Mal A couple of years ago I wrote a small Windows app to produce any size grid, albeit only for British National Grid - the output is a single .mif file containing the five E + N references for each grid, this is then easily and quickly imported into MapInfo. By way of comparison I created a 250m grid for the whole of London in MapInfo's Gridmaker, this took around 90 minutes to produce ( at the time on a 486 ), the utility I wrote in 'c' took around 7 minutes. That is down to about 40 seconds now on a 233! I am not familiar with your co-ordinate system but I image, being Australia, it is similar. I would be willing to have a look at the source code to see if it could be modified without burning too much midnight oil. Perhaps you will let me know, certainly you are welcome to try the existing application if you wish. Regards Ian Oldfield Metropolitan Police South Area HQ 3-5 Penrhyn Road Kingston Surrey KT1 2BT England -----Original Message----- From: Mal Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MapInfo List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 02 February 1999 02:09 Subject: MI Wish list - an ideal gridmaker >Good morning all >Wouldn't it be nice if ... gridmakr.mbx worked like this: >1. Select rectangle to mark boundaries of area to be gridded >2. Specify start and finish eastings and northings (or lats and longs) >3. Specify grid intervals >4. Specify labels >5. Go >The result ... a labelled grid that extends to the boundaries of the >specified area and not beyond. Beautiful. > >Cheers >Mal Jones >Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution & Mineral Exploration >Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies >PO Box 883 Kenmore >Queensland >Australia 4069 > >Ph (07) 3212 4610 >Fax (07) 3212 4455 >Web: http://leme.anu.edu.au/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
