MI Using Crystal Peport from MapBasic

2000-02-17 Thread PEM
Hi, I was wondering if there is anybody out there who has had good result with calling the Crystal Report API functions from within MapBasic. I'm strugling quite a bit with these function and most of my work is doing OK, the only problem I'm still having is that I can't seem to be able of

MI Datums

2000-02-17 Thread 52
Hello List, Can any body explain to me what is datum, and where can i change it in MapInfo. As i undestand datum transformatin needed only when i want to jump from one ellipsoid to another. Is it right? I've found some information about datum i need (Pulkovo 1942) in LocalCoordSysDefs.fme file

MI Geocoding parameters

2000-02-17 Thread Michel Girard
Is there any way to "customize" to distance between the created point and the polyline to which it is attached, when performing a geocoding task using a complete address (fromleft, toleft,... and so on) ? In other terms, is there a "hidden parameter" for the MapBasic FIND function ?

MI MapX geosets collection

2000-02-17 Thread Hamish George
Hello all, I'm trying to produce a MapXtreme mapping application that will let users save and restore map information as geosets to a file location. Unfortunately it appears that unless the geoset file is located in the the same directory as the dictionary then a geoset loaded using the

MI Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:01:01 -0000

2000-02-17 Thread Stokes Jonathan
Hi Listers an object geography type question for y'all I have a set of polygons and a set of polylines. The objects in the polyline table fall into two categories. One lot run contiguous to the boundaries of the Polygon coverage (imagine the Polygon covergae after a 'convert to polylines'

Re: MI ODBC link tables

2000-02-17 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV
You need to create a view, similar to a StreetInfo table create view MyView as select * from TableOdbc, TableMap where TableOdbc.UniqueField = TableMap.UniqueField The process is very fast even with large tables. Later, you can even create a .tab file that opens as a regular mapinfo table.

MI SUM - Query Contains

2000-02-17 Thread David Eagle
Dear all, A quick summary of the responses I recieved for the interested parties is as follows: Basically I have been alerted to the fact that the "Contains" operator is a geographic operator and therefore cannot query text strings...Typical! So heres what I should have done and have since

RE: MI Census Data Request

2000-02-17 Thread jwa inc.
you can buy maptitude for $300 or so, and then they sell block group data for the us (1 CD) for about $300. it reads and writes mid/mif and a bunch of other formats as well. they don't have every data item though, so you should check to see if they have what you need. The block group cd is a

SUM: MI Census Data Request

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Wallace
Thanks to all the many people who responded: Commercial offerings, like DataMetrix and Channel Marketing had what I needed and more for $250 (minimum order size), and included forecasted data. Geolytics also has this for sale. Many offered to send me the data for free. Others sent URL's

MI Informacion sobre Formato de Archivo

2000-02-17 Thread Javier Quispe Varillas
Amigos listeros : les escribo para solicitarles informacion sobre unos archivos *.bin del software PLANET V.2.8 que corre en Solaris, asi como podria leerlos desde un pequeño script para poder extraer informacion de sus puntos(coordenadas longitud,latitud, y altura) Este software es

MI Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:15:01 -0500

2000-02-17 Thread Mathieu Avery
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FW: MI MapX geosets collection

2000-02-17 Thread Hamish George
Hello All, Further to below, I think maybe I should explain why... I'm trying to embed the full path name of the geoset currently in use within hidden form variables on the page. I'd like to do this by accessing the PathName property of the geoset ie

RE: MI PS / PDF output

2000-02-17 Thread Thomas Misek
Sorry Rich, I don't have an answer for your problem. What I do have is a request for suggestions for the best method to get from a MapInfo layout to something that can be read by Adobe Acrobat - Distiller. Thanks all. -Original Message- From: Richard Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL

MI Appearance of selected regions

2000-02-17 Thread Brendan . O'Donovan
Dear Experts, I have a mappable table with exactly coincident regions, with query select I make selections on the basis of data in various fields. The problem is that where even numbers of coincident regions are selected no selection pattern appears for those regions in the mapper. Is there a

MI DATA - US Time Zones in DD NAD83

2000-02-17 Thread Tim Keane
Does anyone know of a data source for US Time Zones in DD NAD83? Tim Keane GIS Coordinator govWorks, Inc. 81 FRANKLIN ST NEW YORK, NY 10013 phone: 212.941.6900x221 fax: 212.208.4472 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.govWorks.com

MI Designjet 650c printing problem

2000-02-17 Thread Charlie Bernhardt
Hello everyone, I've been having a recurring, but intermittent, problem printing complex plots with my Designjet 650C. I know I don't have enough printer memory for the plot, so I use the "process in computer's memory" selection. The computer(P550) has 128MB of ram. I'm using MI 4.5. Output size

MI Converting .grc files

2000-02-17 Thread Bruce Blais
Listers; Does anyone know of a way to convert .grc files produced by dB Planner into tables that can be opened in MapInfo? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bruce B. Blais Director - Network RF Engineering -- To

RE: MI Datums

2000-02-17 Thread Clifford J. Mugnier
Old columns of mine (including Uzbekistan) can be downloaded (for free) from the "Grids and Datums" section at: http://www.asprs.org.resources.html Be careful what you say in public (over the internet) about System 42. It is still a State Secret in your country, and the

Re: MI DATA - US Time Zones in DD NAD83

2000-02-17 Thread mjenne
Tim, I ran into the same thing yesterday. There are plenty of sources that you can buy the Time Zones from, at prices ranging from $9.95 to $150, but if you're thrifty you can download them from: http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/atlasftp.html It's in Shapefile format, so you'll need to run it

MI SUM DATA - US Time Zones in DD NAD83

2000-02-17 Thread Tim Keane
The follwing urls are all reported to have time zone data I downloaded a pretty good one for free at directionsmag.com http://www.stopwatchmaps.com www.directionsmag.com http://software.geocomm.com/data/intl_timezones.html http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/atlasftp.html Thanks to... Scott Elliot

RE: MI PS / PDF output

2000-02-17 Thread Martin Roundill
I have had good success with using HP printer drivers (running MI 5.0 on NT4 I use HP2500cp driver). The files are saved as postscript and distiller 3.01 reads then no probs. I do admit that we only generate these to enable PDF files to be created for general use not for high end production -

RE: MI Converting .grc files

2000-02-17 Thread Thomas Misek
Go to the Vertical Mapper web site and there is a MBX file that will allow reading the raster files by MapInfo. -Original Message- From: Bruce Blais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 1:23 PM To: Mapinfo List (E-mail) Subject: MI Converting .grc files Listers;

MI: *.DAT file in a remote database.

2000-02-17 Thread Charles Huyck
I am unclear on the ability of MI/MapX to store attribute data in a remote database. When you use "File save as" and select a MDB or dbf file, no dat file is created. When you open a DBMS table into MapInfo, MI makes a .dat file. So, can you attach to a table in another database without

MI Lessons learned

2000-02-17 Thread Kornelsen, Gerald
From the DUOH!, slap-to-the-forehead department... Yesterday, I re-ordered a table (232 rows, 2 cols - name number) so the records would be in numeric order. Today, I opened a workspace created previously which opens and displays the newly re-ordered table. I had used the workspace to move

MI Managing file

2000-02-17 Thread Engineering Services
We are having problems with the management of our data files across the network. Generallywe want toensurethat the author of the layer are the only people who modify it. As it is, we can only rely on people to do the right thing, but unfortunately this does not always occur (especially with

Re: MI PS / PDF output

2000-02-17 Thread Mats Elfström
Thomas Misek wrote: Sorry Rich, I don't have an answer for your problem. What I do have is a request for suggestions for the best method to get from a MapInfo layout to something that can be read by Adobe Acrobat - Distiller. ?? Print directly to Acrobat Distiller or PDFWriter, it's the

FW: MI Desagregation Method

2000-02-17 Thread Martin Roundill
Knowing my luck the original email I sent will appear a few seconds after I send this. However as I haven't (yet) seem this come through I will send it again. Cheers/Apologies Martin == Martin Roundill GIS Manager Waitakere City Council Private Bag 93109

MI Re: [AV] SUM DATA - US Time Zones in DD NAD83

2000-02-17 Thread Glenn Letham, Editor The GeoCommunity
Tim, Looks like you managed to find some good sources of data. I must have missed your original thread as I would have pointed you to a recent feature we did on Time Zones and time zones data sources. Noetheless, you can check it out at http://www.spatialnews.com/features/timezones/ Regards

MI SUM: PS / PDF output

2000-02-17 Thread Richard Greenwood
This isn't really much of a summary, but I may be getting a bit closer to solving my problem; it seems to work under Win95, but not under NT. I hesitate say that with any certainty because there are so many variables, but I have tested it on two NT machines and one Win95 machine, using version of

MI Website Update: GIS Websites Rated

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Lackow
The RPM Information Network at http://rpmconsulting.com has just updated the GIS Website Ratings for February, 2000. This year, we have added a suite of format tests to help webmasters improve their document, table and form structure and image syntax. This makes pages load more correctly and

RE: MI Converting .grc files

2000-02-17 Thread Dion Duran
Hi all, If you read the question again, you will understand what he is asking! I believe there is a tool built into Vertical Mapper that will convert( or contour) a .grc to a polygon-based Tab file, not a grid file. The mbx you refer to will only allow for viewing the grid, not query or

RE: MI Managing file

2000-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: MI Managing file -- If your files are stored on a network drive and you run NT you can utilise the NT file security options to allow only certain people access to file. This can include different levels of security i.e.: allowing only certain people editable

MI Unable to save table from SQL select

2000-02-17 Thread Laith Wark
Dear friends, I have created a query: select all from redtable, blue table where redtable . field1 = blue table . field1 which works fine, however I cannot save the query as a table, I get an "unable to save table" message. When I save the query it does not save all fields, as expected it

RE: MI PS / PDF output

2000-02-17 Thread Jo Ellen Brandmeyer
I have found that Distiller gives far better resolution than PDFWriter. Jo Ellen Brandmeyer -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact