Re: MI Raster images

2000-03-22 Thread Roeland van der Spek
Sarah, You can look at the site of the US Geological survey. http://edc.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html . Here you can download 1:250,000 DEM files of most of the US (I am sure Texas will be there somewhere :) ). You can use Mapinfo's DEM to Grid converter to convert the data into a

MI Kalman Filter

2000-03-22 Thread Dmitry Bogdanov
Hello! A potential customer is concerned about "Kalman filter used to combine measurepoints, available in MapInfo". Does anyone know such a product? Thanks, Dmitry Bogdanov GIS Department Manager Kiev Software Factory Ltd. room 46 9/12 Baumana St, Kiev, Ukraine 03190 Tel: (380 44) 442-6077;

Re: MI Raster images

2000-03-22 Thread Roeland van der Spek
Sahra, You can download digital elevation models of most of the US at the US geological survey site. http://edc.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/1_dgr_demfig/index1m.html Select the region you want and download the (compressed) data. Use Mapinfos DEM to Grid converter to convert the data to a MapInfo

RE: MI VB / MB Error

2000-03-22 Thread Richard . Burkmar
Greg, The following program works fine - implement this in a new project and take it from there. Richard Burkmar ICL Form module code: # Private mobjMI As MapInfo.MapInfoApplication Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim obj As Object For Each obj In

MI: selection Into and Noselect

2000-03-22 Thread Bob . Mijwaard
Dear Listers, I am trying to write a Mapbasic script to combine two (or more) polygons together. The user selects the first polygon and the polygon to be combined with is selected using the statement below. Because I need to do a combination, both selections have to be in the same result table.

MI RE: Scale problem

2000-03-22 Thread Mark . Percival
Ahmet I've had this problem before but never had a satisfactory answer from anyone (users MapInfo tech.). What I have found out is that if you set the scale in the layout to 1:1001 or if it's 1:500 set it to 1:501 it will normally come come out near enough as makes no difference. Also

MI MapX: Labelling One Way Streets

2000-03-22 Thread Niermann, Till, PASSO-TD, NI
Hi, Listers! Here is one which we really need your help on: Question: = How do I find the angle of a line at a given point without having to write a lengthy MapBasic program? (MapX would be OK since we're developing a C++ application) Problem: = Putting a "One Way" Symbol on each of

MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo

2000-03-22 Thread Graham Smith
Dear List, I want to write something in Mapbasic which would allow you to open HTML pages within MapInfo. Can you help at all. Regards, Jackie

MI Table Structure

2000-03-22 Thread Brendan . O'Donovan
Dear Listers, I have many tables resulting from the translation with Universal Translator of dxf files. To each of the tables I wish to add a series of fields, which I am doing using Table Maintenance Table Structure. Is there a way I can either copy the structure of one table to another OR

MI RE: Alter Object statement

2000-03-22 Thread Y.C. Nyon
Hi, I currently using the "Alter Object" statement to move the map objects (point, line, polyline, region) into another coordinate system. Questions are: 1. When updating, do you use "Update" or "insert". Anyone have some pieces of code they can share ? Regards Nyon

RE: MI Raster images

2000-03-22 Thread LEPAGE, MIKE (MIKE)
http://www.tnris.state.tx.us has about half of the state available in rastor images. They are the digital ortho quads (air photos). Mike Lepage, B.Sc. Senior RF Engineer Wireless Professional Services Lucent Technologies 636-891-2130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

MI Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:18:31 -0600

2000-03-22 Thread Lathrop, Travis
Anyone know of a quick and easy way to make a little money on the side using MapInfo and a GPS receiver? I have offered making maps for the local farmers, none were interested. Any other ideas out there? Travis Lathrop Intercarrier Services (816) 559-3014

Re: MI National Parks in Canada

2000-03-22 Thread Dany Bouchard
Depending on the scale you are looking for, you can get a free parks coverage from Geogratis at 1: 2 000 000 for all of Canada (http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/frames.html). If you need more accuracy you can talk to one of our client, the Treasury Board of Canada which has most of the parks areas at

Re: MI can mapxtreme display vector data

2000-03-22 Thread Dany Bouchard
Currently, the only way to display vector datadirectly in both IE and Netscape is to use java applets. Both MapXtreme NT and Java canuse java applets to deliver vector on the client.Everything is a matter of setting your server application accordingly. Dany BouchardDBx Geomatics38 de

MI Networking.

2000-03-22 Thread LAPP, WAYNE
Does anybody know the networking capabilities of MI? Is there an add on software available or something? Wayne Lapp -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the

Re: MI Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:18:31 -0600

2000-03-22 Thread John Haynes
Many counties and cities are interested in billboard locations. Easy shot from the road with a laser off-set. We would be interested in being a secondary buyer for such data. -Original Message- From: Lathrop, Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mapinfo list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday,

RE: MI MapX: Labelling One Way Streets

2000-03-22 Thread Jeff James
Till, The quickest and easiest way would be to take your street layer, copy all the one way streets into a new temporary(?) layer, and then turn on the line direction arrows for that new layer. Downsides to this: you get a small blue triangular arrow (which you can't change) pointing in the

MI Finding duplicates

2000-03-22 Thread Portolan Geomatics Inc
Hello list, I have a dataset that has about 4000 records, 30 columns and lots of duplicate data. I want to delete all the records that are duplicates(both database and object have to be exactly the same). I'd be interested in hearing how people would deal with this. I'm thinking I could run an

MI unsubscribe

2000-03-22 Thread Toothaker, Greg
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MI Sum Univ. Translator problems with State Plane Coordinate

2000-03-22 Thread Tim Warman
Listers, The original problem was that UT was unable to translate ArcView shape files created in State Plane Coordinates (which use Survey Feet), to MapInfo .tab files. It seems that UT, which is a subset of Safe Software's FME product, will not recognize Survey Feet as a unit. The problem has

RE: MI Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:18:31 -0600

2000-03-22 Thread Trammell, Nathaniel A.
You might consider developing a business case to define the benefits for Farmers, Police, ambulance and fire depts. Schools might also find this useful. -Original Message- From: Lathrop, Travis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 9:19 AM To: mapinfo list

MI Split/sliver

2000-03-22 Thread Dyan Catamaran
Hi Users At little while ago I placed a question on the split update issues for multiple overlay polygons. Thanks for all and in particular to Martin Roundill [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his extensive explanation. Now I am through this one but one aspect still BUG me. Every time I perform the split

Re: MI Geocoding a street (Disregard, problem solved with a Zip code map)

2000-03-22 Thread David Reid
- Original Message - From: David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 5:00 PM Subject: MI Geocoding a street that is a Zip code boundary I've been puttin' this one off for some time but the time has come. I have this one major t'fare that its self

MI Finding Duplicates 2

2000-03-22 Thread Portolan Geomatics Inc
Oh what a long and winding road I drove only to find out that my next door neighbour had the answer...I will explain. 1) I tried using MI SQL to GROUP all the columns, but when I got halfway through adding the names the GROUP clause ran out of text space to contain the column titles. 2) Having

MI Set New Projection

2000-03-22 Thread Wade Cothran (EUS)
I have a map of building footprints in lat/long NAD 27. I want to convert them to lat/long NAD 83. I've tried 'Save Copy As...' with a new projection...I've tried exporting to MID/MIF with new projection., yet all attempts result in a file with the same coordinates for the same objects. What am

MI Text Display Problems

2000-03-22 Thread LOUR FARMS
I have recently encountered a problem while using MI 5.5. I have just registered two new raster maps and have began to create polygons without problem. When I try to add text however, strange things happen. IfI try to move or edit the text the font size increases dramatically. It the text

MI 5.5 Text editing/display Problem

2000-03-22 Thread LOUR FARMS
I am having a text problem with MI 5.5. I have many workspaces all relating to Agriculture. I recently created a new workspace which contains two newly registered raster maps. I have managed to create polygons without difficulty but text is a real nightmare. Any text entered dramatically

MI Upcoming Natural Resource and Geospatial Workshops

2000-03-22 Thread Holly Nelson
2000 TRAINING WORKSHOPS U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NATIONAL WETLAND RESEARCH CENTER MID-CONTINENT MAPPING CENTER IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE

RE: MI Set New Projection

2000-03-22 Thread LEPAGE, MIKE (MIKE)
I just loaded up a building footprint file I have which was in nad27 and saved it as nad83 using the save as function with the new projection. The new file reflects the nad83. I use utm nad 27/83 though. Maybe it doesn't work with the lat/long, i'm not sure. Mike Lepage, B.Sc. Senior RF

MI Sender: owner-mapinfo-l@lists.csn.net

2000-03-22 Thread Sarah . Myers
Thank you all for your responses. Woody came up with the one that worked the fastest. "Texas is in two parts. One in southwest, the other in glfcoast. there is no west. Files are on you MI cd. Woody" Roeland Mike gave me websites to check out with downloadable files - I am not familiar

MI Remove X from Buttonpad

2000-03-22 Thread yas_nakayama
Isn't there a way to remove "X" (close button) from Custom Buttonpad? Or, is it listed somewhere before. Thanx in advance Yas email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

MI help convert shapefile to tab

2000-03-22 Thread Tony D'Ambrosio
Trying to convert a shapefile of some city streets to a tab file, and then overlay them with my Streetpro layer. I have been unsuccesful with the overlay thus far, because my converted street layer winds up hundreds of miles off. I can convert the shapefile using the UT (the shapefile is

Text from Word to MI 5.5

2000-03-22 Thread Jeff Reid
Interested parties: We have lengthy text for a map explanation which will recur on a number of maps. The text was prepared in MS Word (Office 2000). Our maps are prepared using MI5.5. We are aware of the Photoshop and scanning approaches mentioned in the MI-L indexed comments. However, we do

RE: Text from Word to MI 5.5

2000-03-22 Thread James Marlow
Hi Jeff There are a couple of options (hacks for you programmers): 1) Use Word as your layout program - import the map into Word and do your layout around it. I usually dump it to an image using File | Save Window As but it is also possible to copy the map window and paste it as an OLE object.

MI reverse selection

2000-03-22 Thread Dyan Catamaran
Hi users Is there a quick way to do a "reverse selection" procedure? Thanks all Dyan C. Catamaran Phero Tech Inc. -- 604-940-9944 604-940-9433 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL

MI MapXtreme Java - Raster Images

2000-03-22 Thread Bradley Browne
The information I have seen about MapXtreme Java indicates that TAB files for raster images can be opened, along with GeoTIFF images. I am using the Map Definition Manager to add them but have tried unsuccessfully to get results when opening a TAB file that refers to a registered TIFF. The TAB

RE: MI Table Structure

2000-03-22 Thread Mark Knudsen
Brendan, One easy way to do this is to use the MapBasic window. Assuming all the files have the same columns to be added, you can do it once using the menu system and then just change the file name and re-run the line in the MapBasic window. If you know your filenames well enough, it is easy

MI automatically locating a caller on cellular networks

2000-03-22 Thread Rajeev saraf
Hi mappers: This quewtion is not related much to MI but more tp cellular telephony. Is it possible to identify the location of a cellular celluar ( within say 20 to 25 metre accuracy) without the caller having having a GPS or similar device. Or oes the cellular switching has any information

MI Maps on Fiji?

2000-03-22 Thread Van Patrick
Hello I am looking for modern topo or 3D or satellite maps on Fiji Islands. Can any one help me, I would be very grateful: Thanks in advance Van Pat -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put

MI MapExtreme - cannot export Gif format.

2000-03-22 Thread mazuaz
May be this is a just a simple question . There's an error in MapXtreme noted cannot register Gif format. Any clue ?. mazuaz -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe

MI Knowledge Based Networking in India

2000-03-22 Thread SDNP-India
Dear Colleagues Greetings from India! I am sure this would be of interest to you. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada in collaboration with Ministry of Environment and Forests (India) has launched the portal site of

MI - remove an ADDED column

2000-03-22 Thread Ian Allan
Hi The ADD COLUMN statement allows a new "temporary" column to be created for an open table. In an application I'm writing, I want to give a column the name of the map window identifier, so that each map window can have a unique thematic map. The thematic mapping bit works, but only the first