MI Need Help

1999-07-14 Thread BDT
We are the MapBasic programmers. We write a application to select a group of polygon into selection. We use the spatial SQL statements. We want to find out the polygons in Table1 that are not contained by the polygons in Table2. Ex. Select Obj From Table1 Where not (Obj within any(Select Obj

MI Addresses from Credit Card Info

1999-07-14 Thread Ken Fioretti
What is the procedure for acquiring address information from credit card companies? For example, if I am a retail merchant whose customers pay with credit cards, how can I get the billing addresses from those transactions? Also, is it possible to detrermine of the card was issued to a business

MI Mapping and GPS

1999-07-14 Thread William Gutierrez
Hello...! I'm deciding which is the appropriate GPS receiver to collect data in a city. It has to be compatible with MI in order to create points directly in MI. If you have any idea of prices or sites that I could visit, please, let me know. Any comment or help would be appreciated TIA

RE: MI coordsys transformation

1999-07-14 Thread Jacques Paris
Walter, Have you considered using the AFFINE clause that could register any DXF in any "orthogonallly projected" or non-earth coordsys? The only delicate point is the calculation of the 6 parameters, difficulty residing essentially in the understanding of the direction of the change. I have

MI THANKS! re: geocoding an image

1999-07-14 Thread Wade_Cothran
Wow! The response was overwhelming! Too many people to thank individually, so this is for everyone who responded to my question. THANKS! All the answers were 100% correct, and I was able to do exactly what I needed to do. With pround appreciation, Wade Cothran

Re: MI Mapping and GPS

1999-07-14 Thread Neil Havermale
You have two or four major types of GPS systems. Real-time correction of pusedorange or carrier calculation and post process of the same. The real-time GPS stuff needs radios as well as the benchmark system. In the case of standardized RTCM correction against a first quality benchmark where the

SUM: MI batch pack table

1999-07-14 Thread Matt.Wilkie
My original post was: -- Does anybody know a way of packing tables in batch mode? I have about 3 thousand to go through. Also, are there any known problems with data integrity when packing tables? I'd hate to pack everything and then find out 6 months or a year from now

MI street data comparisons

1999-07-14 Thread Joshua Ostroff
Has anyone done or seen a comparison recently of lower-end U.S. street data products - e.g. MapInfo Streetworks, Wessex Streets 6.0, US Digital Atlas 1999? Thanks, Josh Ostroff -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to

re: MI software for veiwing mapinfo files

1999-07-14 Thread Jeff Cole
You wrote: Does anyone know of any software that is used just for viewing mapinfo files? You might want to check out: 1) the MapInfo ProViewer viewer (contact MapInfo) 2) the Geographic Explorer, a free viewer for MapInfo files and many other vector and image files. You can

MI Addresses from Credit Card Info (fwd)

1999-07-14 Thread Peter Gozdyra
Ken, From what I remember a whole bunch of geo-demographic firms in the US and Canada collect credit card billing info directly from banks on the basis of bilateral agreements. I am not sure whether they can release this kind of data to individuals and how legal the whole things is from the

MI - fitting a straight line to a curve.

1999-07-14 Thread Tom Manson
Dear list, I have a little query regarding fitting a straight line to an arc (line with a bend). We extract data from one source, and wish to overlay it to existing sewer records. However, since some of the sewers have bends in them, and we only have a start and finish point, is there any

MI You got clobbered!

1999-07-14 Thread Sarah . Myers
Chad, I feel badly for creating such a ruckus yesterday. You certainly have apologized enough. Don't worry about it - things will settle down. You're going to get rug burn if you spend any more time on your knees apologizing to the MapInfo gods. On Fridays people publish 'Friday Funnies' and

Re: To all on the MI-L help list!

1999-07-14 Thread laura . piazza
Apology accepted Chad! Mistakes can, and do happen. Why oh why is it, that all the lessons we learn in life, are either painful or expensivehmmm. Laura Chad Scheidecker wrote: To everyone, I know what happened yesterday upset a lot of people and for that I am sorry!! I

MI-L: AG translator

1999-07-14 Thread Perry, Mike
Hello all, I am familiar with the AGlink tool in MapInfo which translates Atlas files into MI format... My question is: is there a translator to go from MI to Atlas??? Any help would be appreciated. -Mike Perry -- To

MI Mystery Files

1999-07-14 Thread Robert Murdoch
I have been given some sort of geographic data. Source unknown, documentation unknown, format unknown. They all appear to be in a binary format The files have the following extentions *.dib *.idx *.pnf *.txs If anyone could provide me with information on what the format for the data is

RE: To all on the MI-L help list!

1999-07-14 Thread Bill Hicks
If I hear another public complaint or apology about Chad I think I'll puke. Let this be the last one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 12:12 PM To: Chad Scheidecker; MapInfo Subject:

MI Problems with NT and Win95 clients

1999-07-14 Thread p . graham . mky
Title: Has anyone had problems configuring MapInfo(any version) with NT4(spack 5) and Win95(osr2) clients at the one site, on the same network and all accessing the same data on an NT Server? In particular, the problems I am experiencing are related to the following: Textprints out

Re: MI Summary: Need to find an expert on wireless GPS

1999-07-14 Thread John Brosowsky
slight correction - GeoComm developed a piece of software that can integrate the cellular location into an E911 network. The actual angle of arrival location derrivation hardware was built and patented by KSI Inc. out of Annandale VA (www.ksix.com). Our successful E911 integration was

MI test

1999-07-14 Thread Phil Dupler
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MI Re: Open Letter to The Angry MapInfo Gods

1999-07-14 Thread Tim Rood
From: Bill Hicks: If I hear another public complaint or apology about Chad I think I'll puke. So puke. I think Sarah has it right: there are some people on this list who think they're godlier than thou for all their ODBC/OLE/DAO/C++ BS and their evident ability to never, ever make an email

MI News - MapInfo-L FTP Site has Moved!

1999-07-14 Thread Bill Thoen
The user-supported MapInfo-L FTP site has moved to a new home. The old one was getting too crowded and overworked. The new site is at Directions Magazine at http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/index.htm The entire thing was moved -- web pages and shareware files -- and some web page file

Re: MI - fitting a straight line to a curve.

1999-07-14 Thread John Brosowsky
Tom, I've written some MB code to do this, but its bulky and complicated to run. Someday I'll clean in up and perhaps get it on MapInfo-L. If your interested my VERY general algorithm is this: 1.Add evenly spaced nodes to both tables (the table I want to modify, and my base table) at a

RE: MI : window size dependency

1999-07-14 Thread Trey Pattillo
Hello Jacques and all, If you go to my website, then to WinAPI, you will find the source code you copy into you MB app that stops the user from closing, moving, min, and max. The resize is removed from the menu command [top left of window] but the window still has drag [at least on WinNT]

MI California Data

1999-07-14 Thread Tim Warman
I've just started a new job in Los Angeles and would like to get my new company (consulting groundwater geologists) up and running with MI. However, I've never worked in the US before and I'm not familiar with the types of data available here. I've used digital 1:50,000 topo maps in Canada