On 4/19/05, datasolutionsnewbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > Not being that literate with Spatial terminology I may have missed a > previous reference showing how to do what I am trying to achieve. If so > I apologise up front! > > Is there a way of passing a lat/long point to any of the MITAB > functions and get back the feature that ~owns~ that point.
Hilton, Generally speaking, no there is not a way of doing this. Is your file in latitude and longitude or a different projection? If it is in lat/long, then you could construct a small spatial filter rectangle around that point and find the nearest feature to the point from what gets returned. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
