RE: MI-L Long Lat - what are differences?

2000-10-20 Thread A. T. Beckett
Bob, you've touched on a complicated area, but I'll try to keep this brief. Although MI lumps everything under the 'Projections' function, there are three distinct elements underlying a point on a map, these are Ellipsoid (or spheroid), Datum, and Projection. An ellipsoid is a mathematical

MI-L Alter Object error ?

2000-10-20 Thread Massimo Corinaldesi
I have problem with this statement (both MapBasic program and MapBasic Window): "Alter Object selection.obj Node Remove Position 1,1" The node object don't remove !! (MapInfo 6.0 Professional) (MapBasic 5.5) Help me, Please Ing. Massimo Corinaldesi Regione Marche Ufficio Cartografia e

RE: MI-L MapBasic Centroid question

2000-10-20 Thread Carlos Montalvillo
Hello Francois, This is an extract from the Mapbasic Help : Setting a Centroid The Centroid of a Region and Polyline can now be set by using the Alter Object command with the syntax noted below: Alter Object Obj Geography OBJ_GEO_CENTROID, PointObj Note that PointObj is a point object.

MI-L Labels

2000-10-20 Thread Alex Ross
Hello fellow listers, This may sound a litlle silly but we are having a hard time maitaining label placement on point data. The table is constantly refreshed when opened because it is an ODBC table. Every time the table is refreshed we loose label placement. I understand why it happens. Does

MI-L Affine transformation query

2000-10-20 Thread Bill and Lorraine Donaldson
I have defined an affine transformation and entered it in the MapInfo.prj file. My data is in UTM metres and the affine transformation converts it to a local metric grid. I open my original UTM data file and view my data in a Mapper window. I then chose Map Options and select my custom affine

MI-L SUM: Seamless Rasters

2000-10-20 Thread David Booth
Thankyou everyone who replied: Bob Young, Sheila Quan, Martin Hodder, Harry Bell and Andrei Veselov. The gist of the replies is that there is a problem when using rasters in seamless tables where each raster image requires a slightly different rotation/skew. A quick fix is to use the

MI-L Number of intersections per acre

2000-10-20 Thread Michael Goldberg
Title: Number of intersections per acre Dear List, I have to find out how many intersections there are per acre for my county. I have a table with the intersections (point file) and a one acre grid table. I want to be able to populate a field in the one acre grid table with the number of

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2000-10-20 Thread Lathrop, Travis
How would I type a SQL if I am looking to find all the odd/even integers in a particular column? Travis Lathrop Intercarrier Service 913/762-4806 ___ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To

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2000-10-20 Thread Lathrop, Travis
I have a table with 600+records. I want to combine all the polygons that have a similar value. Is there an automatic way of doing this? Travis Lathrop Intercarrier Service 913/762-4806 ___ List hosting provided by

RE: MI-L

2000-10-20 Thread Tim.Nuteson (Exchange)
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