Re: MI Problem with Beta version MapInfo 6

Hi John, According to the agreement with Mapinfo, I do not think we are allowed to discuss about beta version outside of Mapinfo's web site. Please visit the address below and register your name. There is a discussion board there. http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/mipro_60beta Regards,

MI A wee bit of St. Pat history

This is VERY LONG but interesting stuff if you've the time. Happy St. Patrick's Day - and where's my green beer! Celebrating Irish History Month and Saint Patrick's Day Ireland is a land rich in history. Relics from the Stone Age lend support to the conclusion that the first settlers

MI Postal Boundaries/Points for UAE

Greetings, Does anyone have contacts for pricing and availability of postal Code data and demographics for UAE (United Arab Emirates)? Regards Stuart Morrison Pre-Sales, Training, Technical Support 082 498 8589 Spatial Technologies® Assisting You make faster, more informed decisions through

Re: MI An other MBR

Hi all, Thanks for help, but my problem isn't to find the minimum rectangle which encompasses an object, but the maximum rectangle which is inside the object. Another solution ? E.BONTE Bill Thoen wrote: It's a function. From MapBasic Help file: MBR( ) function Purpose Returns a

MI Automatically Create Lines Between Points

Hello All, Does anyone know of a utility that will take a list containing co-ordinates of start and end points, and create links between them. Thanks, Keith Keith Campbell GIS Consultant W S Atkins Consultants Ltd UK -- To

Re: MI Lebanon maps

Jasper Suggest you talk to Gabi Antinie at Geo-Strategies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). They are rapidily becoming the best place for all mapping Middle East - if they havent got it yet I suspect they soon will. Excellent people to work with too. Gareth - Original Message - From: Jesper

Exporting images from MI

I am trying to export a map window as a graphic. The map is A1 in size and needs to be imported into publisher. The best match yet is a .wmf, but does not print correctly. I have also tried an .eps, but as I am not using a postscript printer (Encad NovaJet III) this will not work. I am

MI SUM: Automatically Create Lines Between Points

Thanks to Tom Manson, Eric Frost, and Andy Beckett on this one. The question:- 'Does anyone know of a utility that will take a list containing co-ordinates of start and end points, and create links between them?' The answer is, of course, very simple and was provided by Tom Eric:- 'Just

Recall: MI Automatically Create Lines Between Points

Eberl,Christine [NCR] would like to recall the message, "MI Automatically Create Lines Between Points". -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or

RE: MI Automatically Create Lines Between Points

Hi Keith Here is one way to get your lines: First of all, your line file (ie newline.tab) will need 4 columns with the start and end point information (I'll call them: x1, y1, x2, y2 where x1,y1 is start point and x2,y2 endpoint). (newline can be created from the files containing the start and

MI Moving Mapinfo table files by coordinates

Hi, Does anyone have mapbasic code on moving (translation) of Mapinfo features based on user input ? say I enter (20,20), then all features will be moved 20 paces to both x and y axis. Thanks YC Nyon Center for Geographic Information Analysis Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

MI - how to integrate with Excel

Two (basic ?) questions: - Is there a way to embed a MapInfo layout in Office applications (like Excel) ? I am able to embed a map (via drag and drop) only, so I miss legends for thematic maps etc... - Excel has mapping support, based on MapInfo apparently; is there a way to use and display

Re: MI can mapxtreme display vector data

At present, the NT version of MapXtreme can't do the vector thing. But the Java version can... Gary. Rajeev saraf wrote: One quick query that has been bothering me for a while.If i use mapxtreme to develop apps for internet/intranet then it displays the output as a GIF image on your browser. is

MI newsgroup

Does anybody know on wich name this forum is present on the newsgroup ? ___ ||//Antoine Gilbert|| // [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| // #ICQ 9737371|| \\|| \\Le Groupe KOREM Inc.||\\

Re: MI mif2tab.exe ?

Jeff, you wrote: As a matter of fact, we do have one small issue to figure out before we could release "write" functionality. It has to do with the scheme for calculating the "displacement" as part of the double=long conversion and scale factor calculation. You might want to take a look

MI Need data!!!!!

Happy St. Patricks Day! Am looking for street level GIS data for Bogotá, Colombia and the neighboring areas. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks inadvance. Andrew

MI Friday Humor: Irish Toasts . . .

Some Irish Toasts . . . "Here's that we may always have a clean shirt a clean conscience and a guinea in our pocket." - Irish Toast "May you be poor in misfortune, Rich in blessings, Slow to make enemies, Quick to make friends, But rich or poor, quick or slow, may you know

RE: MI The Census - No Demographics?

That I thought was the difference between the STF-1 and STF-3 stuff. But I thought the STF-1 demopgrahics were actual not sampled. that is correct. based on my conversations with people at census, it seems that everything will be on their website, and it will also be published on cd-rom.

RE: MI - how to integrate with Excel

Don't know about the second question, but the way to get your map into excel with legend is to do each one separately. Highlight the map window(not the layout window) and go to edit on the menu and choose copy map window. Then go to the spreadsheet and edit menu, paste special and choose either

MI FW: Do not use Excel Stats Package

Hi Listers I apologize to those who don't use Excel, but this seems important enough to be using this list to distribute this info. Read on if you use Excel for your stats analyses. Our staff statistician has been distributing this. Christine This is a very revealing article!

MI: tfwread.mbx, a warning

I've been vexed for some time by various raster images not aligning correctly along edges or when overlain. You may have read some of my queries to this list made while searching for an answer. Here is the answer: I'd been using tfwread.mbx to import the tiffs. This was apparently a bad move.

RE: MI Automatically Create Lines Between Points

Keith, If you have a decent text editor you could do this yourself. Eg assuming that your file looks like this: x,y,x,y x,y,x,y ...etc use a text macro to change the file to: Create Line into Window FrontWindow() (x,y)(x,y) Create Line into Window FrontWindow() (x,y)(x,y) Create Line into

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

Re: MI PDF Conversion problem with TEXT

Dina My experience with MI 2 PDF says that the fonts are problematic if they aren't Post Script. So the true type fonts used by MI will work by chance meaning: we never know if they will come out right. I have a set of PS fonts from Adobe and since then it works very well. Sometimes though,

Re: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?

What's a "Newsgroup", and why would that be better than what we have?? Bob Robert Karr Phone: 517-373-3028 Science Research AssistantFAX: 517-373-0171 Science and Technology Division Legislative Service Bureau Michigan State Legislature

MI pics assigned to data points

i am using map info 5.5 how do i assign a picture to a data point such as a hydrant thanks jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message

MI RE: MapInfo Newsgroup

Hi all, My $0.02us...TOO MUCH TRASH THERE ! ! ! Want to crash you drive the just click on "want see my %^*$#" [body parts] or who knows what else Newsgroups are some of the most notorious propogators of viruses, etc.. Although I run the best virus checker on *auto* ---

Re: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?

Before we get too involved with the newsgroup discussion, please recall the ongoing irritations we have with spammers who happen to find this list. Newsgroups are posted for ALL to see and are routinely searched by spammers who harvest the email addresses of all who post. The mailing list

Re: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?

Robert Karr wrote: What's a "Newsgroup", and why would that be better than what we have?? Bob A newsgroup is a wide open open mailing list, with the main difference being that all the mail resides on a server near you. Your software can do all the same things with mail posted here

RE: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?

Bill and the other: I will keep the "petit committee", it always works better than going on a full democracy "whose ever you are what ever you want to say wellcome" approach. Juanse Barros Chile -Mensaje original- De: Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

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.