Trey's solution gets my James Michael Curley Boston
vote (about twenty per person). Leaves the list uncluttered and allows the
individual sponsor to provide maximum information or irritation to those unwary
enough to click the link.
Best,
John
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From:
Bill,
Going back to the early days when you asked for voluntary contributions
would be a start. I fully appreciate the odious response when you ask
freeloaders for dough on something they believe SHOULD BE FREE.
There are many companies, like mine, that have used the list to further our
THANKS a whole lot, Neil.
Even though I had sworn that nothing would divert me from completing the
week's procrastination today, this was well worth a side trip.
Best,
John Haynes
Director
Geodata Consultants, Inc.
1-800-838-6661
www.geodataconsult.com
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From: "
Anyone know of a source to get/purchase
information on the heights of buildings in major US cities? Whenever I
travel I need to know the directions I can leap with a single
bound.
Seriously, have a client who's very
interested.
TIA
John HaynesDirectorGeodata
Consultants,
Spam generates spam. Witness the activity the latest little garbage truck
has engendered (including this reply of mine).
Instead of getting upset about all the trash, I just view it like the 50% of
the Sunday paper I toss in the can before I start reading. And, I've paid
for that.
John
Green card check time.
John Haynes
Director
Geodata Consultants, Inc.
1-800-838-6661
- Original Message -
From: Tim Warman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mapinfo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: MI looking for maps for Taiwan
Not all Canadians live
This was supposed to be fixed a long time
ago. We lost over $100K on a project for all of Florida when it was
discovered after all of the processing work had been completed. The
problem is that MI sees the transparent pixels as the Windows background and
spools until you run out of disk
Only if you make errors. I made one back
in 1989...I thought I'd done something wrong and I hadn't.
- Original Message -
From:
Marc Plato
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 6:08
PM
Subject: MI Req for Utility /
Feature
Wouldn't that be
Mike,
MapMarker is probably doing fine. One of the anomalies of the postal system
is that there is no firm geographic reference to streets except a partial
file of zip+4's correlated to segments of the TIGER files. The zip codes
are constructed at the whim of the individual Postmaster. If
You would probably do best by posing your
problem to the dedicated, educated, willing to work for cash consulting firm
that created the State Grid tab for you. Or, I could run it out to your
new masters at AOL.
- Original Message -
From:
Marc Plato
To: [EMAIL
We've used ZP4 from Semaphore Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] for years
and have been very pleased with the product. Costs USD$79 per two month
period. You would need to get the updates only if you need CASS
certification after the allocated period. Program works fine after the
expiration except
Check with Al Gore, the tracker of missing EMails. He could use some of the
previous comments in one of his invigorating stumped speeches.
- Original Message -
From: Kumar, Muneendra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Couch, David L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Bill
Texas' worst air disaster occurred today when a small two-seater
Cessna152 plane, piloted by two Texas A M Students, crashed into a
cemeteryearly this afternoon in College Station.Aggie search and
rescue workers, under the personal supervision ofGovernor George W, Bush,
who left the
Rob,
The Timberlands division of Westvaco Corp has been a MapInfo customer of
ours for eight years. They have 60 seats of MI which their field foresters
in six states use to input data to their ArcInfo main GIS system. They have
developed FRIS (Forest Resource Information System) that
Darrell
You can select them all with a marquee or radius select and then go to
WINDOW NEW BROWSER SELECTION and you will see a list of all at that point.
Or, you can use the point disperse mbx that should be in your tools box
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
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
Probably will be, Neil. But, here in the real world, it's 5/12/00
-Original Message-
From: Neil Havermale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2000 6:56 PM
Subject: MI PING MapInfo-l
Is it still alive on 5/13/00?
Dick,
Perfectly put. Very few of us use anywhere near the potential of any
software; we learn what is necessary to do our tasks and complete our
mission.
It is great to be innovative but a couple of old expressions sum up the
risk...The first guy on the beach gets the bullet and The
Message-From:
John Haynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, May
12, 2000 7:27 AMTo: Dick Hoskins; Berk Charlton; [Sinam]Subject:
Re: MI Best GIS for dollar
Dick,
Perfectly put. Very few of us use anywhere near
It's in the data that shipped with your MI under NAmer, USA
-Original Message-From:
Lionel Maisonneuve [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date:
Monday, April 10, 2000 11:20 AMSubject: MI Major road network
et main cities on the us
This appeared on another mapping list.
Really, no need to send in those forms.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3612/us_population.html
John HaynesDirectorGeodata Consultants,
Inc.1-800-838-6661www.geodataconsult.com
Many counties and cities are interested in billboard locations. Easy shot
from the road with a laser off-set. We would be interested in being a
secondary buyer for such data.
-Original Message-
From: Lathrop, Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mapinfo list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday,
.
-Original Message-
From: Andrea Swansby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'John Haynes' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: MI Parcel/Assessor data matching
Exactly what do you mean by "the last thing the Bubbas in power want is to
have the manipulation of bound
Hi All,
It really depends on how the enduser will use the final data. We have
clients for whom a drag and drop solution would be perfectly adequate. Same
sort of folks who think Zip Code boundaries are a real geographic entity.
The basic premise of doing our work in the most professional
We are currently processing tables that run over 1.5 million records each
and frequently have two or three open at a time. No ha problemo.
I do all of our large database manipulation in .dbf in pure DOS. Much
faster and easier running software designed for a 12Mhz atmosphere in
450Mhz. No
As I mull over the trek the conference at
Marco MapInfo, I am hearing some indicators that the attendance might be a
little down. I will be attending, regardless, as it coincides with a trip
to our Florida outlets.
If you would like to privately respond as to
whether you are attending, I
Indeed. Where can you buy 8i with the spatial cartridge? Both MI and
Oracle seem to have problems selling it.
John D. Haynes
Geodata Consultants
1-800-838-6661
www.geodataconsult.com
-Original Message-
From: Neil Havermale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mapinfo l [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL
Hi Neal,
Have you found a way to buy the Oracle 8i
Personal with the Spatial Cartridge? Oracle says only the partners can
sell it. MI says "We know NOTHING".
John D. HaynesGeodata
Consultants1-800-838-6661www.geodataconsult.com
Brian,
The problem is that the files are projected in
Albers Equal Area Conic. Tony Cooley at [EMAIL PROTECTED]has a translator that
works very well. We have all the DOQQ's of FL seamlessly tiled by county
and merged in a double screen format with the 1-24,000 7.5 minute Quads.
These are
Some old ones, but some I hadn't seen
before
Take heart, anyone among you who believes you
are technologicallychallenged, you "ain't seen nuthin'" yet.
This is an excerpt from a WallStreet Journal article:1. Compaq
is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "PressReturn Key"
Actually, I prefer System C.
Set the Unsubscribing Kit in front of your computer. Find the ring labeled,
"Pull to Unsubscribe". The actuation lever will fly off the small pineapple
shaped kit with a loud "PING".
In three seconds you will be unsubscribed.
John D. Haynes
Geodata Consultants
Hi All,
If anyone knows a location for the complete
1980 census boundaries, any format, free or for $, please drop me a
note.
I've already talked with the cartographic
section at Census. The reply was, "We know they're out there, but we don't
know where."
TIA
John D. HaynesGeodata
Hi All,
Not an MI subject but an item that is
extraordinarily useful. At http://www.wintools.com
you can get information and order a product
called SmartBoard. The things it enables you to do with the clipboard are
simply phenomenal. It's $24.95 if you decide to buy after trying this
Hi Guys,
Some months ago, a vendor posted some
information on the list that said they had very good 1980 census maps. I
have (and am) trying to figure out where I put it. If anyone has
information about such data, please send an EMail or call on the 800
number.
TIA
John D. HaynesGeodata
Mats,
I could not agree more with you, Chuck and Dick. There is a VAST market
waiting to be driven from ArcSpew to MapInfo if it incorporated these basic
tools to enhance the topographical issues that ArcInfo addresses for ESRI.
Our major client base uniformly uses AutoCad. At some point in
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