a postal candidates along with the centroid point of that postal code area. MapMarker Brazil supports five-digit and eight-digit postal codes. MapMarker Brazil 4 Release Notes 2

3 Geographic Geocoding Geographic geocoding returns a geographic candidate along with its centroid location point. The geographic candidate can be either a town or locality (or alias names for town / locality). Address Browsing The Address Browsing feature returns all potential candidates from just a few input characters. MapMarker retrieves a list of possible address candidates using a partial street or firm name with a town/province and/or postal code as input. No geocoding occurs when you browse, but you are able to view the list of possible candidates. User Dictionary Support You can create and use custom User Dictionaries to geocode your data. See Chapter 5, Creating and Using Custom User Dictionaries in the MapMarker Brazil Server Developer Guide. Point of Interest Geocoding and Browsing Point of Interest (POI) geocoding and POI browsing is supported in custom User Dictionaries. Your custom data may include place names, intersections, airport, business or organization names, building names, or any other Point of Interest that you want to use for geocoding purposes. MapInfo User Dictionary Utility The MapInfo User Dictionary Utility can be installed with MapMarker Brazil 4. This is a graphical utility that simplifies the steps for creating, configuring, and deploying User Dictionaries. Alternatively, this utility is available for download from the MapInfo Support Download page. Operating Requirements This section describes the software and hardware requirements for running MapMarker Brazil 4. Hardware and Memory Requirements The minimum system requirements for MapMarker Brazil 4 are: 800 Mhz Pentium processor or equivalent 512 MB RAM 5 GB available disk space (including 0.5GB for Address Dictionary) For optimal performance we recommend: 1 Ghz processor or better 1 GB RAM 10 GB available disk space Supported Operating Systems MapMarker Brazil 4runs on: Windows XP Professional with SP2 Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows Vista Ultimate Edition Solaris 2.10 HP-UX 11 MapMarker Brazil 4 Release Notes 3

4 Red Hat Linux Java Virtual Machine MapMarker requires a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run. The following JVMs are supported: JVM v , 1.5, or 1.6. MapMarker requires a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run. MapMarker Brazil 4 ships with: Sun JRE v _09 (for Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris) HP JRE _04 (for HP-UX) Sun JRE 1.5.0_11 (for Linux) Web Server Requirements MapMarker Brazil 4 ships with: Apache Tomcat (installed if the Web Application feature is selected during the Developer Product installation). The following web application servers are also supported: Oracle 10G Application Server BEA WebLogic WebSphere Usage Notes for MapMarker Brazil 4 The following items provide some additional usage notes on uninstalling MapMarker Brazil 4. The table of MapMarker Brazil Geocoding Matches will help you understand how MapMarker Brazil 4 performs geocoding matches. Uninstalling MapMarker To properly uninstall MapMarker, you must run the Uninstaller. If you do not run the Uninstaller, but instead delete the MapMarker directories, the MapMarker product will not properly uninstall and you will not be able to routinely reinstall the product. To uninstall MapMarker on Windows, always use the Add or Remove Program tool. On non-windows environments, always run the uninstall application provided on the product media. This is described in the topic Uninstalling MapMarker in the User Guide. Note If you simply delete directories, this action also deletes the Uninstaller application itself, so you will not be able to recover easily. If you did delete MapMarker directories and need to reinstall the same version of the product, call Technical Support to help resolve this issue. You can contact Technical Support at: Europe/Middle East/Africa Phone: Fax: support-europe@mapinfo.com Hours: Monday - Friday from 8am to 5pm GMT, excluding company holidays. MapMarker Brazil 4 Release Notes 4

5 Returned Candidates and Close Matching Based on Region The following examples illustrate the behavior in MapMarker Brazil 4 using the sample interface. Unless otherwise specified, Must Match options are unchecked. MapMarker Brazil Geocoding Matches User Input Street Address User Input Town/Locality User Input State Matched Candidate Santana (no input) Close Match on street address in town of Guarapuava, locality of Santana. Returns S5 result code. Guarapuava Paraná Close Match as above. The state is accepted on input, but is not used for scoring purposes. Rua Afonso de Camargo Guarapuava Guarapauba Close Match on street address. Returns S4 result code because house number is not provided. Close Match on address even though Guarapuava is misspelled. MapMarker Brazil 4 can correct common input spelling errors. However, if Must Match Town is checked, this would ba a non-close match. Must Match Default Settings All True/False match flags are set to False by default. PreDirectional and PostDirectional match flags are automatically set to False so that a match for all street address fields (all input fields matched) can work properly. If both input and candidate HNR (house number) is missing, then HNR is treated as matched. This allows the Must Match House Number constraint to work properly, even if the house number is not available in the data. Known Issues This section provides information and workarounds related to known issues. Highway Alternate Names are Not Geocoded Some Brazilian highways have alternate names. For example, ROD RJ-106, MARICA is also known as: Rodovia Amaral Peixoto", MARICA. MapMarker Brazil 4 does not recognize or geocode the alternate highway name. Correct Data Vintage When you do an installation, the data vintage is not reported correctly. Please note that the correct data vintage is 2008 January ( ). MapMarker Brazil 4 Release Notes 5

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