RE: [MI-L] MapInfo Discovery

Note there's a big difference between MapInfo's Discovery and Encom's Discover - the former is a MapXtreme product (I think), the latter is a geologist's add-on to produce scaled output, drill sections, geochem analysis and much more. Many people (understandably) confuse the names! Which one were

[MI-L] MapInfo changing table Projections: ED50

I'm working on a Turkish project for which I've been using the projection UTM ED50, Zone 36. However, my tables are all re-setting themselves from this UTM ED50 projection (ED50 in the top drop-down menu, Zone 36 in the lower option) to Turkish Coordinate Systems (ED50) Zone 33. This means that

[MI-L] Indian UTM Projections

Hi A client of mine is starting a new project, in India, and wants to use what he believes is the standard Indian UTM projection. He calls it something along the lines of Everest Grid UTM India-Bangladesh. Does anyone know if this is the same as the India Polyconic (Everest) coordinate system in

[MI-L] Raster images in different coordinate systems

, and that it takes the projection of the initial raster, but what does it do with the second one? Cheers Caroline -- Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd www.pelicangeographics.co.uk

MI-L Autocad and MI workspaces

could you let me know? Thanks in advance Caroline Hilton - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message

RE: MI-L Autocad and MI workspaces

not even sure rasters can be imported into AutoCAD. cheers Caroline -Original Message- From: Caroline Hilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 July 2005 13:37 To: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: MI-L Autocad and MI workspaces Hi I have a client who is exporting MapInfo .TAB

SUM: MI-L Liberia - Landsat / Satellite images or aerial photos?

- From: Caroline Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:40 PM Subject: MI-L Liberia - Landsat / Satellite images or aerial photos? Hi all Does anyone know a good source for digital coverage of Liberia (preferably but doesn't have

MI-L Rectifying stereo aerial photos

images for this purpose, so cannot advise. Any advice you may have for using these images in MapInfo would be most welcome. I will forward it to my client. Thanks Caroline -- Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk

SUM: MI-L Rectifying stereo aerial photos

only used digital images, and have not tried using stereographic images for this purpose, so cannot advise. Any advice you may have for using these images in MapInfo would be most welcome. I will forward it to my client. Thanks Caroline -- Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican

RE: MI-L memory leak - save window as...

Shoot me if I'm being a little naïve here, but can't you just use ALT-Prnt scrn to capture the map windows? This is what I use all the time. I paste them into a photo editor (Microsoft Photo Editor's the one I'm using at the moment), then save as whatever image type you need to dump into other

Re: MI-L Mobile mapping software - call for ideas

. I think it is exactly what you are after. see www.geobasemap.com for further details and contact information Hope this helps Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk - Original Message

Re: MI-L Distance measurement in metres

Hi Dawn I think it'll change to metres all the time if you put the following command on a new line in your startup.wor: Set distance units km regards Caroline - Original Message - From: Hendrick, Dawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MapInfo-L (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12,

Re: MI-L rtl file output from HP750c?

Thanks Carl. That is a huge help. I will give it a try, and see how it compares with the standard prn file. I guess it will work with the 750c, too, as the driver I downloaded said HPGL2/RTL. regards Caroline - Original Message - From: Carl Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Caroline Hilton

Re: MI-L rtl file output from HP750c?

Caroline - Original Message - From: Ryan Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Caroline Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MI-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:34 PM Subject: RE: MI-L rtl file output from HP750c? Check this out: http://www.hp.com/cposupport/plotters/support_doc/bpp02315

MI-L rtl file output from HP750c?

Hi all I have been asked to provide a print file to a client in rtl format, but as far as I can see my HP750c driver only produces .prn files. Does anyone know how to produce an rtl file (which I believe is a raster, rather than vector, format file)? Thanks Caroline

Fw: MI-L Update column

Brian Not sure if this is what you're after, but you could try it: 1 - in one single object for each different value in column A, add the text you want in column B. 2 - SQL select where Column B , grouped by column B, into query 1 3 - update column B in original table using data from query 1,

Re: MI-L Hotlinking to Excel

you're after. Please see www.geobasemap.com or www.pelicangeographics.co.uk for further info, or contact me if you have any questions. regards Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk

MI-L Graphics problems in MI7

, but that was fixed by the recent patch. I'm using MI7 and Win98. Thanks Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk - List

Re: MI-L More than 1 hotlink

MI table. Look at the web page for details, or if you're in Europe, let me know your details and I'll send you an evaluation. regards Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Managing Director Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk

Re: MI-L Image catalog attached to map points?

Hi Jay GBM ImageLinker, by Exa-min (www.geobasemap.com), seems to be exactly what you're after. It attaches images via an ID, so as long as you have some sort of location ID relating to an object in your MapInfo table, if you add the same ID to the catalogue in ImageLinker, clicking on your

Re: MI-L MI - memory blow out

I agree. I am having to save my tables after each new object is added, just in case (I am working with a 250mb raster...). Sometimes MI crashes, other times the computer restarts itself. Either way, it's a pain. Might revert to MI6.5, except the 'undo last node' is so handy!! Caroline -

SUM: MI-L MapInfo to ArcInfo

not been carried out yet, but as it'll be a while before I get it from the client I thought it best to summarise now. Thanks once again to you all Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Managing Director Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED

MI-L MapInfo to ArcInfo

Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Managing Director Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine

Re: MI-L viewing graphic files

John You could use the Hotlink facility, but if you have a number of images/files to link to any particular object you may want to look at Exa-Min's ImageLinker, a user-friendly and relatively inexpensive way of linking to files of all types with the advantage of adding metadata to these files.

Re: MI-L A program from Australia

Hi Andre You could be after the program known as Discover, by a company called Encom in Sydney. It does the things you say, plus loads more. For info and your local reseller see www.encom.com.au, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] hope this helps Caroline .. Pelican

MI-L Saudi Arabia Projection?

Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk - List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e

Re: MI-L Microsoft access and mapinfo

is available. regards Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk - Original Message - From: Lawley, Russell S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:20

MI-L Press Release: Compass Metadata Tool available in Europe.

from Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd (www.pelicangeographics.co.uk). A 30-day trial is available for download at http://www.meridian-gis.com.au/. ~ Dr Caroline Hilton Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk

Re: MI-L POSH

How about the fact that with LONGitude, the lines are the same LENGTH? And as some others, I always remember that there may be some Red Port left in the bottle Caroline - Original Message - From: Bendall,A EPO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: MI-L Hot Linking

. The software isn't expensive (about US$300) and is extremely useful. See the Pelican GeoGraphics website for more info. regards Caroline .. Dr Caroline Hilton Managing Director Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pelicangeographics.co.uk

Re: MI-L transparent layers....

Hi. In my experience (and this may not happen to everyone!), transparent fills with the background shading off, as John suggested, are great for display, but can play havoc with your printing, particularly if you've got a large image. The transparent fill seems to make the print job infinitely

Re: MI-L: Increase dpi in Images

There's a 'screen print' shareware program, called Snag-it, which allows you to capture screenshots at any resolution of your choice. it's available at http://www.techsmith.com/ and costs US$40 to buy, but you can 'evaluate it' for free (45 days). Caroline - Original Message - From: Lyn

Re: MI-L W32.Badtrans.B@mm Virus

I too have received supposedly MI-L mail which my ISP picked up as this virus. The only attachment was a .txt file, so any other attachments may have been stripped. I downloaded the latest virus checker and apparently have no virus, but the info on this particular virus, as Bob says, states the

Re: MI-L W32.Badtrans.B@mm Virus

My virus-email was in a message entitled 'Re: MI-L Printing to pdf', which I know is one which I replied to the original of back in June. It seems to somehow pick a subject which it knows you'll recognise, in an attempt to make you open it. A tricky beast! Caroline - Original Message -

Re: MI-L How to set MapInfo map units to automatically be metric when opening tables.

For default metric you should use the optionspreferences menu, then in the 'Map Window' tab, set metric distance area units. You could also put the following command in your startup.wor to set km etc as the default measurement in SQL functions: set area units sq km set distance units km

Re: MI-L colours

There is a set of files on directionsmag called printest.zip (or something similar). It contains workspaces for printing all the default styles and colours on you own printer. http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/ regards Caroline - Original Message - From: Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: MI-L MI tools for legends

David Do you mean the 'embed legend' tool? this puts the legend in the mapper window. It's in the MI tool manager, under legend Manager Caroline - Original Message - From: David HILPIPRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: MI-L MI

MI-L Problem Building SQL on Access database

I am having trouble building queries on ODBC links, and I wonder if anyone can shed any light on this for me? Having gone through the setup for ODBC, making the table containing the coordinates mappable etc, and opening it in MapInfo, I am trying to use the BuildSQL tool which comes with MI. The

Re: MI-L MI GPS and digital camera

This week's sponsor is LAND INFO - http://www.LANDINFO.com/directions.htm Kiril You may like to consider a new piece of software called GBM ImageLinker to manage all your digital photos and link them to MapInfo. It has just been developed by Exa-min in Australia, but they haven't up-dated their

Re: MI-L Adding pages to a layout

Sorry Cameron. I have had a look and found that the option is only available if you have 'Discover' running. I had thought it was part of MapInfo. Caroline - Original Message - From: Cameron Crum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Caroline Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:04

Re: MI-L Adding pages to a layout

You can add a frame anywhere in the layout window, even on the greyed out area outside the paper edges, then right click and there's an option to extend layout to include all frames (or something like that). Caroline - Original Message - From: Cameron Crum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: MI-L linking tables

Hi Dan You could avoid having duplicate datasets at all by using a hotlinking program, such as MapLinker. Basically it was designed to do what you want to do, and it means that you can use your ID in your mappable field to link to a database record with the same ID. Therefore if you click on the

Re: MI-L Printing to pdf

If you're in the UK you can get 5D-pdf creator free from www.ctrl-p.com by signing up on their website (just a few personal questions to answer.) - they send you the CD. They are a printing company, and occasionally send you free oddbins vouchers for getting quotes off them, too! I use the

Re: MI-L Printing to pdf

Sorry folks. I gave your the wrong web address. It's www.ctrlp.com, not www.ctrl-p.com. Give it another try Caroline - Original Message - From: Andrew Whittam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Caroline Hilton' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:05 AM Subject: RE: MI-L Printing

Re: MI-L Ver una foto ligada a un objeto

Hola Alberto You could use a product called MapLinker to link your photos to your MapInfo tables. MapLinker is a third party software which works with version 4.0 onwards. details can be found at www.geobasemap.com (where it is referred to, sometimes, as Images+) or at

Re: MI-L MI: fields shortened upon Excel import

Hi all I have had a similar in the past, where I import an excel file and not only the values, but also the field names, are shortened by one character. Annoying to say the least. It doesn't happen every time, but used to happen sometimes with MI5.5 and now does with 6 too. any ideas? thanks,

Re: MI-L MI: fields shortened upon Excel import

Good plan. Thanks for that suggestion, it will make life a lot easier. Caroline - Original Message - From: John Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DopeyLSPLSP [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Caroline Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MI-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:59 PM Subject: Re: MI-L MI

Re: MI-L printing color and symbol files

There is a set of files on directionsmag called printest.zip (or something similar). It contains workspaces for printing all the default styles and colours on you own printer. http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/ regards Caroline - Original Message - From: Feinberg, Harold [EMAIL

Re: MI-L searching on grid reference

I would say use the 'change view' option on the right mouse button. I think it is in standard MI, although correct me if I'm wrong as I do use some add-ons. If you click the 'change view' option, you get asked for either the zoom level you want, or the centre of the window. Type in your

Re: MI-L selecting against block points

Eric I'm not sure I understand what you're doing. Are you just trying to select all the points which lie within a single polygon? If so, you can use the 'boundary select' tool (the one to the left of the deselct tool' in MI6), which allows you to click in a region, and it selects all the objects

Re: MI-L Junk email

We went through all of this last time web-based notice boards were mentioned, and I for one would hate it. Downloading messages in one go and then reading through and deleting them at my leisure is the way I spend many a morning, and having to stay online to do that (without a permanent

Re: MI-L Text Scaling

Martyn MapInfo is notorious for bad text sizing - the final size depends on the zoom of the window at which you originally set the text size. The way round it is to consider one of the third-party add-ons, which set the size of text for a specified final output scale. However, the only one I

Re: MI-L Assigning elevations.

The add-on program Discover will do this for you. It is one of its many features. See www.encom.com.au for more details and your local reseller Caroline - Original Message - From: Boyd James Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:09 PM Subject:

Re: MI-L moving workspaces

This can be solved if you don't use 'workspaces' as such, but use the cataloguing ability of MapLinker (previously known as Images+). The program was developed for this exact purpose, as the company had numerous requests to develop some sort of workspace assistant, so they got around the problem

Re: MI-L Printing maps with Scale

Alessandro There are several third party programs to do this, the ones I know are GeoBasemap Mapping System and Discover. They are both excellent, but GeoBasemap is the cheaper of the two, and is probably more useful to you (Discover was written specifically for geologists). It allows you to set

Re: MI-L How to fix Save Window As problems with borders

There's a useful bit of freeware called ScreenSeize which allows the user to capture the active window/dialogue box etc (like printscreen, but it gives you options as to what you want to 'print'. It then allows you to save it as a bitmap. To get the window without borders, you can use the mouse

Re: MI-L Re: MapInfo related Movies

I have seen Lotus ScreenCam used for this and it works really well. Have no idea of cost etc though. Caroline - Original Message - From: Quan, Sheila [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:14 PM Subject: MI-L Re: MapInfo related Movies Hi guys Does

Re: MI-L Linking MapInfo polygons to an Access database

--- Caroline Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill It depends what you want to get out of the links. There is some third party software that does this linking for you, and as well as linking to access it allows links to other programs (word, excel etc, as well as jpgs and other file types). However

Re: MI-L Grid N UTM36 WGS84

Both of the software packages 'Discover' and 'GeoBasemap' provide tools for adding grids to your map. The advantage given by Discover is that any grid can be overlain on a map, whereas most of the free tools you can get, and GeoBasemap, can only add a graticule in the same projection as the map

Re: MI-L MI: Thematic from multiple columns, how?

Gert Sorry for the late reply, I hope it's of some use! For your thematics, you could try an excellent add-on called Display Tools, made by Exa-Min, in Brisbane. One of its functions is to do just what you are after. It displays up to 4 variables from a single table, with the variables ranging

Re: MI-L Why MapInfo is interested in Web Mapping?

Dear List, With reference to the MapXtreme pricing model debate - pricing per power unit or pricing per server. Doug wrote that MapInfo quoted that they have adopted the pricing per power unit because "..this is the way the market is going.." Does anyone have any elaboration on this as to how

Re: MI-L MI Buttons Sticking

I'm having this problem with the grabber tool too - with Win98. I thought maybe my computer was playing up, as I hadn't seen this problem until yesterday. It's interesting to see others have the same problem. I too am running MI6. Caroline * Caroline Hilton Pelican