Re: MI record limit Fwd: Re: MI Importing a File
Peter, Here is a message I recently received from Bill Wemple at Mapinfo about this exact topic. HTH --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: MI Importing a File To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:57:20 -0400 The limitation to the size of a table in MapInfo is 2 billion rows and a 4096 byte record length in each row. Regards, -Bill Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI What is GML and should we MapInfo-ites care?
If you want some in-depth info on GML, I would recommend OGC's site, specifically: http://www.opengis.org/techno/specs/00-029/GML.html My opinion is that we should at the very least care as interested participants in the world of GIS. The quest for GIS standards, though by no means easy, is laudable and deserves the support of those of us who, though fond of Mapinfo, see it as only part of a bigger picture. GML seems to offer functionality as both an interchange format and the potential to really streamline webmapping. My 2 cents. Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan -Included Message-- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:09:09 -0600 From: "Neil Havermale" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Neil Havermale" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI What is GML and should we MapInfo-ites care? Apparently GML is some sort of XML format that allows GIS data to be moved around http://www.galdosinc.com/reasons_for_gml.htm I don't this should be dismissed by the fish-wishers MidNight Mapper aka Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -End of Included Message-- _ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI Further to my coordinate problem
Gabor,
You can take a look at the following messages in the archives (there are
others as well) and hopefully that should solve your troubles.
I am sending a text file with the contents of these messages directly to
you also(didn't want to fill the listers' mailboxes).
HTH
Kurt Ackermann
Regional Science Institute
Sapporo, Japan
Ynt: MI Centroids only in Lat/Long? ("tuncay kucukpehlivan"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/08/99)
{http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/tdc/mapinfo-l.nsf/12dcce0bd0474519852564370063f39d/0db4451d192d8e428525678a00217a3f?OpenDocumentHighlight=0,coordsys}
RE: MI Arrg : Set Coordsys Command ("Jackson, Bill (ETSA
Transmission)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/18/99)
{http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/tdc/mapinfo-l.nsf/12dcce0bd0474519852564370063f39d/49a916d5794be232852566fe0010c39b?OpenDocumentHighlight=0,coordsys}
The inimitable Jacques Paris:
Re: MI Centroid (x y coord) in non-earth maps! (Jacques PARIS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/22/98)
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:49:46 +1000
From: "Gabor Vasarhelyi" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: MI Further to my coordinate problem
I have saved copy as and changed the projection using that button . I
then
load the new table and sure enough it comes up with the new coordinate
system. The problem is that at that point I go to update columns with
the
Centroid command and it always brings up lats and longs. No matter what
I
do as far as setting map coordinated through
Mapoptionsprojections)??
Gabor Vasarhelyi
Environmental Resources Management Australia (ERM) Pty Ltd
Ph. 9906 1666
Fax 9906 5375
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Re: MI Importing a File
If your entire text file is set up the same way as your example, a quick and dirty solution could be to open the text file in Excel, a dialog box will open and you can set the column divisions and cell settings for the columns in there (I tried it with your example and it was very straightforward with no need to adjust the column width, only giving the cells character settings). That makes a standard excel file which you can copy and paste into a Mapinfo browser after you create and give settings to a new TAB file. Ie, you set up a new empty TABle in Mapinfo with the three* (four if you want some kind of 'id' field) fields you require, then open the browser which will, of course, be empty; make sure it's active and paste your copied excel records directly into it. I don't know Mapinfo's limit for records in one TABle offhand, but it would just entail creating enough TABles to handle your data if you're over the limit I assume. HTH Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan *I'm not sure whether the example you gave was 3 or 4 fields (columns), but if it is 4 you could avoid the 3rd and 4th overlapping by doing a global replace, for example of 5 spaces with 10. Again, it's a very quick and dirty solution and anybody with even a smidgeon of Perl experience will laugh at it, but it works if you're only semi-computer literate, like me! -Included Message-- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:25:59 -0400 From: "Agen Greg SMSgt AFRC/RSOO" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Agen Greg SMSgt AFRC/RSOO" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Importing a File I have a "txt" file with over 300,000 records (One Record per line) in it. I want to import it into a MapInfo Table... what is the easiest way to do so? Here is the Record Layout for each line Position 1-2 Century Position 3-6 Sep Year Position 7 Filler Position 8-9 Sep Month Position 10-14 Zip Code Position 15-19 FIPS Code Position 20-21 State Position 22-23 Service Position 24-26 DOD OCC Position 27-34 MOS Position 35Count GREGORY S. AGEN, SMSgt, USAF NCOIC, HQ Recruiting Production Analysis COM: (800) 223-1784 ext. 70147 DSN: 497-0147 DSN FAX: 497-0327 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOBILE: (478) 396-5011 MOBILE E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: (800) 856-6122 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -End of Included Message-- _ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI Map projection data
Simon, I don't think there will be an easily (or legally!) available useful copy on the internet, so you'd either have to shell out for a copy or get one from a kind soul with one to spare. It seems the New Internationalist will send you one if you subscribe. I won't even make a pretense of addressing this volatile issue, but there are a couple of web pages listed below with pretty good background info about the whole debate, and they have small pictures of the map to give you some idea of what it looks like. I would especially recommend taking a look at the article by Crampton available at Robert Frank's site to get a good idea of the history of the issue (last link below). Geog 222 Lecture Outline: Peter's Map Projection Controversy http://www.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_222/geog_222_lo/geog_222_lo17.html the impossibility of a fair world-projection (Robert Frank) http://webalumno.iese.edu/00Hofland/proj/projmain.htm Cartography's defining moment: the Peters Projection controversy 1974-1990 (see the explanatory note at the bottom of Frank's main page about figures and references) http://webalumno.iese.edu/00Hofland/proj/crampton.htm Enjoy! Kurt Ackermann -Included Message-- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:35:08 +0100 From: "Simon W Fox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Simon W Fox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Map projection data Hello This isn't really a Mapinfo question more a data question. I want to get hold of a map of the world which I can bring into Mapinfo that is in Peter's projection. A friend mentioned it at the weekend and said howdifferent things appear in this map, she's a teacher so I had to agree. Anyway, if anyone has such a map they could let me have or point me in the direction of one on the internet, for download or purely for viewing, I'd greatly appreciate it. Cheers Simon - Rivers and Coastal Section WS Atkins Warrington Tel: 01925 622029 Fax: 01925 622054 - -End of Included Message-- _ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI Tiffs/Tiff World Files
If I understand your request properly, either of these two free utilities available from the Directions Magazine site's great selection of MapInfo tools should do the trick. WorldReg v4 tool description: http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/Default.asp?a=fileID=92 download tool: http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/default.asp?a=downloadfilename=worldreg.mbxid=92 tfwread tool description: http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/Default.asp?a=fileID=48 download tool: http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/Default.asp?a=downloadfilename=TFWread.zipid=48 HTH Kurt Ackermann -Included Message-- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:45:57 +0100 From: "Martin, Christopher (WSA Telford)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Martin, Christopher (WSA Telford)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Tiffs/Tiff World Files We are wanting to include a number of scanned images in MI. Ideally we would like to manipulate the images in AutoCAD map (rotating,skewing etc.) before exporting as a TIF/TFW pair. What is the best/quickest/easiest route for this? As far as I can see MI will accept TIFs, but they must be registered... It would be a shame to have to have them geo-referenced manually twice... Is there a way of automating this process or any translators? Thanks in advance... Chris Martin GIS Consultant WS Atkins Consultants Ltd (01952) 201234 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -End of Included Message-- _ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MIFSHAPE Conversion
Hari, I don't know which version of MIFSHAPE you are using, but the problem may possibly be with MIFSHAPE. It has misbehaved for us in the past also. However, it is also possible that there is something in the MIF which is causing the problem, as this has also occurred for us. It doesn't seem to be a problem for going back to TAB, but does interfere with conversion to other formats. One possible option (if you have Arcinfo!) is to use Arclink and export it to e00 format, import this in Arcinfo, then use the 'arcshape' command to create a shapefile (arcshape has also been known to create 'strange' shapefiles for us, but generally is OK). If not, a colleague of mine has developed a Perl program which we sometimes use for doing conversions (MIF/SHP, SHP/MIF, etc) and, barring any problems inherent to the original files, this usually works quite well. The program is still in the development stage, so not freely accessible, but if you don't have any problems forwarding the file I could try this approach to convert it for you. Hope that helps. Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan -Included Message-- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:00:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "hari agung" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MIFSHAPE Conversion Dear List,... I have problem when using MIFSHAPE to convert*.MIF into *.SHP, Error message something like "Conversion cannot completed - Can't create DBF file". What i get only *.shp and *.shx - each of them only 1 Kb. I already use Data Automation Kit, but still same. Thanks for your help... hari agung [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agriculture Development Project Directorate General of Estate Departement of Forestry and Estate Republic of Indonesia -End of Included Message-- _ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI dimension lines
Dear Listers, A colleague wishes to know if there is any automated way to create dimension lines corresponding to line features in a TABle (the features are located along a road corridor, but are not the road itself). He is well aware that this is more of a CAD task/feature than GIS, but not having CAD at our disposal and having been requested to do this for a rather large number of TABles, I thought someone on the list might be able to help. I have searched the list archives and many other places on the web (poor search technique certainly can't be discounted), but have not succeeded in finding much of anything. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan _ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Re:ProViewer
Dear Listers/Mapinfo, I was wondering if anyone has any idea when a Japanese version of Proviewer might be coming out or if what seems like a possible language incompatibility to me can be worked around. When trying to open a workspace created in MI Pro 4.5 (Japanese Version), the contents of layout windows were not displayed, only the somewhat cryptic message 'No Window'.That is, layout windows existing in the original workspace were there,only their contents were substituted with the message. Otherwise Proviewer seemed to open the workspace OK. Tab files comprising the workspace have names in Japanese characters, as does the name of the workspace itself, but opened OK, just the layout didn't. If anyone has any insight regarding this it would be much appreciated. TIA Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan Rumor has it that there are MI Pro Viewer versions in Danish, German, Finnish and Russian now. But no links at www.mapinfo.com yet. The rumor is true !! You can get these special versions of ProViewer in a very simple way.. just add the language after the original link: http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/proviewerDanish http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/proviewerFinnish ...etc... Thanks for pointing this out. We have updated http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/proviewer to contain links to: English Version Danish Version Finnish Version German Version Russian Version -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Kurt Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan This message sent from RobotMail(http://new.robotmail.ne.jp). -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:MI Datum !!
Checking the information in the mapinfow.prj file for our (Japanese) version of Mapinfo Pro, I found: "Conformal Projection ($BCf9q(J)", 3, 0, 0, 110, 10, 25, 40, 0, 0 The characters in parentheses probably don't show up correctly on your system, but they stand for 'China' in Japanese. It seems that '0' may be the datum number you need, but it's just a best guess. Hope that helps. Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan Hi listers, I have a map in .E00 format. I want to translate it in mapinfo. The map description is : Projection: LAMBERT Conformal Projection Units: METERS Spheroid: CLARKE1866 Parameters: 1st standard parallel: 25. 00, N 2nd standard parallel: 47.00, N central meridian: 110.00 E latitude of projection's origin: 10.00 N What is the number i must put for the datum? "Conformal Projection (China)", 3, ?, 7, 110, 10, 25, 47, 0, 0 Thanks Claude Beaumont Geologist Virtual Geology Qu$BqC(Jec, Canada -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:MI Datum !!
Checking the information in the mapinfow.prj file for our (Japanese) version of Mapinfo Pro, I found: "Conformal Projection ($BCf9q(J)", 3, 0, 0, 110, 10, 25, 40, 0, 0 The characters in parentheses probably don't show up correctly on your system, but they stand for 'China' in Japanese. It seems that '0' may be the datum number you need, but it's just a best guess. Hope that helps. Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan Hi listers, I have a map in .E00 format. I want to translate it in mapinfo. The map description is : Projection: LAMBERT Conformal Projection Units: METERS Spheroid: CLARKE1866 Parameters: 1st standard parallel: 25. 00, N 2nd standard parallel: 47.00, N central meridian: 110.00 E latitude of projection's origin: 10.00 N What is the number i must put for the datum? "Conformal Projection (China)", 3, ?, 7, 110, 10, 25, 47, 0, 0 Thanks Claude Beaumont Geologist Virtual Geology Qu$BqC(Jec, Canada -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:MI urgent requirement : UTM zone info required for japan
Sandeep, the central meridian for the zone you specified is 123, however this zone (51) only covers western Okinawa. Examples of major cities falling into other zones include: Fukuoka/Nagasaki/ Naha, zone 52; Hiroshima/Osaka/Nagoya/Kobe, zone 53; Tokyo/Sendai/ Sapporo/Asahikawa, zone 54; Nemuro/Russian controlled islands, zone 55. Corresponding central meridians are 129, 135, 141, 147 respectively from west to east. As for spheroids - Bessel 1841 for UTM, Tokyo 1949 datum. An excellent resource for GIS info about Japan can be found at: http://www.cast.uark.edu/jpgis/index.html If you have any more questions, let me know. Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan hi all if anybody can provice me the info about most commonly used spheroids for japan and also important please the center meridian of UTM zone for japan which is utm zone 51 thanks in advance sandeep -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Re:topology problem?
Hi Andrea, I'm certainly not an expert on this, but it sounds like you have a topology problem somewhere in your table, such as a 'bowtie' (where 2 linear elements of a polygon cross each other without a node at the crossing point). I also have experienced this problem, which is very frustrating if you have many polygons and don't know exactly where the problem is located. I think one of the functions of GeoWiz, which works with FME, is to address such problems of topology. But these cost money, of course. I'm sure someone else can give you better information as to how to address the problem, I just want to warn you that assuming the operation was successful despite the error message would be a mistake, because it has failed to work in at least one location and possibly more. I think the operation stops and produces the error message once it has encountered a topological problem that it can't resolve, leaving the remainder (if any) and the area with the problem uncompleted. Other problems resulting from the failed operation, which are not immediately visible, are also possible. I would also be interested in anyone else's recommended solutions. Hope that helps even a little! Kurt Ackermann Regional Science Institute Sapporo, Japan Hi All, I am using the split function to split school district values into municipality values. It works except I have to do it one school district at a time or I get an error: "An error occurred overlaying the objects." I have done some experimenting and it looks as though the data sill splits even though I am getting this error. However, I am reluctant to just assume this without knowing the details of the error. Thanks for any input. Andrea Swansby GIS Specialist Metropolitan Area Research Corporation 612 379-3926 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - $B%"%C%+!<%^%s(J $B%+!<%H(J [EMAIL PROTECTED] $B$3$N%a!<%k$O(JRobotMail( http://new.robotmail.ne.jp )$B$+$iAw?.$5$l$^$7$?!#(J -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
