Dave, Why not? The hard drives keep getting bigger, programs keep getting bigger (look at the Gb space that, say, Microsoft Office takes up, or GTA: San Andreas, for that matter).
Let's go back to the days of "really big" GIS files and a wait time for processing that consumes two or three cups of coffee. ;) -R -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Reid Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:30 PM To: 'Jakob Lanstorp'; 'MapInfo List' Subject: Off Topic: Dot Net question was: RE: [MI-L] Fixes and New MapInfo Features I hope that this "dot net" concept isn't indicative of what I've seen of late. Needing to convert some engineering plats from Autocad produced DWG files, I wanted to see just what the producer wanted so I downloaded Autocad's freebie DWG viewer. GOOD GRIEF!!! This thing was 106MB, and for a mere VIEWER/print ONLY! I noticed during the install process it had to install the MS dot net framework and that seemed to take as long as some of the other install processes. Is the "dot net" framework indicative of GREAT BIG'OLE' HUMOUNGUS hard drive realestate consuming files? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jakob Lanstorp Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:40 PM To: MapInfo List Subject: RE: [MI-L] Fixes and New MapInfo Features On the other hand, why spend too much time fixing an old product like MapInfo. Give MI Corp. some credit until we get MapInfo.NET. C/ Jakob Lanstorp Software Developer Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Mob +45 4020 7529 Fax +45 6311 4949 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk/gis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Flavio Hendry Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:34 AM To: Bill Thoen; MapInfo List Subject: [MI-L] Fixes and New MapInfo Features Hi Bill Yessss, all of it, instead of useless "kind of 3D" junk. We and our clients are asking for that since version 4 ... Thanks for summarizing! > And I agree with you all -- why HASN'T this bug been fixed yet? In > fact, if MapInfo needs some featues to add for the next release that > will actually excite people and motivate them to upgade, why not fix > all the layout bugs and add some features that will allow us to put a > finish on our maps that makes them look like cartographic art rather > than 'toons? > Why not add antialiasing like what's in SVG? Why not text on a curve, > and some of the smart street labeling that's in MapText's Label-EZ? > Why > not provide line styles where you can change both the inside AND > outside color? Why not color gradational fills? How about vector layer > translucense? How about finishing the cartographic legend utility? 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