Symbology is stored in the mapinfo_mapcatalog table and there are some
limitations:
only one object type per table
only one object style per table
text objects not supported
Regards
Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To Andrew -
>
> Thanks for the reply. I have a couple of tables uploaded into Oracle and it
> works!!
>
> I have a few remaining questions:
>
> 1. I upload a table containing regions with different colours and
> brush_style = 2 (solid). When I look at the Oracle based table via MapInfo
> all the regions have one color. I suspect the chosen color is the color of
> the first uploaded region. Is that a bug or (missing) feature?? The general
> question is: How do MapInfo stores the symboology of geographical objects
> (color, brush style.....) when tables are stored in Oracle Spatial ??
>
> 2. Easyloader works fine. But I have 4 GBytes data in _MicroStation_ DGN
> files, that's going to be stored in Oracle, and accessed by MapInfo
> afterwards. I would like to use FME for the upload job, so I'll have to
> "clone" the Easyloader function into FME. I'll allmost deduced the
> relationship and contents of the various tables in Oracle
> (Mapinfo_Mapcatalog, sdo_geom_metadata, spatial index tables...), but I'm
> still missing the symboology information (back to question 1...). Is there -
> one piece of - a "whitepaper", that's describing in detail the
> MapInfo/Oracle Spatial feature ??
>
> Bo Thomsen
> GeoConsult I/S
> Denmark
>
> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sendt: 12. oktober 1999 15:50
> > Til: Neil Havermale; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Emne: MI Re: Oracle 8i and MapInfo News: Step One (b)
> >
> >
> >
> > >B) Once we have the "spatialized" Oracle8i on our machines,
> > >what steps must be taken to 1) place into the 8i spatial
> > >environment a set of TAB files from either the 5.5 Professional...
> >
> > (lots of good stuff deleted...)
> >
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