Re: MI problem with clone view command

1999-12-08 Thread PEM
Hi, The Clon View work by creating a command string containing all information about the map, e.g. zooms, labels, etc. But this string that should contain all these information isn't allways large enough. The string is limited to 32K characters, well this the was the case a year ago and they

MI GIS/GPS Integration - Query

1999-12-08 Thread Jayaprakash Athmaram
Dear all, Last week had been a real testing time for me with MapInfo and GPS integration. But the outcome was worth the wait. But, not before this I tried to connect the locally made GPS receiver (antenna available ) to my laptop. I infact geocoded a point/location on to my map (office).

MI Oracle 8i

1999-12-08 Thread Hayes, Andrew
Hi, I am currently assessing the feasibility of moving our MapInfo dataset to an Oracle 8i back-end database. Does anybody out there have any experience of using Oracle 8i to store GIS data. I am particularly interested in the performance of spatial queries, multi-user capabilities, No. of

MI What is .BNA

1999-12-08 Thread Andreas Mahn
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. Thanks, Andreas Andreas Mahn DDS GmbH [] Stumpfstr. 1 D - 76131 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-(0)-721-9651406 Fax:

MI Systems Management Server

1999-12-08 Thread Bruce Campbell
Does anyone have any experience of installing MapInfo Professional with this technology ? I presume that you can use it to broadcast MIPRO installations instead of going to each client PC. Anyone tried it ? --- Bruce Campbell Development Manager GDC

MI: Buffer tool useless in cosmetic layer?

1999-12-08 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi All! 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

MI Runtime Single Application

1999-12-08 Thread Alex Eshed
Greetings, List. Does anyone know how I could force MI RunTime to open only one, particular MapBasic application (something along the lines of ProViewer) and no other? TIA to all responders. Best regards, Alex Eshed Digi-Tek Ltd. 12, Homa St., Rishon LeZion, 75655, Israel Tel:

MI: Distance calculation

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick van der Deijl
Hi all. Maybe a small, easy problem: How can I calculate, in MapInfo, the distance between two points? Do I have to do something special with the projection? I'm completely lost here. Thank you very much in advance Patrick van der Deijl -- Geodan IT bv Jan Luijkenstraat 10 1071 CM

Re: MI What is .BNA

1999-12-08 Thread ton
Andreas, .BNA is Atlas/GIS native format. Regards, Ton -Original Message- From: Andreas Mahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'MAPINFO-L' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 13:15 Subject: MI What is .BNA Hi folks, does anybody know which software uses the .BNA format? And

AW: MI What is .BNA

1999-12-08 Thread vandenberg
Hi Andreas, .BNA is an ASCII format. It is used by AtlasGIS to convert files. I think it is possible to generate it using the AtlasGIS-ArcView converter which can be downloaded from http://www.esri.com. ___ Nanja van den Berg

Re: MI: Buffer tool useless in cosmetic layer?

1999-12-08 Thread Steve Wallace
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

Re: MI: Buffer tool useless in cosmetic layer?

1999-12-08 Thread Mats Elfström
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: MI What is .BNA

1999-12-08 Thread Steve Wallace
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.

MI Re: Distance calculation

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick van der Deijl
Pete/Marc (and all other listers), Thanks for your reply. I was aware of the rulertool, but I like to have the distance in a table or textfile. I know there is a distance function in MapInfo but I don't know how to use it. The MapInfo help says: Distance( num_x , num_y , num_x2 , num_y2 , str )

RE: MrSid, from ArcView, *. SDW georeferenced images to MI

1999-12-08 Thread Dupler, Phillip
A cheap solution although somewhat involved. The freeware Mr. Sid viewer can export .sid to .tif and by default writes a .tfw and .tab file at the same time. You can, of course, delete the .tif image and then edit the .tab file in notepad to point back to the .sid image and while you're there

MI legend window

1999-12-08 Thread Regina Due
Title: MI legend window How do I create a legend window, which not only shows the table legends, but individual text as well. I want to separate the legends and the text into to separate boxes, but keep the two boxes still in one window. Regina

MI Re: Distance calculation

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick van der Deijl
Marc, You're the greatest. It worked outstanding. Seems to me there are still wizards on this earth. Many thanks, Patrick Marc Pelosse wrote: OK, I see. I don't think you have to do it in the Mapbasic window. It can be done trough SQL. If you need to calculate the distance between all

MI: Where can I find pixshow

1999-12-08 Thread Lavoie, Claude
I've seen it time and again; where can I download Pixshow from? Thanks, _ Claude Lavoie Service du soutien à la clientèle Direction des technologies de l'information Ministère des Transports du Québec 35, rue de Port-Royal Est, salle 5.00 a Montréal

Re: MI: Where can I find pixshow

1999-12-08 Thread Steve Wallace
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

MI INCREASE BUSINESS SALES!

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MI Datum !!

1999-12-08 Thread Claude Beaumont
Hi listers, I have a map in .E00 format. I want to translate it in mapinfo. The map description is : Projection: LAMBERT Conformal Projection Units: METERS Spheroid: CLARKE1866 Parameters: 1st standard parallel: 25. 00, N 2nd standard parallel: 47.00, N central meridian: 110.00 E latitude of

MI Real Time US Weather Data!

1999-12-08 Thread Stephen Ford
Hello, Does anyone know any sources of Real Time US Weather data? Any help is much appreciated. Regards, Stephen Ford Baseline Business Geographics Inc URL www.baselinegeo.com Ph 902.892.0300 Fax 902.628.0300 -- To

MI MapInfo News: Stock Split

1999-12-08 Thread Neil Havermale
MapInfo Announces Three-For-Two Stock Split 12/8/99 Troy,NY--MapInfo Corporation (Nasdaq: MAPS- news) today announced that the Board of Directors has declared a three-for-two stock split. The split will be effected in the form of a stock dividend which will entitle each shareholder of record

MI Routing - SPIDER WEB

1999-12-08 Thread Dan Munson
Ladies Gentleman, I need a specific routing algorythm as follows. From a given point, I have to find the closest intersection to a line network. For example, say I have an address, and I need to know the closest point on a fiber network, based upon driving distance (we are assuming we'd

Re: MI What is .BNA

1999-12-08 Thread Graham O'Brien
Somewhere I've got a little app I wrote in MapBasic a while back to read .BNA files into MapInfo. I can dig it out if you want. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L"

MI e00 - MI

1999-12-08 Thread Matt Fowler
Is there a good conversion program for e00 files out there somewhere other than the one Brice Eychenié wrote in the tools at Directions Mag? It says shareware but has a file size limit. Anyone have any experience with any others? Matt Fowler Solid Earth, Inc. 109-B North Jefferson Street

MI Action on Close

1999-12-08 Thread Scott Barling
Thanks to Gary Chris, The information they supplied was invaluable. Below is the section of code which accomplishes my problem. sub SaveTableEditsHandler if CommandInfo(CMD_INFO_EDIT_TABLE) = "Swr_Cat" then Terminate Application "SewerViews.mbx" end if end sub 'SaveTableEditsHandler

MI MapXtreme Java - Bounds Clause...

1999-12-08 Thread Ian Erickson
Is anyone aware of a quick and easy way around the absence of a getBounds() method for the layer class in the MapJ object? Any suggestions are surely welcome! Ian Erickson GIS Analyst -- To unsubscribe from this list, send

MI MapInfo Stock - On fire

1999-12-08 Thread Dan Munson
Does anyone have any idea why MapInfo is up 50% in 2 wks? Any rumors? Dan Dan MunsonVP Sales MarketingCDS Business Mapping800-746-7797Mapping for the Next Millennium(TM)

MI Overlapping points

1999-12-08 Thread Gabor Vasarhelyi
Dear all, I have a tbale with a lot of overlapping points. Many are duplicates. How can I 1) select points that overlap, with a given attribute value. eg, two points coincide at the same location and they both have the same attribute value. I wish to have one only because the other is

Re:MI Datum !!

1999-12-08 Thread Kurt Ackermann
Checking the information in the mapinfow.prj file for our (Japanese) version of Mapinfo Pro, I found: "Conformal Projection ($BCf9q(J)", 3, 0, 0, 110, 10, 25, 40, 0, 0 The characters in parentheses probably don't show up correctly on your system, but they stand for 'China' in Japanese. It

Re:MI Datum !!

1999-12-08 Thread Kurt Ackermann
Checking the information in the mapinfow.prj file for our (Japanese) version of Mapinfo Pro, I found: "Conformal Projection ($BCf9q(J)", 3, 0, 0, 110, 10, 25, 40, 0, 0 The characters in parentheses probably don't show up correctly on your system, but they stand for 'China' in Japanese. It

RE: MI Action on Close Table

1999-12-08 Thread Crompton, Mark
Hi Scott, To use a C++ term you need to Overload the Close Table operation. In fact you need to cover all your bases (Close All as well). Write a MapBasic app that replaces File Close and File Close All functions, and checks for your particular table. Thanks Mark Crompton -Original

MI Project Coordinator APAI (IT) for TimeMap Project

1999-12-08 Thread Ian Johnson
The TimeMap Project is looking for staff (Australian citizens or residents at this stage). Apologies for cross-postings. I have kept the message as short as possible - see www.timemap.net for more detail. Note: these are drafts and are not authoritative - final versions will be on our web site

MI Charts and Graphs

1999-12-08 Thread Yvonne Hau
HI I was wondering if anyone has the solution to graphs in MI. I am trying to plot some time graphs, but already there is a limitation to MI as everything has to be in numeric, and will not accept date?? Therefore the graphs that I want to make is not possible. So I then decide to do them in

MI Gateway to Information on Environment and Development

1999-12-08 Thread SDNP India
Dear Colleague Greetings from Sustainable Development Networking Programme, India ! The United Nations Development Programme and the International Development Research Centre of Canada in collaboration of Ministry of Environment and Forests (India) has launched the portal site of Sustainable