MI Pre 1974 UK Counties Outlines

2000-01-01 Thread John Harrop
Does anyone know where I could find pre-1974 UK county outlines in either MapInfo or AutoCAD readable form? I don't mind having to do some clean-up to get them converted to regions. This is for presentation of density and movement data in a one-name study so I'm hoping to minimize costs. Thanks

Re: MI Looking for Nearest Object Distance Functions

2000-01-01 Thread Graham O'Brien
Stephen: I had a similar problem - I needed to find the distance from a number of given points to their nearest contour line of a given height. This was before I found this list, so I solved it in a typical O'Brien brute-force manner, using a kind of binary chop algorithm: For each point I create

Re: MI Looking for Nearest Object Distance Functions

2000-01-01 Thread Graham O'Brien
"a simple Print (to a window) statement in each cycle brings the search down to a crawl." Too right! I put lots of prints in each run at first until I realised how much time it took - Original Message - From: Stephen R. Riese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: O'Brien, Graham [MI] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]