MI World city database

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Pritchard
James, The Global Gazetteer is the ultimate database of world populated places (plus ports airports). We have over 4m places, with unique selection facilities to enable the production of any sized subset to meet a project or budgetary requirement. Best wishes Alan Pritchard The GLOBAL

Re: MI mif2tab.exe ?

2000-05-02 Thread Jaideep Nirula
Mats Elfström wrote: Hi All! On 01/04/99, the Midnight Mapper wrote: Anyone out there interested in building a shareware MIF2TAB.exe? Well, I just discovered that someone has. Visit http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-mitab.html for downloads and more information. I cannot

RE: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning?

2000-05-02 Thread Jeff Lebowski
I did and it kept giving me coordinates for someplace called Devil's Mountain in Wyoming. Go figure. -Original Message- From: David Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this

MI Boundary select on multiple tables

2000-05-02 Thread David Eagle
Dear all, I'm sure this has to be simple...All I want to do is essentially a 'Boundary Select' but I want to do it on multiple tables rather than just one. I have 30+ tables each containing a number of polygons. I have them all open in one workspace and I wish to query individual boundarys

TR: MI VM and MapInfo 6.0

2000-05-02 Thread Marc Pelosse
Nothing! If you've used VM, and tryied the continuous mapping and relief shading in MI 5.5, then you know it doesn't compare. VM is so much ahead in that field, that even with the developement power MI Corp has, it will be a while before they catch up, and by then, it's most likely that VM

Re: MI Re: (GIS-L) Wide open GPS - no more SA, starting tonight!

2000-05-02 Thread Dick Hoskins
Some diversity of discussion might be a good idea. After all, just how interesting can yet another printing problem with MI 5.5 really be? Are you sure you speak for everyone? "but quite frankly no one else cares to hear them" Dick Hoskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIS uses in public health summer

MI batch generation

2000-05-02 Thread Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.
Hi GIS-ers: I'm trying to do a command-line conversion with the Universal Translator, it seems to work fine like this: L:\HRAGiS\Tools\imut generate Shape MapInfo m:\streets\shape street_convert.fmeL:\HRAGIS\Tools\imut street_convert.fme --SourceDataset m:\streets\shape --DestDataset

MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning?

2000-05-02 Thread David Reid
CartoMan is overheard as he lies in the heaping masses of his mis-registered maps . . . "The SA . . . is it . . . is it turned off yet?" With a look of estonishment, Jimmy returns to the drafting room with his 100 dollar GPS 12 clutched in his fist and proclaims . . . Ok, enough Marvel Comics

RE: MI Points to polygon

2000-05-02 Thread PERRY Chris
There is an MBX on the www.directionsmag.com site called "Join the dots" which (once you have made the table mappable) will join the dots and create a polyline. From there, all you need to do is select the polylines and "convert to regions" Hope this helps, Chris Perry Systems Development

MI alter object statement

2000-05-02 Thread Daniel Groleau
I'm one of the worst programmer you will ever see, but i'm trying very hard. I need help on that one. I wrote the following scrip using the alter object statement and it doesn't work. It selected the objects that i wanted but it's not modifying the attributes like i want to. Could somebody

RE: MI MapInfo 6.0 release announced!

2000-05-02 Thread Mitchell, Will
Hmmm... I have to agree with most of your comments, but not the AV comparison. First, you can't even save a color/style with an actual map object in AV - it has to be thematically driven. Second, in AV, 2click on layer legend to get Legend Editor, then 2click on specific legend item to get

Re: MI Labels in layout

2000-05-02 Thread Dan_Page
Yannick, You might want to check out the MapInfo-L archives at http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/IndexMapInfoL.htm. There have been many discussions on labelling and printing within the layout window. I posted a question about labelling and printing back in 1998. Here are some of the

RE: MI MapInfo 6.0 release announced!

2000-05-02 Thread Raymond Rivest
At 12:49 PM 5/2/00 -0400, Mitchell, Will wrote: Hmmm... I have to agree with most of your comments, but not the AV comparison. First, you can't even save a color/style with an actual map object in AV - it has to be thematically driven. I'm currently building components for a map authoring

RE: MI MapInfo 6.0 release announced!

2000-05-02 Thread TonyD
I agree with the previous posts by Brad and Scott. Reading them I realized how much I'd gotten used to over the course of the last year and a half with MapInfo Pro. Coming from AV, I lamented the difficulty of doing the simplest things like change a color. I thought I would eventually go

Re: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning? -- YES

2000-05-02 Thread Richard Herrington
Hi All: We ran overnight tests with a $150 8 channel non-differential GPS. This GPS achieved a 4 meter accuracy (RMS or 68% confidence). It achieved 8 meter accuracy (2DRMS or 95% confidence). This is about a 9X improvement over previous tests with SA on. Not bad. Longer tests are needed to

Re: MI VM and MapInfo 6.0

2000-05-02 Thread Bill Thoen
IMHO (although I guess there's no such thing as a "humble opinion") Vertical Mapper is still light-years ahead of MapInfo in the area of 3D operations. matias wrote: With the new version of MapInfo in relation to 3D . What will happen with Verticla Mapper ??? thank matias chile

Re: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning?

2000-05-02 Thread Carl Schaefer
Yes, we did and it looks like we're able to see an error of 10-15m up here in Alaska. Nothing scientific, but in trying out 4 different units they all agreed on our position within that error. Surely beats them olden days when we could collect a position and then navigate to it without moving

MI UNSUBSCRIBE MapInfo-l

2000-05-02 Thread Bill Hicks
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MI MapInfo 6.0 release announced!!!

2000-05-02 Thread Donna Glover
I agree with most of the comments that have been made and I don't want this to be a debate on which one is better as I do use both MapInfo and AV in my office. But as far as ArcView comments go I have to disagree. First I find that most people that say that AV is better, are doing programing

Re: MI Re: (GIS-L) Wide open GPS - no more SA, starting tonight!

2000-05-02 Thread Mark Neuhaus
Sorry, mailing lists are NOT for diversity. They are for the topic in the mailing list's name, in this case MAPINFO. And yes, he certainly speaks for me. At 12:15 PM 5/2/00 -0700, Dick Hoskins wrote: Some diversity of discussion might be a good idea. After all, just how interesting can yet

Re: MI MB using a variable in a select statement

2000-05-02 Thread Erick Posner
Let me get this right: Select Wells.Owner, Wells.Owner_Abbr, Wells.Owner_Well_No, YearField_str from Wells, Production where Wells.Primary_Key = Production.Primary_Key and YearField_str 0 into Selection --- Try this query: Select W.Primary_Key, W.Owner, W.Owner_Abbr, W.Owner_Well_No,

MI MB using a variable in a select statement

2000-05-02 Thread Tim Warman
Listers, Is it possible to use a string variable in a select statement? The following bit of code doesn't seem to work: Select Wells.Owner, Wells.Owner_Abbr, Wells.Owner_Well_No, YearField_str from Wells, Production where Wells.Primary_Key=Production.Primary_Key and YearField_str0 into

Re: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning?

2000-05-02 Thread matias
yes...my Garmin II plus today has a 4 mts ETE, and before was about 10 or 15 mts - Original Message - From: David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Martes 2 de Mayo de 2000 8:54 AM Subject: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning? CartoMan is

Re: MI Points to polygon

2000-05-02 Thread Max Fernandez
Hi there folks, I seen to have a similar problem than Véronoque, and I am surprised that such a simple topographers approach has on first sight not been considered worthy enough by the MInfo developers. Here is the situation: Given a flat table (ie. excel) or text file representing all the

Re: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning?

2000-05-02 Thread Bill Thoen
Jeff Lebowski wrote: I did and it kept giving me coordinates for someplace called Devil's Mountain in Wyoming. Go figure. And so where did you think you were this morning? Perhaps they screwed up and activated the SDI transporter beam instead of turn off SA, and you might just have become