RE: MI Creating points

e at http://www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michel Larue Sent: September 15, 2000 12:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI Creating points Dear Gilbert, It is because MapInfo can have only

RE: MI Creating points

support, see the Paris PC Consult enr. site at http://www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of CDR Group Sent: September 15, 2000 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michel Larue Subject: Re: MI Creating points

Re: MI Creating points

Another thing you can do change the point to a small circle or square( some other polygon), select both polygons and combine. This allows both objects (or more) to access the same record. Michel Larue wrote: Dear Gilbert, It is because MapInfo can have only one object attached to one

Re: MI Creating points

Dear Gilbert, It is because MapInfo can have only one object attached to one record, and the object is already there, it is your polyon. In fact mixing polygons and points is not either a good idea, and is even forbidden in Arcview. So I suggest that you save a copy of your polygon table with

RE: MI creating points from centroids

Hi Sidney It's pretty simple actually - just a few steps. 1) Make a copy of your original table - use File | Save Copy As 2) Close the original and open the copy 3) Use the Table | Maintenance | Table Structure command to add two columns to your new table - call them X and Y and set the type to

RE: MI creating points from centroids

Try this, Add a column called LAT and one called LONG to your table under tablemaintenancetable structure (set them to type of float). Update the LAT column with Centroid(y), and the LONG column with centroid(x). Export a copy of that table as delimited text. Open the text file, and create

RE: MI creating points from centroids

PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI creating points from centroids Try this, Add a column called LAT and one called LONG to your table under tablemaintenancetable structure (set them to type of float). Update the LAT column with Centroid(y), and the LONG column with centroid(x). Exp

RE: MI creating points from centroids

Sidney, This is a one step process using the MapBasic Window: 1. First make a copy of your table 2. Open the MapBasic window (Options Show Mapbasic Window) 3. Type in: update YOUR_TABLE set obj=CreatePoint(CentroidX(obj),CentroidY(obj)) where YOUR_TABLE is the name of your mapinfo

Re: MI creating points of different colours

"Elliot Tinton EG CEFAS (DN=EJT00, RECIPIENTS, LOWESTOFT, CEFAS)" wrote: Hello All, An easy one for you: How do I create different points of different colours based on a column of numbers? Hi Elliot! My suggestion is that you create a standard symbol, maybe a basic dot or square and

RE: MI Creating points and showing on a separate map

Did you use the Create Points utility from the Table Menu and assign the proper columns of your spreadsheet to Lat and Long? Were your Lats and Longs in Decimal format? Did you use negative numbers for East and South and positive numbers for North and West instead of N, S E and W? You need to

Re: MI Creating Points Problem in 5.5

Dear Kris The fields that contain X, Y cordinates must be numeric and not a character string! Regards Bob In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] t, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hello List I know I have posted this problem before, but when I looked back on the Mapinfo-L Archives the responses to my