Your MI add-on technical support person must have been thinking about
ArcView. You're fine in MapInfo. One of the advantages MI has over AV.
Will Mitchell
GIS Manager
The Environmental Company, Inc.
2496 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22905
ph 804.295.4446
fx 804.295.4435
http://www.tecinc.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillips, Andrew [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 2:03 PM
> To: mi-l (E-mail)
> Subject: MI projecting on the fly
>
> It was my understanding that vector coverages in different projections can
> be mixed willy-nilly, technically speaking, within a map window, and each
> would be reprojected on-the-fly to that windows projection as defined by
> the
> raster base projection. In a discussion with technical support at a
> company
> that supplies several MI add-ons, I was told I was mistaken. Rather, that
> on-the-fly projection only correctly occurs if the various vectors are all
> in lat/long. What? That makes on-the-fly projection a very limited
> feature, indeed. The User's Guide only indicates on-the-fly reprojection
> to
> be a problem in processing time, not in mapping.
>
> Your clarification of this point will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Drew
>
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>
> Andrew Phillips, Ph.D.
> Quaternary Geology Section
> Illinois State Geological Survey
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