Re: MI miles or kilometers

Eric, Yes, the kilometer is the measurement unit usedfor the roads system here. Primary and secondary state roads (usually two- or four-lanes) connecting the towns have hectometer markers; that's why you might find rural addresses given as "Carr. xyz, km. xy.z". If you see "interior" or

MI CALCULATION OF BEARING, DISTANCE

Dear Mapinfo Users, Does anyone know of an mapbasic application that will output bearing and distance between points listed in a mapinfo table? Jocelyn O'Byrne Mining Project Investors Pty Ltd Perth, Western Australia -- To

MI tools for static webmap

dear list, is there any tools for creating static web map, from mapinfo workspace ? what i'm doing right now is save the map windows, to jpg image, then by using small visual basic program, i digitize the boundaries to become, image map tag. thank you. tommy kurniawan, bandung, indonesia.

MI Rotating a vector 90 degrees

Hi all, I have made the amateur mistake of scanning and digitising a map rotated 90 degrees from north. I have a table consisting of regions that have been digitised in Non-Earth meters and I would like to orate them 90 degrees to the position they are now in, thus correcting the scanning and

Re: MI Updating an integer and/or character column

Seems like your column is declared as "logical" only allowing for 0 or 1 and True (T) and False (F) values; hence the F you get... Max Michael Goldberg wrote: Dear List, I'm having trouble updating an integer column in one of my MapInfo tables. I want to add a number 2 to a column titled

MI Opening workspce

Thank you for the answers regarding opening workspace. Yes, MI is re-running the queries once they are saved in the workspace. So far, I have not notice that, because the queries I saved previously were quite short and very often I deleted them before closing the project. Ewa BEGIN:VCARD

MI miles and kilometres

Eric UK is still miles, it's so much more logical than kilometres. Mick -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI digital aerial photograph analysis

Hi I think that you need to be careful. Being able to view photos on screen stereoscopically is one thing, but if you're digitizing, do these products then allow you to then correct for photographic distortion? Ian Allan "E.O.Kofod" wrote: Dear Sandy, Please relay answers on 'b' to me.

MI ORACLE 8I spatial licensing

We have 8I spatial up and running. The software is great, but two projects have just bogged down on ORACLE licensing. These customers have large numbers of concurrent multi-server ORACLE licences. We need to add the spatial option for a small number of named users (operating in their own ORACLE

MI GIS on the Web

Hi Just to let you know that issue 62 of the Free Pint newsletter has an article on the subject of GIS. You can access the article in full and for free at http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/110500.htm#feature Please feel free to comment or suggest other resources. Regards Simon Collery Free Pint

MI Watershed Delineation Tool

Hello, Is anyone aware of a Watershed Delineation tool developed to run with MapInfo? Any help would be appreciated. TIA Brian Gallant

MI JOB: GIS Analyst - Northern NJ (Repost)

Several respondents alerted me to a problem with my email server. I am reposting this job with my apologies to any List users who may have been inconvenienced. Thanks, Ken Fioretti GIS Analysts needed: Geographic Business Systems is a market analysis and research firm located in the NYC

MI Simple 3D Map

I am attempting to produce a 3D Map in Vertical Mapper. I have created a map of the US with a table of ordinal data i.e. 0 signifies no structures in the state and 1 signifying structures residing in the state. I have created a thematic map in MapInfo and would like to create a '3D' map in

MI RE: Translators

Hi: I just started subscribing to this list, because my responsibilities have just been transferred to MapInfo GIS from ArcView GIS. I have a script to convert from MIF to Shape. Is there a Script to convert a Shape to MIF/MID so that I can transfer the data from my ArcView project back into

MI Thematic Legend

My problem (probably with an obvious answer) is this: Having created a thematic layer, I have 5 groupings: 0% to 25% 25% to 50% 50% to 75% 75% to 100% 175% However when i alter the legend text to the above, the last text label '175%' formats to the left. It would look a lot more classy if

RE: MI miles and kilometres

Mick, Oh please. Tim _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mick Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 3:01 AM To: [EMAIL

MI Get the state of Mapinfo buttons From VB/C++

We are using MI from VB and VC++ (integrated mapping). We have created ToolBars in VC++ to implement most of the Mapinfo standard ButtonPads. We are now facing the following problem: how can we synchronise the state of our buttons (greyed , checkec/uncheched) with the state of Mapinfo buttons

MI Workspace Problem

Dear Lister's Has anybody had problems saving workspaces on a Windows 95 OS. Our 4 person GIS team currently uses NT on 3 of the 4 machines in our office. However, on our 95 OS we cannot save workspaces. When the workspace is oppened in wordpad for correction all the text is replaced with

RE: MI miles and kilometres

What about this unit of measure the MIT students used to measure a bridge over the Charles River in Boston, Mass. (unit corresponding to the height of a fellow student)? _ Claude Lavoie, a.g. Service du soutien à la clientèle Direction des

RE: MI miles and kilometres

yeah miles one thousand and ??? how many yards first one to answer gets a genuine copy of mapinfo 1.0 that i have kicking around. complete with REAL floppy disks!! -Original Message- From: Tim Warman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 May 2000 16:36 To: Mapinfo-L Subject: RE:

MI file conversion

Hello all, I'm trying to convert a .gif image into a MapInfo compatible format-hopefully with registered coordinates etc. eventually... Any suggestions? application/ms-tnef

RE: MI RE: Translators

That's only the case if you are using a newer version of MapInfo, otherwise Wessex has a free DOS shp2mif translator on their website under SupportUtilities. From there, you're home free. http://www.wessex.com -Original Message- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

MI International Date Line

Dear All, As I live in Edinburgh, the International Date Line is as far away from me as just about anything. However, I have suddenly found a need for it. Am I supposed to have a Mapinfo table detailing this already or can someone help me out with one, or even a decent coordinate list? I

RE: MI miles and kilometres

1760. But seriously, my favourite measure is the furlong. Tony Peluso Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division / Division des études économiques et de l'analyse des politiques Department of Finance / Ministère des finances L'Esplanade Laurier, 18th Floor, East Tower 140 O'Connor Street

Re: MI miles and kilometres

Mine's the cubit! Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1760. But seriously, my favourite measure is the furlong. Tony Peluso Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division / Division des études économiques et de l'analyse des politiques Department of Finance / Ministère des finances

Re: MI Workspace Problem

The first thought that came to my mind was that your workspace file may be getting saved as a word processing doc file and not a text file. The fact you are using wordpad makes me think this. Whereas note pad only saves in text format, wordpad has to be told to save it as a text file.

RE: MI Vertical Mapper question

Simon, Unfortunately the Voronoi utility in Vertical Mapper does not allow you to influence the size of the natural neighbourhood region based on a points value. James Harvie Vertical Mapper Product Manager Northwood Technologies Inc. 43 Auriga Drive, K2E 7Y8 Nepean, Ontario, Canada

RE: MI miles and kilometres

An interesting addendum to the original question about whether miles or kilometers are used in Puerto Rico...the correct answer is...BOTH. Distances are always expressed in kilometers but speed limits are expressed in MPH. This was done after painful experience determined that many PR

RE: MI Vertical Mapper problem

Ian, The black screen you have encountered with GridView normally occurs when your video card has been set to use 256 colours. James Harvie Vertical Mapper Product Manager Northwood Technologies Inc. 43 Auriga Drive, K2E 7Y8 Nepean, Ontario, Canada 613-224-2020 -Original Message-

RE: MI Simple 3D Map

Michael, From what you wrote I assume you are trying to create a 3D chloropleth map where each state is vertically displaced depending upon a value. If this is what you are looking for read on. 1. Because you are dealing with such a large area I would make sure you map is in a projection that

RE: MI miles and kilometres

Message text written by "Lavoie, Claude" What about this unit of measure the MIT students used to measure a bridge over the Charles River in Boston, Mass. (unit corresponding to the height of a fellow student)? Wasn't that the "Smoot?" Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI miles and kilometres

Cubits. Furlongs. All good. Mine, as the name suggests, is the rood. Tim Rood -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL

MI - MI Best GIS for dollar - Mappoint?

Further to the discussion a few weeks ago regarding 'the best value for money GIS', I was wondering whether anyone had experience with Microsoft Mappoint? I know that this new software is probalby not going to do the levels of analysis that most 'hard core' GIS specialists require, but for a

RE: MI miles and kilometres

1 mile = 1760 yards = 1.6093 kilometres = 3071.2555 cubits (may be useful as MapInfo 1.0 probably uses cubits as the default unit of measurement ... ) :-) Rob Batenburg GIS / Data Management Specialist Integrated Pest Management Section Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre Agassiz, British

MI Cities Revealed Images

We've recently purchased a pair of disks containing Cities Revealed images for our city. These are high-resolution, georeferenced, tiled aerial photographs. The viewer provided allows these to be exported as jpgs with the creation of a TAB file. However, the resulting jpg files are either of

Re: MI miles and kilometres

Ah yes... the "Smoot!" One night a frat required its new pledge class to measure the MIT bridge using Mr Smoot's body. I forget how many Smoots the bridge is, but every year the new pledge class has to repaint the smootmarks. Last time I walked over the Charles to Cambridge they were still

MI RE: image registration

Thanks to all who responded to my problem in importing a .gif into MI. I've got the output required!! -Original Message- From: Waardenburg, Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 1:58 PM To: Swayze, Natalie: WPG Subject: image registration

RE: MI DXF import and local grid

dear all There have been conversation about dxf in the list i would like to know if there is any help about the following: I have some 90 dwg files composed of some 30 layers each (30 is the maximum number of layers but they are not all contained on each file). I was able to set them all in

MI British railway stations

Does anyone know where I could get a database of British railway stations? I'm particularly interested in Scotland. Martin A Spiers Sheffield Design Property Drainage, Surveying Geotechnical Services 2-10 Carbrook Hall Road Sheffield S9 2DB Tel: 0114 2734403 Fax: 0114 2735005

Re: MI Buffering with Square Corners

I implore you to post a [SUM]mary of answers that come your way. There is not enough sharing going on here to make MI-L _really_ work. If you are working with blocks (rectangles) this may be satisfactory. If working with odd shapes it may not. The following is incomplete, but may jump start

Re: MI miles and kilometres

I haven't seen it, but my father, an MIT alum, said on the Beantown side of the bridge there's a sign (or was in the 40s) that says "___ to Hell." The _ is some sort of linear units. Could it be "smoots?" I kind of remember something prosaic like "One mile to Hell," but any town

Smoots and Boston geography (was: MI miles and kilometres)

It's well known that Boston has the weirdest geography (South Boston lies to the east, etc.), and that goes double for the lack of signs or signs deliberately worded to fool any but the beantown natives... there used to be a sign off the Southeast Distressway for the exit that takes you to the

Re: MI Thematic Legend

I've had this problem too. Relating it to your project, I overcame it by using a ".175%" leader. Not ideal, but it works. Ian Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem (probably with an obvious answer) is this: Having created a thematic layer, I have 5 groupings: 0% to 25% 25% to

MI Capturing Customised Auto labels into a layer

Hi Listers, I have a series of maps which have customised labels built via MapInfo's Auto Label facillity. Some of these labels have been manually positioned - involving some effort! The underlying tables are very active and I need to pack them - which would destroy my labels. I need to

Re: MI miles and kilometres

And the story about the taxi driver who, when told by his two little old lady passengers that they wanted to go to the Market and Fanuel Hall to get scrod, said, "Ladies, that's the most disgusting use of the past participle I've ever heard." -Original Message- From: Tim Rood [EMAIL

SUM MI Rotating a vector 90 degrees

I have had some responses that have directed me to the rotate and rotary mbx's but it seems that these are only really good for rotating single items. What I am trying to accomplish is rotating all of the regions around a point so that they look the same but in a landscape as opposed to

MI migrating from mapx to mapxtreme

Hi guys: If i have a mapx app, how easy or difficult is to migrate to mapxtreme ( web solution)? is that a product similar to mapobjects and mapobjects IMS that allows you to host your MO app on internet/ -- rajeev saraf -- To

Re: MI Updating an integer and/or character column

don't put the "LandUse = 2", just put the "2". :) Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Authentication-Warning: lists.sni.net: majordomo set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:33:17 +0200 From: Max Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: KMMA = MRAC X-Accept-Language:

RE: MI migrating from MapX to MapXtreme/MapXtend????

Yes, very good question. Please copy any summary to me. We have been building ActiveX controls like mad-men only to see these COMs be potentially discriminated against. MidNight Mapper 5/24/00 -Original Message- From: rajeev saraf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May