A cheap solution although somewhat involved. The freeware Mr. Sid viewer
can export .sid to .tif and by default writes a .tfw and .tab file at the
same time. You can, of course, delete the .tif image and then edit the .tab
file in notepad to point back to the .sid image and while you're there
Sometimes when I open a workspace that I previously created, I will get the
error message "Variable or field ID not defined." I can't determine that
there is any cause or pattern to this error. It occurs rather randomly. I
have discovered a fix, however, it is tedious. I edit the workspace in
I have several tools that I usually try in this order Arclink/Import71,
Export/MIF2SHP, and if either of those don't fly, Maptitude usually comes
through.
Phil Dupler
Senior Planner
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From: Mark Tickle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday,
Thanks to all who replied. Most suggested that the possible cause might be
that the table structure or field names had changed since the workspace was
created. Although this would definitely cause the error message "Variable
or field ID not defined", this has not been the cause in my
We in Fort Worth, Texas recently had our GIS parcel file created from CAD
based tax maps and linked to the assessor's tax records. The results were
disappointing in that the links between features and attribute records fell
far short of 100%. Now we are looking at undertaking an effort in-house
I am using an Access database through and ODBC connection. I just geocoded
the records with the exception of a few. These I am trying to manually
place. However, I am getting an error message which says that I cannot edit
the current table because someone else is editing it. Currently, no one
I've got a program working somewhat, but slow. I need to select all yellow
lines, change them to black, update the table, then save. Using a fetch on
one object at a time runs far too slow and there are issues with update
changing the current row - seems inefficient. I think I need to load all
