1. Download and install MyODBC3.5.1

2. Create database mapinfotest

3. Create the mapinfo_mapcatalog table as follows:

CREATE TABLE `mapinfo_mapcatalog` (
`SpatialType` float NOT NULL default '0',
`TableName` char(32) NOT NULL default '',
`OwnerName` char(32) NOT NULL default '',
`SpatialColumn` char(32) NOT NULL default '',
`DB_X_LL` float NOT NULL default '0',
`DB_Y_LL` float NOT NULL default '0',
`DB_X_UR` float NOT NULL default '0',
`DB_Y_UR` float NOT NULL default '0',
`CoordinateSystem` char(254) NOT NULL,
`Symbol` char(254) NOT NULL default '',
`XColumnName` char(32) NOT NULL default '',
`YColumnName` char(32) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`TableName`,`OwnerName`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;


4. create a sample table with two (2) decimal columns for the latitude and longitude.

CREATE TABLE `poi_orig2` (
`poiid` decimal(10,0) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`id` char(10) NOT NULL default '',
`py_name` char(255) character set utf8 default NULL,
`latitude` decimal(20,8) default '0.00000000',
`longitude` decimal(20,8) default '0.00000000',
PRIMARY KEY (`poiid`,`id`)
)


5. Open Mapinfo 8
6. File -> Open DBMS Connection

7. Table > Maintenance > Make DBMS Table Mappable

Fill up the necessary values for the x,y and the index column.

You need to choose an index column so Mapinfo could update the record/s in MySQL, normally it would be an ID. Once successful you should be able to see the success window…

8. Open the table

Click on the upper right corner to open a dbms connection. After selecting the datasource (mine is system) then it would give you a list of tables to choose from.