Timothy,
Unless there is some reason you need to do this with Map Basic, I would do
a batch DOS manipulation of the ASCII header files replacing the projection
line.
John Haynes
Director
Geodata Consultants, Inc.
1-800-838-6661
www.geodataconsult.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rood, Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:06 PM
Subject: MI-L Automating DRG Projection Change
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to change the projection of at least dozens, perhaps scores or
> even hundreds, of DRG for the states of WA, OR, ID and AK (FEMA Region X).
I
> get them off the web in UTM (NAD 27/US) , but we want to store everything
as
> Lat/Long NAD 83, so we (read "I") have to change the projection on each
one.
> It's easy to use the Table>Raster>Modify Image Registration to change the
> projection if I'm only doing two or three, but for production purposes, I
> need a less manual approach. I think I glimpsed a thread a few months ago
> about passing strings from MapBasic programs to dialog boxes as if they
(the
> strings) were entered from the keyboard. I think that technique might be
> what I'm looking for and I'd appreciate those in the know to reprise their
> comments for me if they would. Any other approaches are welcome, too.
>
> The problem, in a nutshell, is programming the change of projection in
> MapBasic. I can run the Modify Image Registration from MB, but can't
change
> the projection in the Image Registration dialogue box without pointing and
> clicking on "Projection" and then going through the (tedious) Choose
> Projection box. Without assistance I don't even know what to "pass" to
the
> dialogue box, let alone how. Perhaps a projection string from the
> Mapinfow.prj file? But, how?
>
> Any advice gratefully appreciated and I'll summarize.
>
> Tim Rood
> FEMA GIS
>
>
>
>
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