Re: Re MI: Scaled Vector Graphics News + XML

2000-08-04 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi Ian You might look up (with IE5 and VML option installed) http://www.geotask.ch/en/images/VML/index_vml.htm (Database driven XML/VML GIS ...) At least some GIS companies are not having a deep sleep ... xx Announcing the ultimate JavaScript Mapping Solution xx !!! Neapoljs:

MI: Scaled Vector Graphics News + XML/VML

2000-08-04 Thread Ian Thomas
Thanks, Flavio - let me know of any other developments if you can. These are favourite topics of mine (XML and proprietary GIS formats). regards, Ian Thomas - Original Message - From: "Flavio Hendry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Ian Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "MapInfo ListServer" [EMAIL

RE: MI 6.0 Page Setup

2000-08-04 Thread AYoung
Title: RE: MI 6.0 Page Setup Hi David, Yes, I've just upgraded to v.6 and have found this one a real pain. If you find a fix, please let me know. Andrewe Young Durham City Council -Original Message- From: David Booth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 August 2000 17:33 To:

MI SUM Updating Column with Colour

2000-08-04 Thread Bradley Browne
Thanks to all that responded. Chris Perry nudged me in the right direction and Geografía y Electrónica, Barry Weston and David Haycraft dealt the final blows. David Haycraft's solution text is below, it probably explains the solution better than I could. MapInfo Pro's TableUpdate Column

MI - SVG / VML / and the GeoTask website

2000-08-04 Thread Ian Thomas
This is the response I had from a not-so-nice visual experience on the GeoTask website My feedback to GeoTask: Something wrong? I'm using IE5 on NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, and I autodownloaded the VML addons when it was 'asked for' when visiting your site. On the

MI Another SVG example

2000-08-04 Thread Dr. Franz-Josef Behr
If you are interested in mapping using SVG you can find another interesting example ("Vienna - Social patterns and structurtes") provided by Andreas Neumann (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) (not generated with MI) at the following URL: http://www.karto.ethz.ch/~an/cartography/vienna/ Some

Re: MI: Scaled Vector Graphics News

2000-08-04 Thread Dr. Franz-Josef Behr
Robert Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The WWW community is preparing a new standard, Scalable Vector Graphics, that will permit creating web pages with images defined as vectors, rasters, or a combination of the two. The new capability allows a user to pan and zoom within the image, and it

RE: MI Looking for Animal Fonts or Font tools in general

2000-08-04 Thread LVN
Hi Dawn, As for the difference in menus, it's probably because we're using two different versions. I'm running the FontCreator version 3.0 beta 1 (build3.0.0.83 beta 1). But it's apparently the same setting, so you should be ok. As for the "Mer's Animals", you're correct. To verify the

MI MapXtreme Query - Map Window Compression

2000-08-04 Thread Jayaprakash Atmaram
Dear List, Best Wishes. This is related to MapXtreme for NT...where we have developed a Map based site for a customer(final touchs). But currently we have a major problem... Whenever we are using a tool like Z+,Z-,I,PAN...on the Map Window, the map window gets compressed to almost 1/3rd it's

MI Papersize definitions...

2000-08-04 Thread PEM
Hi, Is there anyone out there who has a complete list for the Papersize definitions for use in MapBasic 6.0. I know MapBasic comes with a Papersize.def, but the papersize definitions for A1 and A0 are missing as far as I can see. As far as I have figured out the values for A0 and A1 can

MI Color palette

2000-08-04 Thread Milo Simonic
Is there a way to print a color palette that MI uses when dealing with thematic mapping? Milo -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact

MI Re: Scaled Vector Graphics News

2000-08-04 Thread Dany Bouchard
Robert, I believe we will hear a lot more about SVG in the upcoming months/year. It really is a revolutionary way to present maps on the web. For your information, tou can also find quite a few samples of SVG Maps in our SVG technology preview area at http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg/. I am

MI Utiltiy to find out what objects reside in a polygon

2000-08-04 Thread Dadler1
I am trying to find out if there is a utility of somekind that will update a file with what objects reside in a particular region/polygon? Basically I have a bunch of points on a map and I am overlaying a grid (130 boxes). I want to be able to find out what points reside in each grid box

MI GIS Job site Rankings

2000-08-04 Thread Editor, GeoCommunity
G'day all, we recently completed a GIS job site ranking. This involved a quick review and subjective ranking of a number of popular GIS related job/career websites. We hope you find this piece useful and please, if you know of a job site that we missed, let us know about it. the Jobsite

MI node coordinates in pixel

2000-08-04 Thread Holger Sternad
Hi list! Since my problem still remains unsolved I repost my question. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is my question: I`m looking for a way to get the coordinates of nodes - but not as values in the coordinate system currently in use; what I want to know is the position of a

MI converting a DXF file into a grid with polygons

2000-08-04 Thread Dadler1
I received a DXF file (CAD drawing of a grid) that is a bunch of individual line segements. I have used the Universal Translator to convert the file into a mapinfo TAB format that can be viewed in Mapinfo Pro. I am trying to convert the grid into regions/polygons. I know there is a convert to

MI easy open tab as txt question

2000-08-04 Thread John Chioles
Hi, What does one use to import a text field with double quotes inside a string ("") on a File-Table-Open so MIPro doesn't see it as the end of the string. I want to preserve the qq s in the string field. -John -- To

MI Oracle 8i: problems when deleting records in cached table

2000-08-04 Thread Bouchard, Dany
Title: Oracle 8i: problems when deleting records in cached table I am currently testing object editing in MapInfo using a connection to an Oracle 8i spatial database within the following environment: MapInfo Professional V6.0 Oracle Spatial V 8.1.6 Easy Loader 6.0 I have uploaded a few

MI Friday Humour

2000-08-04 Thread Andy
Quasimodo is working hard in the cathedral belfrey - he's really busting a gut because there was lots of weddings on that day. After work the Head Priest said 'Hey, Quasi, why don't you hire someone to help you?' 'Good idea' says Quasi, and off he skips to put an advert in the paper. The next

Re: MI Problem with text elements

2000-08-04 Thread jchgis
Update the column where you want to store your data with the following: Objectinfo(obj, 3) -- Sonya Nikolsky Production Manager JCH GeoInfo 3600 University Dr Durham NC 27707 David Thibault wrote: Hi all! I have a MapInfo table which contains text element with no attached tabular data. I

Re: MI converting a DXF file into a grid with polygons

2000-08-04 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi FME (www.safe.com) would be the solution ... However it's not shareware ...But it's great ! *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 04.08.2000 at 10:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received a DXF file (CAD drawing of a grid) that is a bunch of individual line segements. I have used the

Re: MI node coordinates in pixel

2000-08-04 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi Holger If you just need to do it interactively, just use something like Paintshop Pro or Corel Photopaint ... When you move the mouse over the picture it will show you the coords in Pixels ... Regards Flavio *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 04.08.2000 at 15:45 Holger Sternad

RE: MI node coordinates in pixel

2000-08-04 Thread Jacques Paris
Pure invention but it works Open your jpg table for "registration" It will be displayed in a special requester for you to add reference points. Click on the point you want. The x and y positions on the jpg (from 0,0 at top left) will appear in the list of points window. If you want to have a

MI Large - format pdf output

2000-08-04 Thread Milo Simonic
Perhaps not directly MI related, but I'm sure Mi users tackled this problem before. I would like to print MI-generated maps into pdf format using Acrobat Distiller 3.01. The problem is that Distiller only lists A4 and similar formats, while I need A2 format. Perhaps it is related to postscript

MI Large - format pdf output

2000-08-04 Thread Milo Simonic
Perhaps not directly MI related, but I'm sure Mi users tackled this problem before. I would like to print MI-generated maps into pdf format using Acrobat Distiller 3.01. The problem is that Distiller only lists A4 and similar formats, while I need A2 format. Perhaps it is related to postscript

MI: Querying grid values

2000-08-04 Thread Ian Allan
Hi, I've just begun investigating MapInfo grid files. I note that when you put your cursor over them, a value is shown. Using MapBasic, is there functionality to place the value of a grid cell into a variable? Thanks Ian Allan

MI [Looking for maps of Indonesia]

2000-08-04 Thread rajeev saraf
Does any body have the latest maps of Indonesia. If so please, specify the year and scale of the base maps? I am looking for following data: 1. Landuse map 2. Contour and height data 3. vector - road and rail data -- Sonam Lepton Software W-25, G.K. I New Delhi 110048

Re: Re MI: Scaled Vector Graphics News + XML

2000-08-04 Thread Ian Thomas
You wrote: What is really needed is the adoption of XML schemas for GIS (and for document handling) that allow broadly-based data exchange. I'm new to the list (today), but have you heard of GML (Geographic Markup Language) found at www.jlocationservices.com ? Ian Clemens Anderson