RE: MI registering CAD drawings

2000-01-23 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

You don't need special software.  MapInfo pro will do this.

If you receive the autoCad drawing in DXF format, you need to import it
using the mapinfo /table/import option, and not the Universal Translator.
The /table/import lets you define 2 known points to register to, and UT
doesn't.  You only have to make sure the drawing is in north-up format.  If
not, it will end up very distorted.  If this is the case, you can rotate
the drawing with autocad before importing.

If what you received is a .DWG drawing and you don't have Autocad to make a
DXF, you can 1)import it with the UT, in non-earth coordinates. 2) Export
it with /table/export, DXF format 3) import it again with mapinfo
/table/import/, specifying the required projection / Transformation.

Good luck.

At 11:30 a.m. 22/01/2000 -0500, you wrote:
PLEASE pass on any suggestions to me as well...I've been trying to come it
with a similar means of doing this without having to go through the process
manually.

TIA,
Natalie Swayze
Spectrum/ROS/IC/GC/CA
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From: Tim Warman
To: Mapinfo-L
Subject: MI registering CAD drawings
Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 2:58PM

Listers,

We are frequently sent CAD drawings drafted in local coordinate systems. I'd
like to be able to register these in real world coordinates when importing
them in MapInfo, and I know there's software out there to do this. Does
anyone have any suggestions as to what works well and is reasonably cheap?

TIA

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Tim Warman
Geologist  GIS Specialist
Richard C. Slade  Associates
North Hollywood, CA
(818) 506-0418

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MI Universal translator Bug.

2000-02-02 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

I've found a bug that you may want to be aware of.

With the Universal Translator in MI 5.0, if you try to import an autocad
dwg file, with a name such as "My file.dwg", the UT will die on you.  It'w
enough to rename  it as "Myfile.dwg" to get it imported.  

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MI Viewing a Map without MapInfo on a machine. Simple

2000-02-02 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

Why don't you try to "save the window as" a jpeg *.jpg, and view it with
Netscape or Explorer?   

You can even create a larger image, defining a larger "image size"



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Hi Listers,
  The main problem, allowing another person in the company to view my maps.
Finding something simple enough for them to use and not giving them the
ability to change the data.   I would like to be able to display a map, zoom
in/out and pan. It must be simple to use.

These are some of the things I have tried.
  1.  Imbedding the map in Excel, it locks up some machines and many in my
company don't even have excel.
  2.  Looked at a few viewers to download from the web, including ones from
the Spatial News list of viewers.  I looked at the Proviewer and it has to
many options and allows users to change data in tables.

Questions?
  1.  How do you imbed a map into Word, or do you save it as a *mif file,
and then how do you import it?
  2.  Is there a utility to save a workspace as a bitmap?
  3.  Is there a utility to save a workspace as a *pdf (Acrobat file)?
  4.  Am I just missing something, is there a utility already out there to
let someone just view, zoom and pan a map?

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks, Cn

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Re: MI 'Geocoding' polyline layer to Access dB

2000-02-11 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

You can create a view, similar to StreetInfo tables, in a text file which
looks like:

!Table
!Version 300
Open Table "AvancesEjemplo.TAB" Interactive
Open Table "capaest.TAB" Interactive
create view AvanceObra as select * from CaPaEst, AvancesEjemplo  where
CaPaEst.numero = AvancesEjemplo.Carretera

And when you map this new table, you'll have all fields.   Make sure you
have a 1:1 correspondence, or no info will show.  You'll also need to have
both fields indexed, but if the Access table is ODBC, you may have
performance issues while creating the index, if the file is large.   So
maybe it's best to open the table directly.



At 07:48 a.m. 11/02/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Hello All,

I have a MI table with road names attached to road centerline polylines. I
also have an access table with lots of info on each road and a column
containing the road name.
Is there a way of automatically linking each item in the access table to
the correct road polyline (in a similar way to the 'geocode' tool) so that
when I select a polyline, the info tool shows the corresponding access
data?
 I don't know if I'm missing something obvious but my mind is going round
in circles

TIA

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Durham City
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MI MapBasic false compile

2000-02-14 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

Hi, can someone tell me why this code compiles ok in MapBasic 4.1?   It
shouldn't, should it?  Note the extra Sub parameter 'SayYes'.

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Declare sub A ( Byval Data1, Byval Data2 as string, Byval SayYes as logical )

dim X1 as string
Call A ( "hello", X1, 0)
print X1

Sub A ( Byval Data1, Byval Data2 as string )
if SayYes then
Data2 = left$( Data1,2)
else
Data2="No"
end if
End sub
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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.


At 05:51 a.m. 16/02/2000 PST, you wrote:
Hello

I'm using the OPEN ODBC TABLES function to link a table from ACCESS. It's 
working fine. This table is not a mappable table and it's ok. What we want 
to do is combine it with and existing mappable table in Mapinfo that as a 
common field with this ACCESS table so that we can create a new unique 
table. The result we are looking for is that when we ask info on an object 
in the Mapinfo table, it would give us the info in both table (ACCESS and 
MAPINFO). To have worked with Arcview, i know that was easy to combine table 
using a common field. It doesn't seem that easy in mapinfo. Any suggestion 
out there that doesn't involve to much programming.
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Re: MI Disabling the print facility (again)

2000-02-23 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

Dear David:

Your Print menu item stays enabled because MapInfo performs certain hidden
"handlers" when you activate a mapper window.  That's the handler that
enables most buttons on the Main ButtonPad, and it also enables the print
menu item.   Unfortunately, it runs AFTER your custom handler, so your
Disable line executes, but gets overriden by MapInfo.  

So you'll need to replace the original menu item with another one that
doesn't get activated automatically.   Your new menu item will have to
call, if applicable, the standard print item.




At 01:54 P.M. 23/02/2000 -, you wrote:
Hello, (again)
With reference to my last e-mail I attach the MB I have written to 
try to disable the print facility when the user is not within the 
Layout or the Browser. Although this disables the print facility 
within the mapper, and then enables it within the layout and 
browser, if you then change back to the mapper the print facility is 
again enabled.
Thank you to Eric Frost for his input with this query, but my MB 
may need tweaking to solve this problem.
David Crowther
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include "mapbasic.def"
include "menu.def"
include "icons.def"

Declare Sub Main
Declare sub WinFocusChangedHandler
sub main
   Alter Menu Item 112 disable
end sub

sub WinFocuschangedHandler
   Dim i_win_type As Smallint
   i_win_type=Windowinfo(CommandInfo(CMD_INFO_WIN),WIN_INFO_TYPE)
   IF i_win_type = 2 or 3 then
   Alter Menu Item id 112 Enable
   ELSEIF i_win_type = 1 then
   Alter Menu Item id 112 disable
   End IF
end sub




 


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Re: MI odd/even query

2000-03-03 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV



At 02:20 P.M. 03/03/2000 -0800, you wrote:
Hi Users

Is there a way to select a numeric field let's say, the ID populated by
rowid and select either ODD or EVEN ID'S?

I hope it is simple.

Thanks

Dyan C. Catamaran
Phero Tech Inc.
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604-940-9433


even:
select * from query1 where rowid\2 = rowid/2
odd:
select * from query1 where (rowid+1)\2 = (rowid+1)/2

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MI DXF features not importing into MapInfo

2000-04-07 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV


I'm trying to compile a complete list of Acad / DXF features that MapInfo
doesn't import completely. 

So far, I've known about UCS, Meshes, long names and Solids, that convert
incorrectly or don't convert into mapinfo, either with the /table/import or
with the Universal Translator.

If any of you has experience with other Acad / DXF features that fail when
converting into mapinfo, please send me a private email to

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and I'll summarize the LODCIM (List Of DXF features you Can't Import into
MapInfo).  At least, we'll know what to avoid, and hopefully, MI corp will
do something about it.


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Re: MI Bill Thoen?

2000-05-20 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

I've been, too, following the mapinfo-l for years, and nobody's
contribuition has been more important that Bill's.Let me put it in short.

When Bill Thoen speaks, the List listens.

At 03:59 P.M. 19/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Who is this guy you're all ranting about and what the  heck does his
taste in wine have to do with MapInfo? Friday :) John Haynes
Director
Geodata Consultants,  Inc.
1-800-838-6661
www.geodataconsult.com
 
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Re: MI Updating an integer and/or character column

2000-05-23 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

don't put the "LandUse = 2", just put the "2".

:)

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  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, Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks, Michael Goldberg 
GIS Analyst 
City of San Antonio, Planning Department 
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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 LandUse.  I go to Table Update
Column, select the appropriate table and column.  Then in the value section
I put LandUse = 2.  I don't get any results or error messages.  The LandUse
column appears just as before with a 0 in every field.  I then converted
the LandUse column to a character and tried to update the column that way.
This time in Table Update Column in the value section I put LandUse = "2".
This time MI updates the column with an "F".  No matter what character I
try to update the column with I get an F.  Does anybody have a clue to what
is going on here (for the integer and character column)?  Any help would be
greatly appreciated. 


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MI. Dialogs and DDE

2000-07-18 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

Dear list:

I have a mapinfo_program1.mbx comunicating via DDE with an external
visualbasic program.

When I open a mapinfo dialog, a standard mapinfo dialog or a custom dialog
created by another mapinfo_program2.mbx, all DDE processes stop for as long
as the dialog is on screen.   All DDE messages/commands are "buffered" and
released after the dialog is closed.  

Is there a way to prevent this, and have the program1 running in the
background and processing its DDE messages when there's a mapinfo dialog in
progress?

Thanks a lot for your answer.

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MI Launching mapinfo without SplashScreen

2000-07-25 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

Hi.

Time ago I heard that mapinfo can be started with several parameters, as

mapinfow.exe -helpdiag  asks mapinfo to show help context id for each dialog.

Is there a way to launch mapinfo without the initial splash screen, the one
that reads "MapInfo. The world's premier desktop mapping solution"

Is there somewhere a complete list of valid parameters?   I've tried
mapinfow.exe /?  and -?

Thanks for your reply.

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MI SUM: Launching mapinfo without SplashScreen

2000-07-25 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV


The answer is executing 

Mapinfow.exe -nosplash

Thanks for the quick and multiple answers, from:

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"Martin Hodder" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: MI-L Island polygons

2000-11-24 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV


Alter Table "myTable" ( add island Logical ) Interactive

select * from myTable where str$(objectInfo ( obj, 1)) = "7" into Regions

select * from Regions where str$(objectInfo ( obj, 21))  "1" into
MultiPolygon

update MultiPolygon set island = str$( objectInfo ( Buffer ( obj, 50, 1 ,
"cm" ), 21))  "1"

This will give you a logical field marking the objects with 'islands' over
2 cms away from the 'mainland' polygon.

Hope this is what you were looking for.


At 01:08 P.M. 24/11/2000 -0800, you wrote:
Thanks for the help. I have gotten this far. I am really trying to
distinguish between the multiple polygon regions, the polygons that are not
adjacent and sharing nodes with any other polygons. In esence these are
island polygons, not attached to the mainland!  Any ideas are greatly
appreciated

Regards Kenn

"Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV" wrote:

 I believe you talk about multi-polygon regions.

 1.- make a query of all region objects in the table
 select * from Table where str$(objectInfo ( obj, 1)) = "7" into Regions

 2.- Select those regions where there are more than 1 polygon.
 select * from Regions where str$(objectInfo ( obj, 21))  "1" into
 MultiPolygon

 At 12:46 P.M. 22/11/2000 -0800, you wrote:
 Does anyone have any Map Basic tips to flag Island Polygons?
 
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MI-L MI: Multiuser access on mapinfo tables using mapbasic.

2000-11-22 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

Dear all:

I've been trying to implement a decent multiuser access on mapinfo tables.
But after reading carefully the mapbasic manual chapter 7, several days of
trying, and several posibilities searched, I still have no solid multi-user
access.

My main problems are as follow, and happen when one machine is editing the
table and is about to save the changes, and another machine tries to read
it at the same time.

When I use the Set TimeOut.  
In the event of a simultaneous file access, one reading the file and the
other one trying to write to it, both machines show the "retry" dialog.
But as long as the dialog is present in any machine, the file is still
"being used" by that machine, so any "retries" on other machines will also
fail.Is there a way to tell  mapinfo to release the file (just as it
gets released when you press 'cancel') while it shows the retry/cancel
dialog, for other machines still trying to read/write the file?

When I use the OnError.
In the event of a simultaneous file access, both machines will jump to the
"Failed" label, but on frecuent cases, it causes a runtime error that
terminates the program, even with the onError active.   How can I make sure
the error gets trapped everytime?

I'm using mapinfo 5.5 

Thanks for your reply.


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Re: MI-L Drop/delete a temporary column

2000-11-28 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

You can't get rid of temporary columns on base tables unless you close the
base table.

What I do is to create a temporary query table and I add the column to the
query, not to the base table.  

In your example:
Select * from table1 into table2
Add Column "table2" LayerName (POP Float) From table1 Set To POP Where COL1
= COL1
Dynamic

Then, all you have to do is to close the query, or reissue the query
command, and that's all.  You now have a fresh query without the temporary
column. 


At 11:26 A.M. 28/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Hi all,

I am trying to update one temporary column. I am thinking, if I can delete
that column and add new column, then I will get my job done.  However, what
I found from the reference book is: alter table cannot be used on linked
tables. I can't use Update Statement either, as I need to get the value from
the linked tables and update statement doesn't seem to support that (if I
miss that, please let me know.)

This is the code I use to add the temp column:
Add Column LayerName (POP Float)From table1 Set To POP Where COL1 = COL1
Dynamic

Here is what I am trying to do:

for i = 1 to NumCols(LayerName)
strCol = ColumnInfo(LayerName, "COL" + i, Col_Info_Name)
if Instr(1, strCol, "POP" )  0 then
lgCheck = Ask ("Do you want to overwrite the existing column?", "Yes", "No")
if (lgCheck) then 
Alter Table LayerName (Drop Pop)  '***THIS DOESN'T WORK
else
exit sub 
end if
end if
next

Any suggestions are highly appreciated!

TIA,

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Re: MI-L metric v non-metric, reply.

2001-02-26 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV


every one knows that on a 1:24000 scale map, One inch =2000 feet.  

Not everybody knows this, and this is the key point.  You have to remember
some (sometimes very odd) conversions for ounces to pounds to tons, from
inches to feet to miles,  from liquid ounces to gallons.  And you have to
make many operations, except for 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 inch.

In metric, this is as easy as you'll ever get.   Divide or multiply by
1000.   In all cases.   Liters, litres, milliliters, cubic meters.
Grams, kilograms, tons.   Millimeters, meters, kilometers. Even the
name of most units remind you what they are.  kilo=1000, milli=1/1000.

And about a "body measure" for a meter, just extend your arm to your side.
 One meter is approximately the length from the tip of your fingers to your
opposite shoulder. 
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Re: MI-L Lat and Long

2001-03-02 Thread Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV

Normally, gps gives you: 

degrees, minutes and decimal minutes  DDMM.d

so your 5225.7339N means 52 degrees, and 25.7339 minutes.  and you can
convert them: 

52 d 25 m (.7339*60=44.034) s  =52d 25m 44.034s   north

52. + (25.7339/60 = .42889883)  =  52.42889883  degrees north

But you have to know what datum you are using, since this number can mean
different places with different datums and projections.

(I checked your W data, and was strange for me to read 1. degrees.  But
you are in the UK, so this can be correct. Do you live in southeast England)


At 03:15 P.M. 02/03/2001 -, you wrote:
Dear all,

I have friday afternoon syndrome (most days) but today moreso than ever... I
have a log file from a GPS reciever (vehicle tracking) that I want to plot
onto a mapbase using MI (see portion below). However, MI doesn't like the
way that the lat and long is expressed so I tried converting it but have
thus far failed miserably as when plotted sections of my route appear
correct but are in the sea, and my car is not amphibious...Can anybody offer
me any suggestions? As my understanding of lat and long is also very poor
can someone explain what the figures below relate to deg:min:sec? or just
degrees? Sorry?

Cheers, Dave

   TimeLat LongSpeed Trk
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   Ing. Juan Pufleau C.
Geografa y Electrnica, SA de CV
  Aguascalientes, Mexico
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