A long time ago, when MapInfo 3.0 was new, we began our GIS. We all knew each other, and what we were doing. Well, we didn't really know what we were doing, but we did learn together. Now, GIS has expanded from three users Citywide to 20 in our Department, plus 5 other Departments and many viewers. People create new layers all the time, and since MI makes projections relatively invisible, layers are getting created in the default Lat-Lon. That creates problems for certain types of SQL inquiries, which we do all the time. It also makes matching layers (snapping to points) impossible in some cases. I want the default to be in our State Plane NAD83 (not to mention feet and acres for distance and area defaults). It sounds like I should add Set CoordSys, Set Area Units, Set Distance Units statements to the Startup workspace, but that doesn't seem to do it. Unfortunately, I'm told by Tech Support, there isn't any way to change this default in MapInfo without writing a MapBasic program. I do a bit of MapBasic, but that doesn't seem to affect program defaults. It seems that there must be some way to alter the program's default. Ive checked the archives, with no luck. Any experience or ideas out there? Sample code? Thanks for listening! Craig Craig Parada, Senior Planner GIS & Data Management, Planning Services Division Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Room 400, City Hall, 801 North First Street San Jose, California 95110 408-277-8549 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ci.sj.ca.us/planning/sjplan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
