MI Re:ProViewer

Dear Listers/Mapinfo, I was wondering if anyone has any idea when a Japanese version of Proviewer might be coming out or if what seems like a possible language incompatibility to me can be worked around. When trying to open a workspace created in MI Pro 4.5 (Japanese Version), the contents of

MI - highlight line upon point selection

List members, I have two tables, one containing points, the other lines. I have already created a column in the point table containing the ID of the nearest line. What I would like to do is select a point, and the associated line would become highlighted. Does anyone know if this is possible or

MI Re:

Happy Monday. I usually run Autoload but accidentally hit Autoload10. Since then, I have been receiving this error: Variable or Field MCD not defined, and once this error occurs my workspace stops loading. Does anyone know how to fix this little headache, so I don't have to almost start from

MI Plotting V H Coordinates

Dear List, Has anyone heard of a software package or any other method or plotting V H coordinates. This coordinate system was designed by AT T in the 1950's in order to calculate straight line distances between switching centres. As an alternative to another software package is there a way to

MI Functions for Statistical Distributions

Greetings, Am making good progress on my project so far, thanks in no small part to the help I've received from this list. For the next phase of the project, I need to do some statistical analysis, and I wanted to see how much I should expect to do in MI/MB. I'd like to do everything in an

RE: MI AD: Elevation Data Software CD-ROM

To all list-server participants, I am sorry for the cross-listings that appeared yesterday. On an occasional basis, monthly or every other month for the last year, I have been sending out an email advertisment about some "rather inexpensive" data and software products I have assembled...

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Hello list, Is anyone aware of a good source for Portugal street mapping and demographic data? Any contacts or other information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Andrew Dobda -- To unsubscribe from this list,

MI - Expressions in Select

Please help me save what's left of my already receding hair line and prevent me from pulling the rest of my hair out. "Select" expressions. I have been through the help files til I'm cross-eyed trying to create a simple select expression to select only the cells of a record that contain a

Re: MI - Expressions in Select

Dear David, If you want to use wild-card characters in a string expression you have to use the word LIKE instead of =. The wild-card character % (percent) matches zero or more characters. The wild-card character _ (underscore) matches a single character. So your where clause should look like:

Re: MI Street Inventory Signage

Steven MapPad has been used for the data collection of street sign information by a few local councils. MapInfo maps on a palm pc are used as the base layer for referencing sign location. All data is uploaded to the GIS on returning to the office. Details on MapPad at www.mappad.com Regards

MI VM Square Cell Agg. w/ a .GRC?

Hello VMers: I am a VM newbie. Is it possible to use the Square Cell Aggregation technique with a .GRC, and then save the square cells as regions in a .TAB? Or, must one start with a point file first? It seems like this should be fairly straight forward operation in VM. TIA John Chioles

MI mosaic mapping.

Hi all, I have a very large area to map. I wish to map the large area on a series of A3 or A2 submaps (printer limitation). These maps need to be at the same scale with repeated title boxes etc. I envisage a small scale title map that has all the sub plans shown as tiles on it with a key. Is

RE: MI mosaic mapping.

Gabor, As far as I'm aware, MI does not include the functionality to do this, apart from setting up a layout window and manually shifting the Map window to the desired location. I think your looking for a Batch Printing feature. I've developed one in-house, but it is bundled with

MI scale???

Is there anybody who knows why my changes of the scale won't take place in the map when I print it. I changed it from 1:200 till 1:250 but it will not do that in the paper. thanks haavard __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Gratitude to everyone responding - (was: MI - Expressions in Select)

I know "Thank You" postings probably rate in the "you don't have to, it's assumed you appreciate the help" category. But I just had to post a Thanks anyway and sincerely hope that the folks that responded with assistance, happen to glance over this. Many Many thanks from a Forest Ranger

MI Intersections

Hi All Is the syntax of Street Street for finding intersections the same in MapX as it is in MapInfo. I have look at the help and the results of the search have the same structure, but the MapX help does not explicitly state the syntax of finding intersections. Does anyone know the

MI Create Points along a polyline

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had used the program to create points along a polyline at a nominated interval and then somehow labelled each point sequentially. ie I have a road that covers 300 km and I have created points at 10m intervals. I now need to attribute each point sequeatially

MI Mapinfo v5.5 Patch (printing bug)

Greetings all, Has anybody come across the following problem after installing the MapInfo v5.5 patch (Patch55026.exe) I am running MI v5.5 under NT4, plotting to a HP650c plotter. I set page setup to print landscape. When opening a layout window it always comes up portrait. This has not been