Re: MI-L ECW / MrSid files
Same procedure goes for ECW. I've been told how to do it, just have not gotten around to it yet. Hope someone will chime in and advise as to a procedure. Steve Wallace Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: "Martin, Christopher (WSA Telford)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Olivier Latouille'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Mapinfo-L (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:31 AM Subject: RE: MI-L ECW / MrSid files I was looking into this a couple of years ago, but unfortunately I didnt finish the job; however, my recollection is that I had been told by the people in the know(?) that it could be done (for MrSid at least) by doing a bit of fiddling. There are some files in the MapInfo\Professional directory, along the lines of Miffgif.dll, Miffjpeg.dll - theses are the drivers to read the various file formats... I think that the MrSid plug-in adds its own files to the collection. I see no reason why these couldnt be included in your installation - you will need to put them in the appropriate MapX directory, and possibly register them. As for ECW, as yet I am none the wiser... Apologies if this is a bit vague... CJM -Original Message- From: Olivier Latouille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 November 2000 16:13 To: Mapinfo-L (E-mail) Subject: MI-L ECW / MrSid files Bonjour la liste, Does anyone know of a way to read ECW or MrSid files in a MapX program ? Merci ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
Re: MI Animated gif maps
Take a look at www.directionsmag.com in their gallery for some good examples of animated GIF maps. This one is the best, by Marc Pelosse -- http://www.directionsmag.com/images/mapgallery/88_lg.gif . You could use about any thematic type you wish, but the one I used in my old example was a "dot density" thematic. MapInfo Pro implements their dot density thematic in an interesting way: as long as you are working in the same window (all at one session?), the random point placement is generated from a single seed. That means that whenever you change the values driving the dots, they will always be drawn in the same order, in the same places. You can use a tool like Animagic (shareware) at http://www.rtlsoft.com/animagic/ , or Paint Shop Pro (low-cost, commercial) at www.jasc.com , to paste all your individual frames into one animated GIF. Try it out. Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com - Original Message - From: "Robert Batenburg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 04:43 PM Subject: MI Animated gif maps Does anyone recall an article outlining the creation of animated .gif maps using MI output? I thought it was posted some time ago by Steve Wallace at http://www.ffbic.com/mapinfo, but the link seems to be broken. Thanks, Rob Rob Batenburg GIS Data Management Specialist Integrated Pest Management Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre Agassiz, British Columbia [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] -- 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: Advertising to fund MapInfo-L (was MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving! -No Advertising!!)
One thing to keep in mind: this will not be some generic list server with advertisements for low-interest credit cards or internet gambling. The host will be a reputable GIS magazine, and who knows -- you might see an ad for something you need! Steve Wallace Vice President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: "Bill Thoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:41 AM Subject: Advertising to fund MapInfo-L (was MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving! -No Advertising!!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One Comment about the advertising with the e-mail. Don't do it! That's the sort of thing that could run me off from this list faster then any thing else. Would you be willing to pay a subscription fee to get the list mail then? How do you suggest we afford the service? Would you prefer twice-yearly fund drives like they do for public broadcasting? It's been free because I managed to get a good deal at Colorado Supernet for the last 6 years. That made it cost so little (and was helped by some donations and the proceeds of an auction) that my business carried it these last few years. It cost $14.95/mo plus my time, which was gladly given because it has also been good for my business. But SuperNet got bought out by Qwest/US West, and because SuperNet isn't profitable enough for the big wheels, the wheels are closing down that service. The hard, cold Morlocks meet the Eloi of the Internet. In a perfect world advertising serves to connect people who have needs to products and services that answer those needs, and that's the goal we would try to attain. I am all too aware that in our real world, advertising also tries to *create* needs and wants and stick a straw into your wallet and suck hard. We all know that activity sucks, but is there any creative solution that we can come up with where we can generate enough cash to pay for the infrastructure we need to make this list a success? Lists do not live by email alone. Perhaps we can do a mix of paid subscriptions with no advertising with some freebie subscriptions that come with a helping thinly sliced spam. How about the USGS buying up a block and giving them out to employees? Maybe people with deeper pockets could fund subscriptions for students who are full of bright ideas, but no money. Maybe we could charge enough for advertising so that there wouldn't be many (but if there were none, that wouldn't help) Or maybe the ads wouldn't be so bad or common anyway. Maybe we could do a mix of donations, light advertising, auctions, and fund drives. But all that work takes volunteers or paid staff. Advertising is the easiest solution. If you don't want it at all, get creative, and not to put too fine a point on it, put your money where your mouth is. The form that these will take has not been decided yet anyway. All that's been talked about is that the service can be offered and that advertising would be a covenant way to afford it. As Henry D. Thoreau once said, "All great enterprises should be self-supporting." How about some ideas instead of complaints? -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet -- 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: Image Compression Utility (Free)
For more info on this, check out Directions Magazine's review of ECW at http://www.directionsmag.com . Steve - Original Message - From: "Michael Naughton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 10:16 AM Subject: MI: Image Compression Utility (Free) A FREE compression engine that allows you to compress 500MB files?!? Plug-ins for Photoshop, MSOffice, ArcView, AutoCAD, MapInfo and browsers? Haven't had a chance to try it yet. If anyone has please comment. http://www.ermapper.com/online/software/utility/ecwcompress/ecwcomp_tex t.htm ,,, /'^'\ ( o o ) oOOO--(_)--OOOo-- Michael Naughton 61 Caldwell St. Huntington Station, NY 11746-182161 [EMAIL PROTECTED] V 631-427-8269 F 413-556-5826 -73.4008061 40.8460857 Email is packaged by intellectual weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during transmission. .oooO ( ) Oooo. --\ (( )--- \_)) / (_/ -- 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 MapXsite 3.51
Any MapXsite programmers out there? I need to have several layers opened, and use an Info-Tool-Style command which will give me several fields out of the opened layers. Sometimes this would be more than one field from a single table. Please drop me a line! Steve Wallace -- 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 How does MapInfo handles muliple Projections in the same window?
- Original Message - From: "Spencer Simpson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mapinfo Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: Re: MI How does MapInfo handles muliple Projections in the same window? ... [snip] There is one other consideration: The datum transformation the MapInfo uses most of the time is simple and (relatively) fast, but fairly inaccurate. If your layers are in projections based upon different datums, they might not line up *perfectly*. You will have to decide if you can live with the inaccuracy. Spencer is right here (of course!), and don't forget that they also may not line up right if you have data with different bounds clauses. Steve Wallace Vice President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's -- 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 MapInfo 5.0.1 Polygon Snapping Problem
Sounds like a problem with bounds and precision. Look at http://www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm for Internal Precision whitepaper from Jaques Paris. Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:26 PM Subject: MI MapInfo 5.0.1 Polygon Snapping Problem I have recently come across my first major error using MapInfo and my own tech support staff has not heard of it. My problem occurs when I am drawing polygons using underlying layers to determine the boundaries. Using the snap function and the cross hairs to determine the snap vertice point, after I release the mouse button, the vertice snaps to a point to the right about 1/4 inch on the screen. No other layers are selectable. I have packed the table, tried snapping using other layers and have closed down MapInfo, but to no success. Has anybody else come across this problem and if so could you shed some light on the subject. Cheers Dave Williams -- 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 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars
This request is on the MapInfo Wish List (www.directionsmag.com) and has been a personal qualm of mine for quite some time. There is no way to do this that has been revealed in the past years this problem has been voiced. Steve Wallace Vice President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: "David Reid" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MapInfo-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:21 PM Subject: MI 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars I had hoped that one of the many bugs an upgrade would fix, would be the ability for the user to nail down those blasted, floatable toolbars! PLEASE!!! Has anyone found a fix for this??? David Reid GIS/Database Mngr Colbert County E-9-1-1 Colbert County, Alabama [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] -- 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 Where is MapInfo (Friday lack of humour)
Good points. To amplify on the comment about universities, ESRI has been very smart. They get them schooled onESRI's products while in college, then when they go into the workplace and influence GIS purchases... what do you think they suggest? Steve WallaceVice President, OperationsFlorida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: Jeroen Wagendorp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:57 AM Subject: MI Where is MapInfo (Friday lack of humour) "GIS users and vendors are invited to join the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, and ESRI (but not MapInfo)in opening their doors for GIS Day 2000." Why isn't MapInfo as pro active as ESRI. How many truly functional GIS software packages are there? Is ERSI the only one interacting with URISA, AAG, APA, etc. In Michigan GIS=ESRI. All universities use ESRI, all state agencies with veryone exception exclusivelyuse ESRI. The perception is now that ESRI productsis GIS, anything else is used by GIS "imitators". Places are switching to ESRI purely as part of a herd mentalityfostered aggressive sales personspreying onGIS insecurity. Software grants to institutions of higher education is a no brainer to train future users. Cur. Vita of untenured assistant professors are loaded with ESRI software grants as major accomplishments. Guess where their loyalty lies if nothing else for pure leverage in vita building If I write two identical letters one to MapInfo and one to ESRI about wanting to start a GIS curriculum at my 4 year institution guess what happens. I once was able to get20 "old" versions of Mapinfo for my local highschool Vocational TrainingCenter, and similarly about that many copiesforlocaluniversity two years ago through what I believe to be a nolonger in existence 3rd party non-profit organization. It could not be done again today. The ESRI cult status as the only GIS show in town is gaining momentum and it isin all honesty to their marketing credit. The bottom line of MapInfo might be in good shape todaybut why promote or support a product without corporate backing. The MapInfo line of products can speak for itself only if it has an opportunity by used early on. I guess I am getting tired of constantly exporting to *.shp and *.E00 formats for no good reason other than to provide GIS "theme" layers to others. Jeroen Wagendorp
Re: MI 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars
Ah yes, the response we always see when this subject comes up. There is a BIG difference between "docked" and "locked" toolbars. I imagine Mr. Reid is quick and busy on the mouse like I am -- drawing maps, changing tools, frequently going from the tools buttons to the map window and back again for another tool (BTW, how about some keyboard shortcuts for tools?). The problem is that it is so easy to un-dock a toolbar when you are working. I watched another MapInfo user do this same thing just yesterday (then you have to move all your toolbars around to get them in the right order again. So, we're still looking for a solution. Steve Wallace Vice President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Steve Wallace" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "David Reid" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "MapInfo-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 02:09 PM Subject: Re: MI 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars Hello All, Perhaps I'm not understanding the issue (I've never had a problem with the "floating" toolbars). This preference can be set (first arrange the toolbars as you wish them to layout) through "Options Toolbars (uncheck "Floating" for each toolbar, check "Save as Default") then OK. Exit MI and restart, the toolbars will load docked. Hope this is what you are looking for. Take care, Eric Steve replied: This request is on the MapInfo Wish List (www.directionsmag.com) and has been a personal qualm of mine for quite some time. There is no way to do this that has been revealed in the past years this problem has been voiced. Steve Wallace Vice President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's David wrote: I had hoped that one of the many bugs an upgrade would fix, would be the ability for the user to nail down those blasted, floatable toolbars! PLEASE!!! Has anyone found a fix for this??? David Reid GIS/Database Mngr Colbert County E-9-1-1 Colbert County, Alabama [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 MapInfo Certification / Exam
Your description reminds me of the "test" you can take on MapInfo's web site, to see what level of training you should take first. I found many of the questions/terms to be misleading. Take a look at the "Training Quiz" yourself, at http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/inetbu/survey.nsf/TrainingSurvey?openform . Steve Wallace Vice President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: "Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 01:16 PM Subject: RE: MI MapInfo Certification / Exam Hello Richard, The MapInfo Professional Accreditation exam is a partner competency test and I don't think it's available to end users. I don't know if it's UK specific. To be honest, I found it a bit archaic anyway with ambiguous questions, a slightly illogical scoring system and flexible exam time. The exam was said to be put together based on the technical support query database. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI MapInfo Certification / Exam I'm beginning to wonder if its a UK-only program. As MapInfo partners, we were informed directly of the program (from the UK Windsor office). Richard. -Original Message- From: Ken Archer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 August 2000 14:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI MapInfo Certification / Exam Richard, I haven't seen anything on MI's Web site about this. Where did you get info? Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI MapInfo Certification / Exam Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:51:47 +0100 Dan, MapInfo have! I took the MapInfo Pro 'Product Specialist' exam which is part f the 'MapInfo Professional Technical Accreditation Programme'. Richard Burkmar -Original Message- From: Dan Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 August 2000 03:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapInfo Certification / Exam Has anyone come up with an exam that would test a person's knowledge of MapInfo? It seems like I've seen this question before but don't recall seeing any answers. TIA Dan Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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] -- 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] -- 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 Polylines to Polygons
MapInfo's Geometry Manager will create polygons from line networks. I haven't heard the "official" price on it, but the word was it costs around $1,000. Steve Wallace Vice-President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: "Malcolm Norman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 07:03 AM Subject: MI Polylines to Polygons Hi all, We are looking to convert our Ordnance Survey 1250 landline data from polylines into closed polygons/regions and then separate the data into new datasets using the OS feature code field (a numeric field). Does anyone know of a mapinfo application (free or commercial) that will enable us to carry this out in house and from within the mapinfo platform. If it produces information that is compliant with British Standard BS7666 the National Land and Property Gazetteer all the better. We are currently running ver 5.5 (upgrading to ver 6.0 soon). Many thanks Malcolm Norman GIS Development Officer Engineering Design Service Portsmouth City Council England United Kingdom Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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] -- 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 true or false in SQL
This is a logical field, not a one-character text field. "T" and "F" are just what displays in the browser. Search where Logical_Column = 1 for yes orzero for no. As a side note, MapInfo will translate certain entries into a browser, like 1 or "Y" will change to T, and 0 or "N" will change to F. Steve WallaceContributing EditorDirections Magazinehttp://www.directionsmag.com - Original Message - From: Nick Hall To: MapInfo-L Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 08:14 AM Subject: MI true or false in SQL Dear L-ers, I have a large MapInfo table that hasa logical column (i.e. T or F). When I come to query that field for the false rows (i.e. where Logical_column= "F") it selects all the true values (i.e. "T"). Also, if I ask the query the other way round and try to select all the rows that don't equal false it does select all the false records (i.e.where Logical_column "F"). Can anybody explain this please - it happens inV5, V5.5 and V6. TIA Nick Hall Dataview Solutions Ltd "Making Maps Work" Technology House, Lissadel Street Salford M6 6AP ENGLAND Tel: +44 (0)161 278 2556 Fax: +44 (0)161 737 7700 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: www.dataview-solutions.co.uk **HAVE A LOOK AT OUR NEW DATA CATALOGUE ONLINE** ___ WARNING - THIS E-MAIL TRANSMISSION IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail transmission (including any accompanying attachments) contains confidential information which is intended for the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thank you. ___
MI Translate MicroStation to MapInfo
What will translate MicroStation into TAB files? Steve Wallace Vice-President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's -- 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 Show us your MAPS!
Do you have an interesting or innovative map image you would like to share with the GIS community? Then drop by Directions Magazine's Map Gallery and submit it! Even if you do not have something to submit right now, come visit the site and see what creative maps have already been posted in our gallery. There are all kinds -- different application software, some using post processing, even animated GIF maps and examples of photorealistic images. Come take a look, and click the thumbnail images to enlarge the view. http://www.directionsmag.com/mapgallery/ Thanks, Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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 USGS digital quad maps
The newer versions of WinZip can extract TAR and or GZip files just fine. Steve Wallace Vice-President, Operations Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies - Original Message - From: "Tim Warman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mapinfo-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 06:24 PM Subject: RE: MI USGS digital quad maps Mike, Thanks, but the problem is that Winzip isn't recognizing the .gz file, which means I can't extract the contained .e00 file. Cheers, Tim _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -Original Message- From: LEPAGE, MIKE (MIKE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:00 PM To: 'Tim Warman' Subject: RE: MI USGS digital quad maps I sometimes find that winzip doesn't know what file it is and askes you (it defaults to no extension). just put a .e00 on the end of the files when you extract them and they are fine. Mike Lepage, B.Sc. Senior RF Engineer / Project Manager Wireless Professional Services Tel: 636-891-2130 Fax: 636-891-4555 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucent Technologies O -Original Message- From: Tim Warman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:57 PM To: Mapinfo-L Subject: MI USGS digital quad maps Listers, Has anyone used USGS geological maps from this site http://geology.usgs.gov/open-file/maps.html ? The files have an .e00.gz extension, which apparently represents ArcInfo export files compressed using a UNIX package called gzip. As per their instructions, I downloaded gzip for DOS and attempted to decompress the files, but the program won't recognize the .e00.gz files. Gzip notes in their documentation that WinZip contains the gzip functionality, and can open .gz files. However, Winzip wouldn't recognize the files either (I tried with and without TAR File Smart CR/LF Conversion selected), and of course all of the GIS people at USGS are off today. I would be most grateful for any assistance, and promise to write a complete and detailed summary. Thanks, Tim _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -- 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] -- 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 Removing segments from a polyline
It's at Directions Magazine in their Tools directory. See http://www.directionsmag.com . Steve Wallace Operations Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's - Original Message - From: "Trammell, Nathaniel A." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mapinfo-L (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 09:50 AM Subject: RE: MI Removing segments from a polyline Would you share in the origin of this "ConnectTheDots.mbx" file??? Thank you! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Removing segments from a polyline I had a whole lot of points collected using a GPS. I used the ConnectTheDots MBX which joined all the dots into 1 polyline. The next trick is - how do I break the polyline up? I collected the data over several days, so there are massive straight line segments joining the end of one collection to the start of the next collection. What I'd like to be able to do is click on the segment of the polyline that I don't want, and press delete. This would automatically split the polyline into 2 different polylines, and leave the gap in the middle. This doesn't seem to be possible though... I tried this "select target" closed cutter objects" business, but I can't see how I can get a closed cutter object to surround just the segment I want to chop off. Is there an easier way? Free I hope - I just want to make a map of my mountain bike trail! Failing that, how do I convert a polyline to separate lines, so I can trim the lines that I don't want, then join all the lines back up to polylines, hopefully not putting in joiners to fill in the gaps! I would have thought this task would be quite common, therefore easy to do, but after searching the archives I can't see anyone else having problems... Dave -- 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] -- 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 VM and MapInfo 6.0
This will have no more impact on VM than it did when MapInfo created grid thematics. Vertical Mapper is a robust analysis tool that will do many types of interpolation/modeling, create TIN or Natural Neighbor polygons, do grid analysis, viewshed, etc. MapInfo is simplyimplementing a new visualization method. Steve Wallace - Original Message - From: matias To: MapInfo-L (E-mail) Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 10:46 PM Subject: MI VM and MapInfo 6.0 With the new version of MapInfo in relation to 3D . What will happen with Verticla Mapper ??? thank matias chile
Re: MI Reasons against a NewsGroup
First, our corporate firewall does not allow access to newsgroups, and I don't see that changing any time soon. I know there are HTML methods for reading newsgroups too, but they are not very user friendly. Second, I like the ability to get information SENT to me, rather than go FETCH it. Third, there already is a threaded archive (very much like a newsgroup) already hosted at MapInfo's site. Fourth, I save certain messages in my e-mail folders for future use. With a newsgroup, this would take extra steps to save the file as (whatever format) then navigate to the appropriate folders. I don't see a newsgroup as being an improvement. Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies - Original Message - From: "Bill Thoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MapInfo-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 04:14 PM Subject: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup? Recently, several people have asked me if we should consider starting a MapInfo Usenet newsgroup in addition to (or instead of) the mailing list we use now. I thought I'd toss it out for discussion and see what everyone thinks. First of all, Usenet newsgroups take a little effort to set up. We would need someone who has access to a newsgroup server who would volunteer to be the "maintainer" (this would not be me; I have too much going on as it is right now). After we get the initial issues sorted out here, the official Usenet process starts with formal a Request for Discussion (RFD) on news.announce.newgroups, then we need to find a volunteer site to tabulate votes, then there's a call for votes. If we get enough votes (and people outside the MapInfo community can and will vote too, so you need to be coherent and persuasive in laying out your arguments) then the maintainer can start posting the messages to servers to start propagating the newsgroup across the world. Getting a slot in the "Big 8" hierarchies makes propagation very easy, but you have to have the votes. The process can take 2-3 months. A quicker route is to create it under the alt or other non-big8 hierarchy. That's faster to get started, but much more difficult to get widespread coverage because many servers won't carry alt newsgroups unless specifically asked (and even then they still might not; alt groups are known for carrying a lot of worthless twaddle). For more info on the process see the news.newusers.questions FAQ or read news.groups for a while or go read about it at http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/6882/ncreate.html. There's plenty of arguments pro and con, but I don't want to sway people one way of another at this point. Post your comments publicly, and if there's anyone out there who wants to offer to be a maintainer/moderator and champion the cause, throw your hats in the ring! For everyone's information, there are currently 1143 subscribers on MapInfo-L. Some of those are gateways and many people read MapInfo-L from various web mirrors, so I don't really know how many "eyes" really read this list. My guess is that to get the votes to create a big 8 hierarchy like comp.infosystems.mapinfo, or sci.geo.mapinfo or whatever, you will need to really get the vote out. Typically, 1200 people is a small group by usenet standards, but it's an active one! If you have an opinion or some interest in getting involved, speak up! For those of you on mirror sites, remember that the list address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]; you don't have to be a subscriber to post your opinions. - Bill Thoen -- 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 Convert to Mig
At 02:58 PM 03/03/2000 +0900, Kazuhiko Yamashita wrote: Hi Stefan, I knew nothing about MIG. But it seems to stand for MapInfo Grid file. Something was written about it on Mapworld magazine November 1999. I tried to download its PDF file but failed. It is huge, more than 10M. Check with MapInfo -- there is an SDK for the grid function. Maybe the grid specs are there. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 annoying feature of Windows 2K Pro?
At 09:36 AM 03/02/2000 -0600, Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. wrote: Dear Mappers: With Windows2K Pro and MapInfo 6.0 beta, when I have a MapInfo running and double-click on a table or a workspace in Explorer, it loads it into the currently running MapInfo rather than starting a new instance. Is this a "feature" of Windows 2K or MapInfo 6.0 beta? How can I turn off this "feature"? Well, that depends on how you might want it to work. I have asked for MapInfo Pro to behave exactly as you just described for several years now. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Geometry Manager
At 01:12 AM 02/25/2000 -0700, Neil Havermale wrote: Consider the Geometry Manager from MapInfo. It is a topology snapper and a slice and dicer for intersection. It works as a checker for most of MapInfo's topology issues. It has been handy to soften the brutal reality you tend to run into during digitazation or after importing data. The technology while not lightening in speed is reliable. Its routines are from the Spatialware project and they have performed as expected. I undestand both MapBasic and MapX can execute it as well. If you have a large detailed job and/or do lots of map slice and dice then its for you. a faf adf These observations are all true (and the software is also useful for creating polygons out of line work); however, I find it difficult to call it a "manager." It does promote and ensure topology, but that doesn't help you manage the problems that come up. For instance, I have a file that I have to edit constantly, and has been through nearly three years of changes. It went from 1,232 polygons to 7,021 polygons after running Topology Manager on it! How am I supposed to handle 5,789 additional, tiny, polygons manually? And "Yes," I do know how to draw maps properly. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 v6 beta
Well, again we have a MapInfo Beta, and again here is a reminder: You agreed to a non-disclosure, which included the following paragraph: "Recipient shall not disclose confidential information to any third party individual, corporation, or other entity without the prior written consent of MapInfo, and shall limit its disclosure to its employees having a need to know such information. Recipient shall protect the disclosed confidential information by using the same degree of care, but no less than a reasonable degree of care, and as Recipient uses itself, to prevent the unauthorized dissemination or publication of its confidential information." In other words, you cannot be discussing anything about the beta outside MapInfo. The company has provided a discussion area for every beta, and comments like these belong there. Please adhere to the terms you agreed to when downloading the beta, or we might see MapInfo go back to requiring signed non-disclosure contracts and fewer beta participants. Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies - Original Message - From: "Doyle, Peter W" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Mapinfo-L'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 02:45 AM Subject: MI v6 beta - printing problems Greetings list, Has anybody downloaded the MapInfo Ver 6 beta??? Remainder of message with privileged information deleted -- SW -- 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 World Time Zone Data!
At 11:54 AM 02/23/2000 -0400, you wrote: Does anybody know of a good source for Time Zone Boundary data for the world, preferably cheap!! Any help is appreciated. There are some at Manifold's web site (www.manifold.net) and mirrored at other sites, but I didn't find them as useful as I had hoped. While I thought the file would be polygons of the world, it is a combination of points, polygons, polylines, you name it. If you just need to hand-check something from time-to-time, it isn't too bad. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Flush Win NT disk cache
Does anyone know how to flush the disk read cache in Windows NT? A command, program or API would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SUM: MI Census Data Request
Thanks to all the many people who responded: Commercial offerings, like DataMetrix and Channel Marketing had what I needed and more for $250 (minimum order size), and included forecasted data. Geolytics also has this for sale. Many offered to send me the data for free. Others sent URL's including CIESIN: ftp://ftp.ciesin.org/pub/census/usa/stf/fl http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/cenguide.html http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddcarto/ Where I finally got the data was the ESRI site: http://www.esri.com/data/online/browse.html Lots of data there, and easy to use. Plus their x-fer speed was primo. Just be careful during the translation from SHP to TAB. They say their files are in NAD83, but the projection was not stored with these files (I opened them in ArcView, and they say "unknown"). The only way to get rid of a 100+ positional error in translation was to use the Universal Translator and pick "long/lat no datum" as the projection. After you convert the files and open them into MapInfo, save them to new filenames with NAD83 projection. Don't get me started on all the problems with the MapInfo "lont/lat" 'projection' -- it is nothing but a headache -- but it did have a use in this instance. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Census Data Request
Does someone know where I may find/buy Florida Census *data* at block group level more easily than the www.census.gov site? I only need a few columns of data (people, households, median income, etc), but it will take forever to acquire it via the on-line queries, the way the Census site is set up. Thanks, Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Tweaking the registry
At 07:40 AM 01/27/2000 -0500, Marjorie Roswell wrote: Well, I typed in "Windows Registry" at amazon.com, and found a number of resources, including this one: From time to time we see that a solution to a problem lies in "tweaking" the registry. Is the following documented anywhere? A. The complete reference - a list of keys, the possible values in them, and what each value signifies. B. The "cookbook" - solutions of the form "if you want to do X, go to the registry and change Y" (like Andy's solution above). If this documentation does not exist perhaps someone could undertake to do so. I'm sure I won't be the only one to welcome it. Marjorie: I don't believe Alex was wanting general information on Windows Registry entries, but instead wondered like I did about those undocumented keys/values for MapInfo Pro. While I am glad there is some additional functionality provided within MapInfo Pro to which users can gain access, my idea of a proper user interface does not include hacking the registry files. We would love a list of keys/values for the MapInfo registry. There may be other features or defaults we would like to change there. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Re: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait'
Well, it really depends on what version of MapInfo Pro you are using. Only recently did MapInfo add printer settings to what is saved in the workspace, and only in the latest patch did many of the problems get resolved. If you are using a version before v5, there are no means to store your printer selections with the workspace. Steve Wallace Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's At 08:10 AM 01/27/2000 -0600, David Reid wrote: I may stand corrected, but I beleive your page orientation problem is by design. I'm only speaking for the Windows family here . . . whichever page orientation you have set in your printer defaults is the one that keeps coming back even though you've saved a different format in a workspace. Should this be the case, you would need to go to Page Setup prior to opening your workspace (or just prior to printing) and select "Landscape". Upon opening your workspace your layout should appear as desired. An alternative might be to change your default page orientation in your printer properties, but that will effect all other print jobs with other apps too. David - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 4:16 AM Subject: MI: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait' This is a problem I'm wondering if anyone else has come across: I have created a number of layouts in workspaces on A4 paper but in landscape (short and wide) format. obviously i have saved the workspace with this work in it. However when i come to reopen the workspace later, the layout has reverted to a portrait A4 setting (2 sheets). Is there a way of saving the paper setting, or is this a quirk of our network? TIA Steven Ward -- 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 Re: keeping layouts as 'landscape' not 'portrait'
At 12:17 PM 01/27/2000 -0600, you wrote: I just tried to run a menu command in a .wor, but it didn't work. I tried: Run Menu Command M_FILE_PAGE_SETUP to invoke the page setup dialog box. When I ran the workspace, I got a message that M_FILE_PAGE_SETUP is an invalid sub procedure. I guess MI doesn't like subs outside of MapBasic. Gerald: That's because M_FILE_PAGE_SETUP is a variable holding a constant value from the menu.def file, that isn't loaded/compiled with your workspace. If you try ... Run Menu Command 111 ... it will work. Steve Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Eastings Northings
At 06:24 PM 01/27/2000 +, David Eagle wrote: I have geocoded over 100 addresses by Postcode. I now want to append the Eastings and Northings for each point to this table. I have created two extra columns and have flagged them as integers. I then have tried going to 'Table', 'Update Column' and then select the 'table to update', then the 'column to update' and then 'get value from' the same table, with the 'value' as centroidX(obj). I'm getting nowhere! I'm sure I'm on the right lines as it seems logical and I have gotten a semi-valid output but only when the column is flagged as a character...Er, help?! This is one of those counter-intuitive headaches everyone gets. Look at the Tech tip at MapInfo addressing this (URL below). http://www.mapinfo.com/solutions_and_services/technical_support/tech_tip_arc hive/tip008.html Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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: RE: MI Precise size of std printouts??
At 10:40 AM 01/26/2000 -0500, you wrote: BUT, I seem to recall (probably from a Production Cartography class at Michigan State Univ about 7 years ago) running across a listing of standard paper sizes that was several pages long. I remember it including A series, B series and others. Perhaps my memory is more than just "fuzzy" and I'm totally mis-remembering. Can someone either confirm my failing (failed??) memory or provide ideas of where else I might look to pursue this?? thanks ...Bob Try this: http://www.archivebuilders.com/aba006.html Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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 Clip Region not clipping text
At 12:31 PM 01/25/2000 -0800, Ron Simpson wrote: My question is how do I display text objects only inside a given region? The simplest way I have found to do this is to create a mask in the cosmetic layer to cover the offending text. If the area is rectangular, create a white, opaque rectangle or polygon around the area to be printed that's wide enough to mask anything that you don't want to see. I normally create a polygon covering the exact extent of the map I want to plot, then create a second one thats about 20% larger. Delete the inner rectangle from the larger one and your left with a buffer aroung the map that acts as a mask. Actually, Clip Region is supposed to clip text too. I remember back under one of the previous releases of MI Pro that this would not work right. Maybe you need to look for a patch on www.mapinfo.com, update the drivers on your video, or fork out more money for the latest MI Pro that doesn't have that bug in it. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Clip Region not clipping text
Steve Wallace wrote: Actually, Clip Region is supposed to clip text too. I remember back under one of the previous releases of MI Pro that this would not work right. Maybe you need to look for a patch on www.mapinfo.com, update the drivers on your video, or fork out more money for the latest MI Pro that doesn't have that bug in it. Most reluctantly, but I must add here that MI Pro Swedish 5.5...26 (ie newly patched) still is unable to clip texts. Okay, here's a little more information about this problem. I remember now that the problem only showed up in workspaces I had around for awhile. Try re-building your workspace from scratch and see if that fixes it. I know I got rid of the problem somehow. Steve (again) -- 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 Strange Behavior
SQL Select records from two tables where table1.obj intersects table2.obj and you get a browser window. In my case, there were 77 records. I wanted these in Excel, so I select all and copy-n-paste. But it only pasted 34 rows. I tried it in Lotus 1-2-3, same thing. Somehow the pointers are not getting the right data. Has anyone else seen this happen? Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Is MapBasic essentially Visual Basic?
Actually, I'd call it more of a "scripting language" than anything else. Steve Wallace Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies At 11:29 PM 01/14/2000 +1000, Robert Crossley wrote: I know this will raise the hackles for the OO purists, but lets not get confuse the interface with its function. Mapbasic does not have the same syntax or functions as most object languages used today, and it would not qualify by many of the characteristics that define an object oriented language. But its a programming language that allows you to control a program that is. You're right, the interface sucks after you've worked with development environments like VB, but its still a very powerful language to develop MapInfo applications. A very long time ago I worked with a 4th generation language that was object orientated before they coined the phrase, but it compiled its code to fairly basic C code that you could look at before going to an executable. The point... beyond all the glitz and hype, it was still procedural code. You can still write your code in Mapbasic to take advantage of many OO principles even if you have to save the file, compile it and link it manually and run itto see where your list box will sit in the dialog. -- 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 Spatial Plus Update
Several people have asked for information about the Spatial Plus web site, as it had useful information and great free tools there. Well, after looking through my cache, I have recovered much of their data and knowledge base from before they went off-line. These items may now be found at www.directionsmag.com, with the Knowledge Base all in one article, and five of their applications in the TOOLS directory. Many thanks to the team at Spatial Plus for their hard work and contributions to the GIS community. Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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 patch55026.exe
I cannot believe there has not been any announcement (official or otherwise) about the MapInfo 5.5 patch. Go get it off their web site (www.mapinfo.com). It fixes the buffer problem, the Adobe Acrobat problem, and is supposed to speed up clip redraw (doesn't look much faster to me). If you have MI Pro v5.5, GO GET IT! Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 patch55026.exe do not support CMYK.tif
At 12:00 PM 01/10/2000 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before adding patch55026.exe to MapInfo 5.5, be sure that most of your images are RGB and not CMYK. After running the patch, it is impossible to load workspaces that calls in tif-images in CMYK. The raster engine does not recognise the file-format! Did you read the comments in the text file regarding rasters? "Patch Installer Isssues If you rename a raster handler the patch will not be able to update that file. Please revert the raster handler file to its orginial name and rerun the patch. Please note that if you install the Oracle8i Spatial Object Support For MapInfo from the original 5.5 CD after you install the patch, you will have to rerun the patch. " This may have something to do with the problem. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 5.5 performance problem
At 06:22 PM 12/28/1999 +0800, David Baker wrote: On 28 Dec 99, at 10:47, Anssi Joutsiniemi wrote: I just updated my MI to version 5.5 and realized its eating my CPU time like a maniac on ordinary window redrawing process. Does anybody have a clue whats going on? It is most likely that your map window uses the Clip Region feature. I have noticed SERIOUS performance degradation when using that feature. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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: Buffer tool useless in cosmetic layer?
At 12:27 PM 12/08/1999 +0100, Mats Elfström wrote: A while ago there was a thread concerning the default lat/long behaviour of the cosmetic layer. I have just experienced a weird behaviour of the standard buffer tool when using the cosmetic layer as recipient for the buffer. The *seed* table is in a Swedish coordinate system with 7 digit meter coordinates. The buffer created never gets the right width and the ends get deformed. Only by using the *seed* layer I can get it right which of course is a problem if I want to work with read-only data. Can somebody confirm that this problem is related to the cosmetic layer projection? Mats: This is a reported and confirmed bug. Not only will buffering refuse to work properly in the Cosmetic Layer, but I have had it give incorrect results in other layers as well. The only time I can trust it to draw a proper buffer is to create it in the same layer as the source (seed). When this was described to MapInfo recently in a meeting as "Buffering doesn't work," a lead employee defended Pro by saying, "It works, just not in the cosmetic layer." I got the impression that MapInfo was in no hurry to release a bug fix as long as there was a work-around (no matter how convoluted). Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 .BNA
At 11:26 AM 12/08/1999 +0100, Andreas Mahn wrote: Hi folks, does anybody know which software uses the .BNA format? And how do you generate it from .TAB or Mid/Mif? Any hints are welcome. This is an Atlas GIS format. From what I remember, Atlas can read MapInfo, but MapInfo cannot read BNA. Check here for a conversion program: ftp://ftp.ciesin.org/pub/census/usa/contrib/bna2mif/ Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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: Where can I find pixshow
At 12:28 PM 12/08/1999 -0500, you wrote: I've seen it time and again; where can I download Pixshow from? http://www.mapinfo.com/solutions_and_services/free/mb4.html Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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 Image handling in MiPro
At 08:36 PM 11/30/1999 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just a quick question, has anyone had experience with trying to automate
the image registration process, I have a table of co-ordinates representing
the four corners of an image, and I want to write a program to generate
the Registered TAB files, the snag is that I can't find a way of extracting
the image size parameters that are present when using the registration tool
inside MiPro, any help would be appreciated.
Here's a MapBasic routine that I wrote with some help from Dimitri
Bogdanov. In my case, my corners came from reading the object geometry in
another table (Labins 3m Key). This code was written to work with JPEG
files, but I have the rest of the routines for many other image formats if
you need them.
==
Include "MapBasic.DEF"
Dim siWidth, siHeight, Val, i, n, j As SmallInt
Dim Offset As Integer
Dim sFilename as String
Dim x(4), y(4), cX, cY as Float
Close all interactive
Open Table "J:\DOQQ\Labins 3m Key.TAB" Interactive
Map From Labins_3m_Key
Select Key
from Labins_3m_Key
where JPEG= 1 and Table = 0
order by Key
into Build
i = TableInfo(Build, TAB_INFO_NROWS)
For n = 1 to i
Fetch Rec n From Build
sFileName = "j:\doqq\" + selection.key + ".jpg"
Print selection.key
'- Get JPEG Width / Height -
Open File sFileName For Binary Access Read As #1 ByteOrder HIGHLOW
Offset = 21
Do
Get #1, Offset, Val
If Val = -64 Then
Exit Do
End If
Get #1, Offset + 2, Val
Offset = Offset + Val + 2
Loop While TRUE
Get #1, Offset + 5, siHeight
Get #1, Offset + 7, siWidth
Close File #1
'- Get map control points -
For j = 1 to 4
cX = CentroidX(selection.obj)
cY = CentroidY(selection.obj)
If ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j) cX and
ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j) cY Then
x(1) = ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j)
y(1) = ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j)
ElseIf ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j) cX and
ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j) cY Then
x(2) = ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j)
y(2) = ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j)
ElseIf ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j) cX and
ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j) cY Then
x(3) = ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j)
y(3) = ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j)
ElseIf ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j) cX and
ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j) cY Then
x(4) = ObjectNodeX(selection.obj, 1, j)
y(4) = ObjectNodeY(selection.obj, 1, j)
End If
Next
'- Print MapInfo TAB file with registry info -
Open File "j:\doqq\" + selection.key + ".tab" For Output As #1
Print #1, "!table"
Print #1, "!version 300"
Print #1, "!charset WindowsLatin1"
Print #1, ""
Print #1, " Definition Table"
Print #1, " File """ + selection.key + ".jpg"""
Print #1, " Type ""Raster"""
Print #1, " (" + x(1) + "," + y(1) + ") (0,0) Label ""NW"","
Print #1, " (" + x(2) + "," + y(2) + ") ("+ siwidth +",0) Label ""NE"","
Print #1, " (" + x(3) + "," + y(3) + ") (" + siwidth + "," + siheight + ")
Label ""SE"","
Print #1, " (" + x(4) + "," + y(4) + ") (0," + siheight + ") Label ""SW"""
Print #1, " CoordSys Earth Projection 9, 33, ""m"", -84, 24, 24, 31.5,
40, 0"
Print #1, " Units ""degree"""
Close File #1
Next
==
Steve Wallace
GIS Market Information Manager
Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
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Re: MI In search of Super Workspace registration and author name!
At 11:29 AM 11/17/1999 -0800, you wrote: I need help. I need to find the author of Super Workspace. Here is the web site I got it from. http://users.iafrica.com/s/st/stingray/GIS1.htm The program WORKS very well for compressing MI workspaces into a zip like file that can be moved to other machines running MI and opened again and viewed. The demo is free and works well and intigrates with MI very tightly. I have been trying to get a registration code so I can upgrade to the full version but no one has sent me back anything. Does any one know who made this program? Backspace over the last bit of the URL to get to the parent page. His name is Willy (?) and the e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 problems getting arclink to work
- Original Message - From: Anthony Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 9:06 PM Subject: MI problems getting arclink to work I have been tryng to convert an Arcinfo .e00 file to mapinfo using arclink which is supplied with mapinfo version 5.5. The conversion runs successfully, except that no mapinfo file is created! I've tried converting to a .tab file and to a .mif file but the same thing happens both times. Arclink runs successfully, but no file is created (see arclink output below). Does anyone have any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?? Why isn't a .tab or .mif file created? I have had this problem too. Have the person who provided this data run a "clean build" on the data and then export another .E00 file for you. That will likely fix the problem. Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Virus contained in recent mailing
- Original Message - From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mapinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 7:42 AM Subject: MI Virus contained in recent mailing Please note: this has nothing to do with any Wobbling in California. I've just got the following message from my webmaster concerning one of the mapinfo recent mail postings. 'A mail message with subject "MI photogrammetric querry" has been found containing a virus - This virus is like W32/Ska !!!' W32/Ska may be best known to everyone as Happy99.exe and heres the methodology to kill it from your system NOTE: If you never run this executable, you don't have to go through that long removal process -- just delete the file. Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Layout Window Title
At 03:03 PM 11/02/1999 -0500, Blair Allen wrote: Hi: A few weeks ago, Marjorie Roswell talked about annoyances in MI and specifcally mentioned the lack of different titles for layout windows. It was suggested to post something to the FTP site but I couldn't see anything there and never saw any further discussion on the list about it. Does anybody have a way (MapBasic routine or other utility or ...) to rename a layout so that I can pull one up when I have a half dozen or so to chose from in my workspace? (Marjorie, did anyone send you anything specific on this?) I'd asked to have this put in the wishlist in its pre-Directions Mag days but I've never seen it show up anywhere. This would be a definite organizational timesaver for me. It probably hasn't appeared in the "Wish Lists" as it you can do it right now. Open your MapBasic Window and have your desired layout as the front window. Then type the following into the MapBasic window and press enter: set window frontwindow() title "This is a Layout title!" The layout window will be named as desired. Also, if you save the workspace, the given Layout window name does save and retrieve properly. Note: all this was done in MapInfo Pro v5.5. Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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 Vertical Mapper plug-in
At 02:52 PM 11/01/1999 -0600, you wrote: I thought I read somewhere about a Vertical Mapper plug-in for MapInfo. I also thought that it was FREE. Did anyone else read this, or am I going mad! There is a free plug-in to allow anyone to VIEW grids created in VM with MapInfo. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Manifold GIS System
I have never tried Manifold. I would like to, based on what I have seen on their web site and comments from some users. What impresses me most about them is how responsive they are. A friend of mine at the National Hurricane Center is about to quit using MapInfo Pro because MI still has not improved their "smoothed polylines" routine to actually pass the line through the known points. When Manifold heard about the concern, they had a beta release sent to him within *days* that had just what he wanted. You may also have seen their post on Directions Magazine (http://www.directionsmag.com) where they lauded the Wish List and promised to review the comments left on COMPETITORS' products as a source of design improvements for Manifold, with frequent free interim releases of enhancements. If Manifold's price alone does not concern the competition, the company's product and responsive nature should. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies At 08:32 AM 10/28/1999 -0400, Sam Kome wrote: I am just starting to evaluate Manifold 4.5 and would not pretend to be able to review it. Of course I have some opinions: * The number of apparent functions is impressive, including ability to access numerous data formats/sources. * The extensability through VBscript, Javascript is impressive, although tempered by the fact that one does of course have to learn numerous Manifold-specific classes. There is still plenty of learning curve. * IMO, the interface is a bit too busy, a bit non-standard, and lacks "polish". Example: To open an existing map, one chooses FileNew Want to open more than one at a time? Sorry; at least I don't see how yet. * Manifold eats RAM like nobody's business, surrendering it only at application termination * Standard operations are S L O W. Opening each individual map takes TIME, then rendering (and re-rendering) it takes MORE TIME. Complex operations on the other hand, like calculating Voronoi diagrams, scoot along nicely. I replied to this because I want to see if Manifold can be used in a (time/cost effective) complementary relationship with MapInfo products. Too early to say, especially with new product announcements coming from MapInfo Corp soon. But the potential is certainly clear. And I guarantee Manifold will spur development of new tools for MI Pro/MapX, if not at MapInfo Corp, then elsewhere ;-) Sam Kome Sage Software, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sagesoft.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 Re: PLSS Meridian Coordinates
What Dan said is correct, and even if you did have all the meridians you still could not do what you want without additional information (like the county). There are some states that have multiple zones (Mississippi - many; Oklahoma - the panhandle is different; Louisiana - East of the Mississippi River is different), and the same PLSS S/T/R coordinates appear in different places within the same state. It is a BIG mess for some states. I'm just glad they didn't mess it up too badly here in Florida, except for all those darn Spanish land grants. At 08:55 AM 10/20/1999 -0700, Dan Munson wrote: Not going to happen. We've just done extensive work on this. Although the PLSS is a "grid", like anything else, there are exceptions to the rule. Its not a perfectly rectangular grid. I don't think you can generate it; you need to draw it. It will take you forever. You can find much of the PLSS stuff on the web, after an exhaustive search. Also, many state governments offer it for a reasonable fee (I think we paid $175 for Oregon, less in other states). You have to really know GIS, too, because they come in all different coordinate systems and projections! Dan Munson -Original Message- From: Mike Haden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MapInfo Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 3:30 PM Subject: MI: PLSS Meridian Coordinates I'm looking for a definitive source for information on the PLSS meridians. By browsing through various sources on the Web, I've determined that there are a number (roughly 40+) meridians in use in the PLSS throughout the United States. I'm attempting to develop an algorithm which will generate theoretical lat/long coordinates for PLSS townships and I'm looking for the meridian geodetic coordinates as a crucial element of the algorithm. Is there a source for the geodetic coordinates for the PLSS meridian points of origin ? Is there already a publicly available, widely accepted algorithm for theoretical PLSS lat/long coordinates ? Mike Haden Sterne Stackhouse Inc. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 How to join customers to nearest stores
Another way to do this involves spending some money and getting a program that will do natural neighbor polygons (also known as Theissen polygons, Regions of Influence, proximal polygons, etc). Using this, you can create polygons from your point file (stores) that will divide the region in question into areas defining what is that is closer to each source point than any other point. You can get this from several places: * The MapTools Company http://members.aol.com/maptools/tritools.html ($149 - I used this one for years) * Kiev Software Factory http://www.ksf.kiev.ua/ ($390) * Vertical Mapper ($999, but does much more than just what you asked for). Steve Wallace GIS Market Info Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's At 11:55 AM 10/20/1999 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote: Now you have a list of customers and their names (in this case) with the store Id nearest to them. Simple, huh? - Bill Thoen Berk Charlton wrote: Let's say I have two point tables, one is a table of store locations, and the other is a table of customers. I need to be able to put the store id and distance to the closest store to each of the customer points. I new to Mapinfo, but in the past been able to do this in Arcview and Atlas GIS easily. Any suggestions? Thanks, Berk Charlton -- 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 Archives
At 01:39 PM 10/19/1999 +1000, Lovett Alan wrote: I recently had need to chase up the scalebr3.mbx from the MI clearinghouse, http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/ . Can anyone tell me if this site has shifted or changed in some way as I cannot access this area any more. Please try it again. I just clicked on the link in your message and got there fine. The actual data has moved, but the link will still get you there. Otherwise, just use http://www.directionsmag.com and click the "Free Tools" choice in the left-hand menu. Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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 Florida City Limits
Does anyone here work with for any Florida governmental agencies at State, County or Municipality levels? I'm trying to get up-to-date city limit files across the state and need help obtaining them. Thanks, Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 gis data depot?
At 08:15 AM 10/12/1999 -0700, you wrote: Does anyone know what's up with GIS Data Depot? When I try to access most of their data for Arizona, I get a box that says they are upgrading servers and some files would be unavailable - servers should be up by 9/22/99!! I would say they are a bit over schedule! Check around the web. A great deal of their data is public domain data from government or educational sites and can be found elsewhere. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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:
At 03:01 PM 10/11/1999 -0500, Jason Dettman wrote: Does anyone know of a format translator that will translate a MapInfo file (MID\MIF or .TAB) to TIGER format? Check with Ken Tozier at International Computer Works. http://www.icwmaps.com/ Steve Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.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 MB in 5.5 processor slows down
At 10:51 AM 10/08/1999 -0700, John Chioles wrote: In a process of looping and multiple selects with a MB application, the process starts to slow down considerably. Can anyone offer suggestions to avoid this? Even if all other applications are closed, and screen savers, and power management settings are turned of are closed this still occurs. Will periodic Commits to an open table, and re-opening help? I am running W98,500Mhz,384 RAM. Thanks. From what I've seen running similar looping MB apps, MapBasic/MapInfo leaks memory. When running an app overnight that looked for a file in a directory and ran a routine if found, I had almost -0- available RAM the next morning. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Fwd: AV: General--New guidance for using the ArcView list and an important survey question
Here are some rules of etiquette from the ArcView-L that, I believe, would
help us very much here.
It doesn't really bother me that people on MapInfo-L reply publicly, but it
does when you get 5 people sending their same replies to a person and the
list, rather than first checking to see if there was an answer posted.
For me, I still say those who need a joke fix can join any number of humor
lists or sites -- and the volume of Friday Humor is growing.
Steve Wallace
GIS Market Information Manager
Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
Dear ArcView list member,
Several weeks ago I solicited suggestions for list usage and improvements
from all members. The responses lead to the following clarification of
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* The list's stated purpose is "the ArcView list is for
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loosely related ArcView stuff such as Map Objects. In short, the list is
about information useful to people who are using ArcView.
* When posting messages, please prefix the subject line with an
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* Please reply directly to the poster of an inquiry rather than to
the list.
* Consequently, posters are expected to summarize ("SUM") the
responses in a timely manner. This is a convenient way of keeping
everyone informed while cutting down on e-mail traffic.
* As a matter of clarity and etiquette, please (a) restate
succinctly the original question when posting a SUM and (b) acknowledge
explicitly those generous people who provided useful responses to you.
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* Please subdue any inclination you might have to promote a product
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Re: MI BNA files in MapInfo
The easiest way to get it is to download the files you need already in MapInfo format from Directions Magazine. Go to http://www.directionsmag.com and look under Free GIS Data for Geographic Features. All the NOAA sets are out there. Steve E. Wallace Contributing Editor Directions Magazine - Original Message - From: Maciej Tomczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 4:38 PM Subject: MI BNA files in MapInfo I was trying to import BNA files (Boundary Named shoreline files offered by NOAA at http://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html). File: GL80_04 for the Lake St. Clair, Detroit River and Lake Erie. Is there an easy way of importing it to MapInfo? I used GNA files instead, converted them to MIF files with GENA2MI2 translator, and imported them to MapInfo table (both GNA and MIF were Lat-Long coordinates, and NAD83 datum). It worked (to a degree), but the shoreline was shifted by some 100 m from where they are supposed to be. Could anyone offer an advise on what could have gone wrong and how to remedy it? Thank's a million. M. Tomczak [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] -- 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 MapInfo to pdf
At 06:59 PM 09/22/1999 -0400, dward wrote: (1) Be careful as the latest version of Adobe Acrobat 4.x, limits files to 11" x 17" maximum sixe. Previous versions allowed for larger C, D and E-size plots. Well, that may be the largest pre-set output size, but you can choose "custom" and make whatever size you want. I'm not sure if there is a maximum size, but I've created 36" x 36" PDF's in Acrobat 4.0 so I could put lots of detail into a map document to be read over our LAN. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Macro Polo?
Watch for new release of ProViewer 5.5 and nifty 1.0 addons ProDraw, ProLabel, and ProBuild. In other words, watch as we pay more money for functions that are often included in the base package and price of other GIS's. These aren't niche products that only help a certain market -- these are basic tool sets (or sound like they are) that need to be there for everyone, even if the base price bumps up a bit. Steve Wallace Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Seemingly Senseless Seamless
I must be going crazy. I thought that the way I used to make seamless tables (best method or not) was to open 1 table and use the Seamless Manager utility to create a new seamless table. Then, I would open the new table, select "Append to Seamless Table" and choose from the file dialog all the other files I wanted. Well, that doesn't seem to work anymore. I created a new seamless table with just one table in it. I went to append tables to it, and I get the error message, "Table is not defined seamless." Okay, so I create a new seamless table with some other tables in it, try to append it and get another error message, "Table is defined seamless. Seamless table cannot contain other seamless tables." This is a catch-22: you cannot append tables if they are not seamless, but they can't be seamless and append them??? I think something is broken. My logic, or their code. I would try and write around the problem, but couldn't find MapBasic commands to do so. The reason why I do not just create the whole seamless table in one step is that there are almost 3,700 raster images (4 gigs) involved here. Any help greatly appreciated. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Seeking hurricane data
At 10:43 AM 09/15/1999 -0700, David Herzog wrote: Can anyone point me to hurricane data in MapInfo format on the Web? Thanks much. If it is historical data you desire, check the Free Data Center at http://www.directionsmag.com . Atlantic Pacific hurricane tracks back to 1870's. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: MI Re: Selecting Lines w/ Region Select
FYI Steve Wallace X-Lotus-FromDomain: MAPINFO CORP From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:17:19 -0400 Subject: Re: MI Re: Selecting Lines w/ Region Select Steve: This is more of a bug with the Control-click functionality than with the region select tool not selecting line objects. I believe I understand what the problem is. If you move to an area on your map and draw a region object where there aren't any objects in the cosmetic layer, the lines will be selected. But, they won't be selected if an object in the cosmetic layer falls within the region you have drawn. Using Control-click has no effect on the selection. I can file that as a bug. MapInfo Technical Support -- 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 FW: Selecting on text
Use: Where Column_Name = "River Thames" or Column_Name = "Thames" or Where Column_Name Like "%Thames" Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies - Original Message - From: Jonathan Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'MapInfo Listers' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 9:51 AM Subject: MI FW: Selecting on text here's an interesting one.. am trying to pull out selected records from a rivers dataset. when i do the query as follows ALL the records in the dataset are selected... Where Condition Name = "River Thames" Or "Thames" am doing this in MI 4.5.2 WHY -- -- 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 Selecting Lines w/ Region Select
I came across something interesting today: You apparently cannot select lines in a region using the Region Select tool. This is probably because lines do not appear to have a centroid (they do not show up when you set "Show Centroids" on in Layer Control). Seems like all geographical primitives should have centroids, and all should work with select tools. I smell a wish list item... visit the MapInfo Wish List at http://www.directionsmag.com/wishlist.asp?ID=49 Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Print Int
At 12:36 PM 09/08/1999 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Update "table" Set WGS84_MIN_X =
Int(WGS84_DEC_X)+"°"+(WGS84_DEC_X-Int(WGS84_DEC_X))*60
Update "table" Set WGS84_MIN_Y =
Int(WGS84_DEC_Y)+"°"+(WGS84_DEC_Y-Int(WGS84_DEC_Y))*60
Alter Table "table" ( modify WGS84_MIN_X Char(10),WGS84_MIN_Y Char(10) )
Interactive
Update vegetation Set WGS84_MIN_X = WGS84_MIN_X + "'"
The result looks like: 10°49.533' and 9°2.98872' But I would like to see the
last result like 09°02.989'
To get a leading zero, change
Int(WGS84_DEC_X)...
...to...
Right$("00" + Int(WGS84_DEC_X),2)...
Steve Wallace
GIS Market Information Manager
Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
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MI FEMA Q3 CD's
If anyone has copies of these flood data CD's for the USA, please contact me. Thanks, Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Bug in Mapinfo 5.5?
This is not a MapInfo Pro bug. The grid / raster files are set up the same way as other raster images. Inside the TAB file (a simple text file) is the full filename including drive letter and path. Simply edit the TAB files for your grids to change C: to D:. Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies - Original Message - From: Tracy Walklet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:15 PM Subject: MI Bug in Mapinfo 5.5? Dear List Friends, This message was forwarded to me by a frustrated user. I think I remember some solutions mentioned previously but, unfortunately, I didn't save those messages and can't find them in the archives. Please help! Many thanks, Tracy Walklet [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: James DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:42 PM I have discovered something in MI 5.5. I will summarize in an example. I have a folder (directory) on the C: drive of my computer, (let's call it Manila) and it contains all of my .TAB, .ID, .MAP, .IND, etc... and the associated workspace that I saved it under, all created on the C: drive of my computer. I run out of disk space on My C: drive. I install a D: drive and "drag and drop" my entire Manila folder from C: to D:, why do I lose all of my gridded thematic map information? This will cause me days to rebuild thematically gridded terrain data for a dozen markets. Is there a way around this? Why is this happening? I have even experienced the same event when I drag and drop this "Manila" folder from one sub directory to another. This is very importatant as my laptop cannot save every market I work on. I typically run analysis on one machine, create the mapinfo plots, and then transfer the data to the laptop to present to the customer. When I return, the data is off loaded from the laptop to free up room for the next market. -- 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 USGS DEM to MapInfo Grid
At 11:52 AM 08/27/1999 +0100, Darren Kisner wrote: I am trying to create a DEM of the UK from USGS DEM data. I downloaded a USGS DEM data tile for Europe and tried to convert it to a MapInfo grid using the 'Convert DEM to MapInfo grid' tool in MI 5.5. However this failed with 'cannot create DEM'. Has anyone used this tool? If so is there size limitation or something? I am preparing a presentation for Tuesday so if someone has 'one they did earlier' that would be great ! I haven't tried it since the beta, but it worked then. Did you uncompress the file first? Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 MapInfo 5.5 Crash
At 03:47 PM 08/26/1999 +0100, Richard Batchelor wrote: Hi, I am using MapInfo 5.5 as an engine to produce maps every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day using a custom built program that links to MapInfo using OLE. The problem I have come across is that MapInfo crashes after about 4 hours. The server is also running a number of other (small) programs at the same time, but with 320mb Ram under NT shouldn't have a problem. Can anyone help?? - does the size of the pagefile.sys have an affect on MapInfo? I believe this has something to do with how MapBasic uses and releases (doesn't release) memory. One application I wrote in MapBasic was simply a timer that checked a directory every 15 mins and if files were there, it created maps and processed them. You can open up a resource monitor in Win95/98/NT and watch the memory slowly leak away. Sorry, no solution, but a confirmation at least. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 trouble combining complex polygons
At 04:25 PM 08/20/1999 +1000, Peter Walsh wrote: Mapcheck.mbx is good, it tells you where the topological errors are... True, but I found out from MapInfo Corp when that MapCheck can give you FALSE error readings, which was loads of fun trying to fix topology that wasn't really broken. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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: wanna crash MapInfo?
At 09:05 PM 08/19/1999 +1000, Antony Burnett wrote: Ever gone to make a layer editable in the Layer Control, but then changed your mind? Save your work before conducting this failsafe method of crashing MapInfo: * Bring up the Layer Control (Ctrl-L) * Hold down the left mouse button over any layer name * Hit the esc key whilst still holding down the mouse key Watch Dr Watson appear. I'd like to say you only do this once, but unfortunately that isn't the case. I couldn't get MapInfo to crash under this scenario. Then I tried it again, holding down the left mouse button on the "edit" check-box of any layer in the Layer Control dialog, and hit "Esc". Sure enough -- MapInfo goes "bye-bye" and Dr. Watson says "Hello." I see this problem happen often enough trying to print to Adobe Acrobat, except then you don't even get a visit from the Dr. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 50 ways to 'wanna crash MapInfo?' - humor (I hope)
I admit, this was kinda funny at first glance. I had even written something along similar lines to this earlier tonight, but went back and deleted the non-constructive comments I wrote before sending it. There are many forums that I've been in that die simply because the comments become more exaggerated bashing than constructive criticism. No gripes against Peter, except that I started to wonder if I was not doing GIS or cartography or tasks, or not a GIS person or cartographer or getting work done because I use MapInfo. My company would be a lot worse off without MapInfo -- however we would be a lot better off if the company would be more responses to bug fixes and improvements to nagging little issues. Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies - Original Message - From: Peter Gozdyra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mapinfo list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:50 PM Subject: MI 50 ways to 'wanna crash MapInfo?' - humor (I hope) 50 ways to 'wanna crash MapInfo?': 1. use it to complete GIS task 2. use it to complete cartographic task 3. use it to complete a task 4. put GIS person on front of it 5. put cartographer on front of it 6. spill pink goo on CPU while it is running 7. have an hour worth of un-saved MI work 8. run it on PC, Mac or UNIX 9. look at the screen the wrong way 10. install Arcview on the same or nearby machine 11. have Bill's programmers trying to improve it 12. have me trying go finish something and go home soon running out of ideas - anyone help? 13. -- 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 MapBasic - Inserting Values
I'm perplexed. The following line of code works if I add a breakpoint to my MapBasic program and paste the line of code into the MapBasic window, but it will not work in the compiled code. Insert Into Discussion (Date_Zulu, Time_Zulu, Wind_KTS, Obj) Values (18, "1200Z", 35, CreatePoint(00, 00) ) Ideas? Thanks! Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 saving workspaces
At 10:54 AM 08/05/1999 -0400, John Musolino wrote: The last choice is probably your best bet. From time to time I have to take workspace files from my PC to another in the department which is hooked to the big plotter (yes, it should be networked, but that's another story...) I save all the files to disk (you would save them to the cd) then I manually edit the .wor file in Notepad, changing the directory addresses. That should work well for you. The problem here is you don't know what drive letter the other person's CD is (not always "D"). For instance, mine is "S". Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 crashing after a query
I've been amazed at the number of problems people have had with the MapInfo 5.5 release. I'm not doubting these reports, as I've found some myself. What is unusual is that I used the beta as my production platform for a couple months and didn't have any of these problems. Now the official release is out, and may be replete with bugs. Steve E. Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 5:26 PM Subject: MI crashing after a query A similar thing is happening to me. I "select all" from my table, then save as, selection, and kaputsky the program goes down. Did it 3 times in a row. Anyone else experiencing the same thing? I am using MI 5.5. Thank you Sarah Myers, Preventive Care Operations Blue Cross of California *** ** Hi, I am running a simple select query for objects in two large datasets (few thousand records each). Unfortunately, MapInfo (v.5.0) crashes (not responding) after applying this query. I tested this for few records and the software is working fine. It seems that the problem concerns the size of the table?? I have lots of memory, fresh workspace and only these tables which are necessary. ( I have to run the query on objects not on records!) Any ideas what's wrong? Just in case, the query : select* from tab1 where not obj within any (select obj from tab2) into selection -- 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 Problem discovered w/Bounds Clause
At 04:37 PM 11/19/1999 +1000, Robert Crossley wrote: Do you know if the object variables also unbounded as well? It could explain some of the problems with object processing that I have been having with finding coincident points. Could also be the cause of the GPFs I've been getting with merging using projected data into a variable. Good question. I'm not sure how MapInfo handles object variables in MapBasic. Since there is no map at the time, thus no projection clause or bounds, I can't see how they would be affected. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Problem discovered w/Bounds Clause
Something that might interest those of you who use the MapInfo "Bounds" clause to increase the precision of your maps -- don't use the Cosmetic Layer to transfer data around. I had been wondering why some of my points/lines would move around from time to time. The distances were very small, to the point where some might argue, "Why does it matter?" But the problem is, the Object Processing notices these small differences, leaving you will all kinds of unwanted spikes and slivers when you split or erase objects. The problem is that I, like many of you, use the Cosmetic Layer when editing maps. In fact, when I first noticed the problem was going through the prescribed method taught by MapInfo for fixing self-intersecting polygon errors flagged by MapCheck. When I copied a string of nodes from my bounded map to the cosmetic layer, then transformed to a region and went back to process this against my original, the region in the cosmetic layer was slightly offset from the original. This is because the Cosmetic Layer is unbounded -- you lose any increased precision from your bounded objects when you paste them info the cosmetic layer. WORK-AROUND: If you work with bounded data, create a blank layer with the same bounds clause and use it like you would your cosmetic layer when you need to put/process objects in a temporary layer. This certainly explains why I have so many unwanted artifacts in my maps... Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 Will 5.5 Do This?
At 08:20 PM 11/05/1999 -0700, Roy Chiappini wrote: Folks: I do the following using Vertical Mapper. 1) Create Map 2) In VM: Region to Grid a) Export grid in ASCII format Will MI 5.5 permit this w/o use of VM? No. The only grid feature in MI Pro v5.5 is the Grid Thematic, which right now is only an IDW interpolation. Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- 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 virus alert! (HOAX)
This is another hoax. See... http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wobbler-hoax.html Please check this site (or any of the others) before passing virus alerts to anyone... especially a mail list numbering over 1,000 readers. Steve Wallace Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies GIS Market Information Manager At 01:19 PM 11/05/1999 -0500, jchgis wrote: Received this from a friend this a.m. JUST AN FYI - Subject: *** VIRUS ALERT *** This information was sent to us by one of our users...We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER- it will arrive on e-mail titled "California". IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful, more so than Melissa and there is no remedy. It will eat all your information on the hard drive and also destroys Netscape navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title and please pass this message on to all your contacts and anyone who uses your e-mail facility. Not many people know about this yet so please relay this message as fast as possible. -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr Durham NC 27707 (919)493-9339 Phone -- 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]
