Tim, You could link your polygon and line tables to Access, so that you could display the objects in MI and view your data in Access at the same time. They would be saved as an Access mdb, but still retain their objects. It is when you open a "tab mdb" in Access and change things around that won't always jive. Is this what you are asking? Alan
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Rideout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: MI-L MS Access Sorry, but that is not the case. You can have point objects existing only in Access. It is the lines and polygons which can not. And that is only in MapInfo. I think I am right in saying that ArcGIS stores all of its objects in Access format if you do not have SDE or some other database. If it isn't ArcGIS then it is some other system I have come across recently. They are held as BLOGs, I think. Regards, and thanks for all your help, Tim Dr Tim Rideout Director The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith EH22 3NX, Scotland, Europe Tel: +44 131 454 0426 Fax: +44 131 454 0443 Mobile: +44 7766 825937 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.xyzmaps.com -----Original Message----- From: Jakob Lanstorp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2005 19:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: MI-L MS Access You can not have points (or any GIS objects) in a MSAccess database. If you want a spatial datatype you must use Oracle Spatial or Spatialware for MSSQL. HTH, Jakob Lanstorp Senior Consultant Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 5260 Odense S. Tel +45 6311 4900 Fax +45 6311 4949 Mob +45 5050 8087 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk http://www.cowi.com -----Original Message----- From: Tim Rideout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 8:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MI-L MS Access Dr Tim Rideout Director Dear All, Probably a simple question. I have sorted how to keep my data in MS Access and then get MapInfo to connect and display it. This works fine for Access tables which just have a single map point per record. Does Access also support Line and Polygon objects, or do these objects have to be kept in MapInfo and only the attributes in Access? Thanks Tim The XYZ Digital Map Company Unit 9 Phase 2 Hardengreen Business Park Dalhousie Road, Dalkeith EH22 3NX, Scotland, Europe Tel: +44 131 454 0426 Fax: +44 131 454 0443 Mobile: +44 7766 825937 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.xyzmaps.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17916 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17942 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17944 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17945
