I agree. I am simple sociologist who enjoys the applicaton of mapping to the
examination of society and the possible uses maps have for bringing about
social change. Unfortunately I am not a code Cutter.
Laurence Glasco wrote:
> I recently joined this user's list for MapInfo, thinking it would be
> useful to my uses of MapInfo --creating historical maps to display social,
> demographic and political characteristics of cities and regions.
>
> I have noticed the tremendous amount of traffic on the list, with 99.9% of
> it devoted to MapBasic questions and techniques. I can't figure out what
> the need is for such controls. Are they for people with dynamic maps,
> such as weather maps, that change with incoming real-time data? Is there
> any advantage of MapBasic controls for socio-demographic-political maps?
> And why the tremendous traffic -- is MapBasic *that* difficult, or is
> it so new that people are in a steep learning curve?
>
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