MapBasic

{{Short description|Programming language}}

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| developer = Precisely (formerly Pitney Bowes Software and MapInfo Corporation)

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| latest release version = v2021.1

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2022|04|01}}

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| operating system = Windows

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| genre = GIS

| license = Proprietary

| website = {{URL|https://support.precisely.com/product-downloads/}}

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MapBasic is a programming language for creation of additional tools and functionality for the MapInfo Pro geographic information system. MapBasic is based on the BASIC family of programming languages.{{cite book|title=Inside MapInfo Professional |author1=Larry Daniel |author2=Paula Loree |author3=Angela Whitener |year=2002|publisher=Thomson Delmar Learning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBboGbVjGGEC&dq=MapBasic&pg=PA441|isbn=0-7668-3472-7 }}

MapBasic also allows programmers to develop software in popular programming languages such as C, C++ and Visual Basic and use these with the MapInfo Pro GIS to create geographically based software, such as electronic mapping.