Re: MI re: A quick way to save a window as a *.jpg

2000-02-03 Thread Mats Elfström
"ISSA, OTHMAN" wrote: Did any one know of a tool that can open a workspace and automatically save the workspace (map window or the layout) as a jpg or bmp or jpeg? Use File Save window as... Select jpg as format. If you need a tool, program it in MapBasic. Mats.E --

MI Pro symbols - MapX symbols problem

2000-02-03 Thread Hamish George
Hello all, I've used the geoset.mbx utility to convert a workspace to a geoset and I'm having a few problems (especially since I'm no expert in either application). Specifically.. A symbol defined in the workspace as a Mapinfo 3.0 Font symbol appears in the workspace

Re: MI Aerial Photography

2000-02-03 Thread Nigel James
Dave, With the raster image open as a table, open the Table menu, then go to Raster - Adjust Image Styles. You can then tweak the brightness and contrast. regards Nigel On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:15:43 - David Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some aerial photography onto which I am

MI - SUM - interesects and buffers

2000-02-03 Thread Tom Manson
List, Thanks for the help recently for my two questions regarding buffers. Here are the oringinal questions and a selection of the answers received: Q 1 - I have 2 tables, one with burst records (point) and the other with pipes (line). I have created a buffer around the points (20m) so that I

MI Data request - UK

2000-02-03 Thread Ian White
Afternoon all Would anybody working in government, health, education etc. in the UK be able to supply me with data, preferably in MI format for: Health Action Zones Education Action Zones Employment Action Zones Please reply to me personally if you may be able to, but require further

MI Network Plotting Solution

2000-02-03 Thread glenn
Hello list, we just recently released a feature article explaining how the South Florida Water Management district has resolved their large scale network plotting issues. It's light reading and may offer a solution to some of you grappling with similar issues. You'll find the article at

RE: MI Text Positions on Screen v on Paper

2000-02-03 Thread McMahan, Jason
Welcome to the Wonderful World of MapInfo! A few suggestions: Are you printing from a layout window? That can give you more controlbut not much more. Another thing I do is, when labeling, don't use the label feature in the layer control. As you may have noticed, that keeps the font size

RE: MI Pro symbols - MapX symbols problem

2000-02-03 Thread Hamish George
Lars, Thanks for the info I've tried that and it's almost but not quite the same. e.g. Mapinfo 3.0 symbol set has a square with a shadow, I can't quite reproduce it exactly using the 'Mapinfo Symbols' font (even with the drop shadow checkbox) As a background there is a user configuring a

WG: Workspace and MI 5.5

2000-02-03 Thread Cattaneo Pietro BRP
First I want to thank all of you for your response, thanks Jacques and Pauline ! I could save my workspace by -changing the header from 550 to 450 and by -deleting the line 'distance type cartesian'. Thanks a lot Pietro Cattaneo Pietro Cattaneo Bundesamt für Raumplanung Sektion Infrastruktur

RE: MI Text Positions on Screen v on Paper

2000-02-03 Thread ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
What projection are you using for the table you are placing the labels on and what projection is you map window in. I would suggest they be the same. To change projection of the table you must use Save Copy As and change the projection in the dialoug box. The map projection may be changed at

MI Re: MapInfo Projection File details

2000-02-03 Thread Andrew_Dressel
However, one thing that the several of us who were working on it couldn't establish, and which appears to be undocumented, is the meaning/significance/importance of the "\p" component of the description string in the mapinfo.prj file. These are the PCS (Projected Coordinate System) codes

RE: MI Creating points and showing on a separate map

2000-02-03 Thread ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
Did you use the Create Points utility from the Table Menu and assign the proper columns of your spreadsheet to Lat and Long? Were your Lats and Longs in Decimal format? Did you use negative numbers for East and South and positive numbers for North and West instead of N, S E and W? You need to

RE: MI SUM Creating points and showing on a separate map

2000-02-03 Thread James Schumm
Thanks to everyone who responded to my problem with points. My mistake was with showing Lat as the "Y" value and Long as the "X" when creating points. I had them the other way around. Regards, Jim Schumm "ZONING ADMINISTRATOR" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/03/00 12:54PM Did you use the Create Points

MI Workspace Editing : DANGER DANGER

2000-02-03 Thread ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
Many have recently responded to problems with opening workspaces due to deleted or path changed files. Several have advised to simply delete the reference to file in the Open Table " " section and the Map from Table section. This is not good advice. The problem comes in when you delete the

Re: MI WOrkspace

2000-02-03 Thread Charles Huyck
So that you know, this doesn't work well in practice. I often have workspaces with 100 or more tables in a workspace, and I am sure I am not alone. It is not uncommon for someone to come back 2-3 years later and want to use that map as a base. You have to allocate hours to resurrecting or

MI Re: Namibia projection info

2000-02-03 Thread Cliff Mugnier - University of New Orleans
Iain, The Namibian Datum is based on the origin point, "Schwarzek" near Gobabis where: Lat = -22* 45' 35.820" South, Lon = +18* 40' 34.549" East of Greenwich. The ellipsoid of reference is the Bessel 1841, but it was implemented with the "Legal Metre." When expressed in International meters

MI I used to know how to do proportion overlap

2000-02-03 Thread Marjorie Roswell
We did analysis by census tracts: Our statistician predicted number of cases of lead poisoning per 1000. Now they want the results by zip code. Yup: years ago, when I was a heavy MapInfo programmer, I did this sort of thing all the time. Now I'm afraid I might forget. Considering the request

Re: MI Workspace Editing : DANGER DANGER

2000-02-03 Thread GeoInfo Solutions Ltd.
At 01:50 PM 2/3/00 -0500, ZONING ADMINISTRATOR wrote: Many have recently responded to problems with opening workspaces due to deleted or path changed files. ...What do I suggest you ask? Replace the problem table with a known table that will open in both the Open Table section and the Map From

Re: MI Workspace Editing : DANGER DANGER

2000-02-03 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi All! Will Woodruff wrote as a tip for saving wrecked workspaces: What do I suggest you ask? Replace the problem table with a known table that will open in both the Open Table section and the Map From section. Open your workspace. Close the replacement table. Save the workspace. Well,

RE: MI Workspace Editing : DANGER DANGER

2000-02-03 Thread Sinam Al-Khafaji
For the future, I would suggest our Workspace Manager. Downloadable from our website for a free time renewable version. It can create a .worp file. This in essence is a compressed workspace, that when reopened, can reassign the data files to new directories. You could also archive old

MI General question: WIP

2000-02-03 Thread Sarah . Myers
Thank you for all your responses - I am checking into them and trying them out. I will report back once I understand what I'm doing. :) ;))) Sarah Myers Sr. Admin. Asst. to Eric Sund, Manager Preventive Care Operations Check Up Centers Blue Cross of California T:805/480-7132 F:805/376-3398

MI Slash Screen

2000-02-03 Thread Stephen R. Riese
Message text written by Kenneth Laas I remember seeing something about being able to change MapInfo's start-up splash screen to a customized BMP, something like a company logo. I feel kind of stupid asking this simple question, but I cannot figure it out for the life of me. Any help would

MI MapInfo 5.5 ODBC errors on local install on networked machine

2000-02-03 Thread climber
Dear List, Does anyone have any experience with ODBC errors on a network LAN where Office 97 Pro. is accessed via their network. My problem is ODBC errors each time I run MapInfo 5.5. A DLL fails to load and MapInfo halts then when the ok button is pushed on the errors popup window MapInfo

RE: MI Slash Screen

2000-02-03 Thread Brad Mathews
If you have VC++ you can probably modify the DLL with the bitmap resource that is used on the splash screen. You can probably also screw with the toolbar button icons! Do you know any Mapinfo users who need a good April Fools joke? - Brad -Original Message- From: Kenneth Laas

MI AGT MapServer Beta (for MapInfo)

2000-02-03 Thread MAPPER MAN
Please reply this mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] New MapServer for Mapinfo AGT MapServer is a new mapserver. You can download it from www.demokrasivakfi.org.tr/~korkmaz/mapserver.zip This version of the AGT MapServer is only Beta and it is

Re: MI Pro symbols - MapX symbols problem

2000-02-03 Thread LVN
Hamish, There is a TrueType font called "MapInfo Symbols" that implement the same symbols as the old 3.0 vector symbol library. Use that instead in MI Pro, and I'm sure it'll work in MapX. Lars Nielsen "Hamish George" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03-02-2000 11:11:47 Please respond to [EMAIL

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MI SUM: MapBasic training courses - Pro and Con?

2000-02-03 Thread Bill Thoen
Last week I asked the list for comments and suggestions about MapInfo’s MapBasic training courses. I was particularly interested in how people manage to teach such a large body of statements, functions and techniques to a class of MapBasic beginners in only two days. I was also looking for

MI Announce: Jan 2000 message digest available

2000-02-03 Thread Bill Thoen
The Jan 2000 digest for MapInfo-L is available from http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/digest/ I fixed the broken links there now too. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put

Re: MI SUM: MapBasic training courses - Pro and Con?

2000-02-03 Thread Dick Hoskins
Where can one get Mapbasic training materials for cheap? No money to pay MapInfo their rather high fee for a couple days training. Dick Hoskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Bill Thoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MapInfo-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000